May 5th, 2006 - House updates

Today, our house went up for sale! I can’t particularly say much on being frugal in selling one’s house, that’s for sure. We’re spending/have spent money on a storage unit, painting, eating out because we’re tired or, hoefully soon, someone’s looking at the house during dinner time, buying fix-it things full price, buying special cleaning supplies, etc. The one frugal thing that might come out of this, however, is that Eric commented yesterday that we should carefully consider everything we unpack to see whether we really need to keep it. We’ll be living without the things in the storage unit for the next 6-8 weeks. Maybe we can live without them longer.

We don’t want to live without all of them. For instance, 4 or 5 boxes are clothes for Maggie to grow in. A few more are out of season clothes. But there are definitely things I packed rather than sent to Goodwill simply because I couldn’t take the time to make thoughtful decisions. We are both very aware that the much larger house, combined with such ample storage (full attic + a decent basement) could be very, very dangerous to keeping out possessions simplified.

Our house feels pretty empty already. The completely bare walls (except 2 paintings in the dining room) help (not that we had all that much up before either). Maybe it’s more the clean, blank, freshly painted walls instead of the color wash (living room) and mess (stairwell–three different colors, cracks, etc.). There’s more to do, such as the bits and pieces in the kitchen, extras in Maggie’s closet, things in the basement….I don’t intend to keep pushing myself as hard as I did the past two weeks however! Tomorrow is my day off and I’m taking it! I haven’t had one since we were in New Jersey. Not sure what I’ll do. Maybe read all day….

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One Response to “House updates”

  1. Meredith Says:
    May 5th, 2006 at 3:14 pm EDT

    Hang in there! It *is* difficult to stay frugal when you’re making a last-minute move–one reason to keep fixing and decluttering wherever one currently lives. You just never know when you’ll find that dream house a few blocks away, right?

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