The Downsizing Countdown: Eight Weeks to a Smaller Home

The house sold. The closing date is on the calendar. And every room is still full. The Downsizing Countdown is not a philosophy of tidiness — it is a schedule. Eight weeks, counted backwards from the day the keys change hands. Each week has its own rooms, its own decisions, and its own checklist, so you always know what to do next, in what order, and what to do with the things nobody wants. Inside: the week-by-week plan from eight weeks out to moving day, the one rule to set before anything opens, the First Night Box that makes the first evening in the new place livable, and a calm, practical way to handle photographs and keepsakes without losing an afternoon — or the memories — in the process. If you are leaving a long-occupied family home for something smaller, this book is the countdown that gets you there.