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JLitton65 · RV-Dreams Family Member

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Roz · RV-Dreams Family Member

Glad you finally crossed over from the lurker side. It is very friendly on this side. We, too, are from Florida -Jacksonville.

No great words of wisdom, just a welcome. Speedy will bring the Wisdom very soon! Glad you joined our side!!!

JLitton65 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Roz wrote:

Glad you finally crossed over from the lurker side. It is very friendly on this side. We, too, are from Florida -Jacksonville.

No great words of wisdom, just a welcome. Speedy will bring the Wisdom very soon! Glad you joined our side!!!

We are in Jacksonville also.

Gummy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome Julie & Mr, DH.

He is a few words of wisdom for you to think about. Don't Look Back and say, Why, Look Forward and Say, Why Not. All That STUFF you mentioned, It's Just Stuff. You can check out our Full Time Life Style at our Blog maybe it will help you to decide. All The Best, The Adventure is Calling. Gummy

NorCal Dan · RV-Dreams Family Member

I agree with all the comments...don't look back, and it's just stuff :) Glad you jumped in and said hello. Hope you get to enjoy the dream soon.

TerryC · RV-Dreams Community Member

I've got awhile to go, but I've started purging and my hope is that I remember it every time I try to bring something else into the house.

My problem is my kids are grabbing the stuff that I'm throwing out and it is ending up in their rooms.

I'm thankful that most of my stuff can end up on my computer (music, books, documents & pictures). I'm currently working on scanning my photo albums and then they will disappear.

I also have a Harley (2009 Fat Bob) and am looking at the toy haulers. I can't wait to start the adventure.

Welcome,

Terry

pierreandcolleen · RV-Dreams Family Member

Julie, Welcome to RV Dreams!

Once you start getting rid of the things you haven't even looked at in years, you will find it to be quite liberating.

My hubby and I are winding down our year+ of fulltime RVing - not close to retirement yet, but wanted to enjoy fulltiming and seeing the country while we can. We're thinking of moving to St. Augustine, FL (30 miles south of Jacksonville) when we're done, but not sure yet.

Happy travels!
Colleen

Roz · RV-Dreams Family Member

This is Roz, actually Charles and Ethel Henry. Roz is the name of our motorhome.

We have been RVing for some seven years, boats before that. We live in the Arlington-Clifton area. I have learned through boating that people arbitrarily divide themselves as either sailing or power boating enthusiasts. I have found a similar division between motor homes and fifth wheels, but on a much friendlier basis.

We will be marketing our home sometime later this year. Currently we have been spending about 45 to 55 percent of our time on the coach. Last year we workcamped in Maine. Wonderful life! Cannot wait until we are certified gypsies!

If I can help in anyway, 887-2779 wakes me up!

Charles Henry

Speedhitch · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcom Julie and Brent....Sherri and I are heading out this Saturday on our adventure we have been planning for the last 35 years. S T U F F ....yes we still have it and Sherri has a hard time parting with it. Each time we go to the barn and look at the S T U F F she takes some out and discards it...being that she forgets what is in each tote tells her she probably does not need it. In time you will do the same thing. Before long all our S T U F F will be gone and we will have more room for something that we really need...like room..HE HE
Good luck to you and like everyone says look forward and never back.

Gummy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hey Joe & sherri, Welcome to the ROAD Warriors Lifestyle, Be safe and enjoy. Gummy

JLitton65 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Roz wrote:

This is Roz, actually Charles and Ethel Henry. Roz is the name of our motorhome.

We have been RVing for some seven years, boats before that. We live in the Arlington-Clifton area. I have learned through boating that people arbitrarily divide themselves as either sailing or power boating enthusiasts. I have found a similar division between motor homes and fifth wheels, but on a much friendlier basis.

We will be marketing our home sometime later this year. Currently we have been spending about 45 to 55 percent of our time on the coach. Last year we workcamped in Maine. Wonderful life! Cannot wait until we are certified gypsies!

If I can help in anyway, 887-2779 wakes me up!

Charles Henry

We are not far from you as we live in Arlington also, passed JU off University.

JLitton65 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Speedhitch wrote:

Welcom Julie and Brent....Sherri and I are heading out this Saturday on our adventure we have been planning for the last 35 years. S T U F F ....yes we still have it and Sherri has a hard time parting with it. Each time we go to the barn and look at the S T U F F she takes some out and discards it...being that she forgets what is in each tote tells her she probably does not need it. In time you will do the same thing. Before long all our S T U F F will be gone and we will have more room for something that we really need...like room..HE HE
Good luck to you and like everyone says look forward and never back.

I am used to purging stuff, until now we always moved every 3 yrs..give or take a few. WE have been here for 6 yrs. Or I should say I have dh had orders to VA and I stayed in FL. He lived in our other camper during that time. I am slowly working n purging stuff. Every day a little more. We are not buying anything new for the house. :o)

Froggi · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome to the forum from another couple of Harley riders. We have a 41' KZ Escalade toyhauler for our Harley trike. We love full-timing....we've both been through several purges.

Like you, I have moved every 2-3 years all my life so accumulation was way less than someone who has lived in the same house 10-20 years. After my husband passed, I eventually put my house on the market, sold it, gave all the kids stuff to them (as well as whatever they wanted), sold most all my other stuff (after storing 16 totes at my youngest daughter's), contract fell through, lived in folding furniture for 3 months till I finally took it off the market figuring I wasn't meant to RV full-time and rebought most of the stuff I had gotten rid of...LOL!

Six months later the house was back on the market and I was purging again. I finally made it full-time in 10/07 - going from 1600sf to a 26' Class C with no slides. Still carried way too much stuff....wasn't enforcing the one new item in - one old item out either. Went through two purges of stuff over the next 6 months.

Then met my current husband...we then had to merge my stuff into his. Yup, another major purge. Fast forward to a few weeks ago when we removed the last of the stuff stored in my MH (it was in storage), and purged more. Good Will loves us....LOL!

Hubby moved from a house (with his late wife) into a trailer, then into a park model, then into a fifth wheel - each replacing the other on a seasonal lot near the ocean in MD. When they got the toy hauler they equipped it and when they sold the lot they had to merge both RVs into one.

It's never ending.....LOL! Give the kids everything that is yours. Want memories of things, take photos and then back them up! Oh, did I mention that last Thanksgiving I purged my 16 totes down into ONE?

I tackled it one room at a time with a pile/tote for charity - sale - relatives/friends - trash. I ended up shredding 10 large green trash bags, too. Amazing what old records we tend to keep and how many of them have private info on them.

Good luck and keep at it...life is too short!!!!

retread · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hello Julie and Brent,
We wish you all the best as you contemplate your future plans. Once we got started, we found it very refreshing to be free of so much more 'STUFF". We are full-timing for now, but know eventually we will settle into a house. We put the 'keeper' furniture in a couple of storage units along with any sentimental items. Amazingly, we could fit all the stuff remaining from our 3100 sq ft house into 1-10x20 regular unit and 1-10x10 climate controlled unit - a total of 300 sq ft (stacked pretty high - but still less than 10% of the space we were using). Like the others said, when you tackle it all one room at a time (experienced as you are at packing for frequent moves) you may be surprised at how little you really want to keep. It won't hurt to clear out because at least some say that an uncluttered home shows better. We'll look forward to hearing more from you now that you're out of lurkdom!
Blessings!