We're Officially On the Market

The time to change my mind has officially passed. Our house is listed for sale ($210,000). It's never looked better inside or out. Why is it that I FINALLY took off the dead wallpaper in the bathroom, and repainted the woodwork and baseboards that have looked really dinged up for at least five years just to sell it? I think it must be human nature. We settle in and feather up our nest - in my case with a zillion photographs of Sarah Lynn. Then we get so comfortable that we never even really see what we're living in or living with - you know, the handle that always falls off, or the dirt spot on the wall you keep meaning to wash/repaint. Then, one day, you decide, let's sell! Suddenly all those little dings, gotchas, and sometimes major ugliness comes to the forefront as if scales have fallen from our eyes. So now, I have a beautiful house ready for someone else.

At this point the question is how much stuff does it take to make a nest? Drake has cheerfully weighed and measured EVERYTHING we own. There's method to his madness (and frankly, at times it has seemed a bit looney tunes). The reason for all the precision is that we will have a limited amount of storage space, and a limited amount of weight we can pull. We've settled on a 5x10 cargo trailer, and we'll probably have one built especially for us in Waco.

Think about it.................5x10 - plus a car trunk. What would you take? What would you store with the expectation that you wouldn't see most of the stuff for five years. Interesting questions. So far, no big arm waving yelling matches over what we will/won't take. We're pretty much on the same page. We need 2 comfortable chairs, 2 end tables, 2 mattresses, 1 table, 2 folding chairs, 1 Tv, 2 micro stereo systems, 3 tubs of kitchen stuff, a couple of suitcases of seasonal clothes, our tent, some linens/towels/blankets, my sewing maching & a traincase of sewing and embroidery stuff. We're considering selling our PC and replacing it with a lap top (that's 40 lbs we can save, Jan). I'm scanning my pictures into the computer to load my electronic picture frame to take with me. That's about it.

It's getting pretty real, folks.