Why Do We Always Keep Those Last Ten Boxes When We Move?
Tangled cords, foreign coins, and appliance manuals you'll never read
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Musings & Tales: The Last Ten Boxes
The first boxes are easy.
They’re the ones packed by the version of you who still had energy and optimism—neat handwriting, bold marker.
Important. Open First.
Bless that person. They tried.
The muddled middle is the slog—needed to fill out a home, but you aren’t always sure where to put them.
But those last ten boxes—the ones sealed with tape that’s yellowed and cracked with age. The ones that have migrated from house to house, a permanent resident of every storeroom you’ve ever had. A stack of DVDs and no player to play them. A tangle of cords for devices long gone. A Ziploc bag of Dutch guilders, kept in case they ever abandon the Euro.
You know you’ll never need any of it.
Why can’t we bring ourselves to throw any of it away?
Listen to this week’s Musings & Tales
The Last Ten Boxes
We all have them: the boxes that survive every move but never get unpacked. Tangled cords, foreign coins, a bag of business cards for people we've long since lost touch with. This week, a look inside the last ten boxes—and why we can't throw any of it away.
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From the Facebook Files
A little something extra from last week’s socials
If you share your life with dogs or cats (or horses or…), you know the feeling. If you dare attempt to do something mundane on your own—say, roll the trash to the curb—you will be rewarded with the accusatory gaze of “How dare you not share this adventure with me.”
Thanks for your time
Thank you, as always, for reading my scribblings. Or listening, if that was your path.
Until next week,
Happy reading