For sale

Posted by E-George on May 11, 2009

Last week, this weekend, and today have been a series of frenetic hours decluttering, cleaning, tidying, organizing, and otherwise purging our house in preparation to put it on the market to sell. In some ways, it’s been deeply cathartic. In other ways, it’s been deeply disturbing.

It is experiences such as these that reveal aspects of my personality that I don’t often exercise. As an implementer, the moment we made the decision to sell the house I emotionally disassociated myself from my need to feel like the home’s occupier and dove headlong into packing up all my personalizing effects from shelves, cupboards, and closets. It never occurred to me that others in the house might have appreciated a somewhat slower approach instead of my patented bull-elephant style of project management.

On Saturday we had one of our biggest days of changes where we moved out my divorcee furniture from the TV room into storage, decluttered the pantry, took a load of junk to the dump, had the carpets washed throughout the house, and took the leaf out of the dining table and reduced it from an 8-seater to a 4-seater. In general, the feel of the house is a lot larger.

Now, I have a mandatory slipper rule for walking on the carpet, Berta has a mandatory keep-the-kitchen-clean rule, and Matthew has a mandatory keep-the-weeds-pulled-out-of-the-driveway-cracks rule. Hopefully all these rules combined will make for one super rule that will ultimately get the house sold in relative alacrity and speed us on our way towards being able to start searching for our next house.

Filed Under: Misc - Comments: Read the First Comment



top