Ultimate Garage Sale

My husband and I are doing the craziest thing. We are leaving suburbia, where you don't see trashcans, people don't park on the street and all of the lawns are mowed at perfect angles. Actually, we aren't going anywhere until our house sells which as you can imagine is going really well with the market yo yo spinning about. Without a lot of sleepless nights and over-the-top fretting, we decided we were moving downtown to a loft. We became empty-nesters and decided to let go of all of the crap we thought we needed and move onto a new phase of life. We had a huge garage sale and sold virtually everything we own other than personal items and the stuff needed to stage our house for sale. Not a tear was shed as all the things traveled off our driveway, David and I don't talk about missing anything in fact we talk about the absolute freedom of letting go of all the stuff that never really mattered in the first place. It's amazing how many years of acquiring various things, to prove what successes we were, to realize that things don't make us a success at all in fact they don't even make you happy. I wish I would have figured that out years and years ago but of course that is a problem as old as time...if I only knew then. For now we wait for that particular family who will love our house as much as we have, who will raise their kids here, decorate for Christmas, stay up too late and go to bed too early. As much as I will miss the memories here, I will eagerly look forward to creating new ones. You may be wondering why we chose downtown Kansas City as our next area to live...that's for another blog day.