We’ve been going through a lot of old boxes, papers and so on around the house as we prepare for the moving phase. Trust me, the majority of the paper sorting has yet to begin. But my paper trashcan is overflowing, I’ve got about 5 other boxes of paper trash to be taken away (lots […]

It’s no secret by now that we are moving to Berlin and that we plan to move into an apartment in the city to do the whole “city living” thing for a while. It’s clearly a pretty major change of lifestyle for us (and some probably think we’re nuts — who knows, we might be […]

We have had a couple of extremely productive days around here. We’ve built shutters for the guest house (which we’ve been meaning to do for a couple of years), we closed off part of the outdoor patio to make it look nicer (almost something we’ve talked about for a while) and now have a lot […]

You no doubt noticed the frequency and perhaps even the increased urgency around our house lately when it comes to getting rid of things. What you may not know is that we have now been living in Germany for almost 10 years. Yep, as of July 28th, 2012, Stefan will have been here 10 years […]

As you’ve probably noticed lately, our mindset about clearing the stuff and junk out of our house that we haven’t been using at all in the last 6-10 years has really clarified. If you’d talked to us a few months ago, you would have found out that we had dreams of getting rid of our […]