Anatomy of a Move Part 2

I’ve lived in eleven states—South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas, Illinois, Florida and Arizona. So I am no stranger to moving. One part of the moving process is to go through belongings and decide whether they are worth moving. In all the moves I have made as an adult, I have done this—some moves better than others. I hate to get to the other end and wonder why I had moved a certain item. This latest move required a whole new line of thinking. I had to decide whether to move an item to Arizona, store it in Florida or get rid of it. The getting rid of things sometimes required a difficult decision. I had to get rid of a lot of writing related items. I gave away a lot of books and tossed copies of old manuscripts that had accumulated over the years.

Here is a photo of something I threw away—a stack of cover flats from all my books for Love Inspired except the last one, Montana Match. It was delivered to me electronically. Now there will be no cover flats to throw away in the future.

I didn’t throw them all away. I kept a copy of each one. At least I think I did. Hopefully, they are in a box in Florida because I haven’t come across them here. The same goes for the bookmarks I saved from each of my Love Inspired books. Here are some of the cover flats I saved. If they never show up, at least I have a photo of them.

Among the other things that I threw away was my wedding dress. It had yellowed, and I wondered why I had been moving it from place to place all these years just to take up space in the closet. In the next post, I’ll share some of the things I kept.

If you have ever moved, what things do you decide to get rid of?