Travel Dates: June 21-27, 2014 I think this has probably been the laziest week ever. And boy did we ever need it! After tent camping Friday night at one of our favorite spots up American Fork Canyon, we spent the weekend parked and friend’s and family’s houses. We left around 11am Monday morning and made…
Downsizing is such a simple word isn’t it? Maybe not. Maybe just in my imagination. When we decided to sell the house, we knew we’d have to sell, donate, or throw away almost everything in it, but the magnitude of that project didn’t really impress itself into our brains until we were already knee deep….
When we decided to remodel the Airstream bedroom by removing the queen bed and putting in custom beds for the kids, I knew finding a comforter or blanket the right size would be difficult if not impossible. Sheets we could probably manage (and we did), but I wanted something special for the kids to help…
Hi Aimee! I think its just called a “strip quilt”. We went through the Sewing Basket in American Fork, UT and they were fabulous to work with. http://sewingbasketutah.com/ReplyCancel
We did it. We are out! We still can’t believe everything came together so perfectly. Other than the fact that we are still fairly exhausted, we couldn’t be happier. I don’t do many “real time” posts to the blog, but this one is pretty important I think. For starters, we are extremely grateful. Grateful to…
I seriously cannot believe everything we’ve accomplished in the last week! Final yard & tool sale, multiple trips to the storage unit, Father’s Day, Jess’ birthday, a trip to the theater, emptying the house, throwing a House Cooling Party, and finally pulling away! WE DID IT! I think we are all SO exhausted nothing has…
impressive! I’m sure it will be so fun to pull things out again. It will be nice to have those things when you move into a space that is bigger than your airstream. That was a ton of work. Way to go!
What an inspiring post! We are on the front of this downsizing process and I spent the weekend away from home, trying to get my head around the whole “what do we keep” and “how much storage do we need” situation. Your post helps put things in perspective.
I’m glad it helped! Good luck with the process – its painful but definitely worth it!
Just wonderful! What an insane amount of work that went in to downsizing to this extent. KUDOS! But it gives me hope…as we’re hoping to leave on our house-selling, stuff-purging, road-schooling, full-timing adventure next summer.
I just spend the last hour catching up on your blog and adventures. My goodness, you guys are amazing. You have done so many cool things, seen so much, will experience so much more. You are making me so excited for our own adventure (we leave next week…eeeek)! But, this post made me laugh because we JUST went through the same thing. We seriously purged our whole life and fit the remains in a 10×20 storage unit. I stood at the entrance of the storage unit wondering if we were super awesome having downsized our life so much, or super lame and would regret it later…LOL! I’m leaning toward super awesome. Right??? Right? Convince me that I’m right 🙂
Oh Jean!! LOL! I totally needed to hear you say this. We are super awesome! hahah Yeah. Let’s stick with that. (P.S. I’m ridiculously excited to see you guys on Saturday!)
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