A friend told me the story of someone she knows who decided to move out of his condo and to another country. His condo sold as soon as it hit the market, which he was not expecting. So now he had to get rid of everything quickly. He pulled out the items that would go into climate-controlled storage. But that’s not inexpensive, so he had to be very selective. That left an awful lot of stuff in his condo, and not enough time to hire someone to do a living estate sale.

So he called one of those junk dealers you hear advertised on the radio. True to their ads, they came over right away and cleaned that condo out completely, so that he was already on his way out of the country when his condo sale closed and the new owner moved into a completely empty condo.

A happy ending? It depends on your perspective. The company that took out all his “junk” charged him $3500. That’s right, $3500. Clutter can be very expensive!