When I was getting ready to leave for college, many people had lots of really great advice to offer about packing--what to bring, what not to bring, that sort of thing. While I may have chosen to ignore some of that great advice (turns out there really is absolutely no reason to take more than, oh, let's say, 10 t-shirts to school with you since free t-shirts are about as prevalent as exams on a college campus), for the most part I listened to them and moving into my dorm room went quite smoothly. But NO ONE ever mentioned anything about the difficulties of moving all of that stuff back into your room at home.
It never even crossed my mind that moving back in would be a problem. After all, all that stuff in my dorm came out of my room so, theoretically, it should all just fit right back in, right? WRONG. Maybe it's because when I was at school I only took what I used/needed, whereas at home I'm tucking in all those extra t-shirts around years of acquired craft supplies and my stuffed animal collection. Maybe it's because my parents have secretly been stashing random odds and ends in my room for the past nine months. Maybe, Luke moved the wall between our bedrooms to give himself more space. Maybe aliens came down and shrunk my entire house ever so slightly so that everything else would be slightly too big to fit just so that they could sit back and laugh as I went crazy trying to find a place to put everything. I don't know. Regardless, I clearly have too much stuff and it is seriously time for some serious spring/summer cleaning.
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