Would you sell everything to live on the road?**Update Post 71**

[dillonandmarasmom]

DH and I have discussed this topic seriously now 3 times in the past 3 years. We are currently heavily into the research phase and have joined several groups online ot learn more. So, we're serious. We are giving ourselves 6 months to decide either way.

Would you do it?
What are your thoughts?
Know anyone who has?

[ananas]

I would love to do this! I've thought about it a ton, and it is a goal for someday.

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[brittneyscott]

I think DH would be happy doing this. He's a truck driver driving locally now but he wants us to go over the road together once the kids are gone. Not something I really care for. I tend to be a little claustraphobic and the idea of living in such a small space makes me nervous. I go nuts living in the tiny trailer we're in now b/c there's not enough space.

If, big IF we ever do that I wouldn't sell everything b/c I'd want to come back home eventually. Now short trips for a couple weeks in our camper touring the country are planned for once the kids are old enough to enjoy and remember it.

[PeacefulSeams]

We plan on doing this in a couple of years when DS is older (around 10). But we are going to be backpacking through Europe for a year. The majority of our things will be sold except for a few sentimental items, which will be stored at my MIL house.

We have already started planning the route we will take and where we will stop, how long we will be there,etc. The most important aspect of the whole deal is money. We are planning using todays cost and then multiplying it by 2.

[CandyApple]

Hmm, I'd love to do it for a few months at a time, but I'd never be happy permently on the road. I'd always want to come back to our home. It would be a great summer experince for the boys, we love road trips, and I could handle selling some things off, but I like the domestic stuff too much. I like coming home. I'd miss cooking in a full size kitchen, and gardening and there wouldn't be room for quilting/crafts. Yup, a few months is all I'd want!

[hottmama]

I voted, "In a heartbeat!" but we don't have anything of value to sell.

[medaroge]

I have been thinking of de-cluttering, getting rid of all the absooute non essentials for a while now, and as much as I would love to think that I could live on the road, I just dont think it is the life for us. I would be much happier in a small house with few items.

OT, (sort of) On the Today show a while back they had a woman who lived in this little trailer, I think it was 8ft by 10ft? And she had a # limit of items she could have (I think it was 100? or 300? cant remember). Tootpaste counted. Hairbrush counted. Each hair tie counted. Each fork counted. etc. That I thought was cool.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by medaroge

OT, (sort of) On the Today show a while back they had a woman who lived in this little trailer, I think it was 8ft by 10ft? And she had a # limit of items she could have (I think it was 100? or 300? cant remember). Tootpaste counted. Hairbrush counted. Each hair tie counted. Each fork counted. etc. That I thought was cool.

Wow. If we counted hair binders....I would be in trouble. :

[dillonandmarasmom]

Originally Posted by CandyApple

Hmm, I'd love to do it for a few months at a time, but I'd never be happy permently on the road. I'd always want to come back to our home. It would be a great summer experince for the boys, we love road trips, and I could handle selling some things off, but I like the domestic stuff too much. I like coming home. I'd miss cooking in a full size kitchen, and gardening and there wouldn't be room for quilting/crafts. Yup, a few months is all I'd want!

i can definitelt relate to this. these are my fears, too...but, i am allowing myself time to open up to new possibilities.

[dillonandmarasmom]

Originally Posted by medaroge

I have been thinking of de-cluttering, getting rid of all the absooute non essentials for a while now, and as much as I would love to think that I could live on the road, I just dont think it is the life for us. I would be much happier in a small house with few items.

OT, (sort of) On the Today show a while back they had a woman who lived in this little trailer, I think it was 8ft by 10ft? And she had a # limit of items she could have (I think it was 100? or 300? cant remember). Tootpaste counted. Hairbrush counted. Each hair tie counted. Each fork counted. etc. That I thought was cool.

i watched something on a man who lived like this. it was interesting to see just what held importance.

[philomom]

Only if I could find a dear friend with a large empty house to store my books. I could part with everything but my books.

[sabrinat]

That doesn't appeal to me in the least. I grew up as a military dependent and moved many many times in my child/adulthood. I like having a sense of permanancey and home! I realize that a home isn't just a place, but it's about the people, yada yada yada. I don't know. I really like my community and that's really important to me. I enjoy travel, and wouldn't mind an extended tour of some of the places I'd like to see...but just to chuck everything and live like a nomad...no thanks!

[artemis33]

Nah, not at all for me I enjoy travelling but after 2-3 weeks, I'm usually ready to be home again. Road trips don't appeal to me much these days either....I like being home!

[UUMom]

Dh and I once took several months out (after grad school, and before emplyment) to do what we called out World Tour. We drove across and up and down the US, went to Mexico and CN, then backpacked through Europe. It was amazing and wonderful. We still love to travel with our family, although we've stayed stateside for several years now (the exception being CD).

Having done wanderlust living , I don't have an urge to do it again any time soon. I love home a lot, I love knowing people in town, I like participating in the life of my town. Not to mention, I have 40 chickens, two dogs, three cats, four kids and a rabbit. It' s hard to find babysitters these days. I have very deep roots.

But I do like seeing new things and meeting folks, and I love our twice a year driving trips through the south to visit family in FL, and I esp love DC and NYC etc. But right now, I'm happy to stay put, but I never say never. One never knows what the future may bring.

[nascarbebe]

Originally Posted by sabrinat

That doesn't appeal to me in the least. I grew up as a military dependent and moved many many times in my child/adulthood. I like having a sense of permanancey and home! I realize that a home isn't just a place, but it's about the people, yada yada yada. I don't know. I really like my community and that's really important to me. I enjoy travel, and wouldn't mind an extended tour of some of the places I'd like to see...but just to chuck everything and live like a nomad...no thanks!

Same here (except I didn't grow up in a military family). It doesn't appeal to me at all. When I was in grade school my family moved us from a very tight-knit family in Mexico to the US where I didn't know a soul. Then we lived in a few different houses as we finally settled in. I think that traumatized me. I love to travel but coming back to my home.

[Sustainer]

Originally Posted by sabrinat

That doesn't appeal to me in the least. I grew up as a military dependent and moved many many times in my child/adulthood. I like having a sense of permanancey and home! I realize that a home isn't just a place, but it's about the people, yada yada yada. I don't know. I really like my community and that's really important to me. I enjoy travel, and wouldn't mind an extended tour of some of the places I'd like to see...but just to chuck everything and live like a nomad...no thanks!

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[brittneyscott]

Yeah army kid here too! Maybe that's my problem is I'd move half a dozen times a year. No urge to do it again

[momto l&a]

I could do the traveling but must have a storage unit to store some special items.

I have a trunk full of family items, an antique cherry 4 poster bed, the oak bedroom set dh and I bought for our 10 anniversary, a wood cook stove, and some other odd and ends I wouldn't care to part with.

[SusannahM]

I think I would store some stuff at my parents' or grandparents' house. Especially kids' toys. I know eventually they would get over them and be able to part with them, but I couldn't bare to force them to part with all of them all at once. It's just too cruel, IMO. We plan on travelling for at least a couple of years, though, when DS (he's 8 months now) becomes 5 or 6. We'll see how we like it. If we love it, then we'll continue, if not, we'll find something else to do!

[normajean]

I voted "no way."

We actually talked about this last year, as we were contemplating how on earth we would be able to swing DH's doctorate program without one of us working, or at least, not working a lot. One of the options was selling our house & buying a large RV, possibly parking it at my parents house.

Things worked out that DH has a new, better job than before, and he's able to go to school to, without giving up our home, and I am so glad we didn't have to resort to that.