At a recent reception, our company, Weichert Realtors Porter Properties, gave away prizes to the realtors for their excellent work this year. One of the prizes was a free home staging from a great staging company here in Auburn.
I know the idea, of course, was to use the staging on a client’s home, but I couldn’t help thinking that if I won, I’d be tempted to use it on my own home!
Selling your home is fraught with many emotional upheavals and as a Realtor, I don’t take “invading” my client’s homes lightly. Here I am someone who spends their day getting other’s homes picture perfect, but I come home to…
For one thing, the sewing machine has been sitting on the desk for two months. I pulled it out hoping I’d get inspiration from it and take a “minute” to do some mending. Meanwhile, the mail and miscellaneous paperwork that should be where the sewing machine is, are now making a permanent pile on my bedroom dresser.
It’s a domino effect. I don’t want to hang the clothes that need mending in the closet, so they’re folded in a neat pile in a corner of the closet floor. Ok, so, yeah, the pile isn’t so neat anymore. I’ve done this exercise more than once before. The truth is that by the time I get around to mending them, the kids will have outgrown them anyway, so I need to just toss them out and sell the dang sewing machine!
Oh, but I do love the idea of getting the mending accomplished. And it’s just these kinds of emotional attachments and the resulting work-arounds and inconvenience they cause in our daily lives that makes your house uniquely your home…your nest. Now if some expert home stager comes in here and suggests that I “declutter” starting with the bills on the dresser and the sewing machine on the desk, they are really going to hit a nerve! To put the sewing machine away having not completed my task is to….admit defeat!
