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You'll end up doing it before and after. The new space will not accomodate your belongings in the same way. Or that's my experience, having moved almost yearly for ten years, living overseas twice, and having just recently purchased my own home.

Ideally you purge before you move, and that's fewer boxes for you to carry. But though I've always had the best of intentions, and the first week everything is neat and labelled, I always run out of time and end up chucking things in boxes and bags anyway. And inevitably a post-moving purge follows.

The McMansion image as a typical American Home is stuff and nonsense. It's like saying the typical Japanese woman is a geisha. Look around your neighborhoods, or crane your neck as you commute to work. Heck, just look at the responses posted right here. New Yorkers in apartments, rural Ohio folks in cute or crappy farmhouses. In terms of averages, cavernous homes cannot be the majority. My home was built in the fifties, and its about 1600sf (poorly planned, tsk). The McMansion is what you see in magazines. And I love ya AT, but sometimes you'll have for example, bathroom design posts, that make it look like an upscale roman bath house. Sure there are lots in some of the pricier neighborhoods. But people need to stop putting it up as a so-called standard of living that Americans are supposedly seeking. Which Americans? (and who wants to clean that much house, honestly?!)

Netflix is totally stuck in a no-win situation thanks to being raked over the coals in the contract renegotiations. It's a shame that Netflix will suffer, but it will lose people, no question. It used to be Netflix or cable was your choice (an easy one). But Netflix isn't the only game in town anymore. With Hulu and Amazon out there, it pays to shop around.

Lately Netflix's streaming content has been lousy anyway. When's the last time you saw something good in there that you just *had* to watch? They knew they'd have to jack up prices, but at the same time they should have given something back to the consumers. They need to update their streaming library, because right now it contains just a fraction of their wonderful selection of films.

If we keep our subscription at all, it'll be for foreign films on dvd. But we're not going to pay to stream rubbish like Mega-Shark Versus Giant Octopus, when we can get a better deal with Amazon Prime.