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Sorting Through Your Life
How can you possibly fit 2500 square feet of living, furniture, and memories into 800 square feet? Guess what ~ you can’t. Now many of you will go out and try anyway and we understand. After living for 40 years in your family home you have collected a lifetime of memories. Shelves full of photo [...]
Right-Size with a Later-Life Move
Just in case you are still “sitting on the fence” about whether to stay or move or have some qualms about leaving your current home, let me give you another perspective on this issue. Although I’m sure you’ve read and heard over and over about the value of ‘aging in place’ (remaining in the same [...]
Bidding Farewell to the Family Home
Making a move later in life is not easy ~ especially if you are leaving a long time family home. But whether this has been your home for a half a century or only five years, it has become a part of your life and memories. Because this is such an important life transition, experts [...]
Downsizing and Moving Checklist
The following checklist will assist you with a smoother, stress-free transition to your new retirement lifestyle. 1. When do I wish to move? Allow yourself at least 6 to 8 weeks to plan your move If presently living in a rental property, you are required to give sixty days notice that you are moving If [...]
The Upside to Downsizing: Making Do With Less
We spend the first forty years of our lives enthusiastically accumulating stuff and the next forty trying desperately to get rid of the excess. The word “stuff’ uses the dictionary meaning of “household or personal articles collectively; belongings, worthless objects; refuse or junk.” Let that speak for itself. As young adults we start out with [...]
Interior Designer William Morris advised us to "have nothing
in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe
to be beautiful." This eliminates a lot of clutter.