The past month has really been a blur of preparing for our imminent departure from Tübingen.  We sorted our stuff into various categories:

1. Keep and ship
2. Keep and carry
3. Toss and give away to friends or friends of friends
4. Toss and put out on the street for random folks to take
5. Toss directly into the trash

As you may recall from my posts about the trash (here and here), just throwing stuff in the trash isn’t necessarily straightforward. Luckily, I haven’t needed to figure out how to toss out things like unwanted candles and cables: sticking stuff out on the street with a sign “take it for free!” works remarkably well.

The packers/movers come tomorrow to pack up and cart off everything in category 1 above. We have no furniture that we’re keeping. But for 2 people who move a lot we have a lot of books that we have with us at this point that we do want to keep, so that adds some weight to the shipment. 😉

Thanks for all the comments and emails over the past few weeks — I realize I have been very remiss in replying. A few quick responses all at once are here:

• Re A Pig in a Decke: Will, I couldn’t agree more. These had no appeal for me, so I decided I would photograph the photo, but not actually try them. 😉
• Re Monday Mysteries: A Looking Glass: Dovie, I agree, this is a great idea that all stores should have! So clever, and so handy!
• Re Food on Fridays: Creating the Cookies: Will, yes, Chris’ grandparents owning a bakery clearly set the stage early for a sweet tooth. 😉 Mom, the cookies were tasty, and did arrive whole.
• Re Monday Mysteries: Qualified Expat: Will and Stan, your comments and suggestions are so noted. However, I think perhaps “wanderers” might work better for us. 😉
• Re Discovering a Changing Demographic: Thanks for the message about changes in language in the U.S. over the last 10 years – interesting reading, and I’m sure it will be interesting to adapt to it once we’re back in the U.S. BTW, Jack, I haven’t run across “metrics” used in a way I find odd  — I guess it wasn’t part of my demographics. 😉 (Also, glad to hear you enjoyed the Life on a Gelato Diet book – thanks for checking it out!)
• Re Food on Fridays Eclipsed: Thanks for all the compliments – glad everybody enjoyed the photos!

Getting back to the topic of our move, Chris and I are still in our apartment until early next week. We fly to London Tuesday night as the first leg of our Plan G adventure. More about that to come next week, as well as an update about the new blog I’ll be switching over to.

After all,  “Two to Tübingen” won’t apply as a title very well once we’ve left town, right? So there will need to be a new blog with a new title to chart our new adventure.

Stay tuned…