2/30 The Return of Project Empty

[darkemeralds]

Consultation with my sister the realtor has convinced me that there's no meaningful advantage in selling my house and moving to a condo. The only gain--that of no longer having a garden to waste water on attend to--would be amply offset by losses. I can't actually downsize--my house is already smaller than a lot of condos. I can't reduce my monthly rent by enough to matter. And in my price range I can't possibly improve on my inner-city location.

So I'm staying. But one brilliant idea emerged from the few weeks where I was thinking about moving: I'm gonna play dead and have an estate sale. Turns out there are businesses--reputable local businesses of long standing--that will broker, sell, donate or discard every single thing in a house and leave it "broom clean and ready to sell". They document everything, take a cut, and write you a check.

I'm gonna rent a POD, put a select few items in it, take a vacation to the beach, and let the estate sale agents go to town. Then I'm going to move back in with my few items and start all over again.

I'm hoping to accomplish this before I retire.

Comments

[scribblemoose]

That sounds like a fantastic way of making a fresh start.

[grrlpup]

Brilliant! I'm going to remember this trick.

[branchandroot]

Oh wow. That would definitely give you a fresh start! What a good way to make your living space new.

[ruric]

I admire your approach. I'm still a bit too attached to my *stuff* to be quite so radical. I am spending rest of next week when I get back to London blitzing my attic though!

[hunningham]

Wow! This is so deeply scary that I could not even contemplate doing this. I like my things. But I'm so interested in how it will go

[amaliedageek]

This does sound fun!

I've always assumed that we'd be paying for any move we made, so my attitude towards things has been "Is it worth $1 per minute to move this?" A lot of boxes were emptied after that.

[tehomet]

Groovy idea.