We wish our readers a Happy New Year and a prosperous new year. We hope you have had some time to reflect on the year that has ended and you are excited with the promise to what the new year can bring. We hope on New Year’s Day you are not waking up from having […]
Archives for 2015
Selling our Home: Taking care of Inspection Items
The last few weeks have been filled with activities around selling our existing single family home and downsizing to a smaller townhome. We are undergoing countless tasks to complete before the close of escrow on both properties. I thought for something a little different today, I would discuss the purpose and need for a home […]
Merry Christmas to our “Just One More Year” Readers!
I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and wonderful extended weekend. We hope you will be able to take some time away from work and the challenges of the world to reflect and relax. I know that for many in the service, military, police, and other industries you may have to work on […]
Downsizing the Amount of our Stuff
I wrote in an earlier post about an interesting experience I had with my daughters regarding all the different ways people can get or buy “stuff”. I mentioned how I had an opportunity for one of those great teachable moments with my daughters. You know, when you can talk about a particular principle using a […]
Early Retirement: Lessons to Learn from People who Achieved It
Folks, today we have a post from Amy Nickson at Working Moms Word discussing some early retirement lessons. She is taking the blogging microphone today as I am attempting to sell our existing home and remodel our new place in a very short timeframe. Please do check out her site and provide feedback to her new posts. […]
Drumroll please: Our Decision to Downsize our Home
We have shared with you in several of our articles over the last couple of months that we are considering to downsize our home. This would be a move to a local Sedona townhouse only a half mile away and about one third smaller than the space we are in today. Part of the decision […]
PhoenCon15: Creating our own local blogger hookup
Tradition, it has to start somewhere. Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, none of these holidays existed before either Hallmark or the government created them. All right, why not begin our own tradition by creating an Arizona based blogger hookup? I shall name it PhoenCon15, changing the name by incrementing the year annually. It is time […]
Decision Crossroad: To Downsize, Stay, or Upsize Our Home
We recently shared in several articles that we are considering downsizing our home—and the resulting financial and lifestyle perks that we could enjoy. Today, we are at a decision crossroad as we decide which path to follow. Through a somewhat complicated deal, the parents of an acquaintance of ours signed a contract with us to […]
Lake Pleasant: The Name Says It All
Today we have a treat with a post from my wife Dianne. I thought it might be interesting for people to see life in the household from my better half’s perspective. I hope you enjoy it, and please do leave feedback and ask questions. Earlier this month, Bryan and I took a camping trip to […]
Thanksgiving and what it means to be Thankful
I am receiving emails from work and various blogs that I subscribe to describing all the things people are thankful for in their lives. It is certainly heartwarming reading these thoughts. So how do I state things differently than has already been described countless times before? What would be interesting to our readers? While I […]