We have an offer on our house, with a scheduled closing date of 6/14. Our last day of work is 6/7. We're stoked! We'll stay at our seasonal campsite for the summer, as we adjust to living in the HOW (House on Wheels). ((NOTE: If you can tell me the movie I got that from, you win braggin rights in Pauly's Famous "What Movie? Game.)) We'll start heading SW in early October on our way to nowhere in particular. YAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
NWescapee said
04:16 PM May 7, 2013
Yay!!!! Good luck with all the last minute details and have fun out there!!
Loretta said
12:18 AM May 8, 2013
Congratulations. It is great out here. You are going to love it!
Lucky Mike said
12:32 AM May 8, 2013
As he lace's up the shoes!!!
H a P p Y Dance!!!!!!!!.............................
Congrats!!!
jswharton said
01:44 AM May 8, 2013
Animal House?
RickandJanice said
02:55 AM May 8, 2013
Congratulations! Can really feel your excitement. We also look forward to jumping into full time lifestyle as soon as our house sells.
Penny and Paul said
12:21 PM May 8, 2013
Nope, not Animal House ;>
Jo And Craig said
12:58 PM May 8, 2013
CONGRATULATIONS! I am so very envious, yet so very happy and excited for you. It is RVers such as yourself who keep MY dream alive! All the best!!
Fergizmo said
02:51 PM May 8, 2013
Meet The Fockers comes to mind. ??
Penny and Paul said
04:16 PM May 8, 2013
Not the Fockers
AlovesRV said
04:21 PM May 8, 2013
It is a great way to live every day!
Alie and Jims Carrilite said
01:55 AM May 9, 2013
About Schmidt?
Lucky Mike said
02:16 AM May 9, 2013
HHHHmmmmm.......guess you have to have kids around alot!!!!..........is the movie ....Bolt..
Penny and Paul said
12:12 PM May 9, 2013
Nope and nope!
Penny and Paul said
02:13 PM May 9, 2013
Yikes! We're scheduled to close on the house in 5 weeks and I'm freaking out! We've been giving away & throwing away stuff for 2 months, and there's still so much more in the house/garage/attic to go through and get rid of.
For example, I hardly cook, but I have a kitchen and pantry full of pots, pans, mixers, choppers, grinders, rice cookers, crockpots, bundt pans, casserole dishes, etc, etc, etc. There's even a cabinet in the garage for kitchen overflow. A couple weeks ago I took a dozen cook books to Goodwill, and I still have 21 more in the pantry, plus a countless number of the little paper booklet type they sell in the check out line!
This is a humbling experience. I'm sure everyone that went through this felt as overwhelmed as I do. And I know all you folks already fulltiming got through it, and Paul and I will too, but oh my goodness; where did all this stuff come from?
NWescapee said
02:44 PM May 9, 2013
Can totally relate to the overwhelmed by stuff feeling! We've already had an online estate sale, got rid of 1/2 our furniture and some other stuff, have taken 3 truck loads of "stuff" to donation centers, had a moving sale, had a charity pick up everything that didn't sell, sold a few big things on Craigslist, have halfway filled up the storage room we're putting stuff in that we can't take with us and don't want to get rid of, etc.
Thought we were getting down to relatively empty cupboards and closets until I walked out into the garage. Now I'm freaking out, how did we get so much stuff there? And we're still waiting for our 5v'er to come back from the repair place so I have one side of the garage filled with boxes of stuff waiting to be loaded into 5v'er.
BVC said
03:03 PM May 9, 2013
Congratulations on the retirement and house sale. My wife and I just bought a condo in Crystal Lake and are considering selling our house and moving into the condo. We bought it more as an investment and now we are thinking why not downsize and have more free time to enjoy our RV since we're empty nesters. So now we are painting the porch, staining the deck, etc., etc. We look at what we have accumulated during our 33 years of marriage and wonder where should we start.
Seems that your house sold pretty quick. The market in our area has really been heating up with many properties receiving multiple bids. Well best of luck on getting things done, starting your new life, and may your travels always be safe. I have no idea on the movie question so I'll just guess RV with Robin Williams.
Penny and Paul said
04:16 PM May 9, 2013
Thank you to everyone for your congrats, encouragement and well wishes.
NWescape - I wouldn't wish the stress on anyone, but it's nice to know we're not in this boat alone. Good luck in purging your stuff!
Bruce & Val - you're right about our local area market heating up. Our realtor said that any home that's in good shape and has been cared for is likely to go pretty fast. We feel blessed that ours went so fast. Good luck to you! By the way, I don't know if the movie RV is right - that's Paul's department!
