Update

Here is an update: we finished purging the kitchen and it feels great that the cupboards aren’t stuffed full anymore. We plan to do at least one more purging before the end of the year.

We have started making plans for saving money for the move. I think the move is going to be very expensive:

A friend told me to plan $8-12,000 just in moving expenses

We will need a home down payment because I don’t know when our existing home will sell

The new home mortgage will likely be more expensive than our old. 

We may have to pay two mortgages for a while until the old home sells

My wife doesn’t want to work the first year

I don’t know what I will be doing for work (continue working from home or will I need a new job?)

We will loose our rental income

We may have to facilitate any other family members that want to move down with us

Buying whatever furniture we don’t take with us

Just registering our three cars will be $1200. It costs $500 to drive each one down and then the cost to fly back for the next car

I am looking at all these expenses and thinking I had better have $40,000 cash in my hand to make this move successful. Wow. 

I have a plan to raise the cash... but the best laid plans often fall to God’s humor. 

That’s our update for now!