How much would a charity shop charge for it? Ask her for that much to be donated.
Evening dresses in Oxfam's online shop range from a few quid (high street stuff that wouldn't have been particularly expensive to begin with) to several hundred (designer labels that would have been probably 4 figures prices new) so I would guess somewhere around £40-£50 is probably about right, maybe more if it's not been worn much and is pretty much as-new.
It's sometime between 3am and 4am. We still have no idea whether the move will happen today or not. All I can say is that we have decluttered. So much stuff has been got rid of. But if we have to unpack everything again, I will not be happy.
@rowlandscastle444, we've just had to do precisely that and it's very frustrating. We agreed a sale on our house at the end of September and things were progressing slowly. We made it clear from the start that we are going to be away from the beginning of December until end of January and needed to have exchanged contracts before we go away. Because completion was likely to happen while we are away we packed everything and made arrangements that my sister would oversee the removal. Last Friday our purchaser came to measure up and over the weekend decided to withdraw her offer! We weren't altogether sure if it was a ploy so she could then reopen negotiations but as she refused to speak to the agent obviously not. We now have to unpack everything because even if we decide to go back on the market next spring the house will need to be presented nicely to sell. The most annoying thing is all the garden stuff my husband has transferred to the allotment to be stored so the removers didn't have to do it. On the bright side, we have got rid of a lot of stuff.
Oh, you poor things. You have my full sympathy. When I was trying to move to where I am now, I put my house on the market and I went to almost exchanging contracts 6 times before finally completing. By that time my belongings had been packed, moved into storage and I had moved into rented accommodation waiting to sell. It was a complete nightmare, so stressful. The reasons given by potential buyers ranged from deciding to move abroad, not getting a mortgage in place before house hunting, being let down by their own buyer to disappearing from the face of the earth. I eventually decided not to look at any properties until my own house was sold and the money was in the bank. Then I was in the position of being a cash buyer. When I found this property I put in a once-and-for-all offer, the seller wanted to negotiate so I had a hissy fit with the estate agent and said forget it. I am not haggling, I will carry on looking. Within 24 hours the seller came back accepting my offer. Yeah! I can clearly remember walking around my new home feeling as if a huge weight had dropped from my shoulders. It had taken almost 2 years.
Good heavens, what a nightmare for you all. It seems to be happening such a lot these days, there must be a better way of house selling and buying. In the old days when I did conveyancing, contracts were exchanged about two months or so before the actual completion which worked well and meant there were no last minute nasty surprises. I'm not sure why they seem to have exchange and completion on almost the same day now.
In France, once an offer is made and accepted there is a legally binding period of 3 months to complete the sale. In Belgium, it's 4 months. There are financial penalties for failing to meet the date.
Our old house had an attic which covered the ground floor living space and the double garage and contained my crafting room, sewing room and 2 large storage spaces along with a barn and a garden shed. It was a nightmare to declutter, sort and pack. This house has no attic, nor even a usable loft space but it does have outhouses and I rather think that next spring will involve some extreme cleaning in those.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@Obelixx, I don't think that is quite correct concerning France. It's not 3 months from making an offer in France, it's 3 months from signing the "Compromis de Vente", which is more like the Exchange of Contacts in England. Usually the offer is made and accepted, short cooling off period, then the Compromis is signed quite soon afterwards and a deposit is paid which then means it's binding until the final Acte of Sale and hand over of keys. My buyers, Dutch, made an offer on the 7th July 2020, then they kept making excuses for not signing the Compromis until October. Completion and moving was on the 7th January 2021. It made it difficult for me as the seller can't get out of it once they have signed the acceptance of offer, but the buyer can, so I was in Limbo for 3 months unable to make an offer on another house so I lost 2 houses. Luckily the owners of the 3rd house I wanted were willing to wait as after that there was nothing on the market that I liked in the area I wanted.
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@rowlandscastle444 hasn't been back in since pre-dawn, so 🤞 that means it is all happening. Probably just waving the removal persons off now and starting a hunt for the box with the kettle in. 😁
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All I can say is that we have decluttered. So much stuff has been got rid of. But if we have to unpack everything again, I will not be happy.
Last Friday our purchaser came to measure up and over the weekend decided to withdraw her offer! We weren't altogether sure if it was a ploy so she could then reopen negotiations but as she refused to speak to the agent obviously not. We now have to unpack everything because even if we decide to go back on the market next spring the house will need to be presented nicely to sell.
The most annoying thing is all the garden stuff my husband has transferred to the allotment to be stored so the removers didn't have to do it.
On the bright side, we have got rid of a lot of stuff.
When I was trying to move to where I am now, I put my house on the market and I went to almost exchanging contracts 6 times before finally completing. By that time my belongings had been packed, moved into storage and I had moved into rented accommodation waiting to sell. It was a complete nightmare, so stressful.
The reasons given by potential buyers ranged from deciding to move abroad, not getting a mortgage in place before house hunting, being let down by their own buyer to disappearing from the face of the earth.
I eventually decided not to look at any properties until my own house was sold and the money was in the bank. Then I was in the position of being a cash buyer. When I found this property I put in a once-and-for-all offer, the seller wanted to negotiate so I had a hissy fit with the estate agent and said forget it. I am not haggling, I will carry on looking. Within 24 hours the seller came back accepting my offer. Yeah!
I can clearly remember walking around my new home feeling as if a huge weight had dropped from my shoulders. It had taken almost 2 years.
Fingers crossed your move takes place today @rowlandscastle444.
Our old house had an attic which covered the ground floor living space and the double garage and contained my crafting room, sewing room and 2 large storage spaces along with a barn and a garden shed. It was a nightmare to declutter, sort and pack. This house has no attic, nor even a usable loft space but it does have outhouses and I rather think that next spring will involve some extreme cleaning in those.