Mary Sunshine - I know exactly what you mean. It was reading about other folks that kept us moving forward. We've been wishing and dreaming and planning this for over 5 years. You just hang in there and keep your RV dream alive. It'll happen for you too!
Rick & Janice - Good luck to you too!
NWescapee said
04:41 PM May 9, 2013
Penny - if you already have most of the stuff out of your house that you want to keep, have you thought about hiring an estate sale person to deal with the rest? We actually had considered that but the only one we found in our area who was willing to do that thought she could sell all our stuff for 6-7K in total but her minimum fee was $4500. I decided I could do better with one moving sale, an online auction and just donating the rest and taking the tax write off. The estate sale would have been easier but we're making a bit more money on the sale of our items with the way we chose to proceed. However, if I was closing in 5 weeks, I might rethink that strategy. Most of our selling occurred while we were still painting and fixing stuff up around the house and removing our personality from the house. Yep, right now it's a very boring house, makes it so much easier to leave.
suse1023 said
05:24 PM May 9, 2013
oh congratulations! we may have a signed contract by this afternoon, so we're right behind you! and i'm also totally and completely overwhelmed by the thought of selling and giving away 24 years worth of farm life and all it's accroutrements.
we even have a seasonal camp we'll live in until we have to leave oct first, and then off we go into the wild blue yonder!
we're so lucky we also get three months (or more if we can swing the visas) in a family apartment in sicily next spring--um, heck yeah i want it! happy trails, care drivefully!
Penny and Paul said
05:27 PM May 9, 2013
Not RV.
You're all waaaaaaaaay off ;>
Penny and Paul said
05:35 PM May 9, 2013
NWescape - You're exactly right - it's easier to see myself leaving when it doesn't feel so much like home. After we painted, we didn't hang anything back on the walls. And when we had to exile everything to the garage to have our new carpet and tile laid, we brought only the essentials back into the house, with no decor or personal stuff to keep everything completely neutral. It's a great strategy, even though it wasn't planned!
Just this morning, Paul found a website for some estate sale folks in our area that I'm going to talk to today or tomorrow. Great minds think alike!!
Penny and Paul said
05:38 PM May 9, 2013
Suse - Sicily???? I have goosebumps! Good luck this afternoon - be sure to let us know the outcome.
Terry and Jo said
06:23 PM May 9, 2013
Our period of purging was a few years ago, and unfortunatley, our house took 3 years to sell and even then we took a loss. All I can say to those that are stressing with the job of purging is to just be patient and keep your eye on the goal, not the process. What we couldn't sell, we gave away. I am the "resident pack-rat" so it was my attachment to "stuff" that might have held us up just a bit. Actually, the hardest things to give up were all the original oil paintings that my mother had painted. But, even those are with my sister.
As for the movie or show, we aren't movie-goers, and it has been decades since this was produced, but a really wild guess would be The Long, Long Trailer with Lucille Ball.
Terry
Penny and Paul said
06:35 PM May 9, 2013
Terry, you're the closest yet!
Penny and Paul said
07:32 PM May 9, 2013
We're heading out for a few days and I can't let all you guessers hanging, so the answer to the quiz is....
Tarzan's New York Adventure! Tarzan sees a taxi and he calls it a House On Wheels.
-- Edited by Penny and Paul on Thursday 9th of May 2013 07:32:46 PM
BVC said
10:33 PM May 9, 2013
Penny we go to estate sales all the time and it's a great way to add too much STUFF to your life. A good place to get a lot of estate sale company names is by looking on estatesales.net . That's the site all the companies use to advertise their sales. Some do a nice job and some don't so get as much information as you can and references if possible. We have more time and will probably do it ourselves as a moving/downsizing sale and list it on estatesales.net, Craigslist, and the Northwest Herald.
WestWardHo said
12:35 AM May 10, 2013
Penny & Paul,
We can totally relate to getting rid of all the stuff. I was actually shocked to find all the stuff that we had squirreled away! It does get done thou and you do survive. We recommend the estate auction route as well - having done it the hard way!
We have an offer on our house, with a scheduled closing date of 6/14. Our last day of work is 6/7. We're stoked! We'll stay at our seasonal campsite for the summer, as we adjust to living in the HOW (House on Wheels). ((NOTE: If you can tell me the movie I got that from, you win braggin rights in Pauly's Famous "What Movie? Game.)) We'll start heading SW in early October on our way to nowhere in particular. YAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Congratulations. It is great out here. You are going to love it!
H a P p Y Dance!!!!!!!!.............................
Congrats!!!
