Give Kids The World has their second annual Night Of A Million Lights. Join us as we tour the village.
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Relocating To Disney
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Monday, December 13, 2021
Saturday, December 11, 2021
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Friday, November 26, 2021
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Monday, November 8, 2021
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Monday, November 1, 2021
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021
Florida Severe Storms
People are concerned about moving to Florida with all the hurricanes and tornadoes. In this video we ride out a tornado watch.
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Thursday, October 28, 2021
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Clermont's Pig On The Pond
Join us as we visit Clermont's Pig on the Pond Festival. This is a fund raiser for high school scholarships.
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Sunday, October 24, 2021
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Under The Sea Ride Along
Go with us on the Disney World's Magic Kingdom ride Under the Sea with the Little Mermaid
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Friday, October 15, 2021
Publix Subs
People in Florida rave about Publix subs. Join us as we try them for the first time!
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Sunday, October 10, 2021
Friday, October 1, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Monday, September 20, 2021
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
We are Disney Passholders!
We purchased our annual passes for Disney!! In this video I explain the 2021/22 annual passes and why we selected what we did.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Florida Storms and Rain Water Drain Problems
Life in Florida isn't all pools, parties, palm trees and blue skies. Sometimes it rains and rains hard. And if you don't have good water run off and drainage? You can have problems.
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Saturday, September 4, 2021
Pepe's Cantina in Clermont
Join our Florida restaurant tour. This time we visit Pepe Mexican Cantina in Clermont.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Top Golf
We are visiting Orlando attractions as we wait for our Disney Year Passes. Join us at TopGolf!
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Monday, August 30, 2021
Cagan Crossings
Join us as we explore Cagan Crossings and enjoy I Love New York Pizza and Fopur Palates.
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Friday, August 27, 2021
Florida Evenings
Several evenings in Florida - live band, Disney fireworks, and walking the dog in the rain.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Vivo at Universal City Walk
Join us for dinner at a vivo. We’ll then walk around City Walk and I’ll share my tips for getting the most out of this Universal experience:
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Sunday, August 22, 2021
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Friday, August 13, 2021
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Monday, August 9, 2021
Bonkerz Comedy Club at Margaritaville
Join us at Bonkerz Comedy Club in Margaritaville and hear my recommendations for having a good time.
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Sunday, August 8, 2021
Citrus Tower in Clermont
Join us aw we visit the Citrus Tower in Clermont, and then catch dinner at the First Friday Food Truck event downtown
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Saturday, August 7, 2021
One Month in Florida
Lets review some items we expected from our move to Florida and what reality has been
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Sunday, August 1, 2021
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Friday, July 23, 2021
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Clermont Brewing Comapny
What is our Florida life like? Come join us as we settle into the Florida house and explore the area.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Genie Garage Door Opener Remote
The Florida house came with a Genie Garage Door Opener, but I don’t know the PIN number for the remote. In this video, I will show you how to reprogram the remote.
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Monday, July 19, 2021
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Disney’s Boardwalk and Skyliner
Today we visited the recycling center and a house for sale in our neighborhood. Then we headed to Disney World where we visited the Disney Boardwalk, road the boats, and road the Disney Skyliner.
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Saturday, July 17, 2021
Monday, July 12, 2021
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Monday, July 5, 2021
Friday, July 2, 2021
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Monday, June 28, 2021
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Friday, June 25, 2021
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Monday, June 21, 2021
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Monday, June 14, 2021
Friday, June 11, 2021
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Friday, June 4, 2021
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
T-Minus 27 Days: Renewing Wedding Vows
It is our 30th anniversary so we renewed our wedding vows! Join us as we are getting ready to sell the New York house and move to Orlando Florida.
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Monday, May 31, 2021
T-Minus 28 Days: Memorial Day
Follow us through a busy Memorial Day as we prepare to sell the house and move to Florida.
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Saturday, May 29, 2021
Friday, May 28, 2021
Thursday, May 27, 2021
T-Minus 32 Days: More Flowers
We are selling the NY House. Attracting buyers requires decorating the outside of the house with flowers.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Friday, May 21, 2021
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021
Sunday, May 16, 2021
T-Minus 43 Days: Hoover Power Scrub Review
My review of the hoover power scrub as I use it to clean the New York house in preparation to sell it.
