Canablog

We have been called minimalists by our neighbours in the past month. We arrived in Canada with nothing more than our clothing and our camping gear. We did get some initial furniture from our neighbours, 2 tables, 3 chairs, a television and a big foamy to us as bed, but that was it. We have been camping in our house and it was allright. It appears we don't need that many thing to be able to live quit nicely....

So now all of a sudden we have back or stuff. Some of the thing we did not remember packing... Oh did we really bring that? What a waste of space..... Have we indeed become minimalists? Does Robin need that many toys? He was happy with the stick and pineapples the garden here so abundantly provides. Do we really need all those plates? We had guest over before our things arrived and allready got a new set Ikea plates. much cheaper than shipping our plates. We shipped 1/4 of our DVD bt don't have a DVD player anymore. Will we need a new one? (Yes!, but that is just Bas adding something to Ge-an's text ;)

Well yes, there are some non essential things we would like to own again some day. But for now we (and especially Bas) would be very happy if all the computers had been working properly. The way I (Ge-an) sees it, Bas has a nice new computer project to work on at home. What makes it even better is that out living and our study are once again 1 room. The combined living-study-play-dining room! Now that is an extreme makeover.

Oh and for me, I just like having some books again :-), 1/10 of the original volume of books we had... We can live with a lot less than what we had in Rotterdam, as long as we have a library within 500 meters (we do) and a library pass......