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We surround ourselves with beautiful things that make our home special, unique to us and our personalities,  lifestyles and quirks. The look of our home represents us and who we are and how we want the world to see us, at least on the surface. Enter the process of letting go. You know you're not gonna fit all your collections,  big or small, into your trailer. This means you must let go of an entire lifestyle.  But it's a choice. Joe and I made this choice willingly. Our then home was big. 6 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms.  A corner lot that required a lot of upkeep. Lots of stairs. It seemed all we did all the time was vacuum, dust and mop. We were tired of cleaning all the time, fixing things and everything that goes along with 2500 square feet. We were tired of all the stuff we had surrounded ourselves with all these years that we thought we needed at one point or another. Things take up space and they take time from us and for us they became a burden...

 3 Estate sales...  ...and we still had stuff  The house a few days before we moved out. What was left and couldn't get sold went the Goodwill. ........................................ And what a long process this was. We started selling things around Christmas time last year. 8 months prior to our grand move in or should I say move out. Depends how you see it.  We'd sell our Christmas decor before Christmas, Easter decor before Easter..., well you get the idea. Each holiday we ended up having no decorations, because in order to fit into our tiny home we had to shed a lot of stuff! And the best time to sell holiday decor is most certainly BEFORE the said holiday. While Joe had his work cut out for him doing most of the harder physical labor on the trailer and slaving away, I was in charge of the online selling job. Most of our "larger items" I would sell on local sites , such as Facebook Marketplace,  OfferUp and Letgo. I even en...

After purchasing our 2004 Weekend Warrior toy hauler from a private party for $ 9000 we pretty much rolled up our sleeves and went to work right away, starting the renovation process. We were eager to make it our own. Not a weekend went by, that we didn't spend working.  Don't get me wrong. There was really nothing wrong with the interior.  The previous owners had taken care of it very well over the years.  It showed little wear and tear and was clean. It was also VERY beige with speckled walls. Like someone had thrown up beige, over and over again. And the old fashioned swivel chairs absolutely had to GO! There was no way we could see ourselves living in it "as is"! We started our major undertaking by removing all closet and cabinet doors to prepare them for what came next: Paint. And I mean there was not an inch we didn't paint in our future tiny home Because we are frugal people, we based a lot of our design on what we could find for a fracti...