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).