Get rid of as much stuff as you possibly can:
- Give away to the kids and neighbors
- Some churches have "furniture ministry" or a home goods thrift store, and some will pick up donated stuff
- Call furniture consignment stores and have them pick up the things you want to sell
- Get an Estate Sale or "Tag Sale" company to have a sale of the household things you don't want/need. They clean out and organize the stuff to be sold and they get rid of junk. The "stuff" will be gone in one day, once the sale is on.
- Find a Goodwill Store with a drive-thru for dropping off bags of clothing, shoes, BOOTS, (don't need those!), and housewares. After lifting, carrying up and down stairs, and loading the "stuff" into the trunk several times, it's nice to have the drive-thru donation workers take the stuff out of your trunk with no lifting on your part.
- If you get almost to the end of emptying the house and still have stuff you want to keep, rent a storage unit for about $40/month and "think about that later". Once you're in TV for awhile, the appeal of all that stuff grows less and less. Downsizing the home and amount of "stuff" is extremely liberating.
Think "Go without encumbrances".
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