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First I thought it would be easy to do the clearing out. Then I thought how hard other people find it and revised my opinion. Now I'm pleased to say I may be right about how easy it is! If you ever want to make things easy for yourself, think that you're going abroad and living in a motorhome for 12 months and everything has to be stored (which you'd pay for) or got rid of, and you have a recipe for success in terms of being able to easily sort out your belongings! So I start

So I decided I needed to plan out my weekends between now and the end of March in terms of getting the clearing out (take with us, store, give to kids, bin, donate) done, since I’m at work in the week. It’s basically 2 rooms a weekend except the weekends where it’s “loft” or “garage” because there is SO MUCH STUFF in both of those areas. I planned those for weekends Selo is here to help too. I’m starting this weekend with clearing all surfaces across the house- anything that

We had estate agents out this week to value the house for sale (we're not looking to do that now, but wanted to know where it would fall) and for rent. I think we'd guessed pretty well as to what the rental value would be, but what we really wanted to know was: How easy would it be to let something in this area (there's not a lot to let around here) How long would they estimate to get a tenant What are the differences between estate agent management and us managing it ourselv