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Organizing a home when downsizing

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My wife and I recently moved from our home in Worcester Massachusetts into a retirement community a few towns away. We were downsizing from a home that had almost twice as much living space and we had a lot of reorganizing to do before we moved. I am sure that there are a lot of people in the same situation as us, so I figured I would share our experience of how we downsized our home.
Below is a step by step process that we used to decide what items we were keeping and what we could live without.

A month before our move we went through all of our furniture and decided which pieces would fit in our new residence, and what furniture we would have to part with. Considering that furniture usually takes up the most living area, we figured that this would be a good place to start. Any furniture that wouldn’t fit in our new home we moved into the garage, so that it would be easy to get rid of. Seeing that a lot of the furniture had sentimental value we were able to pass most of it on to family and friends. The few pieces that remained we gave to Good Will.

We hired a college student from Craigslist to help us clean out our attic, basement, and closets. He helped us sort items into three categories: trash, items to give away, items we are keeping and items to be sold. Any items that we were keeping that we didn’t use on a regular basis were packed right then, eliminating handling them twice. Items that we were going to sell or give away were put in the garage and items that were trash were loaded in a rented dumpster. All boxes were labeled with the proper room that they would go in at our new residence. If an item had sentimental value, but was not something that we could keep or used often, we made sure we gave it away to family members.

I made a deal with our hired college student to run a yard sale for us, with the condition that I would let him keep a percentage of the profits. We sold about half of the items with the yard sale and then gave away and threw out what was left. The money earned from the yard sale more than covered the cost of hiring the college student.

I was worried about our belongings not being damaged, so I looked online for a reputable Moving Company. After extensive research and speaking with the owners we decided to hire Town To Town Movers to handle our move.

A week before we moved in I had our hired college student come to our new home and set up shelving in the garage and basement, considering that we had a lot less storage space then our previous home.

On the day of the move we had each box labeled, so that they would end up in the correct rooms. I directed the movers to where I wanted each piece of furniture, so that items didn’t need to be moved twice. I had our college helper come over on the day of the move and help unpack boxes and organize the garage and the basement.

Within a week after our move date we had everything moved in and were all unpacked. We are now enjoying our new home and feel like we’ve lived here forever.

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Robert is a retired engineer that hired a moving company in Worcester, MA.

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