No one says selling a home is cheap or easy, and now we can definitely vouch for that. Having just dropped another $300 at Menards, I thought it might be interesting to start a list of all the things we're buying/fixing/doing in order to sell our house:
-packing tape
-new hinges and knobs for the kitchen cabinet doors that we removed years ago
-patching all the lumps and holes in our 65+year old plaster walls
-new kitchen flooring
-paint for every room (touchups on the main floor, and painting everything white in the basement)
-smoke detectors
-carbon monoxide detectors
-Mr Clean Magic Erasers (for all the walls, window sills, door frames, switchplate covers, etc.)
-more packing tape
-new oven mitts
-sink backflow regulators
-painting every room (I know I already listed that, but it's a HUGE amount of work!)
-lightbulb covers
-window well covers
-Murphy's oil on the kitchen cabinets
-scouring the grout in our bathroom
-a nice kitchen soap dispenser
-new dishwasher that actually works
-cleaning all the windows
-new LED lightbulbs in every fixture
-fixing the ugly fluorescent light fixture in our basement
-painting the closets
-painting the garage door
-painting all the outside trim
-repairing the caulk on all the windows
-painting the basement floor
-round up on all the weeds
-annuals for the flower pots
-veggies for the gardens
-cleaning the windows and screens in the gazebo
-CLR on the faucets (we have very hard water!)
-flowers for the kitchen and dining room
-signs for the gardens
-a new back screendoor
-drain cover for the basement
-new hand towels for the bathrooms
Will keep updating this as we undoubtedly discover additional things we need to do, replace, or repair...
