[Clawdio45]

Bought a new, furnished villa in TV last September. Managed a one-week visit in December 2015 to get my walk-through done. Now it's July and we STILL have not managed to get our Illinois house "on the market" (combination of 36 years accumulated stuff, procrastination, and health issues)... but at least we are finally going to make another visit. Really looking forward to spending a bit of time in our new place, meeting neighbors, and setting things up so we can maybe snowbird if the procrastination cycle can't be broken before winter. Anyway... see you soon!

[Nucky]

Originally Posted by Clawdio45

Bought a new, furnished villa in TV last September. Managed a one-week visit in December 2015 to get my walk-through done. Now it's July and we STILL have not managed to get our Illinois house "on the market" (combination of 36 years accumulated stuff, procrastination, and health issues)... but at least we are finally going to make another visit. Really looking forward to spending a bit of time in our new place, meeting neighbors, and setting things up so we can maybe snowbird if the procrastination cycle can't be broken before winter. Anyway... see you soon!

No doubt it's a process. Sometimes it feels like the big day will never ever arrive. Donate your stuff, it feels great. Best of luck.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by Nucky

No doubt it's a process. Sometimes it feels like the big day will never ever arrive. Donate your stuff, it feels great. Best of luck.

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[goodtimesintv]

Originally Posted by Clawdio45

Bought a new, furnished villa in TV last September. Managed a one-week visit in December 2015 to get my walk-through done. Now it's July and we STILL have not managed to get our Illinois house "on the market" (combination of 36 years accumulated stuff, procrastination, and health issues)... but at least we are finally going to make another visit. Really looking forward to spending a bit of time in our new place, meeting neighbors, and setting things up so we can maybe snowbird if the procrastination cycle can't be broken before winter. Anyway... see you soon!

Hire an estate sale or tag sale company to come in and go thru every last piece of "stuff", and have them get rid of it all and keep their percentage of the $$ proceeds.

Or, since you already have a furnished villa here, just leave the whole place intact, lock the doors, get a house watch person to check it weekly or every 2 weeks, and just come on down here and live for the winter.

Once you're here for an extended time, especially during the icy/windy/sub-zero winter in IL, you'll see that all that "stuff" really doesn't fit your new lifestyle that's downsized and where you're outside year-round, in sunshine almost every day.

[jblum315]

I had a tag sale, cleared 11K for stuff I didn't want and don't miss

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by Nucky

No doubt it's a process. Sometimes it feels like the big day will never ever arrive. Donate your stuff, it feels great. Best of luck.

Decluttering is a very freeing experience. People hold onto stuff people they haven't used in years. You won't miss it.

Some people are still unpacking stuff they moved here with and are regretting the work load.

[Patty906]

I feel your pain. We bought our villa in May and have not been back since the walk thru. Planning on a late July visit. We are also going to be snow birds for a while but that could change once we finally get a chance to spend a longer period of time. Seems like once you get bitten by the Village bug you never want to leave.

[charmed59]

Enjoy your visit. While you are there make a list of the stuff you wish you had from your big house. Next trip, bring it down. Live a little, make another list. Then go north, pack that list of up, get rid of everything else, sell the house and you are set.

My husband is in TV right now. The thing he misses more than me is his blender. :-)

[asianthree]

Cleaning one room at a time. Bringing down what I am keeping putting away, and on to the next

[m103619]

Wife and I visited friends in TV last September, Wife decided she had enough of Vt winters and wants to Join The Village People. We returned to Vermont, put our house on the market and started reducing inventory. Six months later we found a buyer, re-visited TV and bought a house in The Osceola Preserve. We close July 14 in Vt, July 25 in TV (house is not quite finished) and will be full time Village People! Hang in there Perpetual, you will get it done!

[DruannB]

What is a tag sale? Is it like a garage sale?

[Nucky]

Originally Posted by DruannB

What is a tag sale? Is it like a garage sale?

Exactly the same. We made a bundle on stuff I didn't know we had. We are moving in next week to our Villages home. We managed to condense our whole life worth of stuff into a 8' x 16' Pack Rat. I'm sure some of that will be donated down here. We went to a store down here called Bargain's & Treasures...there is no need to drag anything that is questionable to Florida. Sell it and buy again down here. The furniture is fantastic and reasonable.

[goodtimesintv]

Originally Posted by DruannB

What is a tag sale? Is it like a garage sale?

Everything gets sorted, small stuff grouped, displayed and priced in the home. A difference from garage sale is that with a tag sale, traffic of people and cars coming in is limited by numbers being handed out to shoppers early in the a.m. before the sale starts. Then only a limited number of shoppers are in there at a time.

[Kaffeb2]

We are going through the same thing. Clearing out room by room so we can show the house. We've only been in our house 15 years and can't believed the stuff we've accumulated. We've given a lot of stuff away and are down to two rooms and the garage (cry). Thought we'd be down there by now, but the going is SO slow.