I've been having lots of help packing for our move , lucky for me, so the pain has been minimum. Two sisters and a niece came to visit me for 4 days last weekend and they motivated me to get back into the packing mode. We accomplished packing the kitchen and the dreaded pantry. I'd say that half of the food in the pantry was out-dated and went into the garbage. I am so glad that our new house does NOT have a pantry. I'm very bad with a pantry. It gets out of control way too fast and soon I can't find anything or know what's even in it. Now that I cleaned it out and packed it up, I feel so cleansed . A big accomplishment. That's why I'm reading the popular book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Japanese author and cleaning consultant, Marie Kondo. I try to keep her concepts in mind while I'm packing for this move - only keep items that bring me joy - but when I start to unpack and put things away, I wi...