Tuesday Treasures #8

More family photos but this time marked as treasures because they are coming off the wall.  According to "house staging for sale philosophy", you remove all personal effects that may prevent the prospective buyer from seeing themselves in the house.

 

As we prepare for the sale of our house (see yesterday's post to get the backstory) I am packing up all the framed photographs that chronicle our lives.

The bedroom hall has been a perfect spot to display this passage of time.  I wonder where I will do this once we settle in to our new digs?

The daughters are now 35 and 30.  Where has the time gone?

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A Big Decision

Last week we visited a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in downtown Columbia.  Remember that walk we took on Sunday the 28th?  Well one thing led to another and we really liked the location of the CCRC - walking distance of Whole Foods, restaurants, library, and other shopping.  

Friday I called a realtor and by Saturday afternoon we had signed the papers to sell our house!  We meet a second time with the CCRC on Tuesday and will know more then whether we have a long wait to get the apartment floor plan we would like.  If this house sells quickly we will have an interim move in our future, even in the interim we can take advantage of the activities at the CCRC.

Now until March 31st when the listing goes live I have major staging to do.  A stager will come later this week to walk through the house with me.  I already know all my family photos have to go and have started that process.  Packing and downsizing to move will come once the house sells.  And there will be a lot of downsizing involved!

Thankfully I have this blog that has chronicled this lovely house and property.  New adventures, new hobbies, new friends await us but we will not be saying good bye to old friends because we are only moving 10 miles south.  Closer in fact to some of them!