After my father passed away at the end of January, my sister and I took two months to clear out our family apartment (as I described in Home is Where the Heart Is). Although most of our parents’ possessions were sold, donated, or discarded, I brought home a bag of things that I just didn’t feel right about throwing away. These things were not valuable or even of great sentimental value. They were simply items that my parents had held on to for many…
Read more →As I mentioned last time, I recently upgraded my sound system to a wireless solution using Sonos. In the process, I sold my Bose Wave Radio/CD Player on eBay and made a nice amount of cash. Once I was in the eBay groove, I started listing other items in my home that I wasn’t using anymore. In the last two months, I have netted over $400 on eBay. Even more than the cash intake, I appreciate getting items out of…
Read more →Today, my sister and I finished clearing out our family home of nearly 40 years. It wasn’t the home we grew up in — we moved out of that apartment three weeks before I graduated high school. But it was where we introduced our parents to the men who would become their sons-in law; where we brought our children to play with their cousins; where we mourned our mother three years ago and helped my father reestablish his new life, which ended two…
Read more →Designer shoes and handbags are just not in my DNA. I am apparently missing that segment of the X chromosome. However, I have been in enough female clients’ closets to know that I am in the minority. I’ve worked with clients long enough to know that letting go of something you no longer use or love is especially hard if you paid a lot of money for it. That means that designer shoes and handbags often stick around past their…
Read more →In my last tip, I spoke about letting go of clothes that don’t make you look fabulous. If you’ve taken my advice, you now have a pile of clothes you no longer want. But what should you do with them? Everyone has a tendency to put a higher dollar value on their possessions than anyone is willing to pay. This is particularly true for expensive clothes. No matter how much wear someone has gotten out of their expensive or designer items,…
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