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3. DECLUTTER
The image most people have you've accumulated some attention.
from watching TV shows is
that most people live in One of the first (and most important)
pristine houses where things you should do is declutter.
everything is orderly and in its
proper place. Go room by room and get rid of
anything you don't want, use, or need.
However, if you were to randomly This is the best time in life to rid
pick 100 houses to go into on a yourself of stuff you never even realised
"normal" day, without warning, you'd you still owned. Then put away
find that most people live with a whatever stuff you still want or need
decent amount of "clutter" in their (but don't actually use on a daily basis).
homes...not like Martha Stewart or a Yes, that includes the pile of mail bills
furniture catalogue. on the kitchen counter!
We're not talking "hoarder" level And we don't mean stuff it all in a closet
clutter, but most people have a certain or the garage! Remember, buyers will
level of clutter they live with. Which is look in those places. If you have too
fine. Most people truly live that way. In much stuff and not enough room to
fact, the buyer and future owner of keep it all in a tidy manner while you
your house will probably live that way. sell your house, rent a storage unit. You
But before you put your house on the can reunite with all your stuff once your
market, it pays to give the clutter house is sold. This is just temporary.
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