Upping the Ante: Week 3

After three weeks (though it feels like forever) of packing and sorting fervor, things are starting to look different around here.  Which is to say, they are starting to look empty.

After finding out that we only have a couple of weeks to sort through our remaining crap stuff and stage the house and send pics to our realtor to use in the listing, we upped the ante.

This week we:

**Made two more enormously packed trips to goodwill.  Where did all this stuff come from?!

**Got our gutters cleaned.

**Got some minor wood repairs (aesthetic) made to the front of the house.

**Packed and packed and packed up our stuff.

**B started interviewing possible replacements at work.

**Picked some summer books to keep out as we packed the rest of the library.  B's choices:

**Found a home for the boyz (the birds).  Will post about this shortly.

**Arranged a junk furniture pick up for this week - getting close to emptying the basement.

**Began "depersonalizing" the inside of the house - for staging.

Amid the boxes and bubble wrap and tape and wrapping paper and stacks of stuff to sort and pack, things are starting to look...empty.