• Do you sell the house? (We are: http://3kingstreet.spaces.live.com/)
• When are you coming back? Time will tell.
• What do you store, sell, throw out, recycle and ship?

The last one alone has been months of work. Imagine going through you house and having to decide what stays and goes, then inventory everything (We took a full day, laptop and Excel in hand and inventoried the entire house. It was painful, and surprising).

At this point with the movers coming Monday, it is down to three categories:

1. Store: Put it in an offsite storage in Canada with very little access to it for some future date. It costs $150 every time you want to access the container.

2. Air shipment: Send a small amount via air to be with us in the first week. The essentials and not very much. Looks like the bikes, a computer and a few other things are going to make it into this pile.

3. Ship: Over ground, to a ship, across the ocean, through customs and on to our new abode in 4 to 10 weeks. It is interesting to watch the guy come into the house to figure this one out. He walks around with a pocket pc itemizing things (takes 2-3 hours) and then tells you if it will all fit. He said we are on the edge, about 95% of the container full so we better be careful. Luckily, we have eliminated 4 big items since then, so we should be good (fingers crossed).

That being said, it has been great to purge. I never knew how many old video cables I had …