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Downsizing the Family Homestead Pt 1

July 20, 2020 by Kimberly Snyder 71 Comments

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Curious about how to start the process of downsizing your family home? This is how I broke the process down into manageable steps!

Jones Street Sign

Part 1 – How I Downsized the Family Homestead

My husband will tell you that I come from a long line of hoarders.  I will tell you that we aren’t hoarders, we are collectors!  My parents grew up during the Depression.  My Mother saved everything, and she collected all kinds of things.  She once wrote up an A to Z list of all the things she collected and I think she had something listed for each letter!

My Dad’s dad was in the farming business.   Farmers save things, you never know when that broken piece of whatever might be able to fix something you are working on!

My Mom was the oldest child in her family.  My Dad was the youngest of his siblings.  They both ended up with family mementos from various relatives.  My Mother was also very sentimental and made a scrapbook of every trip they took.  She also was very involved in civic organizations, so she had scrapbooks and photo albums and paperwork relating to various clubs.

I was an only child and maybe a tad spoiled.  They had me later in life after losing one baby shortly after she was born and then suffering several miscarriages.  My Mom saved anything that had to do with me.  Newspaper articles, programs, toys, baby clothes, simply everything.  I always said she was saving things for my museum!  You know, the one the town would build for me after I became the next Martha Stewart or Rachel Ray!

When I was growing up, we lived in a 14-room farmhouse.  I think it started out as a 12-room farmhouse but they added on at least two rooms.  We basically lived on the first floor which left the entire upstairs for storage.

Plus, we had all those outbuildings where neat stuff could be stored.  Living in the country meant we had to think about mice.  Sometimes we forgot to take the mouse issue into consideration when storing things in the outbuildings.  I am not a fan of mice…. they destroy everything!

After I started my herb business, I began to collect display pieces and props for my shop and for when I did shows.  My parents added a Santa house on the property which became my herb shop and a building made out of old windows that we called the Glass House.  I used that as a greenhouse part of the time.  We had so many buildings on the property, we had to start naming them.

They also had a pavilion where I could hold classes and they could hold parties.  The pavilion originally had a shingle roof which I replaced with a metal roof in the Fall of 2017.  I also had a new concrete floor poured as it was originally 1/2 concrete and 1/2 gravel.  I had plans to turn it into my farm museum/outdoor kitchen. I was going to add a mini split for heating and cooling and insulate it. But when we decided to move to Florida, those plans changed.

In 2001, my husband and I moved into the farmhouse and had a modular home build in the back for my parents to live in.  When they moved into the modular home, they took very little of the things that belonged to them that were stored upstairs.  Mom would periodically come get one or two things. Over time, my stuff got mixed in with her stuff and it became quite messy up there. Perhaps one day I will post how it looked before we got serious about clearing things out.

It was around that time that I started Petals & Porch Posts and started acquiring even more things to fill up the shop and take to shows.  By the time I was ready to buy the pizzeria, I had three storage units off site in addition to all the buildings on the farm.

We lost my Mom in August of 2014 and my Dad in September 2017.  About 6 weeks after my Dad passed away, I decided to rent out his house.  At that time, we weren’t planning on moving anywhere very soon.  In order to make room for the renters and they things they needed to bring, I bought a storage unit from the Amish and had that installed where the Santa house had been.  The Santa house was beyond repair, and we ended up burning it.  The general rule on the Jones/Snyder property was that it had to be beyond repair in order to go into the burn pile.

There was simply too much furniture in my parents’ home to deal with before the tenants wanted to move in.  I suggested that they use the furniture and household goods that were in the house, and they could store their possessions in one of the 3 storage units I was renting in a nearby town.  That worked out well as it kept my stress at a reasonable level.  I moved my Dad’s personal items and a few small pieces of family furniture into the storage unit that I had purchased.  I moved all of my Mom’s personal papers and photo albums and club scrapbooks.

Shortly after the tenants moved in, I started to get serious about downsizing even though at the time I had no intention of moving, selling my business or making any big changes.  I just knew it was thyme to get started on sorting thru things.

