We’ve been busy getting some more tackles done as we prepare to sell our house.  Here are some more pictures this week of the progress that we have made.

This is Rich’s work bench area before.

And after.

And the major tackle this week was completed by Rich and my Dad.  My parents came to visit us over the weekend and helped us get all sorts of things taken care of.  This was the biggest project:

This is the floor of our foyer.

There were  several problem areas- I’ve pointed out a few of them to you.

They ripped the old floor out.

And here is the new floor.

We have everything ready and our house will be going up for sale this week.  Now we just have to keep our house clean all of the time with a 2 year old.  That will be an everyday tackle!

Stop by 5 Minutes for Mom to see more tackles.

As you probably know we are preparing to put our house up for sale.  One of the things we have been working on doing is reducing the clutter (and junk) in our storage area.  Now I promise you that the rest of my house does not look like this.  This is strictly the storage area.

First up- the laundry area.  Not too bad.  Just some boxes that I packed up from some closets.  But the boxes needed to be taken care of. 

Afterwards- the boxes are all gone.

Next- my freezer has been growing some boxes and odds and ends and I didn’t know where else to put them.

All taken care of.

A messy storage shelf.

Almost all cleaned off.

A messy corner of stuff that “I will take care of later.”

“Later” has finally come and it is cleaned up.

Ahhh- yes- I saved the worst for last.  This is a shelf of stuff I used when I was in college- books and notes and lesson plans, etc.  As well as materials I used while I was teaching, teaching materials that have been given to me and things I am using to teach Hailey.  This has been bothering me for months.

Much better!

This was definitely my biggest tackle in preparing our house.  I didn’t want potential buyers to see all of that messy clutter.  I think we (Rich) will take the storage shelves completely down to make the storage area look nice and open.  The rest of our house is in pretty good shape and we are almost ready to sell!

Stop by 5 Minutes for Mom to see what everyone else is tackling this week.

If you are a regular reader then you know that my last few tackles have been about getting our house ready to sell.  For the last year we have talked about moving and we are finally doing something about it.  I have a whole bunch of stuff I’m working on getting done right now.  But for this week I thought I’d share putting away the Christmas decorations since that is the only project that is totally finished.  Now some of you might think that should have been done a month ago.  But you would be wrong.  There have been some years when my tree didn’t get taken down until March.  So, I’m doing good this year!  Plus our real estate agent is coming over this week and I was pretty sure one of his recommendations would be to take down our tree.

Before

Hailey helping to put the tree back into the box.

Vacuuming the area

All done

Stop by 5 Minutes for Mom to see what everyone else is tackling.

We got home from our trip yesterday- you can read about it over at Livin With Me.  We got home around 4 pm but I didn’t want to miss out on getting a tackle done.  So, I quickly unpacked our suitcases and decided to do a quick tackle in preparation for selling our house.  I thought the closets would be pretty easy to tackle.  I actually did finish this on Tuesday but I ran out of time last night to get it posted.  So, here it is today. 

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After

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So there you have my tackle for this week, a day late.