Sometimes I think people selling their house go a little over board on making it look nice. I agree you should have more than a path to get to where you want to go, but to have to move everything out is over doing it. I would be like quiltingfan, I would have to go out and buy more and then it would start all over again. We sold our last house about 6 years ago. I wanted to move things to storage, but DH said no. We sold the house to the second person that looked at it and the realtor had taken the person in before we could clean it up. My sewing room was a mess at the time.