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Category Archives: Selling Our Stuff

Storage: What We kept and What We Shouldn’t Have

When we sold our house in Lehi, Utah 6 months into our travels, we got rid of mostly everything. What we kept was stored in a 5ft by 10ft storage unit and we have added a few things from our travels over time. We recently emptied it out on our way to set up a condo…

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  • David Fischer

    Pictures can be digitized rather than simply thrown away.ReplyCancel

    • Jess

      Absolutely! In this case they are all prints of photos we own digitally.ReplyCancel

  • Kerry Quinn

    After a full career in the Marines – moved 19 times in 20 years – our family learned to pack light, live for the adventure, buy less and give more. Your post is great advice and hope others can learn from your lessons on the road. See you somewhere in America!ReplyCancel

Getting Rid of Our Stuff and {Our House Cooling Party}

You just can’t take it all with you. Part of the process of getting ready to live on the road full time in our Airstream was to minimize all of our stuff. This was a gigantic project, as over the last 10 years we’ve accumulated quite a bit. We started this process when we first…

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  • I brought four full trucks to Deseret Industries when we hit the road, another three or four to the dump, and then did what you call “the long term loan” with our snowblower and some other related items. Good riddance.ReplyCancel

    • Jess

      So true, right?? There were times I really just wanted to walk away and let someone else deal with it all. 🙂ReplyCancel

What is Left After Downsizing from 2500 Sq Feet to 180 – Our 10×5 Storage Unit

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….

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  • Karen Bourne

    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!ReplyCancel

  • Tamara

    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.ReplyCancel

    • Jess

      I’m glad it helped! Good luck with the process – its painful but definitely worth it!ReplyCancel

  • Brea Palmer Abel

    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. ReplyCancel

  • 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 🙂ReplyCancel

    • Jess

      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!)ReplyCancel

  • […] our house in Lehi, Utah 6 months into our travels, we got rid of mostly everything. What we kept was stored in a 5ft by 10ft storage unit and we have added a few things from our travels over time. We recently emptied it out on our way to […]ReplyCancel

We No Longer Live In a House?

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…

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  • Congrats! I am really thinking I need to visit Bryce Canyon also! So beautiful!ReplyCancel

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