Little Anxieties

[quijax]

First: My laptop. It is, as Marcus so lovingly put it, bricked. This is not to say it can't be fixed, but fixing it would require actually opening the thing up and poking at it and I'm not sure who to trust to do it and how much he would charge me (and I don't have that much money to spend right now). It seems that there is a loose connection

Comments

[nwrowergirl]

The immediate response in my head is: "Get rid of it all!" Of course, this would be my personal tendency. I find great pleasure in freeing myself of things.

Otherwise, not knowing how much stuff you actually have:

I think taking it with you just guarantees that you'll have to go through this all over again come winter.

Can you store it in Austin either with the friends or in a storage place?

What about making a trip to your dad's to see him on the way to PA and leaving some or all of it there?

If you end up deciding to get rid of some things that you really enjoy - I would suggest giving them as gifts to someone you know will enjoy using it as much as you did. That way, rather than simply selling or giving them to Goodwillesque places you will have the pleasure of knowing that the item is being used and appreciated.

I don't claim to have mastered this myself, but I always think we should live such that we wouldn't be lost in our identities or direction if some mishap separated us from all of our worldly possessions.

[quijax]

I'd love to be able to do that, but I'm really attached to the furniture I bought here. I like it and I couldn't afford it when I bought it (adding to the credit card debt that I'll soon be able to get rid of), so I think I have a bit of a depression mentality about it - I may not be able to afford things as nice when I do get to settle down.

[abstractseaweed]

There are some companies that specialize in moving a small number of large items, which might be cheaper than a moving company that would move all your stuff. One is , although I've never used them so I know nothing of their service or pricing.