Tom, TY so much for the Full timer 101 article. It covers many of the questions I needed to ask, but hadn't realized yet! My biggest shock is the cost of satellite TV ... I'm sure I could get along OK without it, but my DH NEEDS his ESPN fix daily, especially now that he's involved in fantasy football & baseball.
Our time frame gives us plenty of time to rid ourselves of our houseful of stuff, but the thing we will have the hardest time placing is our 7 y.o. chinchilla, CC. We're bringing the dog, but the chinchilla's cage alone weighs over 50#, and she is acutely messy!
We will be renting storage space in my brother's attic for some books and records that my DH just cannot bear to part with. I am happy to say, that we have begun to digitalizing process already, in fact we spent several days when we were snowed in this past winter, sorting through boxes of photos, deciding what was essential and what could be tossed.
Thank you again for this great resource. I'm thinking of printing it out and hanging it on the fridge
Ray and Jean and Greyla the black lab
preparing to get on the road in Sept 2011