Happy_Trails
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cxr133 wrote:Thanks but i was specifially asking about big ticket items like:
CARS
BOATS
MOTORCYCLES
GUNS
Many tow cars, boats, motorcycles, and put locks on guns in basemen storage. You have to be sure of the laws in states you pass through, or take a chance. Thinking because you have never been stopped, you never will be, can be a mistake. Ive never had a ticket or been stopped since 1942 when I began driving. But, Ive been stopped twice in our RV. Once in Ohio, and once in AZ.
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WTTCS
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In all candor, if you are really worried about departing with the big items, and it hurts your heart to dispose of them, you probally should not do it. Very few people can do it, if they are that materialliastic. And the sad fact is, you probally cannot replace those two autos. So, I suggest you think long and hard before disposing of those two. Determine the price you are going to pay for disposing of them, cause in a year or two, you may have made a decision that will affect the rest of your life. Yea, I am car crazy too, so I know the pain.
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mockturtle
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If it's something you really need, you'll take it with you. If not, get rid of it.
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trkrhelp
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catman2130093 wrote:Diggin wrote:Liquidate!!!
((sorry - coming off a long weekend of garage sales to get rid of more of his "treasures")) Man do I ever feel your pain-my dad passed last year, he and mom were hoarders. It IS hard to see stuff go, knowing dad would have a fit because the item is worth more...and "stuff" does end up owning you! I hope to get my life and freedom back one day...
Just a suggestion, but if you save what you or other family members want and then get the rest appraised to establish the value and donate it to your favorite charity they can make good use of the stuff or the money it brings and you get a write off for the value and don't have to deal with the sorting, garage sales, etc.
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carp65
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We tried the "garage sale" route. Everyone wanted "stuff" for nothing.
Ended up, we called an auctioneer. They came, packed everything up and took
it to their site. Auctioned "stuff" and sent us a check. Simple and clean.
No more $60.00 a month storage fee.
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Aramingo
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We decided to put our house on the market as of the coming Friday.
Some things I can sell, some I can give away. Getting rid of furniture is easy. Won't miss it, no matter how new. Most folks usually have a crate or two of photos, diplomas and similar stuff. I guess I can store that with a relative if need be.
Hobby stuff is the hardest to give up especially if you retain interest in one or more hobbies that involve "stuff." I don't mean collections og stuff you mainly look at and hardly use. I mean things you use and enjoy and give lots of satisfaction. In my case, the items involved wouldn't cost as much as storing them.
As an alternative to paid storage, we can't rule out a partime seasonal base with a used park home and a storage shed where I could "dip into" stuff as needed. I can get such a place for a relatively small investment (compared to a stick home) in a RV resort located in a conveniently located mountain state in an area we both like. It's open five months a year. Seasonal fees are $2600 (open May 1 to September). At least we can deduct the cost of storage fees from the seasonal fee.
It would also provide a place for friends or relatives to join us occasionally. The problem is that--at least for the first two years of fulltiming, we wouldn't be able to take advantage of the full seasons. After that, I believe we would.
It would be especially nice to help out my cousin that way. He loves the outdoors and hiking. His mom (my aunt) took six of us in when we lost both parents when I was the oldest at age eleven. The youngest--now a doctor--was six months old. My aunt worked at a low-paying job in a sewing factory and received welfare assistance. Today my cousin is retired and doesn't have much money. I can't help thinking how much better off he might be today if his mom hadn't helped us. He never complained about that.
THINGS I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP BUT CAN'T TAKE ALONG
1. A crate or two of photos and other personal stuff like high school yearbooks and hs and college diplomas.
2. A superb recipe file collection.
It took a long time to assemble. Long ago I reached the conclusion that food magazines especially (they really pile up) and to a lesser extent cookbooks are of little use as is when you want to find something. There are many ads and a substantial number of recipes that wouldn't interest me as well as a substantial number that would but which would be hard to find if left in magazines. So I began tearing them apart and filing them in hanging folders with individual file folders. It was quite a project and it's so handy.
So now I have ten plastic crates containing recipe containing hanging files files starting with A and ending with a crate containing soup and vegetable recipes. What I do in the meantime is to cull some from various categories into one or two crates labeled "trailer files." Among those I find handy to take along are most grilling recipes and condiment recipes which also include salsas, chutneys, relishes and sauces because they are usuable with so many dishes. I also plan to take a smaller grill-file in a half-size plastic crate. I hope to store them with my cousin for now.
3. Cookbooks--I have probably over 100 cookbooks including some darn good ones. What I think I may do with them in the meantime is to loan them to my wife's sister whose husband loves to cook. I'd bring a few along, particularly those concerned with pressure cooking.
4. Other books. I'm a man of many hobbies which make it hard to get through everything in the time available. Lots of SF and mysteries that woud fill several crates. Also, I have some well-reviewed, well written history books I hope to get through someday.
5. Computer Games--I have quite a few (maybe two or three crates) that I've never got around to playing and hope to in the future. They are very light and be condensed further by removing the boxes they come in. I'd probly bring a handful in the trailers and store the rest somewhere for later.
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Happy_Trails
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Had a room full of books, donated them to the city library. We find many campgrounds have libraries, and they are books we never read. We also have a library in every town we have been to so far. We also can search the Internet, and find may books, check the Guggenheim project for classics or out of print books that are free online. Many large Libraries have books online.
You can get a recipe program for a computer, and put the ones you want into a laptop. Takes up less space, weighs less, and it has many more uses. When you want that certain recipe, you do a search. You can even search for several ingredients you have on hand, and find the recipes that use them. We had dozens of cookbooks, but used a few good ones from each. We put them in the program, along with all the files people upload to add.
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BobMary8101
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I had a nice, low mileage truck, a nice, low milage car and a decent but high mileage Goldwing. No one wanted to give me what they were worth so I traded all three for a really nice brand new car, even up. You can only pull one and it might as well be a new one. For all three, I got within $500. of my asking price. The dealer gave me his invoice, plus the rebates so I was extremely happy with the deal.
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tonyandkaren
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Check into loaning your cars to classic car museum. We've been to many museums around the country and many items including cars are just on loan. Sometimes a spot will be empty with an explanation that the owner has removed the car for while.
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trkrhelp
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We're in the process of scanning the photo's into the computer and then I set it up to use them as the screen saver so the computer pops up another picture at random every 10 seconds or so. We get more enjoyment out of them now than we every did when they were in the albums 
You can do the same, as Happy_Trails suggested, with receipes or anything else you want to keep that can be scanned. We did the same with the year books, scanning in a few of the relevant pages, etc. I think you'll find the that boxes you put away will just end up sitting so what's the point? At least that's been our experience, so we keep only what we could take and gave everything else away.
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