Dreamsend
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Hi folks
Just wanted to take a moment to share. Tonight is my last forever night to be in my home of 31 years. Tomorrow night is the official beginning of Fulltime RV living. I have been so buried in doing all the chores necessary for this transition that I'm not sure the reality of this drastic lifestyle change has actually sunk in.
After working 3/4 of the summer, I had the yard sale back on Aug 24-26 which was very sucessful. Useful items remaining were put on Craigslist or Nextdoor and that too worked to get rid of more items. I sold 170 mature hostas with more people than plants to go around. In the past 2 weeks, Ebay was the venue for my Steiff bears and many antique bears I had restored with 22 items selling in just ten days-meaning Ive packed and shipped that many boxes. All vintage jewelry went to one antique store dealer who bought the whole lot of it. Tomorrow St. Vincent de Paul comes for my modern couch and loveseat, the TV goes an Sunday and that is the last of every bit of furniture. Goodwill runs start today. Files and clothing to weed out yet too.
Moved the trailer from storage to a campground a week ago for the transition period. Did the bleach thing to sanitize fresh water and got the vinyl floor down in the slide area that the dealer was suppose have done last May (that's another story). More changes to trailer interior to come in the next 2 weeks - replacing ugly faucets and cabinet hardware, and moving to a farm 2 weeks from now where a former client is going to re-paper the walls and rid me of those awful, dark, disgusting walls in the trailer. Could not find a paper hanger locally who would do the job. Also, today starts runs to the trailer moving in clothes, household stuff, etc. Then gotta go to CAT scales and have the hitch set up checked for the new weight.
Then the house closing happens this Wednesday Sept 26. Two dental appts for me and one for the cat coming up, meeting with tax preparer, more change of addresses to do, etc, etc. But once the home cleanout happens for closing, I'm on fulltime rv status meaning my time, travel, destinations no longer have a schedule--and I can breathe again. Probably off to South Dakota sometime around Oct 10. HOORAH
So that's my transition story. It's been a long haul but the end, errr the beginning, is in sight.
Linda
Just wanted to take a moment to share. Tonight is my last forever night to be in my home of 31 years. Tomorrow night is the official beginning of Fulltime RV living. I have been so buried in doing all the chores necessary for this transition that I'm not sure the reality of this drastic lifestyle change has actually sunk in.
After working 3/4 of the summer, I had the yard sale back on Aug 24-26 which was very sucessful. Useful items remaining were put on Craigslist or Nextdoor and that too worked to get rid of more items. I sold 170 mature hostas with more people than plants to go around. In the past 2 weeks, Ebay was the venue for my Steiff bears and many antique bears I had restored with 22 items selling in just ten days-meaning Ive packed and shipped that many boxes. All vintage jewelry went to one antique store dealer who bought the whole lot of it. Tomorrow St. Vincent de Paul comes for my modern couch and loveseat, the TV goes an Sunday and that is the last of every bit of furniture. Goodwill runs start today. Files and clothing to weed out yet too.
Moved the trailer from storage to a campground a week ago for the transition period. Did the bleach thing to sanitize fresh water and got the vinyl floor down in the slide area that the dealer was suppose have done last May (that's another story). More changes to trailer interior to come in the next 2 weeks - replacing ugly faucets and cabinet hardware, and moving to a farm 2 weeks from now where a former client is going to re-paper the walls and rid me of those awful, dark, disgusting walls in the trailer. Could not find a paper hanger locally who would do the job. Also, today starts runs to the trailer moving in clothes, household stuff, etc. Then gotta go to CAT scales and have the hitch set up checked for the new weight.
Then the house closing happens this Wednesday Sept 26. Two dental appts for me and one for the cat coming up, meeting with tax preparer, more change of addresses to do, etc, etc. But once the home cleanout happens for closing, I'm on fulltime rv status meaning my time, travel, destinations no longer have a schedule--and I can breathe again. Probably off to South Dakota sometime around Oct 10. HOORAH
So that's my transition story. It's been a long haul but the end, errr the beginning, is in sight.
Linda
