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The Restless Youngs · The Restless Youngs

So the holidays are right around the corner and very soon, family (some who know our plan, and some who don't) will be asking us what we want for Christmas. Since we've started our purging process and don't want to add anything more to the list, we would like to get some ideas of those "must have&q...

Alie and Jims Carrilite · Alie and Jims Carrilite

Wow! Its been 7 months since we moved into the 5th'er. 5 months since moving to Twin Lakes resort in NC. And tomorrow we make our first move. Huntington Beach State Park south of Murrells Inlet South Carolina is our first stop. Then on to visit friends and family across Georgia and Alabama. A long ha...

NWescapee · NWescapee

The transformation has started, 3 rooms painted, 2 more in progress, all family pics, art work and memorabilia are off the walls. As we cover our walls with the recommended neutral colors (aka BORING as I call it, homogenous as Dale is calling it) and see our fun, vibrant colors disappear, this hou...

Sherri · Sherri

Are there any solo female fifth wheelers out there? If so, what are your thoughts on this? I love the fifth wheels I've looked at but am intimidated by the size of them. Can you tell me of your experiences?

sunflwrgirl · sunflwrgirl

My husband and I are planning our FT lifestyle for after retirement. Just started researching in the past couple months. Had our head set to do a 5th wheel and a diesel F350. The idea being that we can always unload our 5th wheel at a destinitaion and can mineuver around in that area with the truck. Thing i...

suse1023 · suse1023

i'm going to laugh, because if i start to cry i may not stop for a while! here's where we're at-- house should close june 21st. my tenants are moving down the street on june 15th and have purchased our bed, table and chairs and dresser set so that's a leaving next saturday and we're moving to camp. but we don...

ODBeef · ODBeef

So, just purchased Winnebago Adventurer to start fulltiming in. I'm in the stage where I test it out at a stick-and-brick to have all of the advantages of a house in case I'm missing something, etc. One of my first problems is how damp my clothing is. It's been raining pretty decently here, and I can't...

Alie and Jims Carrilite · Alie and Jims Carrilite

It was a pretty good success! We sold about 1/3 of the small stuff, about 1/2 of the furniture, and had several lookie-loos "looking" at the house. We sold enough that we are now "Fulltime" in the 5'er! Placing ads on craigslist tonight, maybe we can unload more furniture. As s...

happy paddler · happy paddler

Well, we have an offer on our house. The person wants to purchase fully furnished which makes our job easier. Don't have to try and sell a house full stuff... My DH retires May 31st. If everything falls into place, our target date to head out as fulltimers is June 1st. Life is Good and about to get a whole lo...

lindy · lindy

DW and I have been planning on fulltiming once she retires in 3 years. We've been really studing and evaluating different 5th wheels for full time use. Then during the winter MH's became a possibility after seeing a floor plan the DW loved and could live with. Well we signed the papers on a 2012 Winneba...

WestWardHo · WestWardHo

We had hoped to rent but the first renter (that we liked) fell thru and since we were both anxious about hitting the road without a decision made I called a local realtor intending to interview 3 and see their marketing plans before deciding. First realtor came and as she viewed the house, we told her tha...

NWescapee · NWescapee

As we keep sorting through stuff, garage sale, long term storage, gotta take it with us and the ever growing list of things to consider, can't make a decision yet, I know we're going to end up purging stuff right after we finally start our FT life. Just curious for those of you that are FT, what were some of...

NWescapee · NWescapee

Our online estate auction is winding down today and it looks like the vast majority of our furniture will be sold! We've also sold some smaller "stuff" but still have many more cupboards, dressers, closets, etc. to empty. Trying to decide whether to try one big garage sale to get rid of a...

WestWardHo · WestWardHo

I floated a balloon on Craigslist about selling or leasing our home. For tax reasons, we got the $8,000 tax credit when we bought our home so can not close before June 1 which I stated. Need to ck the papers to see if we must occupy. Had a legitimate sounding reply from a couple who lost their ho...

Spider · Spider

Removed by Howard - Double post. :) -- Edited by Howard on Monday 21st of January 2013 05:50:28 AM

NWescapee · NWescapee

After talking to several estate sale companies, we decided the traditional route wouldn't work for us, not enough antiques (can you say none? our tastes lend to comtemporary furniture and decor styles), finding one who was willing but after their "minimum" we might only make 1-2K in...

1911Roamer · 1911Roamer

Closing on the Sticks and Bricks at 2 PM today. Pick up the 5er at 9 AM tomorrow. Here we come!!!!!

KellyVA · KellyVA

We were talking about this so thought I'd post and see what you all think. Does the feeling that you are on an endless vacation ever end?

