Well, things are progressing along nicely. While we just want this all to hurry up and happen we are not in any kind of mad rush panic to make it happen next week. I have put my request out to the universe that we will have the house on the market in the next three weeks, will sell and settle quickly, that the van we want will still be for sale when we are ready to finally buy, and that we will be hitting the road in early June. That is the plan and I believe that it will happen that way for us. You have to believe if you want it to happen.
As far as preparations go, we have started on the house painting and hope to finish it over the easter break, in the mean time I have been making my way through the house one room at a time sorting, throwing, and packing in readiness for a mega garage sale this weekend.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! How much stuff can one family accumulate???? I took at least three full packing boxes out of my linen cupboard alone, stuff that I decided I don't need to keep anymore, and there is still heaps in there, it still looks full! R has always given me grief over the number of pillows I put on the bed when I make it ( for the record it's 6), but I think he would have just shaken his head at me if he saw how many pillow cases I had stashed away in the cupboard. Even I thought it was a ridiculous number!!
I have been taking at least a couple of boxes a day of stuff out of the house, stuff that I don't want to keep anymore, yet the house doesn't look any emptier. What's with that? I think we must have a house like Mary Poppins carpet bag, from the outside it looks like a normal house but on the inside it is magic and just keep expanding to take in more and more. It seems like the more stuff I take out, the more stuff appears from nowhere. I always thought I hadn't inherited my Dad's hoarding gene (just ask anyone about my Dad's shed!!)..... perhaps I was wrong after all.
I guess one really big upside to up-ending the house is the fact that we are managing to sell a lot of the accumulated stuff and the funds have been covering all costs of other house fixes and improvements like paint, a new dishwasher (kicking my self now though - if I had known I could get a working dishwasher for $50 I would have done it ages ago and saved myself all those dishes by hand. Grrr.), and a special treat - taking the kids to the circus last weekend. Why we didn't do a clear out and sale earlier so that we could enjoy the benefits of our hard work on the house ourselves I don't know. Seems to be a bit of a pattern we have developed over a couple of houses now. Live in it with patchy paint, broken appliances, no garden etc then fix them all so we can sell the house.
I suppose the other lesson we can take from this exercise is that it really is a good idea to clear out the old, the past, the un-needed from our lives and make room for bigger and better. It is good not only for the physical but the mental as well. De-cluttering is as beneficial for our souls as it is for our wallets!!
Right then, back to the biggest challenge of them all - E's bedroom!!!
As far as preparations go, we have started on the house painting and hope to finish it over the easter break, in the mean time I have been making my way through the house one room at a time sorting, throwing, and packing in readiness for a mega garage sale this weekend.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! How much stuff can one family accumulate???? I took at least three full packing boxes out of my linen cupboard alone, stuff that I decided I don't need to keep anymore, and there is still heaps in there, it still looks full! R has always given me grief over the number of pillows I put on the bed when I make it ( for the record it's 6), but I think he would have just shaken his head at me if he saw how many pillow cases I had stashed away in the cupboard. Even I thought it was a ridiculous number!!
I have been taking at least a couple of boxes a day of stuff out of the house, stuff that I don't want to keep anymore, yet the house doesn't look any emptier. What's with that? I think we must have a house like Mary Poppins carpet bag, from the outside it looks like a normal house but on the inside it is magic and just keep expanding to take in more and more. It seems like the more stuff I take out, the more stuff appears from nowhere. I always thought I hadn't inherited my Dad's hoarding gene (just ask anyone about my Dad's shed!!)..... perhaps I was wrong after all.
I guess one really big upside to up-ending the house is the fact that we are managing to sell a lot of the accumulated stuff and the funds have been covering all costs of other house fixes and improvements like paint, a new dishwasher (kicking my self now though - if I had known I could get a working dishwasher for $50 I would have done it ages ago and saved myself all those dishes by hand. Grrr.), and a special treat - taking the kids to the circus last weekend. Why we didn't do a clear out and sale earlier so that we could enjoy the benefits of our hard work on the house ourselves I don't know. Seems to be a bit of a pattern we have developed over a couple of houses now. Live in it with patchy paint, broken appliances, no garden etc then fix them all so we can sell the house.
I suppose the other lesson we can take from this exercise is that it really is a good idea to clear out the old, the past, the un-needed from our lives and make room for bigger and better. It is good not only for the physical but the mental as well. De-cluttering is as beneficial for our souls as it is for our wallets!!
Right then, back to the biggest challenge of them all - E's bedroom!!!
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