I read a lot of online articles about decluttering and making space in your house. Want to sell your house? Go through and sell off things in your house. You'll make money right upfront, and make your house more sellable.
Please. I feel as though online articles are so far removed from the truth. It's hard work to sell your crap. You don't just walk through your closets, picking out the stuff you don't want or use any more, and set it out on your lawn and have people swarm over. We worked on our sales for weeks. We posted online, we advertised within and without our neighborhood, we gathered a LOT of stuff. And then we sold SOME of our stuff. A lot is going to donation. We put cash in our pocket, but a lot less cash than it would take to replace that stuff. Some of the stuff we no longer use, some we would like updated, some we just can't see the value in storing for a year.
I'm not saying that yard sales don't help, but you certainly need a plan for what to do with the rest of the stuff. And if it's stuff you really want/like, and all you're trying to do is clear out space in the house so it looks and feels more spacious to a potential buyer, pack it up for the next house.
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