Where to start was one of the first questions I had to answer.  I knew it was going to be a massive undertaking and was going to take a lot of time and energy.  I had friends and family members that were willing to help me but I felt that I had to be the one to go thru most of the things myself at least until I determined what was important and what wasn’t.   Everything had to be touched at least once, most things numerous times.  Donate, keep, pitch were the first three categories.  I had a pile of things that I wasn’t ready to deal with and I started making piles of things that I knew I could pass on to other relatives.  I also had a “this can go to the estate sale” pile.

Speaking of estate sales, I had to also figure out what kind of sale, where to have it and when to have it.  In late December 2017 and early January 2018, I started the process of researching auction houses.  At the time, I hadn’t really started the sorting process, so I really didn’t even know what we had.  I had a general idea of what types of things my parents had collected, and I knew what types of items I had collected over the years.

In late December 2017 and early January 2018, I began calling different auction houses.  I made an appointment with one gentleman from a town about an hour away from the farm to come look at the property to see what he thought.  When he arrived, I showed him around the farmhouse, the various outbuildings and the modular house.  His opinion was I didn’t have enough items to have an on-site auction, but he said I was welcome to pack everything up and bring it to his auction house located an hour away.  He even offered the use of his large moving truck.  Packing and transporting all the things I thought we would want to sell really was not an attractive proposition, so I kept searching.

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    […] this one last fall to replace the one that somehow got misplaced when I was going thru the downsizing/moving process.    The crust looks so much fancier when I use this […]

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  59. No Bake Cherry Cheesecake - From Farmhouse to Florida says:
    March 6, 2023 at 8:12 am

    […] this one last fall to replace the one that somehow got misplaced when I was going thru the downsizing/moving process.    The crust looks so much fancier when I use this […]

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    March 15, 2023 at 8:21 am

    […] coincidence! Sadly, Robin only lived 11 days.  When I was going thru family papers during the downsizing/moving process, I discovered a scrapbook I had never seen before.  At first, I thought it was about me but I had […]

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  61. Spring Home Tour - Farmhouse Style - From Farmhouse to Florida says:
    March 29, 2023 at 8:46 am

    […] The window hanging above the fireplace originally came out of the Methodist Church Parsonage in Bement, Il.  My friend was the pastor’s wife at the time and she saved it when they replaced it with a different type of window.  In the pictures it has a white NFS tag on it.  The pictures were taken around the time of the first estate sale that I had as part of the Thyme to Let Go process. […]

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    April 3, 2023 at 9:10 am

    […] The basic recipe on the back of the Mad Dash Mixes Cheesecake Mix says it can be made in an 8″ graham cracker crust.  I recently purchased a 9″ Springform pan to replace the one that somehow got misplaced when I was going thru the downsizing/moving process. […]

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    April 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    […] I found these keys when I was cleaning out the farmhouse house as part of the downsizing/moving process.   […]

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    May 10, 2023 at 10:26 am

    […] A little background: If you are just starting to follow me, my husband & I lived on my family homestead for a number of years.  After my parents’ passed away, we decided to start a new chapter of our lives in Florida.  The downsizing/moving to Florida journey is detailed in series of blog posts titled “Thyme to Let Go: How I Downsized the Family Homestead “.  The journey starts here: Thyme to Let Go1; How I Downsized the Family Homestead Part 1 […]

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    June 5, 2023 at 3:42 pm

    […] A little background: If you are just starting to follow me, my husband & I lived on my family homestead for a number of years.  After my parents’ passed away, we decided to start a new chapter of our lives in Florida.  The downsizing/moving to Florida journey is detailed in series of blog posts titled “Thyme to Let Go: How I Downsized the Family Homestead “.  The journey starts here: Thyme to Let Go1; How I Downsized the Family Homestead Part 1 […]

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    July 3, 2023 at 10:55 am

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    July 14, 2023 at 11:11 am

    […] are just getting started with my blog journey, you can read more about my Mom and her propensity to save things here:    She used to tell people to check with her first before purchasing something as she […]

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    October 6, 2023 at 10:18 am

    […] In all honesty, picking my theme and the decor items was probably the first step but we will call it step 3 .  My theme for the entryway is Gardening is the Key to My Heart.  I found these keys when I was cleaning out the farmhouse house as part of the downsizing/moving process.   […]

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    October 28, 2023 at 5:31 pm

