Surprise SAHM You’re Moving! What Now?

You pick up the phone one day and your husband says ‘honey, the company wants me to move to _______.” In most cases the first reaction is ‘hell no and heck no and NO WAY’. You give reasons that seem concrete “But we just got the yard re-done! But Billy likes his school! But I can’t move away from my parents!”…..and you are met with either silence or facts about the new location. After a few weeks- it becomes a reality, and believe it or not and against your protests you are INDEED MOVING. In your heart you know this is best for your husband’s career and ultimately best for your whole family. And when you are SAHM you really can’t use the argument ‘but my work is here’. Nope. YOUR  work is wherever your family lives. And that family is MOVING. So accept it. And get busy…you have a lot to do.

Get The House Ready To List

Now this painful but you need to take down all those perfectly framed photos of little Billy. And the wedding photos? Yeah those need to go too. New buyers get subconsciously depressed thinking they will be moving into SOMEONE ELSE’S home. Make your home void of any ‘personal touches’. Make it look like a model home. Bare minimum furniture. Bare minimum accessories. And no personal photos. NONE.

Clean Like Crazy

Not just the kitchen, but also the porch, the yard, heck it is even time to degrease the driveway. Clean = NEW in most buyer’s minds….so the cleaner your home looks (and smells) the more comfortable the new buyer will be with ‘turn key’ move-in.

Start Packing NOW

Get rid of absolutely anything that you can do without. Move it into a POD system or a storage unit. Even the garage is better than having in the house. Yup, that means the giant lazy-boy rocker you knew was too big for the family room but you had to have it…it needs to go. Rooms get bigger with every piece of furniture you move out.

Be Available

None of this ‘call for appointment to see home’…nope- you want to be open for business from 8:00am to 6pm. Allow your realtor to put a lock box on the house. Afraid someone might see the house when there are dishes in the sink? That is okay. It is better than them not seeing the house at all.

Get Organized

You can research and locate everything you will need in your new life online. Dry cleaners, daycares, doctors etc. And don’t forget have all school and medical records sent to your new choices. The more you can do before the move the better off you will be.

Smile And Enjoy It

Moving can be a huge opportunity for you and your family. You are now able to make new friends, see new places and enjoy each other like never before. Enjoy it. Moving can be a huge blessing in so many ways. Is it stressful? You bet. But it gives you an opportunity to show yourself and your husband how you can bend and not break. Just think how impressed your family will be when you take it all in stride. You can do this. Yes you can.

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