Purging and painting. And other stuff, too.
On Friday night, after deciding we were going to make an offer on the house we had been looking at, I came up with a game plan for getting our house ready to be put on the market. Thus the Great Purging of 2008 began, bright and early on Saturday morning, starting with our closets. Dave and I managed to fill two garbage bags full of clothes. Our house literally stretched, sighed, and settled itself back down into a more comfortable position on the foundation when those bags went out the kitchen door.
We've decided to carry on with our purging and painting as if we are still going to put our house on the market. When we had to sell our place in Salem, we madly finished all the painting and other half-finished projects we had going on and when it was all done, realized that our condo was not just awesome, but SUPER-AWESOME! and felt pretty bad that we hadn't just finished the projects when we started them so that we could really enjoy the place. When the moving trucks pulled up in front of current house we pledged we wouldn't make that mistake again. Then we started a bunch of projects. And guess what? It's been five years and we still haven't finished some of them. We're a sorry bunch over here.
But no more! A new leaf has been turned! And, Dave, you should be dreading this weekend because you're so going to be put to work.