Before you sell your house

If you are in the market for selling your house, please do me a favour and hide your freaky collections before I check out your house. This weekend we checked out six houses. In the first one, Shane let us in, and introduced himself as a family friend taking care of the house. Everything in the house had a native indian slant, even the music in the background. I'm fairly certain that young Mr. Shane was not into this music, but I guess music sells houses. Once we left the house, I was almost expecting Shane to show up as the "resident family friend" in every house we were about to check.

The next house had a slanted shelf on one wall with a beanie baby collection, a china cabinet filled with dolls, and an open old chest with dolls heaping out of it, as if they were gasping for air. I tried real hard to imagine myself in this house, but the image of these dolls all watching me would very likely haunt me every day if I decide to move into that house.

The third house had a wall length china cabinet filled with dolls. I was completely freaked out at this point. I mean, com'n, how common is it to collect dolls, and how likely was it that we would check out two houses and both of them would have a doll collection in a china cabinet? I was tempted to tell the owner to take her two cats, and the doll collection and move in with the other family. Shane can probably babysit the dolls.

We did find a beautiful house, in a perfect location, good price, and nice neighbourhood, but after leaving and discussing it we realised we have accumulated too much crap to be able to move into this house. Even if we throw 2/3 of what we own, it won't be sufficient for what we need.

One of the considerations of buying a house is the city name and street name. It needs to be pronounceable to my family and friends in Israel. We actually found a house on a street named after a TV show, which would work out really well because we already live on a street named after a TV show. This would keep with our theme. This is a bit of a change for me, because I grew up in a street named after a prophet back in Israel. But I suppose prophets and TV shows are still within normal names for streets.