When you finally have to get rid of all your stuff

[autumnbreeze27]

I just wanted to share our experience so that you may benefit from it.

When the house sold we had to unload a lot of stuff, I did not want to pay for a storage unit. We were both under a lot of stress, so we decided to outsource selling all our stuff to an estate company.

The Pro's:
It's tough selling all your stuff, so better to have somebody else do it

The Con's:
They took 40%, but they sold most things for pennies on the dollar. I think most of the time estate sales end up with all the crap that nobody in the family wants, so it's of very little value. We had a lot of good stuff (I did sell as much as I could via ebay/craigslist before the sale) but so much stuff was "donated" that if I could go back in time I would have had an open house for all our friends and said "take what you want" and it probably wouldn't have made that big of a difference in the end $ wise.

The moral of the story I guess is start selling your stuff early, because it takes longer than you think!