Downsizing Diaries

Just What Every Aging Old Couple Needs: A Step Aerobics House

By Candy Evans / March 4, 2025 /

Candy’s House Hunting Adventures: The House That Calisthenics Loves As part of our search for a new home, we toured this one last year during our “let’s move to far North Dallas” move phase, which we have not entirely outgrown. It emerged because (a) my granddaughter is in far North Dallas, and (b) we had…

House Hunting in Preston Hollow: ‘Do I Need This Modern Tudor on Tulip?’

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2025 /

Publisher Candy Evans Is Selling Her Custom Northaven Home; Here’s Her House Hunt This is one of those homes that catches your eye as soon as the alert hits your phone. I mean, just look at it. We are selling our family home of 25 years and I have no earthly idea yet where we…

Home Organizer Jolene Monaco Says Your Downsizing Parents Don’t Want Your Stuff

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / July 7, 2024 /

By Jolene Monaco Guest Columnist Years ago, I wrote a column titled “Nobody Wants Your Parents Stuff,” but that’s a story to revisit another time. If anyone has aging parents, there comes a time when their roles, unfortunately, get switched. We become the caretakers — the ones who arrange doctor appointments and try to safeguard…

Celebrating 50 Years of Style With Dallas’ Original Consignment Shop: Clotheshorse Anonymous

By Elaine Raffel / June 9, 2024 /

Long before consigning was cool, two Dallas stay-at-home moms had an idea. If you got tired of a dress, a bag, or jacket, why not swap them with friends? Little did Clotheshorse Anonymous founders Jan Kennedy and Nancy Ungerman know they were 50 years ahead of their time.

How to Help a Parent Through the Process of Downsizing

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 4, 2019 /

By Nancy Peham Special Contributor We all reach a point in life where it makes sense to downsize. The first step is to realize, accept, and decide that the time has come to move forward with the process. As adult children, we can support our parents’ decision — or our own — in several ways.…