we’re moving!

… Eventually. Sorry for the fake out! But yeah, we are working on putting our house up for sale soon. Winter isn’t the best time but we have felt cramped in our house for a bit now. We have lived in our house for only 3 years and it’s been great/bad. It’s a great solid house and has really had minimal problems. The house is nearly 70 years old so it’s going to have a few issues but it hasn’t we’re lucky there haven’t been serious issues. Either way, we are ready for more space. I also am no longer working downtown so it would be nice to move a little further from the city and avoid some of the city traffic.

Somehow, we started this whole moving process backwards. We first started looking for a new house. Dumb. But, we originally thought we wanted to build a house, which has at least 6-10 months lead time. So it made sense. If we found a house we wanted to build, we could then get our house sold in the meantime. We loved all the space and the customizability (is that a word?) of new construction. But my dream has always been to have a cool old house with funky details and make it our own with updates and details. And in Pittsburgh, there are a ton of beautiful, old and solid homes. Sooooo we switched gears and started looking at older homes. Which was fun buuuut we obviously couldn’t buy a house before ours was even on the market.

So we are back on task and doing things in the correct order finally and concentrating on getting our house ready to be put on the market first. There were some small updates we were putting off and we are now checking the things off of our list. Also, we are working on decluttering and getting rid of things we don’t need anyways. I’m trying to be brutal with getting rid of things I don’t want to have to move to another house. Buying a house is definitely stressful, but doing that while also trying to sell your house is eeeeeeek. I know I’m not the first one who has had to deal with us, so any advice is recommended! And I’ll be keeping you guys updated on the process too, of course!

Oh and we moved into our current house in the winter too so apparently that’s our thing? Moving in the snow and cold is so smart, eh?

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