living in a maze of corrugated trapezoids

Well over a month ago we “moved in” to our apartment. And here we are still surrounded by boxes. We’ve actually gotten it to the point of creating pathways through the apt. enough space to walk down the hall, enough space to eat in the dining room and enough space to play-station in the living room or watch TV which ever you prefer. The only room without boxes is the kitchen and that is really because it is too small to hold any boxes. These boxes have started to wear on me, and on Kelly as well. We need to find a place for all this stuff but right now we have more stuff than spaces.
It isn’t till you move into an apt that is significantly smaller than the house you used to live in that you realize
A) How much stuff you really had/have
B) How large your house was
C) You need to find a way to live with significantly less stuff

Most of this stuff is just that Stuff, sure some of it is necessity, maybe even a lot of it is stuff we really need. But as I look around at the boxes I wonder do I need what’s in that box over there? I am not really sure what’s in it but if I go without it for six months I can’t imagine I need it. Then I realize it’s a box of winter clothes. Where are we going to put the winter clothes, we don’t even have a closet for the coats and now we need to store winter clothes.

We have a storage unit, but the hope was that we would have it empty by the end of the summer. This is a 10’ x 10’ storage space literally filled to the ceiling with stuff. This week Kelly was looking for her summer clothes and when we realized they are stored in a rubber maid somewhere in the storage unit, we decided that we would probably tackle this project over the weekend as the task of digging them out was too daunting to tackle during the week.

This is the current state of affairs, a maze of boxes, a ton of stuff and the realization that we would like to have less of both.