the process

One of the really great things about living in Germany is that twice a year we can put all our junk on the street and it either gets picked up by people "shopping" for treasures, or it gets picked up by the professionals. This kind of thing works out very nicely when one is leaving the country. A few weeks ago it was "Sperrmül" time again and so it was time for us to purge the house. Most of the stuff that went out had been collected from the street at an earlier date, or donated from someone who was getting rid of their junk. So it wasn't too difficult to part with these particular treasures.

This was our pile before it actually went on the street. There was much more in the end. We even had someone come to our door who was looking for antique furniture. Of course we did not tell him about the antique beds in the attic that our landlords have given us!