Congratulations.  It is great out here.  You are going to love it!

Animal House?

 

Nope, not Animal House ;>

Meet The Fockers comes to mind.
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It is a great way to live every day!

HHHHmmmmm.......guess you have to have kids around alot!!!!..........is the movie ....Bolt..

Yikes! We're scheduled to close on the house in 5 weeks and I'm freaking out! We've been giving away & throwing away stuff for 2 months, and there's still so much more in the house/garage/attic to go through and get rid of.

For example, I hardly cook, but I have a kitchen and pantry full of pots, pans, mixers, choppers, grinders, rice cookers, crockpots, bundt pans, casserole dishes, etc, etc, etc. There's even a cabinet in the garage for kitchen overflow. A couple weeks ago I took a dozen cook books to Goodwill, and I still have 21 more in the pantry, plus a countless number of the little paper booklet type they sell in the check out line!  

This is a humbling experience. I'm sure everyone that went through this felt as overwhelmed as I do. And I know all you folks already fulltiming got through it, and Paul and I will too, but oh my goodness; where did all this stuff come from?

 

Congratulations on the retirement and house sale. My wife and I just bought a condo in Crystal Lake and are considering selling our house and moving into the condo. We bought it more as an investment and now we are thinking why not downsize and have more free time to enjoy our RV since we're empty nesters. So now we are painting the porch, staining the deck, etc., etc. We look at what we have accumulated during our 33 years of marriage and wonder where should we start.

Seems that your house sold pretty quick. The market in our area has really been heating up with many properties receiving multiple bids. Well best of luck on getting things done, starting your new life, and may your travels always be safe. I have no idea on the movie question so I'll just guess RV with Robin Williams.

Penny - if you already have most of the stuff out of your house that you want to keep, have you thought about hiring an estate sale person to deal with the rest? We actually had considered that but the only one we found in our area who was willing to do that thought she could sell all our stuff for 6-7K in total but her minimum fee was $4500. I decided I could do better with one moving sale, an online auction and just donating the rest and taking the tax write off. The estate sale would have been easier but we're making a bit more money on the sale of our items with the way we chose to proceed. However, if I was closing in 5 weeks, I might rethink that strategy. Most of our selling occurred while we were still painting and fixing stuff up around the house and removing our personality from the house. Yep, right now it's a very boring house, makes it so much easier to leave.

Not RV.

You're all waaaaaaaaay off ;>

Suse - Sicily???? I have goosebumps! Good luck this afternoon - be sure to let us know the outcome.

Terry, you're the closest yet!

Penny we go to estate sales all the time and it's a great way to add too much STUFF to your life. A good place to get a lot of estate sale company names is by looking on estatesales.net . That's the site all the companies use to advertise their sales. Some do a nice job and some don't so get as much information as you can and references if possible. We have more time and will probably do it ourselves as a moving/downsizing sale and list it on estatesales.net, Craigslist, and the Northwest Herald.