Officially Homeless

A big step in the move to full time was taken today. Today we sold our wonderful home of over 12 years that we built from the ground up (well, not with our own hands). After much work and negotiations, our stick and brick home now belongs to someone else (but we still get to stay in it a bit longer).

This is a HUGE milestone for us and now the timeline speeds up considerably. We’ve already been organizing, sorting, throwing out and recycling but had reached a point where we could not move further until we knew if we were going to close or have to list with an agent (we have been lucky so far to be “for sale by owner”). Now that the closing has happened, it’s time to shift into high gear. We’ve got to move things to storage (which will actually be an extra closet at Dan’s mom’s), complete load in of all we will be needing in the RV (including swapping out some kitchen items in the RV for better stuff from home), get ready for an estate sale (more on that below), and get ready to hit the road in less than two weeks!!!

The next few days will be spent at the RV loading her up completely with all we will need, at least for the first trip we’ll be taking (52 days on the gulf coast). We’ll need to rearrange and store things more efficiently (who really cared who things were packed in when it was just for a long weekend?), label items and be sure we know where everything is so we won’t have to pull everything out when we need on thing.

We have hired an estate sale company to come in and sell just about everything, including Dan’s beloved Miata.

They will come in and start staging (placing things out on tables, counter tops, etc. for maximum exposure) over the weekend. That means we’ll need to be out of their way – dogs to the kennel and us to a hotel (last nights alone for awhile…). Then the estate sale actually occurs (over three days), then we have two days to get the rest donated and/or hauled away.

If you are in the Atlanta area and are interested in checking things out at our sale, see the listing here:

https://www.estatesales.net/GA/Atlanta/30318/2097765

The sale will be on Thursday, January 10th, Friday January 11th, and Saturday Janary 12th from 10 AM to 3 PM. We aren’t allowed to be present during the sale so you can pick thru all our stuff and say whatever you want about our taste in decorating and we’ll never know.