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BS: Living in Two or More Homes?
| wysiwyg | 02 Oct 15 - 10:52 AM | |
| Dave the Gnome | 03 Oct 15 - 05:19 AM | |
| Stilly River Sage | 03 Oct 15 - 10:19 AM | |
| GUEST,leeneia | 03 Oct 15 - 10:50 AM | |
| GUEST,.gargoyle | 03 Oct 15 - 07:29 PM | |
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Subject: BS: Living in Two or More Homes? From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Oct 15 - 10:52 AM I want to collect tips from folks doing this, and I have several to share as well because I've been doing it for at least 15 years. I know Dorothy Parshall is, via her recent posts in the decluttering threads. I know Dharmabum is, and it's no secret here from his posts over the years. Who else is? (Living out of a suitcase/car counts if you travel a lot for work or fun, such as Mmario's car for festivals, and other serial festival aficionados.) First questions: 1. What items do you always carry with you instead of having one in each home? 2. How long have you been doing this, and why did you start? 3. What trick to making this work took you the longest to learn? 4. How did you find, grow, and maintain relationships at the home you're at the least, and what would you change about that now, looking back? ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living in Two or More Homes? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Oct 15 - 05:19 AM I spent a long time working away from home Mon-Fri, including staying at hotels, in shared houses and my own rented flats. The latter worked best for me as, on the occasional weekend, rather than come home, the family could visit me. Very nice when it was somewhere interesting! All behind me now and I am glad in the main although I do miss it occasionally ;-) As to what I would take, in the last place (Whitley Bay for a year) after the first month or so I found I needed to carry only my laptop and mobile phone! I had everything else I needed at the flat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living in Two or More Homes? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Oct 15 - 10:19 AM We had a cabin on a rural lake about 90 miles from our main home in the city, and my childhood summers were spent at that small cabin and when my parents had to go to work or school, we stayed with a neighbor down the road who ran a small store/gas station/post office/meeting area and they had a dairy farm across the road. So poking around in the store or chasing barn cats (they will not be caught, and if you're so unlucky as to actually get close to one, you get a nasty scratch). That family is still my family, all of these decades later. We had a house in town and my father worked for the school district and we had summers off, giving us the luxury of those summers. As we got older we used to head up during the fishing season for weekends at the cabin and days spent out on the lake. Our world expanded as we stopped at a small resort on the other side of the lake to get something to eat and back into the boat. The cabin was furnished, but I'm sure there were supplies that my parents brought along between the houses. We had the old wringer washer, a wood burning stove, and an outhouse. Our cabin had a phone and the neighbors knew this and how to get in if they had an emergency. It had the basics and that was just enough. I remember the main houses we lived in when I was a child, but they were never so rich as that cabin where we spent summers and fishing weekends. All of these years later I'm closer to the people from the lake than I am to anyone who lived near us for most of the year in the main houses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living in Two or More Homes? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 03 Oct 15 - 10:50 AM That sounds lovely, Acme. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living in Two or More Homes? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 03 Oct 15 - 07:29 PM It has been my profound good fortune to be a citizen of everywhere. In on grand season I lived 200 days "under canvas and the stars" Safty Signal Shelter Sustanance Socks I could/can/have traveled. I can go anywhere in two hours notice. The "bug-out" bag is a sham. But "nice" things are: One ATM Card - with 10k Two credit cards - paidup in full with an over payment of 2k on each A valid passport Underwear - 2 Tshirts, 3 sciveys (expect to throw two away), 2 pairs new wool socks, Clothes - one pair long pants, one LS shirt, one necktie, cashmire sleeveless sweater, rain jacket Harmonica, deck of cards, writing paper and pencil. Luxery Sunscrean, razor, toothbrush, comb Sincerly, Gargoyle the necktie is manditory....who knows when you may be invited to dine with royalty? |
