I parked TOW-Wanda Grande in front of my fabulous neighbor’s house Wednesday night and plugged in. I was so tired but really needed a bubble bath. My friend Terri came to get me and take me to her house. Got back and was too tired to fall asleep. I did finally sleep for a couple of hours but woke up at 1:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep so I just got up and started going through boxes and gathering stuff to take to the thrift store. I did manage to sleep for another hour about dawn. I had a doctor’s appointment at 8:30 then took the trailer back over to the shop because one end of the shelf over the bed wasn’t fastened correctly. My sales guy came out and said we had a more serious problem. When they hooked the trailer on Wednesday, there was too much slack in the power cable you plug into the back of the car and it got caught in the hitch and cut it in half. Fine…they fixed it. I went home and had no battery power in the trailer. Ok, call the trailer dude and he said the bring it back. The tech went through it with a fine toothed comb and finally discovered it was a faulty ground wire. It probably got pulled when the cable got cut.

While I was at the trailer place the first time, my neighbor texted me. She had found a place online that will bring a trailer to your house. You pack it, then they drive it to your destination, you unpack it then they come pick up the trailer. Less than half the quote from the moving company. That takes a ton of pressure off of me at this point because I seriously whittled things down.

Downsizing, especially for a “collector”, is a daunting, painful proposition. As your accumulations grow, you can tend to turn a blind eye to the fact that you are swimming in stuff. I am sure, even though I am reluctantly spending money to move, I will go through my stuff during my stay in WV. I will scan things and send the originals on for others to love. I will keep letting go as I am comfortable doing so. I’ll have things manageable and my family won’t be left with the monumental task I did with my mom’s possessions when she died ten years ago as well as my own accumulation over the last 6 months. This is seriously getting easier and easier! <3