Raytronx · Raytronx

We've been traveling for 18 months, 35,000 miles, over 120 campgrounds. I've put up a complete review of our Keystone Cougar Fifth wheel. The good and the bad. It's a honest assessment and something I would have liked to read when I first started out on the journey to full timing. There is also lots of ph...

cherylbrv · cherylbrv

Been dreaming; nay, moved "dream" to "plan" for the past 2 years already. We're already FT'ing in our minds; just selling the house is the only thing holding us back. We've been slowly trying to make many cosmetic repairs (but money obstacles keep getting in the way). The ho...

Hdrider · Hdrider

We have been on the road now for 43 days. Of that we have dry camped 15 days and have paid from $0 to $20 for a dry camping spot. The highest single night fee was $31 and our highest weekly averaged to nightly was $25.97. Our overall average per night so far is $18.53. But that will go down because we are dry cam...

Doncat · Doncat

My DW and I hope to start either fulltiming or 3/4 timing in the next few years. We have been looking at different RVs and we cannot make up our minds, motorhome or fifth wheel? We would love to hear the reasoning that some of you used to make that decision...

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momyfor2 · momyfor2

I just wanted to thank you all for taking the time to reply to my message. We have been dreaming to do this for so long...and I mean years...looking back on our life , I can say today that we are in our better stage money wise, if one can say that...all in the right proportion of course, but still we are not in a...

momyfor2 · momyfor2

Hi, We are new to the forum, the website and the idea of full timers rvers.... My husband,mysself and our 2 teen girls (and 2 dogs) have decided that it is time to pursuit our long time dream to become a full time rvers...however as most of you would assume, we have feras, concerns,questions, doubts, you...

jbarrett72 · jbarrett72

We're under contract on our house! Went and put a down payment on the fifth wheel. Now the wait begins....and we start thinking. Are we nuts?! We've just sold our house!!! AND everything we've worked so hard for! I'm about to quit a good paying job. I never thought I'd feel this way. I've always...

mjlitz · mjlitz

Well September 17th is quickly approaching - the closing of our house. Had a meltdown yesterday thank goodness I could read some posts from here and calm down. The house was sold in June, we went away for the month of June, came back and have been packing and dejunking. Everything has seemed to all fa...

laurly · laurly

After a little over 3 years of researching, 2 rallies, and lots of mentoring by Howard, Linda, and many RV dreamers, we are finally ready! Tomorrow, Oct. 1 we are setting sail on our full-time life. We will make our way from Pennsylvania to South Dakota to obtain our driver's licenses. Along the way we w...

sunflwrgirl · sunflwrgirl

We are not Rvers yet, however we are doing everything we can to make it happen. My question is after researching the residency I had come across the idea of being an Alaskan resident. Though I am having troubles finding much information for this. If someone can please help me with this thought I would re...

Hdrider · Hdrider

Wow,, what a road it has been to get to this point. I just read what I typed in my intro page on this site and man how things have changed. At that point I still like my job and was working 50 to 60 hours a week and I thought the house would sell for about $600k. Now I decided to take a step down at work and took a 58%...

Beth-Cal · Beth-Cal

I just bought my RV approx 4 weeks ago and placed my home on the market. It is already under contract (after only one showing, woo hoo!) with expected closing date mid-Oct. Wow!! It has all happened much faster than I expected. It works for me though...fits my personality. Once I decide to do something,...

