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.

Comments

[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.