A church group from Kansas gutted my house on Thursday the 20th. I wasn't there, and when I went back to "the Bay" (as residents call the town of Bay St. Louis) this weekend, I did not go to my house. I decided that I didn't need to see all of my material possessions piled up on the curb, waiting to be hauled off to the dump.
The final tally:
Salvaged:
Most of my CDs (music and audiobooks)
Software CDs and back-up for certain files (on Zip disks)
Most of my jewelry
Six coffee cups
2 woolen scarves that I had crocheted
Essential oils (aromatherapy)
Some books that were high up on a bookshelf
Crochet hooks
A handful of photographs and memorabilia that were stored separately from my main photograph collection
Some old journals and notebooks
2005 tax records (business expense receipts, etc.) so I can file next year
Assorted odds and ends that I came across and that are capable of being cleaned up
Gone:
Computer, peripherals, and all home office equipment and supplies
All of the furniture
Appliances (fridge, laundry, microwave, vacuum cleaner, etc.)
Kitchen supplies (pots and pans, plates, utensils, silverware, etc.) and cookbooks
Almost all photographs and memorabilia, from childhood through the present (and some of ancestors also)
Genealogy research files
Artwork
Most of my personal and business records
Most of my yarn stash (very important to us crocheters and knitters!) and projects I was working on
All of my clothes, including all of my sweaters, jackets, and shoes, except for what I was wearing when I evacuated
All of my books except for those that were high enough up on bookshelves that they didn’t get wet
Everything else I can’t think of right now
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