Selling and Decluttering - Everything in its place

Posted on July 10, 2009 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Valerie Zinger

A fundamental guide in decluttering your space is to find a place for everything and only one place for like things.  For example, do you store toilet paper in the linen closet, in each bathroom and in the basement?  You might want to consider having your bulk storage in only one place and then a couple of rolls in each bathroom.  The theory is that you only know what you have if you can find it. 

The same guideline holds true for storing food.  When you decide to sell your house, start using up your food supply.  Why pay to move it?  Also, the fewer things stored in your home, the more space that appears available.  I recently showed a home where the owners must have owned shares in pasta companies.  There was pasta in several kitchen cupboards, in boxes on the stairs to the basement and in two separate food storage areas in the basement.  Oh wonder of wonders, some containers of pasta seemed to be more decorative in nature than edible.  To my Buyers, the fact that food was being stored everywhere just seemed to say that the kitchen was too small.  You can avoid this negative reaction by reducing your stock and keeping same and similar things together.  

Eat, toss or food bank your surplus.

Photo credit:  Front Dried Calabresi Penne @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/3009654715/

Valerie Zinger ~ Ottawa Canada ~ 613-723-5300 ~ vzinger@royallepage.ca

 

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