Well, we've been retired for over 7 months now (actually only about 4 since I did some contracting for my previous employer for a few months after I left from full time employment). Here's an update of what's been going on...
Our pet sitting business is growing rather nicely. We've actually turned down some work when it has overlapped activities that we had previously planned for ourselves. The way I look at it, if you have the foresight to schedule in advance, we'll have the courtesy to hold the date. But last minute requests, which I consider to be a week or less notice, may be risky for you. After all, we are retired. :)
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| Tudor and Tasha, two of our clients' furbabies |
We've also been putting quite a bit of effort into downsizing by picking one room/area of the house at a time and attacking it with gusto. This week's project has been our study. There are 7 sets of bookshelves in the study, along with a grand piano and a low, long filing cabinet. I've purged 5 of the 7 units (hubby is in charge of his own and I still have one to go). I've gotten rid of about 300 books - most of them how-to, but also a fair number of novels and cookbooks. The way I see it, unless it's a very special book, I can either borrow it from the library (if it's a novel) or google what I need to know (if it's a how-to/self-help). Not even my cookbooks were spared. I saved the ones that I know I use and that were special gifts, but all the ones that I've collected over the years have gone on to better homes. We have a local branch of the American Association of University Women that got a boatload of them, and the rest will go to the Friends of the Library. Here's a picture of the ones that are headed to the Friends of the Library.
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| More books for Friends of the Library |
I plan on taking the bookshelves with us when we move, but I also know that our storage space at the condo will be very limited, and I've got other plans for shelf space, namely my photo albums and scrapbooking supplies.
And here's another picture of my neatened up cookbook bookshelves and the other side of the room (hubby's shelves are on the far left...).
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| After the purge (hubby's books on left) |
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| Cookbooks that made the cut |
I still need to attack the file cabinet, but it's only Wednesday...
I should add that we are on baby watch - our youngest daughter, Laurin, and her husband, Eric are expecting their first baby (our first grandbaby) any day now and our plan is to head to southwestern OH to be there for Jack's birth, God willing. So some of the cleaning might have to be postponed for a few days while we welcome the new little one. More about that later!
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