This is the worst part of moving

[lizbee]

We signed the lease this morning, so I guess we really are moving. Next weekend. So I've started the packing process, which is to say, I pulled out the box where papers and official letters and things accumulate, and started throwing out the rubbish. As usual, I can't bring myself to throw out a single old notebook or sketchpad (there's one that contains fic in fandoms from Harry Potter through to Doctor Who! It's like my own personal fannish archaeology!) I think I'm going to put them all neatly in an archive box and find a nice, safe, out of the way place for them.

This is a problem that comes up every time I move.



Judging by the hair and clothes, I drew that in 2007, when I was packing for the move to Melbourne. Who knows what else will turn up?

Comments

[rj_anderson]

My family moved every few years as I was growing up, so I got very good at throwing stuff away. Unfortunately, in one of those movies I threw away every single story and novel draft I had written between the ages of twelve and nineteen, and most of the illustrations that went with them as well. I am still cursing myself over that now.

On an unrelated note, if you do not know this already, you need to know that Flora's Dare by Ysabeau Wilce is not only delightful, but has the rescue of a giant squid as an instrumental part of the plot. I read it yesterday and loved it, but then I'd loved Flora Segunda too.

[lizbee]

I moved a lot, too, growing up, but somehow I never seemed to have that much stuff. Which is an advantage of being poor that stopped working for me the day I discovered online secondhand bookstores.

Unfortunately, in one of those movies I threw away every single story and novel draft I had written between the ages of twelve and nineteen, and most of the illustrations that went with them as well. I am still cursing myself over that now.

No, that is terrible! Worse than the time Mum threw out all of Dad's Silver Age DC comics!

And thank you for the book rec; I've added them to my list of Titles To Investigate At New Library When We Move.

[melyanna]

When I went to college, I threw out the notebooks I'd written in as a teenager (and a little younger) for fear that some nosy family member would find them. Boy, do I regret that, even though everything in them was awful.