You folks seem so friendly and helpful, I just had to add this Thing, even though I have other house / home goals on my list. We just bought my dream house—but we don’t close until mid-September, so I’m busily “decorating” my home on paper with inadequate or nonexistent measurements. Oh well, decorating on paper is cheap and mistakes are easily rectified.

I think I’m going to need emotional support when I realize that many of the pieces I’ve kept in our storage unit for years in anticipation of owning my dream house someday, still aren’t going to work. There are some that don’t suit my style or the house’s style and others that won’t have a place. Hopefully, it’s not as many pieces as I fear, but I really do want to be brave and get rid of stuff that doesn’t work for me. I think one of the reasons I haven’t made our current house into a home is that I hold on to too much stuff.