How du you organize your outside belongings

I just continue to use this thread as some sort of journal for our change of flat...

I'm still trying to clean up our chaos and pack everything for the move. It's exhausting, but I also learn a lot about how we are (not) functioning as a system.

Like... for about a week or so I tried to pack and clean up a big shelve and I just didn't do it. Every time I tried, my focus shifted elsewhere.

Today finally I could keep my focus on the shelve, despite a heavy feeling of dread (and headache, which is usually a nonverbal "nooo" from someone).. and I found the reason why apparently someone didn't want me to have a look: I found a lot of spoiled food and nasty uncleaned things at the bottom of it
it seems, that hiding unpleasant stuff and then keep the rest of the headmates from looking there, is a well working method in our system

We also seem to have absolute no general object permanence for food... It was a bit sad about how much I had to throw away. It just didn't exist in my own memory.
We really need a system to keep track of things better and I think we have to avoid deep shelves and cupboards at all costs

-Autumn

Hey Autumn,

I hope things go ok with the move and all.

Some of us really related to alot of what you just said, but I dunno why.

I think some of us dont have that permanence either.

Good luck with everything

Viola et al

Hey Viola and others,

I sometime think, that we have some similar patterns as you have in your system, when reading your posts. Or at least I can relate as well a lot to some things you write.

Thanks for the good wishes

It feels still rather overwhelming. Which is weird, because the body as entity has moved several times, including moving in an other country. But in none of this cases I was in charge or even involved, and I feel like a teenager who moves out from parents home, but with the stuff of a whole dysfunctional small family

Would be easier, if we had a car or at least had a legal license here and could rent one. But on the other hand I'm not sure if I actually could drive myself

-Autumn

Still not at the new place, but we are making progress, like in terms of packing and organizing our stuff, but also as a system

For example: I am easily distracted to be honest (hello youtube, hello worldbuilding and writing and other nice escapism thingies ) and Alea is so anxious in general struggles so much to think strategically, that he is kind of not capable of breaking the big task "packing our stuff" into small units, so he is usually just pacing around not able to to anything, when he is out.
Kiran is our organized work-horse, but he is mostly out at our job, not that much at home, but yesterday he took half a day of and used the time to organize our stuff into smaller chunks and then put one part of it, which is manageable in one evening, on our bed. So the person who'd be out in the evening (which was me in the end), had to clean it up, before going to bed. I was annoyed first, but tbh It was a very clever strategy

An other interesting thing: Yesterday I discovered an old CD-player among the stuff I had to clean up yesterday. I put it in the throw-away-box. Today I felt suddenly a huge protest from the inside. Luckily I'm starting to learn to recognize it more often, before it blows into a migraine or freezing/ignoring what I wanted to do. So I learned, that Fae is adamant, that we keep it, because he hates computers and wants to keep an option to listen to classic music without having to stream it. Apparently we also still have a collection of CDs
We agreed, that we keep it and he actually started to slightly look forward for our new place (he hated it first), because he will get his own area with his music instruments, plants, and now also his CDs and the CD-player.

In our case it apparently doesn't take that much to make a lot of us a bit happier. And I'm glad that we finally started to work on that...
It can be exhausting, though, because usually it is like listening to different, sometimes cryptic whispering and mumbling voices and or more often just feelings and it is a lot of guessing until a solution feels okay for most of us

-Autumn