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Phil and Cathy,
We feel your pain. We started full-timing in October after spending almost an entire year of sorting, garage selling, donating, and giving to our kids. All of these “things” that we cherished all these years brought 2 cents on the dollar at our garage sales.
The pay-off was the day we walked out of our house and closed the garage door; what a great relief. It was all gone except for what we kept in a 5 x 10 storage unit. Whew!...done!
We have not looked back and do not really miss anything(ok maybe a couple of things). Paying the added expense of a larger storage unit was a goal to keep the number of storage items to a minimum.
Now, we are going to flush some more out of the 5er and reduce the storage area to a 5 x 5…..need to scan all the family pictures and put them on the computer….big chore!
Hang in there, keep making those tough decisions, keep it simple and you will be just fine…..remember, the cost of buying what you really need in the future is probably going to be cheaper than storing it all those years.
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