Last week, Michelle and I made a decision. A mafor decision, we decided to sell our home. We have a beautiful big house. We like it very much. It is great for hosting people, which we love to do. But big houses come with big prices. It is expensive to heat, hydro is expensive and because of the pool, the water bills are way up there too. Over the last few years we have simplified our lives. When we left our last home on Woodfield, we did so because we needed more space. This house has about twice the floor space. A few years back we were doing a lot of home business stuff. I had an eBay store selling gaming miniatures, those took up a lot of space, most of the basement at Woodfield. Here they used up a good portion of the functional basement. At that time, Michelle was getting into selling wedding invitations. Those too required space. The other house was just too cramped.
Michelle has since buried the hopes of making a living at selling wedding invitations and I have closed up my eBay store and I am in the process of getting rid of my inventory. The incredible thing that has happenned since closing up shop is that I have found spare time. Time to read, to play, to relax.
Also, over the years we have had many people live with us. Mostly to help them out. That is a chapter that we will close. The next home is going to be smaller, much smaller. I'm looking at a 3 bedroom apartment, atleast for the next few years. That will allow me to give myself to my kids and see their development. With an apartment, we would still have a pool but not the responsibility of maintaining it or the direct expenses associated with it.
We are giving ourselves a year to get the house ready. We'll finish up all the little projects that are on the go. Start some new ones. Clean up the yard and do some landscaping, mainly getting some grass to grow..
Oh what a year this will be.
2 comments:
Anything you need help with bro, you don't even need to ask.
good for you steve.
in a time where everyone keeps ridiculously striving for bigger, few people think about what that means in everyday life- less cash, mores tress, and wost, less time with your own family the people you got the place for to begin with. i totally hear you. like, what a fantastic thought- to actually have sunday afternoons as a day of restwhere the whole family hangs out quietly together or jsut goes for a bike ride. because they have TIME to. or go for a walk after dinner together. or heck. grab an ice cream and check out a festival downtown on a saturday. its a quality of life thing. good for you.
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