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My closets are empty, except for the stuff in the bedroom closet, which is the stuff I'm leaving on hangers and throwing trash bags over.

My kitchen drawers and the under-counter cabinets are empty. The overhead cabinets still have stuff in them, but I'm throwing most of it out.

My living room is a menace to navigation.

I could probably stand to throw away some of the stuff in my file boxes, but I'll do that on the other end.

I wish it looked more like I was making progress. I know I am, but it doesn't look like it.

my good deed for today

There's a house up the block from me that generally has about six students living in it. I say that based on the number of cars there usually are in the driveway. Anyway, about twice a year they tend to get rid of enormous amounts of STUFF, including furniture. (If I'd been able to carry it, I could've gotten a futon frame for the pad I'm inheriting.)

Over the past couple of weeks, this house has had a huge amount of furniture sitting on the curb for trash day. I was on my way back from the grocery store tonight and saw a woman in a business suit trying to lift a fair-sized dining-room table into the back of an SUV. I offered to help, and we spent the next twenty minutes trying to figure out how to get this table into this SUV full of other random stuff (including a headboard and footboard for a twin bed in the back, and this woman's four-year-old son in a car seat in the middle). We tried several combinations of rear window open/table lengthwise/table crosswise/rear window shut, and decided it wasn't going to work unless the middle seat got folded down. Eventually the people who were throwing out the table showed up, and produced the leaf that went with the table, and helped us figure out logistics. We finally got around to deciding this wasn't going to work as it was, so the woman called her husband to come pick up their son, we folded down the middle seat, and the table went in just like it was supposed to. I left them at that point, since they had more than enough help, and it was 80-something degrees out, and I had bought milk and I didn't want it sitting outdoors for longer than necessary.

I estimate that I probably owe anybody involved in moving me to and/or from Ohio about six moves at this point. However, if moving karma is universal, maybe I paid a little of it back today.