I’m separated from my husband and there’s still quite a bit of decluttering to be done on the house to get it ready for sale. My mother thinks we should hire a house clearance service. (My husband is probably not going to agree to this, but that’s an entire and very tiresome other story.)
I’m curious as to how this would work? I can see that if, say, you’re clearing out your parents’ old house and don’t want to keep much, it’s fairly straightforward to say something like ‘please wrap up this china for me to keep and then get rid of everything else in this room’ and the people can just go ahead and do it. Once they know that this whole heap/room/cupboard or whatever full of stuff is to be got rid of, anyone can make decisions about which bits of it get thrown out, which get recycled and which get donated.
What I can’t see is how this would work when you’re decluttering your own house. I mean, typical scenario there is that someone has a whole mixture of stuff that they haven’t yet sorted through and don’t know which things they want to keep. The clearance service can’t make that decision for you, so don’t you just need to be there going through all of it anyway? I can’t see how other people would help except maybe with some of the heavy lifting/transporting. But maybe I’m missing something? Would love to hear people’s experiences on hiring clearance people to declutter your own house. Thanks.
Edited to add: Estate sale definitely not happening though thanks for the suggestion.
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