    […] When it came time to start deciding which pieces were going to be able to go to Florida with us, unfortunately this one did not make the cut.  It was really too big and bulky for the house we were moving into.  It might have worked on the lanai for storage but the humidity in Florida is really hard on wood.  I ended up selling it to one of the pickers that came out to the farm. […]

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    November 30, 2023 at 8:11 pm

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Hello! Kimberly (Kim) Snyder and I'm glad you're here. An entrepreneurial spirit, I've owned a flower shop and antiques store, a pizza parlor and now we're in Florida living a new adventure. Join me as we downsize into our new digs and continue the adventures! WRITER & BLOGGER

Kimberly Snyder shares the adventures of moving to Florida and beginning again in a new space as a herbalist, a creative, and a serial entrepreneur

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Not sure if I ever shared this version of the pott Not sure if I ever shared this version of the potting bench. I started decorating it with a lavender theme. I must have gotten distracted before I finished it! It just needs a few potted lavender plants ti finish it! #lavender #farmhousedecorating #gardenstyle #fromfarmhousetoflorida #pottingbench
Simple Summer sugar mold idea! I made the flower o Simple Summer sugar mold idea! I made the flower out of the trim from an old pillowcase.  #sugarmoldcenterpiece #sugarmolddecor #fromfarmhousetoflorida #farmhousedecor #fauxhydrangeas #gardenstyledecor #cottagedecor #kimstyledecor
Mother’s Day week is here! If you have been foll Mother’s Day week is here! If you have been following me for a while, you know I can’t resist filling a dough bowl (or2) with blooming plants! I designed this one with a combination of vintage garden tools, an old book and a selection of plants.  It would make the perfect gift fire that special Mom in your life! #mothersdaygifts #mothersday #mothersdaygiftideas #gardenstyle #farmhousedoughbowl #doughbowl #kimstyledecor #fromfarmhousetoflorida
I don’t talk about my faith a lot. I do believe I don’t talk about my faith a lot.  I do believe God puts certain people in your path for a reason.  An example of this occurred on Tuesday.  It was colonoscopy/sigmoidoscopy day.  I was really nervous about how it would all work since it was my first time since I had my cancer surgery. 

 The nurse that was taking care of me in the pre op area turned out to be the same nurse who had prayed for me last year. My husband was in the parking lot of the medical center speaking with his friend who happened to work at the center with this particular nurse. I was very sick at the time and they prayed for my healing.  It was great to be able to thank her in person and let her see that the prayers had been answered. ❤️

Then the anesthesiologist came in and told me about his cousin who had also been diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer about a year ago. He mentioned some of the treatments his cousin had had and how important a positive attitude is.  I was touched that he took the time to tell me about his cousin’s experience. 

 We had arranged in advance to have my husband’s friend as the nurse anesthesist.  He was able to pray with us as well as reassure us about the procedure.

The procedure went well. The three polyps that the surgeon removed were sent to pathology.  The report is already back and there no evidence of cancer.  Prayers were answered again❤️

#coloncancersurvivor #coloncancer  #coloncancersucks  #colonoscopy #sigmoidoscopy  #fromfarmhousetoflorida
Celebrating my “roots” for Earth Day and beyon Celebrating my “roots” for Earth Day and beyond! The tractor was painted a few years ago by a dear family friend @annrund  The two white wooden hearts were purchased at one of my favorite shops in Illinois @thefeatherednest1  #fromfarmhousetoflorida #farmhousedecorating #gardenstyledecor #gardenstyle #kimstyledecor
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Two different ways to display this Easter bunny: r Two different ways to display this Easter bunny: rustic wooden box or an oval dough bowl! Which do you like better? #eastervignette #fromfarmhousetoflorida #easterdisplay #cottagedecor #kimstyledecor
Need a quick dough bowl decor idea? Simply tie mus Need a quick dough bowl decor idea? Simply tie muslin ribbon around a bouquet of silk tulips! I used white but any color would work! #doughbowls #farmhousedoughbowl #farmhousedecor #fromfarmhousetoflorida #cottagedecor #kimstyledecor
In honor of National Pet Day, sharing the first ti In honor of National Pet Day, sharing the first time I met Mowgli! He jumped right up into my arms proving he was #destinedtofly  I just happened to be wearing a #antomiestyle tank!  With Capri jeans, it makes an #everydayanatomie look!

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