Moving is an emotional roller coaster.
On the one hand, the future and your new home await you. There’s an excitement about it.
On the other hand, however, you have to say goodbye to everything you’ve known for years. You have to say farewell to your safe haven.
With the back and forth of selling a home and moving to a new one, you don’t need any more mental or emotional stress.
Finding the right way of saying farewell to a home that commemorates your time there and allows you to walk away without regrets, is something most people don’t take the time to do.
Read on for four tips for saying farewell to a home!
1. Take Pictures
Before you move out, get family and good friends together and take plenty of pictures around the house.
If certain rooms are especially meaningful to you, try to capture the essence of why they are special. For example, if you proposed to your wife in the foyer of the house, recreate the moment and snap a picture of it!
Take pictures of every room as it is before you start packing. Get a separate photo album for all your images, so you have a designated spot for them. This is an excellent way of saying farewell to a home and creating a book full of memories!
2. Leave a Letter to the New Owners
While not everyone enjoys writing or reaching out to others, leaving a loving note for the new homeowners is a heartfelt way of saying farewell to your old home.
This is a great platform to tell them everything you love about the house and all the quirks that make it unique. If you’d like, this is also a good way of offering up tips about any special needs the house requires each year.
To make it extra special, leave the note with a gift basket and a bottle of champagne!
3. Saying Farewell to a Home with a House-Cooling Party
Everyone knows of house-warming parties. However, a house-cooling party is a fun and memorable way of saying farewell to a home.
Before you move out, invite all your friends and family over for one last hurrah!
However, don’t let things get too out of hand or you’ll find yourself with quite the cleanup job right before you leave! Of course, the house-cooling party can be followed up with a house-cleaning party the next weekend!
4. Take a Memento
Finally, if you feel like you will always miss this particular home, take a piece of it with you.
Perhaps grab some flowers from the garden and press them in a book for a remembrance. Or, maybe take a clipping from a plant or bush to start one just like it in your new place.
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