The idea – sell everything and live in an RV and work for expenses – wherever and whenever.  Crazy, right?

The idea isn’t new.  We’ve mentioned it before, but more of a “Hey, we should get rid of everything and find something we could do traveling and living in an RV.”  Kind of a “hahahaha”, but with a twinge of, “Gee, that would be cool if we could swing it.”

The subject came up while talking to Gayle (our neighbor and landlady) outside yesterday afternoon.  The people that live back-to-back from us have a large motorhome parked in their yard, and we thought they had already left for the winter to go to their home in Arizona.  We both figured that perhaps someone is just storing the rig there.

Anyway, Gayle and I were talking about more simple lives, changing lives, getting away from stress, etc.  I looked at the RV in mid-conversation and the wheels in my head started turning and gears started grinding, and smoke started coming out of my ears.  (I don’t know that for sure, but with the way my mind was spinning, it is entirely possible.)

That whole afternoon and evening my thoughts were multiplying.  Questions were rising.  It was all I could do not say anything to Tom about it yet.  I wanted to do some research first.  So today, I started looking stuff up about living in an RV fulltime.

First I sat down and started writing out a plan.  If I was going to be brave enough to bring this idea up to Tom, I would need a plan.  Answers to the questions he was going to have and certainly rebuttals to his protests.  Knowing full well that he will be negative to it right from the beginning, that there “is no possible way” for us to afford it.  I wanted to have my ideas in writing and have had spent some time reading as much as I could.

I came across a couple articles that I read and found helpful before finding a fantastic web site called RV-Dreams.com.  This site is written by a couple that has been living fulltime in their RV since August 2005.  They give lots of tips and advice and provide links for even more information.  I read their site for most of the day.  I sent the link to Tom – we’ll see how Mr. Negative feels (if he even reads it).

I’m not saying that this is something we can jump right in to, but I truly believe it is something we can work towards making it a reality.

First things to do would be for us to build up our means of income – such as for me to build up and spend more time and effort on Craftystuffandmore.com (my crafting website); getting some experience and references with my desire for being a professional organizer; and for Tom to get his voice/production work going and to get clients and referrals.  He could/we could also do blogging and social media work.  We could check with artists we know and see if there is any side work we could do for them.

Another thing to do is to start selling off things if we make this decision.  We’ve already started selling some items, keep selling all items!