This is What No One Tells You About Downsizing

Going from a 3-bedroom, 2,600-square-foot family house to a 1-bedroom, 900-square foot patio home means you’ll need to purge a lot of your stuff including personal belongings, but selling or giving away individual items can be exhausting. If you need to eliminate many possessions, consider hiring an auction company that will sell them all at once, either on-site or online. Alternately, you can hold a garage sale and then donate what doesn’t sell to a non-profit reseller, such as the Salvation Army, and receive an income tax deduction for the value of the items.