Before the Estate Sale walks you through clearing a family home in the right order: what to protect first, what's worth money in every room, and how to get through it without a family fight.
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When my mother died, my brother and I had six weeks to empty a house she had lived in for fifty-one years. On the second day, I filled a box with what I was certain was kitchen junk: old tins, a dented tray, a tangle of tarnished spoons. It was on its way to the curb when I turned one of those spoons over and saw the word Sterling.
A week later, my brother and I stopped speaking for a month over a dining table neither of us actually wanted.
Those are the two great dangers of clearing a family home: throwing away something valuable in a hurry, and losing each other in the process. I wrote this guide so you avoid both.
Frances
Six parts, written as a plan you follow from the first day to the last, with checklists, fill-in pages and word-for-word scripts. A few of the pages:
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Read it. Walk the first room with it. Check the hiding places. If within seven days you feel it wasn't worth it, reply to your receipt email and you'll get every dollar back. No forms, no questions.
Frances Whitcombe is 72 and lives in coastal Connecticut. She has helped families clear more homes than she can count, starting with her own mother's, and she shares what she's learned so you don't have to learn it the hard way.
She is not an appraiser, a lawyer or an accountant, and she'll never pretend to be. Anything that might be truly valuable, she sends to a certified appraiser, and the guide tells you exactly when.
Frances's first rule: nothing leaves the house until someone has looked closer. The details are usually underneath.
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It teaches you how to find out. Prices change constantly, so instead of a list that goes out of date, the guide shows you how to look up what similar items have actually sold for, and when to ask a certified appraiser.
Yes. There's a section on clearing a home with a parent who's downsizing or moving into care, and on keeping the stories even when the things go.
That's one of the main reasons it exists. The Family Meeting, the Who-Gets-What rotation and the sibling scripts are built to keep a family talking.
Reply to your receipt email within seven days and you'll get a full refund.
It's six pages, and it protects the house, the valuables and the family.
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P.S. Shake every book before it goes. Page 29 explains why.
Page 13, the hiding places
Page 24, the china cabinet
Page 37, sterling or plated?
Page 47, the sold-price method
Page 69, 25 things to check