My wife and I are selling our home.  She keeps looking to me to ask "Well Mr. Realtor(R), what’s next?".  And I’m finding it hard to answer.

We accumulate so much stuff in our lives, you know?  A high school letter jacket – that’s gone. 
High school and college yearbooks … shoot, I even found one from when I was in the third grade.  Why in the world do I still have that?  Gone.  FIVE BIBLES – I’m all for reading the Bible, but we had six different versions and eight Bibles.  Goodwill has a few now, if you’d like to visit their Christiansburg store.

But I’ve found it harder than before to throw some stuff away, and I don’t know why.  Usually I’m the type that just tosses it without thinking, then next time I need that handpainted rooster salt shaker (seriously, I don’t have one of those) I just go buy another.  Not the best economic sense, I realize … it’s just how I am.  This time is different though, and I have a new appreciation for what my clients go through when they sell a home.  Man, do I ever. 

We’ll get through it.  The house is clean, we’ve got a bunch of boxes in a friends’ garage (Thanks Tommy) and the paint crew will be finished up on Wednesday.  Thank God – they’ve turned up a few more things I’ve got to take to Goodwill.