Urban Essentials
As we moved our lives from a house with loads of storage, masked as a two car garage that no car ever had the luxury of inhabiting, we purged the excess, linens in multiple sizes that would grace the table only on special occasions, to remain in a drawer the other 364 days. We plowed through the ephemera of our lives with two kids that were getting older and didn’t really need the things we collected for their growing use, piles of blankets in all sizes and shapes designed to fit their body for a very short time, trendy throw pillows that are no longer visually desired, and piles of freebie bags that were handed out at every event just to be thrown in a bin, never used twice. It took us more than a month to shed the past, leaving us with a modest pile of boxes that had everything we needed as we headed to our small city home.