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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 4407209, member: 6444&quot;][USER=59977]@Born2it[/USER] , I’m afraid you have a huge enemy here of TIME! You said this house needs to be emptied by the end of the month, and February is a short month so that is less than three weeks away! And you won’t even be able to get started for another week.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone who has done estate sales correct me if I’m wrong, but I can’t see any estate liquidator organizing, sorting, opening all the boxes, pricing, setting up, taking pics, advertising, etc in only two weeks. And I don’t think any company would remove the contents for sale elsewhere given the apparent value and condition of the contents. Unless I’m wrong, that means you’ll have to do this yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>You don’t want to have to PAY a company to simply remove everything (which is what Davey does). These companies collect a lot of money to remove everything, then sort through the contents and sell anything of value, getting paid twice. But if you run out of time, you will have to do that, which is really throwing your money away. Your primary focus needs to be on getting everything out of the house on time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked at the pics you included in a previous post. Start with the biggest pieces first. From what I saw, there was no furniture that would sell for more than tens of dollars each. So you should find all the local thrift donation places and find out what they’ll take. If you have time, run a yard sale for the large items, with a plan for what to do with the leftovers (thrift donations or even craigslist free listing for what no one will take). Anything is better than going in a dumpster. Include in the sale anything you know the value of and know you don’t want. But don’t get bogged down thinking you need to sort everything, because it is doubtful you’ll have time. Try to do the largest and unboxed stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides furniture I see a ton of boxes and a ton of books and papers. The good thing about those is they are easy to move and compact to store. You don’t have time to sort it all for a yard sale so when researching local thrifts also look for local storage units. Plan to take all your boxes and books you don’t have time to go through, CLEARLY MARK WHAT IS IN THEM and stack them up in a storage unit. Add in anything you find that you know you want to keep and any better furniture you come across or smalls that can also be put in boxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The better you organize the storage (books from papers from glass from ...) the easier it will be when you go through it all to do a thoughtful, thorough sorting. Plan when you’ll come back to sort - it can be fun when you don’t have time pressure and can properly research things. Set a date for when you’ll empty the storage - don’t let it go too long.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.s. here’s the thread with pics: <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/homes-for-barely-vintage-ephemera.68206/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/homes-for-barely-vintage-ephemera.68206/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/homes-for-barely-vintage-ephemera.68206/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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