Moving

So we are working hard at getting the house ready to go on the market next spring.

Had a realtor out this week to give us some advice. Most of it was what I expected but there were some surprises.

1. First of all he agreed the estimate from Home Depot for doing so little to update our kitchen was outrageous

2. Poor hubby. I made a bad choice and he is still reeling from it. I said the easiest thing to do was just repaint the bedrooms and bathroom upstairs the same color. No priming involved. Wrong. Realtor said all the colors are out (but I beg to differ - the one bedroom and bathroom are NOT pink) so now we will pay someone to repaint since the carpet is down.
3. And he called my beloved lampshades in the ceiling of the upstairs hall and downstairs "outdated". Ok so they looked better with the color we are painting over, but they are not outdates!

4. What really surprised me was he said to get rid of the silver switchplate covers we put in upstairs and replace with white plastic ones. WHAT???? We chose brushed silver to go with all the hardware on the new doors. So we went to Home Depot and paid less than a dollar to replace the brushed silver ones which were, at the very least, over $5 each!! So they will go to the Seaside house with us.....

It is getting more and more real and more and more terrifying!
So much work to do in the remaining few months! But most of it we are hiring out.

And found out in April I need to start filling out the paperwork to get my measly retirement from 2 previous places of employment to start in July,