We are selling the house complete with furniture and fittings, even the ride-on mower is included. And the ping pong table. The cost of using a removals company or even hiring a small van is high and doesn’t justify the expense. We will only take what we can fit into the trailer and car. This means I have to be incredibly ruthless in choosing what I take.
Two antique chairs that we re-upholstered and a large Persian rug will come with us. The beautiful red dresser will stay. Space is at a premium so favourite paintings and prints will be removed from frames and packed, they need updating anyway. Photo albums will come with us but my book collection will stay. Several bags of clothing have gone to the recycling centre. I haven’t quite managed to get rid of my old ballgowns yet, they are hovering in the ‘if there’s room’ pile. Paul has already dismantled his rotovator and packed it into a box ready for his new garden. The trailer will be piled high with our possessions, including our bicycles, and it will all have to be packed very carefully to ensure we are not overweight.
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Very sensible, leave as much as you can. I dump everything when I move and start again. Not expensive because I always buy secondhand anyway. And you've presumably got the important things in storage in the UK from the flat. I like fresh starts. If in doubt, leave it.
ReplyDeleteI feel quite excited at the thought of buying new things and creating something completely different.
DeleteGood idea to leave most of it behind.
ReplyDeleteI won't need the French dictionaries any more!
DeleteYou will be traveling light and it sounds liberating to leave so many possessions. I do like Goosie though.
ReplyDeleteThe trailer and car will be loaded high. The dog might have to travel on the roof!
DeleteHow can you bear to leave Goosey?
ReplyDeleteIt will be hard but he belongs to the house.
DeleteWhy do human beings surround themselves with so much clutter anyway?
ReplyDeleteClutter? How dare you call my exquisite posessions clutter!!!
DeletePeople are afraid to do this and load themselves with unnecessary things, you make a liberating step.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does give you a feeling of freedom.
DeleteVery sensible I know but it is so hard! Keep your chin up as I'm sure you're doing the right thing!
ReplyDeleteHard choosing what to take and what to leave behind but most of the furniture was bought specifically for this house.
DeleteOur UK homes are already full; we'd have to do the same. When are you off?
ReplyDeleteWeekend after next. Travelling Sunday to avoid the lorries. At the moment it just feels like we will be shutting up for winter as we have done other years. Can't believe it's happening to be honest.
DeleteHave you got the keys to your new house to go to or will you be squatting somewhere?
DeleteIf all goes according to plan we will pick the keys up on the Monday we arrive back in the UK. First night we will be camping on the floor!
DeleteI can't imagine having to do what you are doing but it makes so much sense. I would have the hardest time leaving the books and oh the ball gowns. Phillipe will love all the bits and pieces you leave behind.
ReplyDeletePhilippe is a magpie.
DeleteFooled me!!!
DeleteNot really!
DeleteHow sad to leave, how sad that your things have to be left/sold, sad for us to not be entertained with your French Connection. BUT. New, new, new! Please find the time for your new home to be shown to your regular readers and we must know how Rick fares in his new garden, and Paul as well....
ReplyDeleteI hope our now home will inspire me to write. It will be different though, I'm not sure it will have the magic of this place.
DeleteWell you are Susan Here There and Everywhere so no excuses!.
DeleteI must say I envy you the Lincolnshire connection - county of my birth and the first almost twenty years of my life. Half of me would love to go back but I feel once one has moved on it is not a good idea. Have friends there who have never moved in their whole lives I have travelled around. It doesn't do to go back one needs to move forward, so good luck in your new home.
ReplyDeleteIt will be a completely new part of the country for us to discover. A new adventure.
DeleteWOW! This is all happening so quickly. I feel very positive for you. A fresh start is totally liberating. When we sold our apartment in the Haute Savoie all the furniture went with it. We will probably do the same thing when we sell here.
ReplyDeleteLast year when we sold in the UK only a small amount of a furniture came with us, the rest was sold, left behind, taken to a charity warehouse, and most sadly, some went to the tip.
I haven't missed any of it. It was right for a victorian school, but not for a house built this century!
All I would say is if you would really like to keep some things like your ball gowns and a few other things parcel them up and look at a firm like Parcels2Go to courier them to your new house. The cost will be nothing in the whole scheme of house sale/purchase, and certainly less than replacing much loved items.
Bon courage... x
That's reassuring to hear that you did something similar. I love some of the stuff we have here but it was bought for this house and wouldn't look right for our new home. A clearout of some of my things was well overdue.
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