Giving Away Some Very Useful Furniture

This evening, we brought out the furniture we had no use for at this point in time. Last year in June these came with us upon our relocation here from Ripon. Today, we have no use for these for lack of space in our living quarters. We downsized to the maxim. We moved the bureau and dresser from our bedroom to the living room and made an improvisation in matters of interior design. So far so good. All blended well. So these items in photos here were those we brought downstairs and set up neatly along Union. Here in the city, everything goes fast, even the recipient of serendipity! The moment we have sorted out the hutch, mirror, and the upright wrought iron cabinet, 6 to 8 people started to come and checked them out. Before we left to return to our alley, a middle aged Caucasian man has carried away the large mirror we left behind just minutes ago. It was good. We did not want the stuffs to stay on the street for a long time.

Since living here in North Beach last year, we have given away a lot of kitchen appliances, gadgets, and furniture if only to make our space livable and convenient for us to move around. We could have given them to our friends but our time is limited to wait for their pick up date. Sometimes, the moving of furniture is a hassle so we just thought of dumping them on the street. Even when we were living in the suburbs, we did the same thing, especially a week before we moved here. We had much stuff that we had given away for good and we are happy to have done that because we had no intention of renting a storage just for that. We are a practical couple, the lesser weight we have the better in terms of stuff we use.

Some people love to hoard. We do not. And I know I am lucky my partner practices the same principles as I do. I am not attached to material things and if it is time to let go, I do. This is what I learned from living overseas while posted in various international schools. Once it's time to relocate, repatriate or become an expatriate again in another country, I dispose my stuff, mostly I give away what I think others could have some use for those am not interested anymore or those I can't bring with me overseas. Shipping of personal effects abroad is very costly so I only ship the basics like my art books, piano books, framed personal paintings, clothes, shoes, souvenirs, and bric-a-brac. In international school hiring, once your contract ends, you are responsible for your shipment to your next posting. If you are hired in another international school in another country, then that school would be responsible for this. If you break your contract, you pay for it. For some other reasons, teachers pay their own shipment because it is not part of the benefits in the hiring process.

OUR NEW PURCHASE: Chrome Steel Closet Organizer, Infrared Trashbin and Interlocking Shoe Organizer

Sunday, we purchased 4 sets of chrome steel closet organizer, shoe organizer, and infrared trash bin at Costco (San Francisco). Both of us were not feeling very well but we decided we must do something about the limited space we have so impromptu, we drove to shop at Costco. Although Little Boy Blue (LBB) is still recuperating from his minor surgery, he was still able to install the stuff we bought.
He installed one of the closet organizers inside our clothes cabinet and it turned out right in terms of size and was perfect. The infrared trash bin is big but has not been installed with batteries so we are not using it yet. This is "hands free" trash bin lid and opens by infrared sensing. Hi-tech! We are replacing our new manually operated duck motif trash bin, as it is small for us. It is cute and goes with our motif but it is such a waste using our big plastic bag in it. And it does not accommodate a lot of trash inside it. The infrared one is costly but it is worth the price you pay for it. I bake and cook a lot so I need a bigger trash bin in my kitchen. I have to see how this works and am sure it should be fun for us shooting the trash in there!

By evening time, we both felt sick, tired and exhausted. We had to take pain medicine while working. LBB did the installation while I folded and hanged the clothes, cleaned the whole flat and cooked lunch. By dinnertime, all was done. We had pasta with meatballs, garlic bread with mozzarella cheese and two orders of marinara sauce that husband purchased at North Beach Pizza, our favorite pizza place right across our flat.