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So what now?

5/23/2022

Click the pics. We will all feel better.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to get out and take many pictures, so all I have is the grandkids and some flowers. Come to think of it, that's mostly what I take pictures of in Denver.

So here I am; I'm almost settled back into my Denver life, except the snowstorm set me back a few days, but now things are smoothing out a little, and I have to think about what I need to do about my camper situation. The way I would like it to end up would be to sell the bronco and the Arctic Fox, and buy a used hard side truck camper. I want to have one home to live in, and live in it all year long, whether I'm in my daughter's driveway, up in the high country, or down in the desert. This cuts down tremendously on the stress and worry of owning two homes as I do now.

Switching homes and moving things I need to live back and forth from the Arctic Fox to the bronco didn't seem like a big problem, but it was more hassle than I realized, especially when trying to do it in a snowstorm. So life would be much simpler, and simple is what I'm all about, if I could get everything I need to live comfortably into a hard-sided truck camper, and that was all I had to deal with. My life, which is already pretty darn good, would be even less stressful and hassle-free than it is now.

But all that is easier said than done. I don't worry about selling the bronco and the Arctic Fox; RVs seem to sell pretty easily nowadays. I do worry about finding a reasonably priced truck camper to buy. There are a lot of truck campers around, but they all seem outrageously expensive, especially when you consider what folks paid for them five or six years ago. How often do you see somebody using a camper for five years and then selling it for more than they paid for it?

I think my biggest worry is what to do with all the stuff in those two campers? Of course, some of it will be put in the new camper, but many things in the Arctic Fox is worth too much to throw away but probably not worth enough to spend a lot of time trying to sell it. I solved that problem when I sold my house by almost filling up a 10 x 10 storage room.... But I didn't fill it up, so maybe there's still room for more... A storage room doesn't solve the problem, but it does put the problem off until it becomes a huge unsolvable problem... In other words, for a procrastinator like me it's a perfect solution.

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4 Comments

Judith

5/23/2022 08:04:35 pm

Ah, there are those glorious kids again.
As for what to do with stuff, I have always had to have help with that.
Disposing of my parent's belongings after my mother died, disposing of mine and my husband's when we moved, and then disposing of more after he died, also including at that time some of mine. The first disposal I listed was pretty easy with the help of a tough friend...asking things like, who's going to care about that besides you. So garage sale, charity place or garbage, or keep it.
The second two, I had the help of a woman who would sell stuff on Ebay. She took 30%, which seemed fair to me. And as she was very patient and thorough, one of her finds was a $1500 45 record of my husbands. He would have been so gratified and vindicated as I had complained about storing 8 large boxes of 45s for low these many years.
Anyway, just a thought. You can do it.

Tom

5/23/2022 09:52:21 pm

Thank you very much Judith.

Yes getting rid of the stuff that we accumulate over the years is difficult. Each thing that I don't need still tells me a story when I pick it up and look at it, those stories are little bits and pieces of my life. Some of those stories make me happy, and some of those stories make me sad, but either way they represent a piece of my life that's gone, never to return.

But those "things" that we keep only remind us of the memories, they aren't the memories themselves, and it's those memories that are actually important.

I recall as a kid with my dad in the Air Force we moved a lot, and it was the Air Force that moved all of our stuff to my dad's next assignment, and every time they moved us a lot of our stuff disappeared never to be seen again. That seemed to be a problem at the time, but it ended up being a good way to keep us from accumulating too much useless stuff, so when my dad retired from the Air Force we didn't have much of anything to ship to our permanent home.

Sometimes I wish I could go to my storage room where I've kept all of my cherished tchotchkes from my last move; and find it all gone. It would hurt for a few minutes, but I would be smiling by the time I got home.

Tom

Larry Worsham

5/24/2022 06:29:36 am

Though you decision is well thought out I don't envy you selling your stuff. I've never been a good salesman. Maybe you could quit paying the storage fee and your stuff will be featured on Storage Wars! All kidding aside if your Arctic Fox is priced right you should have no problem selling the Fox. No nothing about the camper. But with the gas price situation sales will likely be slowing down.

While in Japan the Prez said ""Here’s the situation. And when it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over," Never let a crisis go to waste.

5/24/2022 07:59:50 am

I've never been much of a salesman myself. Which is one reason I've still got so much stuff laying around that I don't need, but I don't like the thought of having to deal with selling it.

Yeah Larry, last year probably would've been the best time to sell the Fox. RVs were in high demand, and gas prices hadn't reached scary levels yet, so I wished I had sold it then... What do they say about wishes? If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

like the Pres. says, "were going through an incredible transition," the greatest country in the world is transitioning into a third world nation no better than any other country run by a socialist dictator.

It will be interesting to find out one day, who is actually running this country. Somebody in the White House is making decisions about the direction this country is heading, and I no more believe that it's Biden than I believe Obama has come back to haunt us....hmmmm! But then again!!!

Tom

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