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	Holiday Gift Ideas.... (Preview) So the holidays are right around the corner and very soon, family (some who know our plan, and some who don't) will be asking us what we want for Christmas. Since we've started our purging process and don't want to add anything more to the list, we would like to get some ideas of those "must have&q...	The Restless Youngs	7	1749	01:35 PM Nov 24, 2013 by Ken and Marianne
	Time to GO (Preview) Wow! Its been 7 months since we moved into the 5th'er. 5 months since moving to Twin Lakes resort in NC. And tomorrow we make our first move. Huntington Beach State Park south of Murrells Inlet South Carolina is our first stop. Then on to visit friends and family across Georgia and Alabama. A long ha...	Alie and Jims Carrilite	22	2094	03:47 AM Nov 17, 2013 by Alie and Jims Carrilite
	House staging - a great way to make your house not feel like "home" (Preview) The transformation has started, 3 rooms painted, 2 more in progress, all family pics, art work and memorabilia are off the walls. As we cover our walls with the recommended neutral colors (aka BORING as I call it, homogenous as Dale is calling it) and see our fun, vibrant colors disappear, this hou...	NWescapee	11	2133	05:33 AM Nov 6, 2013 by Ken and Marianne
	Solo female fifth wheelers (Preview) Are there any solo female fifth wheelers out there? If so, what are your thoughts on this? I love the fifth wheels I've looked at but am intimidated by the size of them. Can you tell me of your experiences?	Sherri	8	1673	06:43 PM Sep 26, 2013 by waltben
	Pros and cons between an Rv bus and 5th wheel pro cons 5th wheel trailer truck diesel rv bus (Preview) My husband and I are planning our FT lifestyle for after retirement. Just started researching in the past couple months. Had our head set to do a 5th wheel and a diesel F350. The idea being that we can always unload our 5th wheel at a destinitaion and can mineuver around in that area with the truck. Thing i...	sunflwrgirl	45	13603	03:40 PM Aug 7, 2013 by WestWardHo
	ok universe,we get it--you have a great sense of humor (Preview) i'm going to laugh, because if i start to cry i may not stop for a while! here's where we're at-- house should close june 21st. my tenants are moving down the street on june 15th and have purchased our bed, table and chairs and dresser set so that's a leaving next saturday and we're moving to camp. but we don...	suse1023	10	1795	04:35 AM Jul 6, 2013 by WestWardHo
	My clothing is so wet. (Preview) So, just purchased Winnebago Adventurer to start fulltiming in. I'm in the stage where I test it out at a stick-and-brick to have all of the advantages of a house in case I'm missing something, etc. One of my first problems is how damp my clothing is. It's been raining pretty decently here, and I can't...	ODBeef	6	1654	05:04 AM Jun 11, 2013 by NWescapee
	First yard sale! (Preview) It was a pretty good success! We sold about 1/3 of the small stuff, about 1/2 of the furniture, and had several lookie-loos "looking" at the house. We sold enough that we are now "Fulltime" in the 5'er! Placing ads on craigslist tonight, maybe we can unload more furniture. As s...	Alie and Jims Carrilite	7	1598	01:18 PM Apr 28, 2013 by Gpndavid
	Have an Offer! (Preview) Well, we have an offer on our house. The person wants to purchase fully furnished which makes our job easier. Don't have to try and sell a house full stuff... My DH retires May 31st. If everything falls into place, our target date to head out as fulltimers is June 1st. Life is Good and about to get a whole lo...	happy paddler	9	1436	02:10 AM Apr 20, 2013 by RickandJanice
	Took the first step (Preview) DW and I have been planning on fulltiming once she retires in 3 years. We've been really studing and evaluating different 5th wheels for full time use. Then during the winter MH's became a possibility after seeing a floor plan the DW loved and could live with. Well we signed the papers on a 2012 Winneba...	lindy	4	1105	09:31 PM Apr 19, 2013 by happy paddler
	Sold home to first person who viewed it Home sale house sale (Preview) We had hoped to rent but the first renter (that we liked) fell thru and since we were both anxious about hitting the road without a decision made I called a local realtor intending to interview 3 and see their marketing plans before deciding. First realtor came and as she viewed the house, we told her tha...	WestWardHo	21	4048	04:57 AM Apr 15, 2013 by NWescapee
	What were the first things you purged? (Preview) As we keep sorting through stuff, garage sale, long term storage, gotta take it with us and the ever growing list of things to consider, can't make a decision yet, I know we're going to end up purging stuff right after we finally start our FT life. Just curious for those of you that are FT, what were some of...	NWescapee	13	1813	05:32 PM Mar 28, 2013 by JayKim-no regrets
	Garage sale vs. donation (Preview) Our online estate auction is winding down today and it looks like the vast majority of our furniture will be sold! We've also sold some smaller "stuff" but still have many more cupboards, dressers, closets, etc. to empty. Trying to decide whether to try one big garage sale to get rid of a...	NWescapee	17	2251	01:43 PM Mar 19, 2013 by JayKim-no regrets
	Potential renter for our sticks & bricks (Preview) I floated a balloon on Craigslist about selling or leasing our home. For tax reasons, we got the $8,000 tax credit when we bought our home so can not close before June 1 which I stated. Need to ck the papers to see if we must occupy. Had a legitimate sounding reply from a couple who lost their ho...	WestWardHo	20	1769	07:39 PM Mar 6, 2013 by Jack Mayer
