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myrialux nor I can understand how we can move from two apartments into one house larger than both apartments put together and still fill it to the gills.

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Isn't it amazing?! I think "stuff" expands to fill all available space.

Exactly. I'm wandering around the house in amazement, knowing that in the apartment I wasn't squirming through piles and piles of stuff, but I have no idea how I managed to put it all in there and leave room for me and the cats.

Oh yeah, and cats also have that ability. They may be the true perpetrators. The power isn't limited only to when they're sharing the bed or couch with you.

Felines!

Hee! That probably explains it!

They need to start working then!

Exactly. It's the basic nature of kipple.

Maybe when you were in your apartments, you knew how to stash everything just so, while you haven't reached that stage with the house?

I guess. There seems to be not other explanation, aside from the supernatural cat power mentioned above. XD

Your stuff is breeding. And now that you have two people's stuff in the house, it's having a population explosion - hybrid vigor and all that, you know.

And the sad thing is, I got rid of about 12 moving boxes full of books last month before the move...

The answer is usually 'books.'

And I got rid of 12 boxes of them before moving!!

Only 12?

And I found last night as I was unloading some boxes that there were two boxes that had been in the garage that I didn't even get to to go through! Looks like I'll be doing another Half-Price Books run before too long...

Edited 2009-10-13 17:53 (UTC)

I signed up for a few book swaps on Ravelry, conveniently forgetting you get books back when you swap them out....

Does the new place maybe have proportionally less storage space, or badly-designed storage space, compared to the apartments? Because that sounds a lot like the reverse of what I've been dealing with these last few years -- going from two people in a three/four bedroom, two-story house, with basement and garage, to one person in a two-bedroom condo, and having the much much tinier place feeling vastly less cluttered, even though I've still got tons of stuff. The condo has a lot less floor space than half of my old house, but that space is just much more usable -- spacious closets in the hallways and every room but the kitchen and bath, a decent amount of kitchen/bathroom drawers and cupboards, and a huge bathroom medicine cabinet. The old house had tiny closets, no bathroom storage other than a small medicine cabinet (and pedestal/wall-mount sinks so there wasn't even a countertop to put stuff on), and all the radiators and windows further limited the options for arranging furniture...

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