I have an eerie feeling these days that I am a secret inhabitant in my own home. Our house is up for sale and the whole point of my existence is to make it seem that we do not exist. The house is perfectly clean and straight. And will hopefully sell quickly because with 3 little boys it isn't going to last long. While it is my job to make the house feel welcoming and warm (not too warm though, cross fingers for cool days), it should not actually look like people live there. It should be clean and laundry should not be left lying about-try that trick for a while with 5 people. The decluttering was fairly simple since I had an organizational fit in January and got rid of heaps of junk we had not looked at nor thought about since we moved in 2 years ago. D was a massive help; I needed his help since I look at closets every day and begin to look around the mess. The cleaning took a day. We went on the market yesterday and had our first showing today. Or was it a real showing. This is the third time through moving and there has been past trauma. Our first realtor set up another agent to go through and critique our house/cleanliness and billed it as a first showing; we then got a list of things to clean up. I do have to say that our realtor this time seemed surprised that I had taken an appointment today so I have high hopes that it was real.
So that is what I have been up to and why I may not be around much for a while. I am busy making my house pretty while keeping all specific signs of our existence hidden.
love and hugs, B
2 comments:
Good luck!
Urggghhh. I only had one 14month old when we sold our last house and that was quite hard enough. Wishing you lots of luck with keeping it all clean and tidy and fingers crossed for a quick sale! Where are you moving to? Near or far?
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