With my time for retirement approaching my wife and I have decided that it is time to sell the house.
With that decision comes the task of downsizing and cleaning out the clutter that we have collected over the last thirty plus years.
The kids are grown and gone and they have no interest in taking much of the things we don’t want anymore either. This means that we will be selling or donating most of it. When we got to the garage it was like a real treasure hunt. We found everything from our kids’ old sports equipment to various appliances that we never used anymore. It is amazing how much money we spent over the years on these items that we used once or twice and then cast them aside. For some reason we have purchased four different types of portable heaters and I can’t remember why we would have needed them. Our HVAC system in the house has always worked well and the portable ones are electric. They wouldn’t have worked during an outage anyway so why do we own them? I listed them on the marketplace and they were sold within a couple of days. Those people will probably end up doing the same thing with them years from now too. Remembering all the items that we purchased and spending time going through those memory boxes was a lot of fun and we will take those memories with us to our next place. At least memories don’t take up actual space like all that junk. Downsizing can be hard but fun at the same time.