Time to prepare?

Initially, we planned for October of this year, but events and economics changed in our favor, we are now looking at about four months. DH is retiring in two months, I've a couple to do beyond that, but the new truck is purchased, the fiver is on order, and the house will be on the market right after Himself retires. We don't have much in the way of 'heirlooms', and the kids will be coming to collect the stuff they want soon. We are sorting and getting rid of stuff on a daily basis, and it is oddly freeing. Winnowing out my crafting and sewing supplies is a bit hard, but my crafting friends are all very happy to take the excess off my hands. Of course, we have been discussing and pre-planning for about three years, so we are able to execute in a shorter time frame without too much turmoil.

We started making plans about 2 years ago when Corporate suddenly bid me farewell. We knew what we wanted to do but because of uncertainties, was too afraid to pull the trigger. I took a job offer and we decided to question everything we do and only do it if it fits "the plan". We still vacation, see the kids and go out with friends but we kinda know where everything is if you know what I mean.

Plan away, imagine what it would be like.

Nice to see others getting ready to attempt to fulltime.

We started late last year, maybe October? Our plan is to start around September 2016.

Started selling everything and only have a few items plus furniture left. We're completely debt free and still working. Our goal is to buy a new DP and sell the house and then we're off.

I think we may have started planning and dreaming early. I say this because we are starting to NOT like working and a year and a half could take it's toll on us. But, when it happens we'll be ready and since we're debt free and working, we should be able to save more money to spend while full-timing.

Another thing, since we're 1.5yrs away, we are creating a spread sheet and tracking all of our expenses by the week, month and will roll it up to the year. We hope that this will help with budgeting while out on the road....

Good Luck to all...

-paul

Another vote for 3 months+.

We decided in July and moved into our camper in September.

lcseds wrote:
I keep looking at my spreadsheets and doing "what if". I'm trying not to over think, but I don't want any surprises.

We did something similar, but there will still be surprises. Expect to spend more that 1st year.

I am about 8 years out. But I am working on paying everything off before then. I keep looking at my spreadsheets and doing "what if". I'm trying not to over think, but I don't want any surprises. And while I am doing all this planning, I am dreaming of it. Keeps my happy for these last few years of work. We will sell the house a year or 2 before and rent an apartment. So when we are reading to go, we will have a couple suitcases to take and a few pieces of furniture for Goodwill.

We started about 5 years out. Paid off everything. About 8 months out we put the farm and business on the market. Sold and closed in 6 weeks. Fortunately we had the rig and we're able to stay on the farm until we wanted to leave....6 months later.

3 months to one year.

Once you start applying a plan to go a year tops. This is different than having a vague idea that it might be fun years out.

The reason being with years to seriously plan and prepare, people over plan and want everything perfect and since that never happens, they are never ready.

We were a little bit different. We planned for 15 years, bought our full time rig ~ 1 1/2 years before, and got rid of as much as possible from the house in the final month.

Put it on the market Feb 15th, and it sold for full price the next day. We have been technically full timing in Nevada since Feb 17th while the house is in escrow.

All we have left is waiting for a big check, doctor appointments, a bed, and 2 lazy boys.

Life is good. Our only regret so far, is not doing it sooner.