The Tiger Box
This box has seen us through a lot of transitions.
This box first came to Matt in high school with his first computer.
This box then moved Matt into the dorms at UI.
It moved Matt out of those dorms, holding his stuff at his parents’ house during the summer we got married, then came back Moscow to be unpacked in our first apartment.
From that apartment, it moved clothes to our second apartment in Richland.
It then moved kitchen items from that second apartment to our first purchased house in Kennewick.
Within the three years we were in that house, it was still used. I was in the early days of pregnancy when we moved to the house, and after the move it held my growing wardrobe of clothes that no longer fit. It held them for longer than I expected.
A few months after Hans was born, the Tiger box stored my maternity clothes.
A little over a year after that, the maternity clothes began coming out again and the old, small clothes — some of which never did fit yet — went back into the box.
Those smaller sized clothes, with some average sized clothes added, remained in that box as we moved a few months after Jaeger was born to our Pasco rental. It continued to hold them in my closet for a little over a year.
It was time to move again. Several of the clothes in that box had not been worn in four or more years. Time to purge and recognize that I might never be an 8 again. I kept only two pairs of jeans that were my absolute favorite in high school and still in great condition, two shirts, and two or three skirts that didn’t take up much room. They moved to a diaper box, which are now in abundance around here, and the Tiger box held instead my shoes. I had to pack them carefully so they’d all fit.
Thus the Tiger box has arrived at our second purchased house and has been not only unpacked but it now taken down. This sturdy, most excellent box has not been unused and taken down in at least 5 years of the 8 it has been in Winckler possession and in the 7 moves it has seen.
We hope it shall only see one more. But that’s what we said last time.
