On the Sinclair Trails blog: we bought a shed for our Washington home, to store stuff we want to keep for the future, but not carry around the country with us (storage space even in a 40 foot motorhome is limited!). 📦🏡
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From August 2016, a bunch of pictures of the house we had built in New Zealand, from a real estate listing several years after we sold it (in the year 2000). Hadn’t changed much, other than some backyard landscaping. #ThrowbackThursday
In May 2013, about nine years ago, we were house hunting, and fell in love with what was to become our Yellow Cottage Homestead. #ThrowbackThursday
My home office back in 2011, with a height-adjustable desk, iMac and Apple Cinema Display, PowerMac G5, PowerBook 17”, early iPhone, and Bluetooth headphones. And a couple of cats, Pippin and Padmé. #ThrowbackThursday
The Micro.blog challenge word for day 18 is “finished”. An empty house was a pretty good sign that we were finished with our homestead, ready to start our new adventures. 📷 #mboct
The Micro.blog challenge word for day 5 is “toy”. Our 40-foot coach looks like a toy in an aerial drone shot. 🚁🚌📷 #mboct
The Micro.blog challenge word for day 3 is “majority”. The vast majority of our stuff sold at our house estate sale. 📷 #mboct
As part of moving from a 5-acre homestead into a 40-foot motorhome, we’re significantly downsizing, selling most of our stuff. We’re taking the things we want with us, and storing some sentimental items, but the vast majority of our stuff holds little sentimental value, or use in our new home; the accumulation of our lifetimes, and especially of our homestead time, where our stuff has expanded to fit the available space — many items we forgot we had, or is still brand new, unopened! Crazy. Getting rid of this stuff is very freeing.
Anyway, we couldn’t have done this downsizing without the help of professional estate sellers. We’ve lucked out in working with a couple of great guys, Tom and Mike of A Bridges Estate Sales. They’ve put in a huge amount of work over the past several weeks in sorting through our stuff, cleaning and laying them out on tables, pricing them, and will be selling them.
Our estate sale will be over four days, since we have so much to sell: September 9-12. Yes, in a couple of days time. Check out the sale listing page (which is still being updated as they prepare the last items).
As another sneak peek, here are a bunch of pictures of our stuff, from before we headed out on our trip to Yellowstone (so some items are not yet laid out or priced in these pictures). If you see things you would like to buy, do come to the sale! Look at the sale listing for more information.
Antique plates, vases, etc:
Glasses, plates:
Books, bedding:
Snoopy figures:
Books, etc:
Bedding:
Stationery:
Collectables:
Comics:
Comics:
Collectables:
Collectables:
Comics and collectables:
Batman:
Old Macs etc:
Old Macs etc:
Couch, etc:
Old iMac, wires, etc:
Wrapping paper and ribbons:
Bar, barware, lamps, pictures:
Nearly brand new 4K TV:
Honey etc:
Expanding dining table:
Clothing:
Clothing:
Clothing:
Clothing:
Misc:
Tilt king bed, side tables, artwork:
Workshop stuff:
Mini-fridge, microwave, freezer, paper products:
Workshop stuff:
Cider press etc:
Save the date: September 9-12. Again, check out the sale listing for more information.
Jenn and I are feeling super-stressed at present. Our house closing is one week from today, we’re busy sorting our stuff for take/store/sell, we’re nervous about our RV adventure (awaiting test results for it, driving a big coach, finding places to stay, issues with it, etc), and before that our upcoming trip to Yellowstone in a rental trailer (with our new coach sitting idle at home, since it won’t fit in Yellowstone). Plus today I’m getting some skin cancer chopped out of my leg, so I didn’t get much sleep last night, and Jenn is feeling very ill (probably as a result of the stress). I’m sure everything will be fine, we just need to get through this transition. Deep breaths….
We have a sign on our entertainment shelves, that we changed to “NOW SHOWING” for our real estate showings. The other day, Paladin knocked it over, with some letters falling off, resulting in it saying “SHWING”. We were amused.
