# Downsize my home before a move

A gentle, step-by-step plan to sort a lifetime of belongings and move into a smaller space.

- Topic: Personal Life & Wellbeing
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/downsize-my-home-before-a-move

## Prompt

```text
Help me downsize before moving to a smaller home.

**Current home:** [SIZE, rooms, storage areas like attic, garage, basement]
**New home:** [SIZE, rooms, storage available - include a floor plan or room sizes if you have them]
**Timeline:** [MOVING DATE]
**Who's involved:** [e.g. "just me", "my adult children will help", "I'm helping my parents"]
**Hardest categories:** [e.g. "photos", "furniture", "collections", "my late spouse's things"]
**Physical limits:** [e.g. "can't lift heavy boxes", "stairs are hard"]

Give me:
1. A room-by-room order, starting with areas that hold little emotional weight, and a realistic weekly pace for my timeline.
2. A "will it fit" method: measure the new rooms and choose furniture first, then everything else.
3. Gentle decision questions for sentimental items, plus ways to keep memories without keeping everything (photograph items, choose a few favorites, pass items on to family with a story).
4. A plan for what leaves: offering items to family with a deadline, selling, donating, estate sale services, and safe disposal of medications, chemicals, and old electronics.
5. How to protect important documents and valuables during the process.
6. How family helpers can support without taking over decisions.

Keep the tone warm and unhurried. Suggest a senior move manager or professional organizer if the job is too big.
```

## What to fill in

- SIZE, rooms, storage areas like attic, garage, basement
- MOVING DATE
- e.g. "can't lift heavy boxes", "stairs are hard"

Free to copy and use. From ThinkWithPrompt (https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/), a library of 2,663 curated AI prompts.