Call us crazy, but in our quest to transition our lives to full-time RVers, we moved into our RV in our backyard before we even moved out of our rental house.
When we got back from our maiden voyage at the end of June, we had the RV parked in the back yard and we got back to living like we normally do. We kept talking on when the best timing would be to actually move and finally decided on the date of October 1st. By the first part of August, we started spending nights in the RV, I guess because we were anxious. Then we started moving our stuff in. You know, when you are used to a two bedroom house, complete with a bonus room, two car garage, and large storage shed, downsizing is in order.
Downsizing isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Looking around at our stuff, I found so much of it is so unnecessary. We started staging the house for our upcoming moving sale. We figured that it would be easier to just let people come into the house for the sale instead of dragging everything out onto the yard. Our sale is this weekend and it will be such a relief to get it over with.
It may be strange to be living in our backyard, but I’m so glad that we’ve done it. Over the past few weeks, we are getting used to the smaller quarters. We decided to conserve water and not fill our gray and black water tanks, so we go to the house for our showers, use the bathroom, do laundry and dishes. It’s a pain to tote dishes back and forth, but it’s not too bad, especially since I’ve been using the dishwasher while I still have one.
During this time living in our backyard, I began transitioning to begin working from home. I needed to make sure that I had enough room to work from home comfortably. I also wanted to make sure that all the equipment worked fine. We only live a couple of miles from the office right now, so if something wasn’t going right, I could buzz into the office to take care of it. Everything is working great and I’m becoming much more productive after a few days of working out the bugs.
So we have a week and a half left of backyard camping and then we officially move to our first travel park. So far, I think the main thing that I’ll miss the most is simply letting out the dogs to run around the fenced in yard. We’ll have to get used to leashing our three wiener dogs and walking around with them. We’ll find a good fenced in dog park close to where we will live so we can run them and wear them out. A good thing is that they have taken a liking to the RV, actually I think they like anywhere we are.
I know that one thing that Robert won’t miss is the yard work. It seems that every other day he needs to either trim the bushes or mow the lawn.
It is so comfortable living in our RV and it will be such a relief to get out of the house. It will be such a weight lifted once the sale is over, can’t wait.