THE ISSUE: It’s November and the house is feeling small, what with the backyard covered by a layer of frozen leaves and the first snowfall of the year. That’s okay, because interest rates are low and house values are high. Time to tap that mortgage and renovate!
So you get a storage locker and begin packing stuff away, throwing out non-essential items like those university textbooks you stored away, and the high school tape collection you were saving for the day cassettes become vintage.