Selling Home With Two Preschoolers Living in it (w.07.07.10)
Have you ever tried selling your home while having preschoolers living in it? I don’t mean trying to sell the house while hiding the kids in the closet to get rid of them. I’m talking about trying to make your home look salable. I have only been doing this for a few days now, but I’m pretty convinced it can’t be done.
Long ago I decided to let the housework fall to last priority. Keep the children fed, warm, dry and safe are on the top of the list; then entertained and loved are thrown in there too. But how can you make all the meals, snacks, laundry and answer the millionth “why” question and have time to clean your home?
So now on top of the mandatory job requirements, I am required to make my house presentable? I can do this, but I am going to need a team. Quoting Hillary Clinton, “I am going to need a big ‘ole village to get all this junk done.”
So after shipping the kids to grandparents for the weekend, my husband and I worked round the clock for four days to “get ‘er done.” Now we can’t lift our arms over our heads from all the painting, spackling, deep cleaning, and deck repair that was needed to remove all traces of our little precious children. Not that we want all traces of our children gone, but the people who are going to buy our house probably won’t appreciate the cute tiny hand prints and crayon murals in the hallway. I’m just guessing…
Now you may have seen previous stories of mine where the girls painted themselves and the closet in dark pink lipstick or the day they covered the entire office bookcase in lavender glitter glue, so you know my pain. BUT, Hubby and I did it! Sans children, we got the house in good shape…but then (duh, duh, duh, NA) the children returned!
I must say I missed seeing their darling faces and I love them more than anything, but this constantly cleaning up after them, plus all the other every day things that need to be done is going to send me straight to the loony bin. However, did June Cleaver do it? I heard she hit the bottle in the laundry room every day at 3:00PM, but it could be a rumor I just started.
So citizens of Kansas City… hear me out loud and clear. If you know of anyone who wants to buy my house in the next couple of days, please email Nurse Mommy at nursemommylaughs@yahoo.com. I can’t keep up this cleaning and I’m sure I am doing major psychological damage to my children trying to enforce this. End our madness and someone buy our house!!! Have a nice day.
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