We picked up some interesting habits (besides selling all our stuff) our last 2 months in the US of A, and decided to keep track:
2 months out:
- Stop buying groceries, especially in bulk
- Start cooking recipes using up the random things left in the cupboard, like rice noodles or poppy seeds.
- Insist on reading those last few paperbacks that you didn’t sell, can’t justify buying in kindle because you still have it in paperback…
- Start a bucket list of things to eat or see stateside (mostly eat)
- Blue Bell ice cream
- Start handing out your blog address instead of your phone number or answering complex questions
- Only buying summer clothes, for the whole family
- Burn all the candles in the house, mercilessly, like you have an unlimited supply
- Count all the lasts. Example “This is the last time we will clean the shower until we move out!”
2 weeks out:
- Late night trips to walmart for socks and deodorant
- last-minute trips to good will
- Eat all the delicious food people bring you that they traded for your stuff
- check your email constantly for Craigslist responses
- Ben & Jerry’s
- decline generous dinner invites because there isn’t enough time left
- throw things away, lots of things
- make hard decisions like “Okay, I only need 1 red sharpie, no yellow ones, and only 4 shades of blue”
- pack up any baby clothes that fit perfectly now (because they wont fit by the time me and baby leave in about a month).
