Whether you live in Barrie, The GTA or anywhere else, selling ones home can be a truly emotional experience, especially if you have an accumulation of memories attached to that home.

It is also a daunting task, more so a series of daunting tasks, to prepare a home to sell, to then find your next place, to pack up and purge your possessions, and then to finally transport and fit your life and your belongings into a new and unfamiliar space at a new address. Those things don’t get easier in our latter years.

There has to be significant and good practical reason for most of us to want to move and especially to downsize our living accommodations.

So what are the signs it may genuinely be a good time and also be your time to consider downsizing? Let's take a look.