Out with the old...
Selling old furniture isn’t fun, but here are some ways to make it easier.
“I better start looking for those twin beds,” I say to my husband, as I crack open my laptop to search. We want to turn the upstairs loft into a children’s guestroom now that we have — blink — four grandkids and counting.
“Better sell the daybed that’s in there first,” says DC, with infuriating pragmatism.
Dang! He’s right. The old daybed and trundle need to go to make room for two twin beds with trundles, so the room sleeps four kids, not two. But I’d so much rather shop than sell. Wouldn’t we all? Getting rid of old furniture before you buy new stuff is right up there with eat your vegetables before dessert and don’t spend more than you make. Good rules to live by but no fun.
If you don’t get rid of the old to make room for the new, you set yourself up for Someday Syndrome, that default disease where you just stick everything you’re too lazy to deal with in the garage, or worse, a storage unit, until the proverbial “someday.”
Though I knew what I had to do, I didn’t want to. Besides the hassle of selling, I had to deal with sentimental attachment. Here I was, author of two books on downsizing, and a third on the way, reluctant to release.
See, I bought the iron beauty back when my youngest was still in a crib. Though a bit beyond my budget, the designer who sold it to me called it “heir-