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…
We already had a great storage system in place before we started this whole downsizing thing, so I just kept the system. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it, right? We have 38 tubs all purchased at various times from Lowe’s and each one has a number that coordinates to a spreadsheet in Google Docs….
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…
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….
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
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…
Pictures can be digitized rather than simply thrown away.
Absolutely! In this case they are all prints of photos we own digitally.
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!