For those of you who have followed our story from years ago, you know that our goal has always been to travel the world via a catamaran. Since then, we have been to boat shows across the country, sailed when we are in the Caribbean, read many books and follow many sailors and magazines. The dream started just after we opened our wine shop, 10 years ago. In order for us to start prepping for this new adventure, we knew we couldn’t keep working at the wine shop, so we decided to put it up for sale before our lease ran out. We are proud of what we created and wanted it’s legacy to continue. And just like that, we found the perfect couple to take over and keep it going. We sold The Wine Alley on September 30th. Now we are that much closer to our dream.
What’s next people keep asking me. Well, I’m going to take advantage of this down time to deep clean our house and also start getting rid of stuff. It is amazing how much stuff one couple with no kids can collect. This is my office, after I’ve cleaned it up a bit. (Yes, I share it with Mac our golden retriever).
That’s the number one thing everyone who moves onto a boat has told us……start getting rid of your stuff. Yesterday, I put a few things up for sale (new skis, boots, vintage camera).
I really could have an entire “store” if I wanted to. We have never had a garage sale and honestly we have so many things, we really could create an (online store). But I have to wonder, will any of it sell by simply listing a few things here and there. In the end, we know we’ll just have to do an estate sale, when we are really close to making the move.
I should have taken a before photo of the garage, but here’s what it looks like after we cleaned it up. We still have SO MUCH stuff. The next big task is going through the 10 years worth of documents from the wine shop and keeping only what the IRS requires, then find a shredding company to destroy the rest. Can’t wait for that project to begin!
Over the next month, I thought I would share how I am tackling the vicious task of “ridding of stuff” on our blog. Baby steps, but we’re that much closer than we were last month!!