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How tidy are you?

When you decide to sell your house, the big thing you need to do is "de-clutter". Given that one of my favourite web sites is http://www.uglyhousephotos.com/, I am very aware that photos of your house are a key aspect to making a good impression to potential buyers, and having too much stuff around is not appealing to buyers. As one of my friends put it yesterday: you need to make your house look as though no one live there.

I am a tidy person, in fact it is something that I often get hassled about as I am very neat and everything has it's place. BUT I do carry the family hoarder gene and I have A LOT of stuff (albeit displayed very neatly!!!). So while I thought the job of de-cluttering was not going to be too hard, it is harder than I thought.

My plan this week has been to go through room by room and get rid of obvious rubbish and box up things I will keep and put them out of sight. As I have been going through the rooms I have put spare things that I have not been quite sure whether to throw out or not into my office to decide on later.

Well today is later!
Today I have to tackle the office.
Today I am afraid.
So today I am sitting on my couch trying to pump myself up to go in there and get started.

Wish me luck - I will need it today!!!

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