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Saturday, May 15, 2021
Friday, May 14, 2021
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Sunday, May 2, 2021
T-Minus 58 Days: Weekend Update
Travel along through our busy weekend as we get ready to leave New York and move to our house in Orlando Florida.
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Friday, April 30, 2021
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Saturday, April 24, 2021
T-Minus 66 Days: Busy Saturday
Busy Saturday as we continue to purge the New York house in preparation to sell it so we can move to Orlando Florida.
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Friday, April 23, 2021
Thursday, April 22, 2021
T-Minus 68 Days: Preparing The Garage For Sales
We need to prepare the garage so it can be the staging area for our yard sales and Facebook Marketplace sales.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021
T-Minus 71 Days: Ordering Carpet
We have to order carpet for the New York and the Florida house. Originally we planned to include some vinyl but that price was more than double the cost of carpet. Join us as we travel to Lowe’s to place our order.
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Friday, April 16, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Friday, April 9, 2021
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
T-Minus 84 Days: Something Dangerous Lives In The Field
Warning: The following video is disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised. Something dangerous lives in the field behind our Florida house.
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Monday, April 5, 2021
T-Minus 85 Days: Replacing Windows
We are getting the New York house ready to sell. Some of the windows in the New York House lost their seals and fogged over. They needed to be replaced.
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Sunday, April 4, 2021
Friday, April 2, 2021
Thursday, April 1, 2021
T-Minus 89 Days: Picking Out Flooring
Come with us as we travel to the Clermont Lowe’s to pick up flooring and a few other items s
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
t-Minus 91 days: working on the Florida House
With 90 days until the big move, we work on the new Florida House, getting it ready.
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Monday, March 29, 2021
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
T-Minus 97 Days: Wrapping furniture for the move
We are preparing for the first truckload of stuff that will go to Florida. In this short video, I am wrapping furniture.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
T-Minus 98 Days: Building versus Buying
First, we were going to build a house. Then we changed our mind. In this video, I will explain why we changed our decision.
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Monday, March 22, 2021
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021
T-Minus 113 Days: Paying Closing Costs
Follow our adventure of moving to Orlando Florida. In this video I talk about our closing costs.
Sunday, March 7, 2021
T-Minus 114 Days: Moving the Inlaws Week 2
In this video we finalize moving the inlaws to their new apartment. We offered to take them to Florida with us, but, they wanted to stay in New York.
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Saturday, March 6, 2021
Friday, March 5, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
T-Minus 119 Days: What Is Hazard Home Insurance?
My mortgage broker told me I needed Hazard Home Insurance. What the heck is that? Check out my explanation.
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Monday, March 1, 2021
T-Minus 120 Days: 15 Moving Tips
See my 15 moving tips discovered after moving the Inlaw two hours away. Also, a review of the moving costs.
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T-minus 121 Days: Moving The InLaw
3 days of Packing, two days of moving and unpacking. Approx 20 pieces of furniture. Going from 750sqft to 900 sqft.
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Saturday, February 27, 2021
T-Minus 122 Days: Packing like A Pro
This video is excellent. I really like it because it shows how you can pack using plain packing paper. You can get a lot of packing paper and it isn't horribly expensive (around $1 per pound). Pro tip: you can also use any left over Christmas wrapping paper you might have.
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021
Saturday, February 20, 2021
T-Minus 129 Days: Moving Tips
Inspired Living with Kristi has some really good moving tips,
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Part 2 Video (13:03)
Part 3 Video (11:20)
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021
T-Minus 135 Days: Trip Insurance
The importance of visiting Florida when deciding to move there, and for getting trip Insurance.
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
Friday, February 12, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
T-Minus 138 Days: Furniture Shopping Plans
Headed to Florida next week. We will be gathering prices on furniture to help us with our move decisions.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021
Saturday, January 30, 2021
T-Minus 150 Days: Inlaw Moving Planned
With 150 days left before the big move, things are starting to feel real!
My parents live in an in-law apartment attached to the New York house. They are moving to a 55+ community at the end of February. I have the movers all scheduled and paid. I simply called uHaul and told them what I needed. UHaul is provide a 15 foot truck, two guys to load the truck at our house, and then two guys to meet us at the destination to unload it. The cost was $500.