	gonna buy a camper and go out in the world (Preview) Removed by Howard - Double post. :) -- Edited by Howard on Monday 21st of January 2013 05:50:28 AM	Spider	13	1721	03:34 PM Mar 6, 2013 by teaberryeagle
	On line estate sales, any experience? (Preview) After talking to several estate sale companies, we decided the traditional route wouldn't work for us, not enough antiques (can you say none? our tastes lend to comtemporary furniture and decor styles), finding one who was willing but after their "minimum" we might only make 1-2K in...	NWescapee	4	1295	12:18 AM Mar 4, 2013 by Racerguy
	25 Hours and counting (Preview) Closing on the Sticks and Bricks at 2 PM today. Pick up the 5er at 9 AM tomorrow. Here we come!!!!!	1911Roamer	17	2041	05:10 PM Feb 16, 2013 by RickandJanice
	Does the vacation ever end? (Preview) We were talking about this so thought I'd post and see what you all think. Does the feeling that you are on an endless vacation ever end?	KellyVA	17	2448	05:34 PM Jan 28, 2013 by Hdrider
	Complete Review of Keystone Cougar Fifth Wheel after 18 months use (Preview) We've been traveling for 18 months, 35,000 miles, over 120 campgrounds. I've put up a complete review of our Keystone Cougar Fifth wheel. The good and the bad. It's a honest assessment and something I would have liked to read when I first started out on the journey to full timing. There is also lots of ph...	Raytronx	4	14437	11:19 PM Jan 12, 2013 by rvingft
	Momentary second thoughts (Preview) Been dreaming; nay, moved "dream" to "plan" for the past 2 years already. We're already FT'ing in our minds; just selling the house is the only thing holding us back. We've been slowly trying to make many cosmetic repairs (but money obstacles keep getting in the way). The ho...	cherylbrv	8	1882	06:17 AM Jan 8, 2013 by Racerguy
	Been on the road 43 days now (Preview) We have been on the road now for 43 days. Of that we have dry camped 15 days and have paid from $0 to $20 for a dry camping spot. The highest single night fee was $31 and our highest weekly averaged to nightly was $25.97. Our overall average per night so far is $18.53. But that will go down because we are dry cam...	Hdrider	11	2342	05:13 PM Dec 30, 2012 by Terry and Jo
	MOTORHOME vs FIFTH WHEEL (Preview) My DW and I hope to start either fulltiming or 3/4 timing in the next few years. We have been looking at different RVs and we cannot make up our minds, motorhome or fifth wheel? We would love to hear the reasoning that some of you used to make that decision.....	Doncat	42	28440	12:31 AM Dec 6, 2012 by Jack Mayer
	Thank you all for your replies (Preview) I just wanted to thank you all for taking the time to reply to my message. We have been dreaming to do this for so long...and I mean years...looking back on our life , I can say today that we are in our better stage money wise, if one can say that...all in the right proportion of course, but still we are not in a...	momyfor2	8	1573	07:14 AM Nov 14, 2012 by momyfor2
	Hi there, we are new here and... (Preview) Hi, We are new to the forum, the website and the idea of full timers rvers.... My husband,mysself and our 2 teen girls (and 2 dogs) have decided that it is time to pursuit our long time dream to become a full time rvers...however as most of you would assume, we have feras, concerns,questions, doubts, you...	momyfor2	5	1586	08:19 PM Nov 13, 2012 by heyduke
	ARE WE NUTS?!?! (Preview) We're under contract on our house! Went and put a down payment on the fifth wheel. Now the wait begins....and we start thinking. Are we nuts?! We've just sold our house!!! AND everything we've worked so hard for! I'm about to quit a good paying job. I never thought I'd feel this way. I've always...	jbarrett72	21	3817	03:09 AM Oct 24, 2012 by rvpeanut
	The time is quickly approaching!! (Preview) Well September 17th is quickly approaching - the closing of our house. Had a meltdown yesterday thank goodness I could read some posts from here and calm down. The house was sold in June, we went away for the month of June, came back and have been packing and dejunking. Everything has seemed to all fa...	mjlitz	22	2471	10:33 PM Oct 14, 2012 by mjlitz
	It is finally happening! (Preview) After a little over 3 years of researching, 2 rallies, and lots of mentoring by Howard, Linda, and many RV dreamers, we are finally ready! Tomorrow, Oct. 1 we are setting sail on our full-time life. We will make our way from Pennsylvania to South Dakota to obtain our driver's licenses. Along the way we w...	laurly	7	1540	01:44 AM Oct 2, 2012 by Lucky Mike
	Alaska Residency questions Alaska residency (Preview) We are not Rvers yet, however we are doing everything we can to make it happen. My question is after researching the residency I had come across the idea of being an Alaskan resident. Though I am having troubles finding much information for this. If someone can please help me with this thought I would re...	sunflwrgirl	3	3728	09:25 PM Sep 22, 2012 by sunflwrgirl
	Almost time for fulltime!! (Preview) Wow,, what a road it has been to get to this point. I just read what I typed in my intro page on this site and man how things have changed. At that point I still like my job and was working 50 to 60 hours a week and I thought the house would sell for about $600k. Now I decided to take a step down at work and took a 58%...	Hdrider	6	2868	06:50 AM Sep 17, 2012 by shystywolf
	Hitting the road...any suggestions for Mrytle Beach area? (Preview) I just bought my RV approx 4 weeks ago and placed my home on the market. It is already under contract (after only one showing, woo hoo!) with expected closing date mid-Oct. Wow!! It has all happened much faster than I expected. It works for me though...fits my personality. Once I decide to do something,...	Beth-Cal	4	1638	12:15 AM Aug 31, 2012 by Beth-Cal
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