Moving a house sucks!

Try after 38 years. I donated 35 boxes of books to the library's second hand book store just to begin with, and still had a couple dozen boxes of those I couldn't part with. Fortunately the realtors helped in finding buyers for some of the stuff that was truly antique, that had actually come with the house when we bought it. Some stuff we just made a condition of the sale -- buyer had to accept the piano in the atrium and the mahogany desk in the loft office. No way we were getting involved with or paying having those lugged down all the stairs. We our part getting them up there.