People relocate all the time. Sometimes across the street,
other times across a state, a country, or anywhere in the world. When these
people move, they take with them their worldly belongings.
Thus the need for “relocation services” that come into your
home and go through it room by room with boxes, paper and tape, dismantling,
wrapping and packing up every item in sight. The “relocators” are fast,
efficient and perform a service much in demand.
During the last few days, as I help a family member with the
“other end” of all that wrapping and packing, I’ve had plenty of time to think.
I’ve been blown away by the mounds of cardboard and paper that remain when the
objects it cared for during transport have been released back into the world.
How many trees did it take to produce all this packaging? And what to do with
it now? The wrappings get stuffed back into the boxes it came from, in hopes
that there’s someone close by who is about to move and will be able to make use
of them.
Let me tell you, it is taking a village, or at least a
conglomeration of shirt-tail relatives, to get this particular outfit settled
into a new house. By the end of day two in the unpacking process, the garage is
full of wrapping paper, strips of cardboard, and boxes piled nearly to the
ceiling. The debris, stacked up on the front porch as well, in a pile so high
that should a wind come by (almost a given in Wyoming) the neighbors would not
be happy. So more paper and boxes got stuffed into the garage.
At first, the idea of unpacking is exciting. It’s kind of
like Christmas, opening box and after box, and tightly wrapped little package
after package. But then, the thrill wears thin.
It’s a relief it is to learn that it’s possible to go to
Facebook Marketplace and offer all those papers and boxes to some poor soul
that is gearing up to “relocate.”
In a few days or maybe weeks, the unpacking will be
finished. No one will be anxious to repeat the process any time soon.
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