Staging Your Home for Successful Fall & Winter Sales

While many people swear by selling homes during the bright spring and summer months, there is really no reason why you can't sell your home during the darker, cooler months of the year as well. Staging your home is important no matter when during the year you are trying to sell, but it is especially important when you're putting your property up for sale in the fall and winter months.
The whole purpose of staging your home is to make the atmosphere appear inviting to the prospective buyers; what buyers will find inviting in the winter months is quite different than what they'll find inviting in the warm summer months. In the summer, home owners tend to stage their homes with a focus towards light, bright, and airy environments. In the darker, cooler months, what we find inviting is quite different than what we see as inviting in the summertime.
When the weather is brisk outside, what many people will find inviting is a warm, cosy home. When the weather is cool, make sure that you turn the heat inside your home up a little so that prospective buyers are comfortable. If you have a gas or electric fireplace, turn it on to add to the ambiance of your home.
While you don't want your MLS pictures to be dated by seasonal decorations, it is totally fine to use them in your house when you're staging it for sale. Try to keep your decorating fairly neutral and simple so that prospective buyers can easily see themselves in your space. Don't let your holiday decorations obscure your home's assets either, they should just add a touch of the holidays without being overpowering.
Another great way to make prospective buyers feel at home in your house is by using smells. Fresh baking smells are inviting for most people, even if it's just some store bought cookie dough that you pop in the oven before your home is shown so that the smell pervades the house and buyers feel welcomed by a plate of freshly baked cookies. A crockpot full of warmed spiced apple cider is a great alternative to baking and has a great holiday scent as well.
If you live in an area that has rainy or snowy weather in the fall and winter months, make sure that you take care that people can get to your front door without too much trouble. Keep your driveway ploughed or shovelled when it's snowy and make sure to keep walkways salted and sanded for safety. During the wet weather, and particularly when there is sand and salt down, make sure that you have ample space by the front door for people to take off their shoes. Use a mat by the front door to collect bits of grit that come in on people's shoes to help protect your floors as well.
The main concerns when you're trying to sell your home during the fall and winter months is that, due to the weather and darker days, people find different things inviting than they did in the summer months. Make sure that you focus your staging on fall and winter comfort to make your prospective buyers feel at home in your home.

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Seven Tips for Successful Crockpot Creations

Crockpot Creations are terrific comfort foods. Crockpot meals are easy to prepare, can usually be cooked all day while you are at work and for the most part are "set it and forget it" meals. If you are anything like me, you will love coming home to the aroma of a crockpot meal. It always reminds me of the way the house smelled when I was a kid.

Everyone today is so busy, with two worker households and the kids involved in numerous extra-curricular activities, many people are turning to "slow cookers" or crockpots to prepare nutritious and delicious family dinners. I actually have four slow cookers but only one is actually a Crockpot. I should explain that a "Crockpot" is actually the name of a slow cooker that is sold by the Rival Company and made famous sometime in the 1970s. It was such a success that crockpot became a household word and is used interchangeably with slow cooker.

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Crockpots come in various sizes and are usable for preparing meats such as beef, chicken and fish in the larger sizes and side dishes, soups and desserts in the smaller ones.

Before you start to cook with a crockpot, there are quite a few tips that will make your experience easy and rewarding. Here are some of the more important ones:

Tip 1: Lightly greasing the inside of your crockpot or using a non-stick cooking spray will help to make cleanup a breeze and will keep food from sticking to the sides of your crockpot.

Tip 2: If you haven't already purchased your crockpot or received one as a gift, try to choose one that has a removable "crock" for easier cleanup and serving. I still have the Farberware crockpot that I received 30 years ago as a wedding present. In those days the crock was not removable, but it's still my favorite!

Tip 3: Once you have added all of the ingredients, don't lift the lid to check on the progress of your meal. Remember this is a "slow" cooker, it's going to take quite a while. Have faith in the recipe and leave that lid on. You may need to add up to 20 minutes of additional cooking time for each time you lift that lid and let the heat and steam out.

Tip 4: Follow the recipe exactly when it comes to layering instructions. Items such as potatoes and vegetables take more time to get tender in a crockpot and the recipes will instruct you to place these on the bottom with any meats and/or sauces layered on top.

Tip 5: I don't usually use regular milk in my crockpot recipes. I have found that due to the extremely long cooking time that regular milk tends to want to curdle. I will recommend that you use evaporated milk, scalded milk or half and half and that you only add milk during the last 30 minutes of cooking time. This rule is not chipped in stone and you are certainly welcome to experiment for yourself.

Tip 6: Remember, if you leave the lid on the crockpot, very little of the liquid will be able to boil away. Some recipes will add a thickening agent such as flour or arrowroot powder to the recipe to thicken the liquid while it cooks, but I generally recommend just taking some of the liquid and thickening it in a sauce pan with some cornstarch right before serving.

Tip 7: Choose the correct sized crockpot for the quantity of food that you are preparing. As a general rule of thumb, try to assure that your crockpot is filled at least halfway to the top. This will help to prevent over-cooking or under-cooking and will give you room to stir and serve without fear of spilling.

These 7 tips should give you a good start toward enjoying your own fabulous Crockpot Creations and the many thanks for scrumptious meals that your family will give you. There are thousands of recipes available for every occasion, try a few each week and you will soon develop your own favorites.

Seven Tips for Successful Crockpot Creations

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