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?

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

P.S. I found Freecycle on the Web, and it saved me!

Freecycle is, I think, international. You can find a local chapter, and people who live nearby can see what you have to give away, and they will come and take it off your hands.

I met so many nice people, and they came promptly and helped me shove rickety cupboards and rocking chairs and tables into their trucks and vans, and I didn't have to take a single thing to the dump.

We emptied out, Kate and I, an entire tool shed full of (mildewed) old furniture.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

Once your landlords give you notice, your apartment is no longer your home. :\ We're going through much the same pruning process that you and Ailz are.

[sina-says.livejournal.com]

best of luck with this exciting, harrowing process!

i'm not sure if you read my entries but i'm going to be doing going through a similar adventure at the end of july. it's comforting to know, though, that since i'll be moving into a much larger place i won't necessarily have to throw out as much.