Animal House?
CONGRATULATIONS! I am so very envious, yet so very happy and excited for you. It is RVers such as yourself who keep MY dream alive! All the best!!
??
Not the Fockers
Yikes! We're scheduled to close on the house in 5 weeks and I'm freaking out! We've been giving away & throwing away stuff for 2 months, and there's still so much more in the house/garage/attic to go through and get rid of.
For example, I hardly cook, but I have a kitchen and pantry full of pots, pans, mixers, choppers, grinders, rice cookers, crockpots, bundt pans, casserole dishes, etc, etc, etc. There's even a cabinet in the garage for kitchen overflow. A couple weeks ago I took a dozen cook books to Goodwill, and I still have 21 more in the pantry, plus a countless number of the little paper booklet type they sell in the check out line!
This is a humbling experience. I'm sure everyone that went through this felt as overwhelmed as I do. And I know all you folks already fulltiming got through it, and Paul and I will too, but oh my goodness; where did all this stuff come from?
Thought we were getting down to relatively empty cupboards and closets until I walked out into the garage. Now I'm freaking out, how did we get so much stuff there? And we're still waiting for our 5v'er to come back from the repair place so I have one side of the garage filled with boxes of stuff waiting to be loaded into 5v'er.
Congratulations on the retirement and house sale. My wife and I just bought a condo in Crystal Lake and are considering selling our house and moving into the condo. We bought it more as an investment and now we are thinking why not downsize and have more free time to enjoy our RV since we're empty nesters. So now we are painting the porch, staining the deck, etc., etc. We look at what we have accumulated during our 33 years of marriage and wonder where should we start.
Seems that your house sold pretty quick. The market in our area has really been heating up with many properties receiving multiple bids. Well best of luck on getting things done, starting your new life, and may your travels always be safe. I have no idea on the movie question so I'll just guess RV with Robin Williams.
NWescape - I wouldn't wish the stress on anyone, but it's nice to know we're not in this boat alone. Good luck in purging your stuff!
Bruce & Val - you're right about our local area market heating up. Our realtor said that any home that's in good shape and has been cared for is likely to go pretty fast. We feel blessed that ours went so fast. Good luck to you! By the way, I don't know if the movie RV is right - that's Paul's department!
Mary Sunshine - I know exactly what you mean. It was reading about other folks that kept us moving forward. We've been wishing and dreaming and planning this for over 5 years. You just hang in there and keep your RV dream alive. It'll happen for you too!
Rick & Janice - Good luck to you too!
we may have a signed contract by this afternoon, so we're right behind you!
and i'm also totally and completely overwhelmed by the thought of selling and giving away 24 years worth of farm life and all it's accroutrements.
we even have a seasonal camp we'll live in until we have to leave oct first, and then off we go into the wild blue yonder!
we're so lucky we also get three months (or more if we can swing the visas) in a family apartment in sicily next spring--um, heck yeah i want it!
happy trails, care drivefully!
You're all waaaaaaaaay off ;>
Just this morning, Paul found a website for some estate sale folks in our area that I'm going to talk to today or tomorrow. Great minds think alike!!
Our period of purging was a few years ago, and unfortunatley, our house took 3 years to sell and even then we took a loss. All I can say to those that are stressing with the job of purging is to just be patient and keep your eye on the goal, not the process. What we couldn't sell, we gave away. I am the "resident pack-rat" so it was my attachment to "stuff" that might have held us up just a bit. Actually, the hardest things to give up were all the original oil paintings that my mother had painted. But, even those are with my sister.
As for the movie or show, we aren't movie-goers, and it has been decades since this was produced, but a really wild guess would be The Long, Long Trailer with Lucille Ball.
Terry
We're heading out for a few days and I can't let all you guessers hanging, so the answer to the quiz is....
Tarzan's New York Adventure! Tarzan sees a taxi and he calls it a House On Wheels.
-- Edited by Penny and Paul on Thursday 9th of May 2013 07:32:46 PM
Penny we go to estate sales all the time and it's a great way to add too much STUFF to your life. A good place to get a lot of estate sale company names is by looking on estatesales.net . That's the site all the companies use to advertise their sales. Some do a nice job and some don't so get as much information as you can and references if possible. We have more time and will probably do it ourselves as a moving/downsizing sale and list it on estatesales.net, Craigslist, and the Northwest Herald.
We can totally relate to getting rid of all the stuff. I was actually shocked to find all the stuff that we had squirreled away! It does get done thou and you do survive. We recommend the estate auction route as well - having done it the hard way!
You're short-timers now!!!
Sherry