Sterling Marketing Group » downsizing http://www.karenleland.com Everyday Creativity In Business and In Life Fri, 07 May 2010 00:31:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc I’m Downsizing to Rightsize http://www.karenleland.com/2009/11/11/im-downsizing-to-rightsize http://www.karenleland.com/2009/11/11/im-downsizing-to-rightsize#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:48:29 +0000 Karen Leland http://www.karenleland.com/?p=869 living-news-and-opinion-on-the-huffington-post1At latest count I’ve sold off 10 pieces of furniture; donated over 200 books, assorted dishware and clothing for Goodwill; thrown out a small dumpsters worth of garbage and cut my candle collection in half.  All this and I still have many days worth of sorting and clutter clearing to go before the big day [...]]]> living-news-and-opinion-on-the-huffington-post1At latest count I’ve sold off 10 pieces of furniture; donated over 200 books, assorted dishware and clothing for Goodwill; thrown out a small dumpsters worth of garbage and cut my candle collection in half.  All this and I still have many days worth of sorting and clutter clearing to go before the big day next week when we move.

My husband and are facing a downsizing.  We sold the house we’ve owned for the past 12 years and are moving to a rental.  Were we forced to sell our house in a fit of foreclosure? No.  But like many of our fellow citizens we were swept up in the irrational enthusiasm of leveraged real estate investments and a mortgage that looked liked it was too good to be true – and it was. Read the rest of this article on my Huffington Post blog

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