Fwd: Learn how to downsize your home, stress free!

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From: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner <michelle@makingsenseofcents.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 11:48 AM
Subject: Learn how to downsize your home, stress free!
To: Joao silva <joaoa.desilva2018@gmail.com>

Hello!

Please head to Learn how to downsize your home, stress free! to read the full blog post. If you'd like to read this later, please save it to Pinterest.

Are you ready for something simpler or smaller and wanting to know how to downsize your home? It can be big process and less and less people seem to be doing it these days... becoming a Minimalist...

The average home size in 1950 was less than 1,000 square feet. Fast forward to 2017, the average home size has increased to nearly 2,600 square feet, and then some, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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When we did live in a "normal" home, it was fairly close to that average home size. The house we owned in  St. Louis, Missouri and Sta Barbara, CA area was around 2,500 square feet +... if you included our finished basement, and it was just for myself, my husband, kid and our two dogs.

While more and more people seem to be purchasing larger homes, that wasn't the case for us. We sold our home a few years ago and made the somewhat unconventional choice of living on first an RV and now a sailboat... & another RV (sold the old one).

Professors Of The Sea

Professors Of The Sea, recent article from Popular Mechanics Magazine April 2019. Professors of the Sea Teresa and Ben Carey have sailed and lived aboard their boat for years. Now they teach others to do the same.

We made this decision for many reasons, the main reason was that we were already traveling nearly full-time, chasing contracts around the world, which made owning a house even more stressful since we were gone so frequently for somestime long periods of time (sublet via airbbn). So, we figured why not just take it a step further and actually travel full-time? The hard thing, learning how to downsize or rightsize our home!

But, we did it! If you are trying to learn how to downsize or rightsize your home like we did, there are many great benefits, even though it can be difficult at first. We went through all of our possessions, and cut back by a third... stored certain belongings that we couldn't part with (we have some stuff stored at my husband's parents' home sometimes we'd self - storage services), filled mostly with hundreds of photo albums that my dad left me after he passed away, family paintings, family heirlooms, childhood mementos, cars etc.), and moved into the RV – and then our boat!!

Figuring out how to downsize our home wasn't the easiest task on earth, and really we dreaded all of the work that had to be done. However, we hoped it would be a stride towards our goal of living the life we wanted. Not getting attached to materialistic things... not accumulaing or hoarding things that are not necessary.

And, it was! We are so glad that we decided to downsize our home. We haven't regretted the decision one bit, and now we are happier than ever.

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Please head to Learn how to downsize your home, stress free! to read the full blog post. If you'd like to read this later, please save it to Pinterest.

Thanks!

Joao

%Michelle at Making Sense of Cents

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