Journey to full-timing

A lot has happened since our return from Quartzsite. The first was the return journey itself and the changes in the scenery on the way back. The next in the doctors visits and the blood test by the vampires that the many different doctors require.

You do get a check up of your MH don't you? That's when you find out about all those minor things that your winter travels have pressed upon your rolling home. You do get the same for yourself to don't you? That when you find out about personal deterioration of one's body during the rusty years.

Well my check up caused my primary physician to plop down in his chair. He had trouble finding a heart beat. After a few words he told me I needed to go to the emergency room. Eight days later I returned home with a Pacemaker. That 's the short story.

Now back to the important part. Our intent during our brick and mortar home visit was to prepared it for sale. My suggestion to anyone his is really considering to make the transition to full-timing is to start early. You have no idea how much stuff you may have accumulated over the years. Stuff that means a lot to you and nothing to anyone else. Stuff that family members pass on to their children when they die and the kids have either no use or desire for it.

We have pictures from forty years ago that are our memories. We've gleaned through them, got some laughs, shed some tears and in one box went those that we will scan into our new 500 gig drive and the rest went to the land fill. Furniture that we gave away to charity. We did not want to spend the time having a yard sale. Besides the heart condition took more than a week out of our lives.

There are minor repairs and painting to be done and we rusty folks will have to do it ourselves. Our young ones are too busy to and distant to be of much help. We really don't care and realize it's stuff. Plus they are getting rusty too. We even had to get rid of some of their stuff we have been storing for the past fifteen plus years. No matter how many times we asked them to come get it over the past years they never seem to have the time. Of course there was no hurry since we will always be around. In order to expedite the extraction of their stuff I just told them it didn't matter if the came to get it or not. I gave them a date when it would be put out for trash pick up. Now those words were a mover. Stuff went quick.

It's true when they say one person's trash is another's treasure. We put junk on the curb that hardly stayed there long enough for us to walk back into the house. I'm afraid someone will think we are putting our MH on the curb.

Why did we buy all that stuff? we should and could have used those funds for something more use full. Oh well. It fit our needs at the time. Our needs are now to get rid of this elephant that we neither have need or desire to continue feed. And if you are considering the same make sure you start early.