Selling and Decluttering – Good Homes

Posted on July 24, 2009 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Valerie Zinger

Have you ever cleaned a closet and not been able to part with your ”perfectly good” stuff.  There are always things that we keep even if we are not using them.  Sometimes we cannot part with things until we know that they are going to “good homes” (sort of like the kittens your cat gave you).  In Ottawa, if you are not prepared to sell your stuff, you can call St. Vincent de Paul or Value Village or the local church to see if they will take your stuff to sell or give away.  Here is a personal example.

When my husband and I were leaving Winnipeg for Ottawa, we had no idea if we would be moving to an apartment, a condo or a house.  What we did know was that, wherever we were going to be in Ottawa, it would be smaller than the big house we had in Winnipeg.  We had a basement full of sports equipment – a ping pong table, rowing machine, three hanging punching bags, gloves, pads, a couple of dozen hockey sticks and pucks (from when MDH was a coach); a dozen baseballs and bats and gloves (from MDH’s slow pitch league days), soccer balls and nets, a table hockey game, enough baseball caps for a small stadium of men and so on.  Clearly, this could not be moved, and probably not used, in Ottawa.  I knew of an inner city drop-in centre, called them and they agreed to take our stuff (thinking it would be one box).  After two van loads, enormous smiles from the kids and a letter of thanks from the centre – we were free to move to Ottawa without this stuff.  The best part was that we knew that, even if the kids destroyed the equipment in a month, it was still going to be better used with them than with us.

When decluttering, finding good homes is key.

Photo credit:  Sporting goods @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/loozrboy/3024154654/

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