Almost two years ago, we decided to sell our Southern California home of 13 years when we found out that we will be moving overseas and that there is slim possibility of moving back to Southern California after that move.  Our real estate agent warned us that it may take a while to sell our house due to the down housing market.  There are houses like ours that have been on the market for almost a year and are still not sold.   I told her that I will give it a try and I will ask God to help me find a buyer.

Several weeks before we sign the listing contract, we started to prepare the house for sale.  It was quite hectic.  Firstly, we had to get rid of all our unnecessary “stuff”.   My husband and I have different opinion on how to handle this situation.  His style of getting rid of the stuff is to load them in a rented dumpster and let the dumpster’s company to deal with the stuff.  I did not want all the stuff to clutter our landfills.  I wanted to either sell the stuff on Ebay, Craig’s List or through a garage sale, and donate those that did not get sold.  We also did not agree on what is unnecessary.  Since we did not have a lot of time to agree on what to get rid of, we took the lame way – we got rid [Read more...]