The day your family sells the house you grew up in, you’ll realize a home was never really the walls.

Attachment lands on a building because the building is the only physical thing big enough to hold it. What you would actually miss is an arrangement of people, sounds and routines that happened to occur inside those rooms: who was in the kitchen at six, the particular quiet of a Sunday. The walls were storage rather than the thing itself. That is worth knowing before a sale instead of after one.

Walk through your place this week and notice what you would carry out if the building vanished. Almost none of it is furniture. Most of it can be rebuilt elsewhere once you know what it is made of.