I'm coming to an end of my gypsy travels (at least for a little while). The places I've lived for the last five months have all been furnished with other people things and I'm looking forward to being surrounded by own belongings.

Every place that I've rented has been missing something. Most of them have been thoughtfully stocked, with the exception of one thing that's obvious. The last place that I stayed had no spoons. The place I'm in now has no glasses (with the exception of two champagne flutes and a single coffee mug).

You have very little need for closet space and cupboards when renting furnished, so it was only a little bit of a surprise when I opened a door looking for a broom and found another bathroom that I hadn't known was there.

It's not an accumulation of things that will make me feel like home; i'm really not taking much from my past with me. When you rent a furnished place, you do your best to leave it the way that you found it, which involves carefully removing evidence that you'd been there. The furniture, the dishes, it's all pretty much the same as it was during your stay, but with someone else using it, sleeping in it, eating off of it. They'll have no idea that before you came, there were no spoons.