Packing and Preparing for The Move

True to our nature, we managed to avoid completing the seemingly endless tasks that we needed to complete before the move, until the last possible moment. Our house sat on the market for months, with little serious interest before we finally contacted a realtor who showed the house to numerous interested parties in the last months before we left. Unfortunately, our house is on the high end of the market in a not so affluent area, so it's outside the budget of the average resident. We received numerous "we love the house but can only afford half the asking price" offers, but nothing substantial.

With two weeks to go, we started to get desperate. Our house was a mess of boxes as we attempted to pack all our belongings into storage (we planned to only take with us what we could fit in our suitcases). The more we packed, the more we realized we had more things still to pack. Every accomplished task seemed to create further tasks for us to do. We worked around the clock for the last week, with no end in sight. Finally on our last day before the move we managed to move everything important out of the house and we felt quite accomplished. Unfortunately, we were not able to move quite few unimportant items that are still in the house now.

Our realtor told us several times in the last couple weeks that he would have an offer for us the next day (from multiple interested parties), however they all failed to materialize. We boarded our flight with no idea what the future of our house would be.

This is what our living room looked like a week before we moved!