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I'm definitely moving forward on the whole "selling the house" idea. Sunday, I packed the minivan full of my daily-use stuff, and carted it all down to Kristin's. Sunday night was my first night of being officially moved out.
Of course, I haven't moved out in the sense of getting everything out yet. There's still plenty to pack up and move. Getting myself out of the house means that I no longer have real limitations on what I can and can't pack, though. If I feel like packing dishes and kitchen stuff, it's all open game, where before I would have had to think about it -- "Oh, hmm; am I going to use that before I move out, or not?"
Now? Problem solved!
So, the next task is to get everything else packed up and moved out. I have a depressing amount of stuff, even after cleaning things out and tossing all manner of things. It'll get better as I pack enough to get big furniture out. Moving tables and bookshelves will really look like progress, which will be encouraging. Right now, for every box I get packed, I end up making 3x more visual mess as I break things down into packable components.
My grand plan didn't go quite as I'd hoped, unfortunately. I guess I'm still kind of in the packing section, but the plan changed from the original idea. Way back in 2006, I had this clever plan all worked out in my head:
Toss/donate/sell unwanted possessions: 6 months.
Pack everything: 6 months.
Prep and sell house: 6 months.
That was around June, 2006, and the goal was the have the house sold by December, 2007. That's still the goal, but a few practical concerns sprang up. The most important one is that houses sell way better during spring and summer than they do in winter. I also wanted to have those six "selling" months primarily consist of having the house on the market, rather than actually doing any prep in that time. So, packing got accelerated, and I'm hoping to have the house on the market by June 1 at the very latest, more likely mid-May.
In any case, it's all a bit strange -- I've been living in that house since mid-2000. It's interesting to look back and think about what's changed and what's remained constant in that time, but that's a subject for a different post.
Posted at 11:19 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater