Are you about to begin downsizing your home or beginning to think about it? I went through a major downsizing of my home last year. It can be an exhausting process physically to get rid of 60-70-80% of what you own. I found it really helpful to hire a professional downsizer. She was invaluable in […]
Reevaluating What’s Important as You Downsize Your Home
Last year I went through a major downsizing of my home. Are you preparing to do this? Are you thinking it may soon be time? For many of us, going through this process can be difficult and even painful at times. It certainly was for me, as I’ve discussed in my book The Upside of […]
The Importance of Friends in Downsizing Your Home
I went through a major downsizing last year. I wouldn’t have made it through without lots of help from my friends. The very first actual step I took toward what would become a four-month downsizing process was accepting my friend Lynn’s offer to help me do whatever I needed to get done on a chilly, […]
I Am Not My Things
Downsizing your home. For some of us this is a daunting prospect. And yet, it is something that many, many of us will face at some point in our lives. I faced it some time ago, and have chronicled many of my emotional experiences in my book called The Upside of Downsizing: Getting to Enough, […]
What Does “Getting to Enough” Mean?
My book, The Upside of Downsizing, has the subtitle Getting to Enough. For several years I’ve been concerned about what seemed to be our increasing greed, our need for “stuff,” and replacing what’s really important in life with “things” or with constant activity or with an unrelenting drive to make more and more money. I […]
The Upside of Downsizing: Getting to Enough
Downsizing my home from 2000 square feet to 800 — this was the challenge I faced last year, which sparked my new book The Upside of Downsizing: Getting to Enough. What does this title mean? At the beginning of last year I realized that I was going to have to sell my fairly large house […]