The moving company is coming tomorrow to give a quote to ship my stuff from China to Japan. So today I decided I should sort through some of my stuff and get rid of whatever I could. So it was goodbye to things like old VHS tapes, books that I’ve already read, old shoes that I thought I might use someday and haven’t, and a lot of other assorted crap.
As I don’t have any kind of home base in the USA or anywhere, each time I move I have to take everything with me. Fortunately I don’t have furniture or electrical appliances to worry about, but still, after living overseas for so long I have accumulated a lot of stuff.
My company has an allowance for moving expenses but I’m afraid I’ll go over that. It was made years ago with a single Japanese person in mind who would go overseas for a few years without taking much and come back to Japan eventually. On the other hand I have been moving around the world for 13 or 14 years now and I don’t fit that profile. Everything has to come and go with me wherever I go. No place to leave a pile of stuff for a couple of years.
Anyway, I’ll be very happy when this move is over. I’m excited to go back to Tokyo. I am not excited to deal with an international move (again).