“Sell everything but the boat and have the simple life”. We did it. We sold our home in North Attleboro! Well almost. The closing is only days away.
When Kelly & I met we each sold our own homes and purchased this home together. We loved the home from the moment we saw it. We joked that … “if the current residents had ever seen us driving by each night after work they’d declare us stalkers”. Not having kids (of the 2 legged kind), it was more home than the two of us needed yet over the years we spent a lot of time updating the home & landscaping.
When you own a home, everyone conspires to trick you into believing you need to be doing “projects”. Projects like, installing a new irrigation system, wall-mount TVs, recessed lighting, new countertops, hardwood floors, a new shed, lawnmower, snowblower, leaf blower, surveillance system, smart home additions, and so on…
You’ll be standing in the lonely isles of Lowes or Home Depot reading some marketing display listing the PSI of a gas-powered pressure washer. You’ll spend countless nights searching the far reaches of Amazon to find the perfect WiFi connected smoke & CO detectors. You’ll open innumerable boxes and have to cut them up into ridiculously small squares to keep the town’s recycling from skipping over your barrel. You’ll do all these things during those precious moments when you are home from work. We finally asked ourselves…why?
We loved boating and we found ourselves getting depressed every year when it was time to put the boat on the hard. The boating season in New England is insanely short. We’d spend a month getting the boat ready for boating season and then hope Mother Nature cooperated so we could enjoy those few precious weekends during the summer. Then before we’d know it….it was again time to prepare her for winter and put her on the hard.
Well, we finally decided to do it! To really do it! We embodied the name of our boat, “The Simple Life” and sold everything! The last thing keeping us somewhat tied to terra firms was the house and that is soon to be gone too.
We’re back in Vero Beach (where we left our boat) after clearing out the house for the buyers. Now we think it’s time to start checking off items from our bucket list and the Florida Keys is on that list!
This is going to be quite the adventure!
MV Simple Life 
The photos of the house are beautiful and are very accurate. You’ve always been such an immaculate house-keeper, Kelly! I wonder if the dogs miss it?
Hope the waters are friendly also ng with the people you meet! Love E&M
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