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Originally Posted by CarolSells
I didn't want to hijack the other threads that mentioned "stuff" but they are so timely for me because I'm dealing with that right now. I thought that I got rid of lots of things when I sold my previous house but I couldn't believe how much furniture and boxes the movers delivered when I finally moved into my current home.
The kids aren't really interested in much of any of it. I'm trying to sell my mother's furniture that I inherited and it seems that I will have to practically give it away. I'm not talking priceless antiques but nice wood quality pieces. I haven't even started on all of the china, etc.
What did you guys do? Just sell to be rid of it? Garage sales don't bring that many people to our neighborhood. Any unique ideas for sales? Thanks.
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When we moved to Venice Florida in 1994, selling our Vermont home in late October with the new folks wanting to be in by end of December, we knew we wanted all new Florida furniture for the beachfront condo we were going to buy.........we called in a local auctioneer. Obviously, you will never get top dollar for furniture, no matter how good it is or what you originally paid........we just wanted to avoid endless days of strangers coming over to look at it and lugging it out.
The auctioneer and his sons took everything out in one day and even took everything out of my mom's home as she was moving down with us.
All we had packed up , in the basement, for Mayflower Movers, were boxes of personal items and clothing. Our adult children, at the time newly graduated from college and married, took all their childhood toys, books, etc. for their future children.........
So, we moved very "lightly".........but still had a lot of boxes....plus we put our car on the moving truck as we were flying down to Sarasota.
4 months later we moved back to Vermont with our Florida furniture and slowly over the years I've replaced it with more appropriate New England furniture.......contemporary.....now, I would do the same thing again.
Call in an auctioneer and have them move it all out. Not do personal sales to individuals.
The thing is..........we thought that at age 49 we had lightened our load after all the years of marriage, kids, etc......from age 20 to 49 when we moved to Florida.
Now, "it is all back again" due to the five grandchildren.........all the toys and games and books and stuff we bought to entertain them while they visit..........there is no way I would bring it all down again.......we even bought new toy boxes for up here......remote control cars, etc., doll houses, plus all the baby toys. This could be why we are dragging our feet about moving again. Been there, done that.
WE all have too much stuff. Good luck.
p.s. My husband did have a big garage sale, called tag sale up here, back in 1994; sold all his rifles, etc. and all the guy stuff...........only to have to buy it back again in 1995. But, we have been discussing how we will have to downsize whenever we move to The Villages. His garage is set up to resemble a hardware store. All of our local workmen love his garage.....you literally could go shopping in it.
What to do with all this stuff? Not to mention age 49 is a lot different than age 67 in the energy level.