Selling house, changing lifestyle
A question for those of you who have gone full time. When you sold your home and got rid of personal belongs, how did that affect you? I am not going full time but am down sizing and moving into a ...
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We decided to not go fulltime because we didn't want to live on the road. But even when downsizing...take a look at your stuff and decide why you want it. It you have family heirlooms...take what you really want and have room for, then give some of it to family. Look at it all as if you were about to evacuate during a nature disaster and had time to move some items...what do you want the most? If a lot of it falls into that catagory then you'll have some tough soul searching to do.
I've been to a lot of household and farm auctions where almost everything was sold. There were tears involved and the folks who buy the items know there are memories stored within!
Lets face it some of the stuff made today won't last but items from the past are rare and should be cherished. I hope you can deal with this decision without a lot of pain.
Decide what is most important in your life and realize when we are all gone everything will go on to new owners that will either cherish it or junk it. Its impossible to see how society will accept the stuff from the past. I do not believe in junking out the older stuff, tear down and build new...I believe in renewing the older stuff because in many cases it's worth it! If we don't history is lost and once it's gone then we've lost more than we can ever know!
I've been to a lot of household and farm auctions where almost everything was sold. There were tears involved and the folks who buy the items know there are memories stored within!
Lets face it some of the stuff made today won't last but items from the past are rare and should be cherished. I hope you can deal with this decision without a lot of pain.
Decide what is most important in your life and realize when we are all gone everything will go on to new owners that will either cherish it or junk it. Its impossible to see how society will accept the stuff from the past. I do not believe in junking out the older stuff, tear down and build new...I believe in renewing the older stuff because in many cases it's worth it! If we don't history is lost and once it's gone then we've lost more than we can ever know!
