Wheeeee!

[poliphilo]

A few entries back I wrote about wanting to "examine my life."

Thanks, Dag, you really landed me in it.

There's no more practical way of examining your life than by putting your house on the market.

All the stuff you've accumulated. Silly stuff. Sentimental. Bah: heave it  in the wheelie bin!

The estate agents want to take picturesof the interior and they're not going to do it with that chair in the frame. 

Oldham Tip-  here we come!

Ailz says that once you put your house on the market it ceases to be your home. 

Too true!

Life is suddenly moving very, very fast. 

I  like it.

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I went through the same process this early spring, and it was disquieting, but exciting at the same time.

Ailz is so right. The realtor has rearranged furniture and "blanded" down the house (I've put away all my interesting things)--she says, if people see your dollhouse, they don't see the wall behind it.

She's brought over pictures that make me gag, and she says they will appeal to most people.

Here's the clincher, the thing that gives me chills: on my porch she has placed a doormat that has flowers printed on it, and a little note:

"The place to be happy is here."

Every time I cross it, I shudder.

She's a family friend and a former realtor. I wouldn't hurt her feelings for the world. She is doing this for me because she cares about our family.

But she is so symmetrical! If there's a shelf with an object on display, the object must be just in the center.

So, like Ailz, I am philosophical: if she can sell this house, even with all the cloying sticky-sweet mottoes and paintings of rose-covered cottages, I can stand it.

For awhile, and then I will go crazy.

(I have at least the back porch. It's perfect.)

May we both sell soon and find new adventures!

Isn't this a wonderful surprise? This time a month ago, moving wasn't on your mind at all, was it?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Up until quite recently the move was impossible. Houses were so much more expensive in Kent than they are round here. But now house prices here have risen and house prices there are falling. We could even come out of the transaction with a small profit.

I'm amazed by the whole thing. I'd resigned myself to living here into my dotage.

We could do with someone like your realtor to come and prettify this place. We're doing our best, but we're just not capable of that degree of ruthlessness...

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I think her efforts are not essential.

You've redone your kitchen recently, and every penny you spent for that will come back in this sale. Same for me--I redid my bathroom.

She's correct about one thing--the fewer small things you display, the bigger and more appealing the rooms become.

I'm finding the hardest part (aside from seeing that doormat every day) is keeping the house impeccably clean--not one cobweb, she told me; not one scrap of paper out on the desk.