Question Fulltimers - anyone regret selling their house?

[Kevin D Pem]

@Neal I have a question. When you got home from the service,how did it make you feel? Did you need to come home?

You're just a little older, and your Bones are easer to get weary. Did you ever feel like you were at home where ever you were?

After all that is the life of a nomad.

 

[Neal]

I'm not sure what you're asking @Kevin D Pem - I love moving around and experiencing new environments. Having been in the Air Force and traveled so many great places it makes it very hard to decide where to live. I loved AZ, I loved TX, I have always loved FL, being around water, etc. The military travel gives you the opportunity to get away from your hometown as some never do and see what's out there. Some of us here have the luxury of saying "I want to be ... in the winter or ... in the summer" or go get Lobster in Maine, or go hiking in the Rockies. Yes, I love coming home too, long showers not worrying about gray tank or any tank, I love my bed, not hearing the loud overhead air conditioning units or heater fans, but I love my RV too. At this time I'm likely not selling the house until I know for sure what I want to do and I wonder how many are "mosttimers" as @ARD told me "fulltimers" don't own a home, maybe a site, but not a home, so my title will likely be mosttimer for the near term.

As we get older in life, other things come into play, our own health, and family members. My sister is in the hospital now with likely spinal/back surgery, this may require my help when she comes home. So obligations come into play too not saying you can't do that as a fulltimer. One step at a time as I handle things as some know of recent happenings and I figure out if I'm making the brave move before I find out I'm 5 years older, or even older, and still haven't made change in my life that is very needed.

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

@Neal, compared to some of us, you're a youngster, so time isn't working against you.

When we spent 6 ½ months last year in the motorhome, we decided sometimers/mosttimers was more to our liking. It wasn't until we did it that we knew.

The market is still flooded with 2020-2022 RVs that were bought when "oh, this will be fun" sounded like a good idea.

 

[Neal]

Personally, change takes time to adjust. I learned that in the military. Transition to/from RV/S&B takes time to adjust, probably more so in the RV. When I go on my long trips, I don't miss home, I don't want to go back home. I did a 6-7 monther as my longest and the only reason I came home was my sister told me I needed to for mom. I could have kept on going. My trips are usually 3-4 months and I can't recall ever feeling "I can't wait to get home." It's been a great experience for me so far, and of course when things work it's fun, when they don't it's sheer terror. Having a large shedding dog is the biggest concern should I need to stay in a hotel, etc.

When we are vulnerable is when good things can come. It's hard breaking from what's comfortable. I'm at complete peace in my home as many are, but is rotting in place a good thing? Many of us RVers are not good at branching out to International travel, our RV is our next best safe space but having done quite a bit of International travel, I know I need to get back to that. There is so much to see and explore outside our home country. Life is short, really short, get to it! I don't want to be having this conversation a few years from now with all talk and no do. Personally, it's time for action, but carefully planned as the great group here has helped me with recently.

 

[Webz]

We got a gentle nudge to go full time.
It was the wife's idea to get our first RV and go full time when a turnpike took our house. No choice selling.
Did it for 8 years. I missed my workshop.
But our experiences were awesome. Had some ups and downs. The ups outweighed the downs.
Every 6 to 8 months we would visit our doctors and family.
We didn’t put anything in storage. The kids got all "new" furniture and friends got good deals on my shop equipment. My thinking is, if you store it for a year, you don't need it. You can by new for what you paid in long term storage fees.
Full time has to be fully embraced and don't look back. That's not the way you're headed.
We've came full circle. Sold the bus, bought another house and had a shop built. I think most fulltimers know when it is time to hang up the keys.
It was a chapter in our lives that we fondly look back on. We've met so many awesome people.

 

[Neal]

Getting rid of stuff is the hardest and most stressful part. I do everything I can to keep the Discovery channel away from my house!

 

[DennisT]

Getting rid of stuff is the hardest and most stressful part. I do everything I can to keep the Discovery channel away from my house!

That was the most difficult portion of things - getting rid of things that had memories.

The memories are still there just without the “trigger object” etc.

Took a while to get over losing some things that would not work or fit in the coach. Long term though we don’t miss them.

 

[Neal]

I wasn't even talking about sentimental items, yeah, that would be hard. I've been unable to sell nice 4K but a few year old computer monitors, flat screen TV's would be hard, stereos, speakers, on and on. And in the process of massive donations from mother's stuff I even saw some donation facilities close for a week as they were overloaded, or places not accepting furniture. So it's a challenge to either sell or donate. I have wood working tools I bought with a dream of getting back into woodworking, never used them. It's time regardless to start selling stuff or moving it out one way or the other. For whoever has to handle my affairs, it's just not fair to them for me to keep all this stuff and make it harder on them. So many aspects to all of this.

 

[DennisT]

Tried to pay it forward with a lot of our stuff…

Furniture we had the ReStore scheduled to come out for remaining. Friend had two daughters starting out - filled a trailer with items for them. Remaining that was getting donated, the young family that bought our house didn’t have much - they bought the one table we wanted to sell and kept the rest to help them.

We had a “free store” around us - donated a lot to them that they would take.

Had J-Dog (veteran owned and staffed) pick up a bunch. Anything they thought they knew someone could use they separated out from stuff getting discarded.

Worked hard for what we had but had some breaks along the way as well so wanted to give back where we could.