winter. the kids are all in the house, staying in the house, you don't really want to go out, so you're pulling blankets out and cuddling up on the couch and doing things like that. toys are all out, your kids may have been drawing and you're putting their drawings up on the refrigerator, collecting refrigerator magnets and things like that.
this is a great time, especially if you are thinking about listing your home, to just go through and clean up a lot of that personal stuff. take down family photos so that the house becomes kind of a neutral palette. you still want some stuff up to create that 