More dismantling of the living room tonight.
I cleaned off the Barb-piano, which will be moving at some unspecified time in the future. Probably not moving out of the house-- she doesn't have room in her midget place for a piano, much as I'd like to make it go away, but I agreed to keep it in the house as long as I could. Of course, if I have to sell the place, all bets are off.
I'm taking down the bookshelves that were over the radiators on the sides of the fireplace. I'm goiung to be getting rid of some of the books and keeping others, but I suspect I may be getting rid of more than I'm keeping. I have a lot of technical manuals that I'm going to want to keep, programming books and the like. Quite a bit of sci-fi paperbacks that might go on the chopping block, and possibly soon. As much as I love the books, I haven't read them in a few years, and I can live without them.
This is difficult. I'm breaking out of patterns that were ingrained for many years, having to deal with balancing the old need-to-keep with the get-it-out mentality of the newer marmot. And I can feel the fighting happening. It's a lot like intellect vs. emotional connection, and it's tearing me apart.
Okay, not really. But it is stressful.
Back to the grind. Grind, grind, grind...
Edit: I've talked with Barb, and she agrees to sell the piano.
Wow.
I cleaned off the Barb-piano, which will be moving at some unspecified time in the future. Probably not moving out of the house-- she doesn't have room in her midget place for a piano, much as I'd like to make it go away, but I agreed to keep it in the house as long as I could. Of course, if I have to sell the place, all bets are off.
I'm taking down the bookshelves that were over the radiators on the sides of the fireplace. I'm goiung to be getting rid of some of the books and keeping others, but I suspect I may be getting rid of more than I'm keeping. I have a lot of technical manuals that I'm going to want to keep, programming books and the like. Quite a bit of sci-fi paperbacks that might go on the chopping block, and possibly soon. As much as I love the books, I haven't read them in a few years, and I can live without them.
This is difficult. I'm breaking out of patterns that were ingrained for many years, having to deal with balancing the old need-to-keep with the get-it-out mentality of the newer marmot. And I can feel the fighting happening. It's a lot like intellect vs. emotional connection, and it's tearing me apart.
Okay, not really. But it is stressful.
Back to the grind. Grind, grind, grind...
Edit: I've talked with Barb, and she agrees to sell the piano.
Wow.
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Seriously, dude, it's not just a little inconvenient... it's in your way. She's had time to move it, but she's relying on how easy it is to emotionally manipulate you to be lazy.
Oh I get it. Especially my books. Books are so easy to label an allowable sin because they're Books and therefor good, right? Right?
Also, your debts to Barb are long since paid. You do not owe her this.
i love you and your revolution.
I'll disagree with everyone else here and say that even though the situation has changed, it's better to keep your word.
"As long as I could" has expired, but she does deserve some sort of reasonable notice to rent a storage facility and get it moved. I'd think that a month would be enough, but I don't know all of the circumstances involved.
She's out of work right now too, so trying to plunk down cash to move and store a piano isn't in the cards. I know this well enough from my own situation, and she's not in a better financial place than I am by a long shot.
I also have the space for now, and though it is inconvenient, there's a hell of a lot more stuff of my own that is more inconvenient that I need to deal with. I am dealing with it, but it's taking some time. I can bear the burden of inconvenience for a while longer, but I do think that giving her notice to move the damn thing isn't unreasonable either.
Get rid of it.
I'm fairly sure that the time for whimsical "haunted" ebay articles is past even when they don't require so much shipping. but I'm sure you could get something for it.