45th Birthday
Recycles dryer sheets
A little over a year ago, we bought a third home, which has now become our permanent residence. It is used in the winter. We still have what used to be our main home, and plan to spend a month or so in spring and fall. We also have our summer home, which we have had for longer than either of the others. The former main home will be downsized at some point most likely to a big city condo relatively nearby.
I recently looked a bit online at condos that might fit that bill, just to get an idea of what's out there because we are at least a year away from making the switch. But, it's time to start the process.
A few observations:
Having three homes is exponentially harder in some ways than two. For some reason, it just seems much more difficult to manage all of the bills, remember deadlines, etc., and it is also harder to remember where we left what.
Our longest stint is in our winter home, roughly six months. The other two are split one-third summer/two thirds spring/fall. It didn't occur to us that those small blocks of time do not allow enough time to complete modest to large projects while we are there. The winter home is a condo in a very nice place that does not allow noisy work to be done in peak times, so that also narrows the window.
Going back and forth is not that difficult. They are in a triangle roughly 1,200 miles from each other. We drive back and forth at beginning and end and fly from wherever we are to one of the other places or wherever we need to be. Not much difference in the latter.
Leaving each place is sad, and arriving at the next is difficult for a day or so. Other than that, we are very happy to be at the next place. New season, seeing people we haven't in awhile, new places to go. We wouldn't trade it for anything.
Our kids have long loved the summer place, and mostly grew up in the former main place. However, they love the winter place for various reasons.
I recently looked a bit online at condos that might fit that bill, just to get an idea of what's out there because we are at least a year away from making the switch. But, it's time to start the process.
A few observations:
Having three homes is exponentially harder in some ways than two. For some reason, it just seems much more difficult to manage all of the bills, remember deadlines, etc., and it is also harder to remember where we left what.
Our longest stint is in our winter home, roughly six months. The other two are split one-third summer/two thirds spring/fall. It didn't occur to us that those small blocks of time do not allow enough time to complete modest to large projects while we are there. The winter home is a condo in a very nice place that does not allow noisy work to be done in peak times, so that also narrows the window.
Going back and forth is not that difficult. They are in a triangle roughly 1,200 miles from each other. We drive back and forth at beginning and end and fly from wherever we are to one of the other places or wherever we need to be. Not much difference in the latter.
Leaving each place is sad, and arriving at the next is difficult for a day or so. Other than that, we are very happy to be at the next place. New season, seeing people we haven't in awhile, new places to go. We wouldn't trade it for anything.
Our kids have long loved the summer place, and mostly grew up in the former main place. However, they love the winter place for various reasons.