A Serious Decluttering Project

This summer I was hoping to spend the month of July hanging out with friends at a reunion/retreat in New Jersey for a week, having 3 of my neices hanging out with us for a week, and hanging out with family at a cabin in the Berkshires for a week. Having done a bunch of relaxing and vegging, in August I'd be all ready to get to work at school getting my room and plans and such done and all set for September.

Well, you know what they say about the Best Laid Plans....it looks like I'm going to be decluttering like mad in preparation for selling our house and buying a new house. We've been in our house for about 14 years and dh is a bit of a pack rat, so this is not going to be easy. I'm hoping that I'll be able to rent a storage facility (I'd love to get a pod, but it seems like they are about twice the monthly rate as a self-storage), which will make moving out the excess furniture a lot easier. I've started purging through the dressers and closets and basement, but it is going to be a lot of work and I've only just begun.

Oh yeah, and I'm going to have to actually finish the kitchen (isn't that the irony of life - I get the fridge I want and real progress on the kitchen, and then we will be turning around a selling it!). The good news is that it seems like minor/moderate kitchen remodels get 100% return on the investment.

One thing is for certain - this will be an adventure! I'm still planning to do my July plans, but I will working like mad while at the house and not quite able to relax the way I like to during the summer.