I know what you mean Ruth. While we are just starting out I already have 3 tubs in question. Our first purge came 6 weeks in.....we don't need 2 winter coats EACH! My thought was one to keep clean and one when I was helping Pam change the oil and stuff. Anyway were right behind you.

Hope all is well with you and Dale.

Red

Ditto! We're also in our next phase of purging, in hopes we'll be vacating by the end of next week. All the stuff we put on the side because we weren't sure about, is very easily being decided on now - mostly being given or thrown away.

Yep, we purged before buying he new coach and we will be by our storage units in a couple weeks as well and will purge again. plus we are going to purge our storage unit. Well to be honest we have 2 and plan to get down to one.

I gotta tell you:


It never ends!


We have to purge every year.

It does get easier.

Must be the day for it! Another day another closet cleaned out! We do love this simple life!

Sherry

We've been fulltiming 8 years. Every year we make a least one, if not two trips, to Goodwill with things we don't need. Now it is often things we are just tired of - still wearable, but just not what we want, or we've gotten something new so something old is going.

Barb

Yep. We just got rid of our storage unit too. I am carrying 4 big bags of junk to sell at a flea market being held at the Good Sam Samboree in Moses Lake next week. It does feel good.
Have fun at AM Solar.

Purging and rotating things is a constant event. We have been on the road 14 years, and like Barb we constantly purge things, take things to Goodwill, buy things at Goodwill and I repack and rotate tools and equipment. This all is NOT a one time event.

We did purge over the winter and it was funny to see the stuff we took out. Portable fire pit? Didn't use it in 2 years so why carry the darn thing? Heavy coats? That's why we have wheels! An old laptop that probably doesn't work anyway? Gone! Why do we need so much clothes when I wear the same shorts or jeans everyday? Only need 1 set of dress clothes for church. Shoes? same thing, only got 2 feet so don't need that many.
It's fun to browse in stores but whenever one of us thinks we want something we remind the other that something has to go out first!
Wow, when I think back on all of the stuff we got rid of when we sold the house.......
Now if I could just get the wife to start working on the storage unit. Naw, we'll buy a house in a few years and need most of that stuff. I just remind her that by then the money we spend on storing all of that will have been enough to buy all new stuff. But that's her anchor and if that's what it takes for her to enjoy full timing, then I guess it's worth it.
I love this lifestyle!

Because we are just a week away from being where our storage units are we have been having this conversation a lot it seems. We have 2 storage units, 1 large and one medium. One costs $85 per month and one $95. We have a car (2012 Prius) and a Goldwing Trike mixed in them along with a bunch of other stuff like hutches that we would NEVER spend that much money on again.
We figure we will be on the road if all goes well, at least 4 more years (but who really knows) so we figure if we got down to 1 storage unit at $95 per month and was able to store the car, trike and what pieces of furniture we consider expensive we would live with the $4560 we would spend on storage to hold the roughly $60,000 worth of stuff we would have in it. Plus we would have the trike and car to fall back on when in the area.
Smart,,, who knows, probably not but t seems right for us.

Dave & Diane: You win the storage contest. We still have a storage unit because we don't get much time to clear it out or make the pile smaller. (It has not been a priority.) But no car or trike in ours.

Well, we just added up the weight of the new batteries, less the old ones, solar panels, inverter, etc. We ended up with more solar panels than we thought we would, but due to both of us working from home, that's what we determined we needed.

Time to keep purging!! Dale had already decided it was time to get rid of his Black and Decker workmate table, he brought it along for his work but over the past year has figured out how to use a smaller table and therefore decided it was time to get rid of it. After dropping the 5th wheel at AM Solar, he went to put the work table in the back of the truck, they asked what he was doing with it, he replied that it was on it's way to Habitat for Humanity and well, long story short, we ended up just leaving that work table there for the guys who were happy to take the donation off our hands.

When we leave AM Solar we're headed for a state park where we will once again take everything out of the basement and rearrange and purge. I agree it's a never ending process, but after spending the first 2 months on the road constantly purging so we could finally sell my car and then still continuing to purge, leaving stuff at donation bins in at least 6 different states in the first 5 months, I really didn't know that 6 months later we would still have so much to get rid of, I must say it gets easier every time!!!

Dang it Bill!!! Why is it we always win the contests we don't want to win LOL!!

We're still purging. We did a major purge prior to the auction, but we weren't able to get through everything then so some things went with us so they weren't sold. Now we're going through those things, purging some and consolidating the rest. If we had to suddenly take everything out of the house it would all fit in the coach now. When we went to the park for the auction the coach was so full that we could hardly move and the Jeep was packed.