How much stuff do you have? The question
which olim ask, not from an existential or even a charitable point of view. The
simple equation, is how much stuff can I fit in to the smallest space? Will it
cost me more to buy this pen again in Israel or should it spend six to eight
weeks in a shipping container and meet us again on the other side.
That was today, as we moved from our flat
into our parents (or in-laws or grandparents depending who is really writing!)
for three weeks before we actually fly.
We realised that possessions fall into two
main categories
Those things you want, need and use
regularly to be known as ‘shipping’. E.g. photo albums, microwave & bed.
Those things you don’t want, you don’t need
and never use to be known as ‘rubbish’. Rail Ticket Discount Card from 1997,
seven boxes of icing sugar & anything on VHS.
Then there are all the things in between.
The challenge of aliyah is not the two main
categories, but moving things from the middle into either shipping or rubbish.
It makes you very sensitive to what you actually need, asking yourself ‘if this
were to go down at sea would I bother replacing it?’
As the packers moved out an eerie quiet
descended on the flat as it became pretty real that we were actually leaving.
Six suitcases and a lot of stuff in carrier bags later we arrived in South
Woodford which is to be our temporary home for the next few weeks.
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