minimize your thirst for books

Remember the good old days when you carried a backpack with hard cover or paperback books and filled your home with the read books in your library. Well the 21st century has solved that issue with e-readers.  My e-reader of choice is undoubtedly the Ipad4..  I can load books into the cloud or directly onto my ipad for reading pleasure. 

Just think of it, all the latest sci fiction  loaded onto a 14 ounce device. No more heavy backpacks or shelf cluttering books all over.  The cloud has become the library of the future. PLaces like archive.org and others gives you free access to all the sci fi and scinece books you could ever imagine. If you want newly released material you can always torrent the lates books  and periodicals  from the web. 

Another wayTrash is minimizing.

tiny home

Given my age and the health of both myself and Mrs Trash building a moveable tiny home from scratch is impossible. That is why we went looking for an alternative. Something already built with a floorplan we could enjoy for a long time. We settled for a 37 foot 5th wheel we aptly named Clara.

Clara is a dream come true as we no longer need to worry about where our retirement will be.  We can just hook it up to the truck and go. While I am still working we can rent a furnished residence for a few months, work, save some money and then hitch up and go elsewhere.  Right now we are looking at leaving Colorado before winter sets in and go somewhere warmer. If it doesnt work out not to worry we can always rent a place and put Clara in storage at 100 bucks a month.
A tad bit of security for our  senior years.

I dont know why I waited so long to do this since Mrs T and I were not enjoying the homestead we spent 13 years building. On some body else's land. Screw the societal norms.  For once we are enjoying some life while deciding where we want to go next.

We spent some time on Sunday clearing out one storage unit and moving the remainder into the larger unit we already have for the kids and our excess.  That will now save us a hundred dollars a month.  More money for the kitty.  Minimize and enjoy.

July 12 update

Its been just over a month since I last posted an update. Firstly I removed all those annoying ads from the blog.   That was a bother.

Secondly,  Clara is almost packed and our storage is pretty cleaned out. Bad Wolf has been enjoying the running up and down the freeway. She is getting about 20-22 miles per gallon.   Pretty sure that will drop  once Clara is hooked up .

Been watching RV videos on YouTube.  Funny thing is most of the vloggers have lots of money and backing.  Not like Trash,   Trash is a po old man  with a bit of ambition and guts.   As many of you know.  IF a quad bypass and then a stroke wont keep old Trash down neither will a few bucks and some security.

Picked up a couple of Yamaha generators and some accessories for Clara to make her fell homey wherever we are.