When we decided to sell the house we began boxing up stuff to put into storage. Our good friends (and our home teachers) had just purchased a set of storage units so that worked out well for us; they could kind of keep an eye on things while we are somewhere else in the world. We decided to rent two of them thinking that we could put all our stuff into about 1 1/2 units and have room to put the Toyota Rav4 in as well. We’d keep that car, sell Nina’s Avalon, sell the motorcycle, and possibly sell the motor home.

It hasn’t worked out exactly like the plan. First, the house sold about six weeks earlier than we had expected, so rather than moving things in a leisurely fashion, we had to kick into high gear and get fully moved out in three weeks. The Ward members turned out in droves to help move everything out of the house into storage and the result was both units completely full. No room for a car! The motorcycle might be sold, the guy who wants it “has to come up with the money.” I finally told him that I’d need a definitive answer by today so if he couldn’t do the money, I still had time to get it sold. Nina’s Avalon is sold as well, the buyer just needs to come and get it.

We’re now living in the motor home at the Cowboy RV Park in Pocatello, Idaho.  We’ve downsized from 4,200 sq ft to about 120 sq ft. It’s working out reasonably well….

The biggest issue is finding stuff. We’ve been to the storage units almost daily since the 12th of August when we moved into the motor home, either taking stuff to the storage unit or bringing stuff here from the storage unit. Quite often what we’re looking for in the storage unit can’t be readily found without taking the whole unit apart. I’m pretty sure if I took everything out of both units and repacked it, we’d have room enough for the car. The question is whether I want to go to all that effort! It’s a bigger job than I could do by myself, so I’d have to find / rent help. It might be worth it just to make an inventory of what is where in the storage unit!

We’ve pretty much decided to keep the motor home and put it in storage while we’re gone. We’ll never be in position to buy another one, this one is paid for, works well, and is in pretty good shape. Selling it in November will be very difficult and we wouldn’t get it’s value out of the sale. So, we’ll park it outside in a fenced-in storage lot, put the cover over it, and have it available when we’re done missioning.

And that’s the way things are….