Hello all, I am a recent retiree and have downsized once from 3,800 square feet to 1,200 square feet as part of a divorce. Am now downsizing again to 128 square feet in a small travel trailer. I traveled a lot with my job as a field biologist and I miss it terribly. So do my 3 labs. I know the trailer will be tight and it's not a long-term solution, but it's a better situation for us all and the savings in rent/taxes/utilities, even if I choose a $30/night campground are significant. Rent in AZ for a house with a yard for 3 dogs is not cheap. My goal is to eventually move up to a mid-sized class C or smaller class A down the road. I am in the final stages of downsizing, with a hard "hit-the-road" date of 1 July 2016. I have not found it as hard to downsize as I thought. Scanning all the photos and other documents and memorabilia was really helpful here. The rest is just stuff that takes up space and has to be cared for and space to care/store it paid for. The hardest thing for me to downsize was my library. Thanks to kindle, though, I have been able to convert most of my field guides to digital versions that take up no space at all, they are all on line. I will have to put some things in storage (family pieces) because neither my niece nor nephew are in a position to take them (not old enough) but want the pieces down the road. Everything else, except the dogs: GONE!!!
