We are saying goodbye to the Jungalow 1.0 this weekend. We are excited about what’s to come, but we will miss this place. This was the first home Jason and I rented together. We got married while living here (and by the way just read the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage a constitutional right and…WOOHOO!!!!! So happy about this!). I was pregnant in this house. We had Ida while living here. It’s morphed over the past five years and grown with us as we have grown. I will always remember this place as the place that we started our family.
Moving is not easy. It’s a very emotional process. There have been many evenings over the course of the last month that I got stuck reading old essays from college, looking through photographs from high school, or debating about whether or not to toss out 970 business cards from a past failed business venture (I know, my hoarder-ish tendencies are hovering just beneath the surface of all of this…). Moving is so sentimental, it’s cathartic but it’s so challenging for me. I have been focusing on purging. Our new house, as you may remember from this post, is small. The rooms are all smaller than the rooms here at the rental. Letting go is the name of the game. I have been taking deep breaths and putting a lot of stuff I love into the Yard Sale pile. Just because I love something, doesn’t mean I’ll miss looking at it when it’s gone, right?
So that brings me to my next topic which is the yard sale. This is not a fancy sale. No letter pressed price tags, no lemonade, no design-blogger style displays–just good old fashion piles to dig through and bargains to be had–from clothing to objects to small furniture pieces, throw pillows, textiles, kitchen stuff, you name it. We’re starting tomorrow (Saturday, 6/27) at 8AM and here is the address:
1425 W. 2nd St. Los Angeles, CA 90026.
Hope to see you. Have a great weekend my friends.
OMG, If only I didn’t live all the way across the country! Justina Blakeney is having a yard sale?!?! We (my biz partner, Karen, and I) love, love, love your blog and your new book. So happy for you to be moving (I personally crave change all the time… Karen is the sentimental one) and wish you so much fun in setting up your new home. So much to look forward to!
I agree with the above commenter. I want to come SO bad but live in WA state. Love your style.
Lucky me, I live 15 min away! I will make a plan to come by! :)
Oh, my heart! I understand the pain of moving. I am so excited about your next phase but sad to leave Jungalow 1.0. Having moved around a ton since “leaving the nest” i do a purge almost every 2 years. The only house I have lived in for longer than 2 years is my parents’ house so I can only imagine having 5 years of stuff in your home! I am so HappySad for you!!
Well dang. I’m passing thru LAX tomorrow on way to Las Vegas – so close but still so far away! All the best in Jungalow 2.0!! It does feel good to purge, though hard to make the decisions …
mazel! good luck with the move, can’t wait to read all about
I wish I could go, but I too am on the other coast :) I am having the same conundrum, my mom is finally making clean out my closets at her house. My hoarding tendencies are very evident, lol, I’m not sure how I am going to get rid of everything!
I hope the yardsale was a smashing success, and I can’t wait to follow your families new adventures in the Jungalow by the River :) !
this makes me laugh at myself because i am moving from a tiny shoebox apartment to my first house (which is still a rental but a house! yaaaaaaaaaaayyy) and i’m having a yardsale! because i’m broke.
i made fancy posters covered in fashion models and plants because i’m a graphic designer and called it a “boutique sale” hoping it would draw more people in. well, ladies. and i put fancy little hang tags on all the crap. we’ll see what happens. it’s this friday. i hope yours was a success!!!
it is hard to get rid of stuff. i esp think about having a daughter down the line “what if she wants these shoes? or this dress?” my mother never kept things like that to give to me.
Moving is never easy, indeed. Mu sister’s moving soon and she’s now considering to hold a yard sale, because her new place is not so big and she just can’t take all her stuff there. I’m definitely showing her your post. Greets!
I am very happy for you, I actually also agree that same-sex marriage is something normal and this should be legally regulated correctly, because there are still many states that have not adopted such laws, I as a law college student I must say that I did a writing with the help of https://phdessay.com/free-essays-on/same-sex-marriage/ and I understood that this actually is a very important issue, because a lot of lives are suffering because of this, I believe that this should be legalized everywhere, because this is like a black man, I mean he should be treated like everyone else, same with same-sex marriage.
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