Apartment Therapy is currently hosting its fourth annual “Small Cool Contest” where contestants showcase their small (less than 850 sq ft) homes to show how well they have maximized their small spaces.  Although the place we’re moving to is not as small as that (we’re going from 1900 sq ft to 1250 sq ft), seeing the contest entries (over 100 now) has been really inspiring to me.  It’s comparable, I mean, there are 4 of us in our family, while most of the homes submitted for the contest only have 1 or 2 people living in them.  I recently sold two of our sofas (we had three!) on Craigslist and have many more items posted to sell.  The idea of moving to a small townhome is liberating… we’re going to have a simpler, easier life.