Yes, well, we have not even moved yet, we are in the final stages, but yes, we have been planning this for five years. I really recommend taking your time to plan out a move because moving, well as exciting as it can be, really sucks.
We started planning five years ago when my husband lost his corporate job at the age of fifty. Let's face it, it was hard enough to get a job then let alone being older. It pushed us to start making our getting the hell out of here plans. We decided to sell our 5 bedroom 2 bathroom house ( way too big for just the 2 of us anyway) and downsize to a 2 bedroom apartment, next door. Yep, we moved to the next house over. Our friends were living in a big old house which at one point had an apartment upstairs, so they converted the upstairs back to an apartment for us, which gave them income and a smaller space for all of us to take care of. This forced us for big purge number one. We put all our extra furniture on Craigs List, had a yard sale, and donated a whole truck of stuff. We are basically minimalist kind of people anyway, so shifting into a small space was not very difficult. We have just 2 sets of sheets, 2 sets of towels, and a single small closet with clothes. I am not a shopper, I despise it, so that definitely makes living in a small space easy. My biggest purge was my Christmas decorations, we had 2 trees and rooms of decorations, I have whittled that down to 2 totes, and that includes the tree. We are now planning our final move, to Florida from Delaware, with an 18 year old cat ( that may be a long blog post in itself ). We are not moving until December, but yes, I am already on a roll. We are only taking a 5 x 8 moving trailer, so we are taking our bed and kitchen table and boxes, that is it. I don't understand how people become so attached to items that they have to pay a fortune to move them. Moving is expensive, personally I would rather sell what little we have left and buy new fun furniture. I have already bagged up winter clothes and other items we are not using right now and they are being donated. I always donate to Vietnam Veterans of America, you can schedule online and they will come right to your front door, I highly recommend them if they are in your area. Here is where you can look up their information. We do not have kids, so we are lucky we don't have to worry about toys and things like that, but if you do, I would start planning really early. We visited U Haul and checked out boxes and other moving supplies. I have a notebook where I track prices of supplies and all other move related information. I even took an entire day and researched doctors, dentists, eye doctors etc and made a list of potential candidates. We are still waiting to see what is going on with health care reform, but at least I started to do my homework. We actually go to settlement next month, but are not moving until December. The house was owned by an older woman who has health issues, so the house needs a whole lot of cleaning. In fact, we may have to buy stock in some cleaning supplies. Our plan ( have you noticed we are big planners ) is to go down in the fall and scrub the place down, buy a few pieces of furniture and at least get it sort of up to speed before December. We figured this way when we get there the worst cleaning will be done and we can concentrate on getting in ( with the ancient cat ). If you have a lot of stuff or kids, I really recommend you start planning your move way in advance to make it less stressful. And since I mentioned him so much, here is the ancient, nearly toothless kitty who will join us on our next adventure.
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