We have a place in Florida reserved for our mid-February trip. That is exciting.
We are also planning out May and June. My youngest is graduating from high school at the end of June, so, we will have a graduation party. We are actually going to combine the graduation party with several other activities. It will also be my wife and my 30th wedding anniversary. And, we want to have a good bye party because it may be a very long time before we see our family and friends again. All three events will be part of one big party. Because of COVID, it will be a physical and zoom party.
We are planning a May and a June garage sale. May will be the first opportunity for a sale due to the New York weather.
In order to be in Florida by July 1, our move date would have to be Monday, June 28. We have tentatively set that date on our calendar.
We have 150 days left to hit our Marketplace Move Budget goal. We haven't started selling any big stuff yet, so, I'm hoping the big stuff will close the gap.
I write a lot about purging because purging has become a big part of our life consuming a lot of our spare time (what little spare time we have). I am busy digitizing papers, photos, and video tapes so we might not have to take them with us. My daughter is still going through the dozen of her totes in Tub City to decide what she wants to keep from her childhood and what she wants to get rid of. We have started cleaning out closets and draws in the main house. And in February we will be packing up the in-law apartment for their move.
I am still doing the technical training in preparation for my Florida job. I had hoped to be 50% done with that by now, but am only 25% due to everything else going on. A recent promotion at work is taking away many cycles that would otherwise be spent on training.
That's the update for today - probably not much different than other recent updates. Rinse, wash, repeat. Eventually it'll either get done or we will run out of time.
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
T-Minus 152 Days: Mortgage Update
Update/Correction: The 3 days in the contract was for us to get all the qualification information into KB Mortgage within 3 days of signing the contract. KB Homes needs that to make sure we can really afford the house before they start building it. We don't have to commit to a lender until later in the process.
Monday, January 25, 2021
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
Sunday, January 17, 2021
T-Minus 163 Days: Purging The Gym (and other updates)
We continue to work in the basement cleaning stuff out. It is amazing how much stuff a basement holds! As we free up space, we bring down items from the other two floors (although, honestly, not that much has come down).
If you saw the basement tour, you saw what the gym looked like before. And here is it after pictures. Much of the stuff has sold, I fixed the ceiling, did some painting, and rearranged the floor mats.
I went back through books I had previously purged and found another bag full to donate. We went through my shop and pulled out two or three garbage bags of stuff. Our garbage collectors limit how much garbage they'll take each week, so, we have to stage it to make sure we don't go over the allowable amount.
My youngest son is in school to be a carpenter. He and I returned to the basement office and did some much needed work on that DIY project. We framed in the basement window, completed the shelfing backboards, and drywalled a portion of the ceiling that didn't get completed when the room was originally constructed.
Marketplace has been busy, slowly chipping away at the pile of stuff we have to sell. We are hoping for a huge yard sale in the spring to get rid of a lot of stuff that won't sell on Marketplace. In the end I believe we will be lining the street with tons of free stuff and trash.
While this is happening, I'm thinking about my Florida Job. I work from home and my job is going to keep the bills paid through November 2021. I would like to find my next job in July. In preparation, I have completed two Scrum certifications and an ITIL certification. I just started a cloud security certification. The training for the cloud certification is not difficult, but it is time consuming (there are many labs) and will probably take 120 hours of technical training. That will eat into my purging time, but, it is all about finding a balance.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
T-Minus 165 Days: Homeless
I don't have anything against homeless people. There are a million different circumstances that could lead someone to becoming homeless and I don't judge. I donate. I pray. And I don't judge. I just don't want to live next to a homeless encampment.
I asked my real estate agent about this and she said the homeless encampments move around and she would look into this one. In the meanwhile, several facebook groups are gathering up supplies to provide to them: food, blankets, and clothes.
Do I really want a homeless encampment to be just a few miles down the road from my new house?
Our second option was to build on the east side of Grassy Lake. That location might be slightly further away from the prison but is closer to the homeless encampment.
Perhaps the encampment will move someplace else (further away?) and this won't be an issue for very long.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
T-Minus 167 Days: Planning the next 10 weeks
We have a plan that takes us right to move day. The following shows the plans for the next ten week:
===GENERAL ACTIVITIES ===
BACKLOG
Find a painter to paint several of our rooms
Find a New York Real estate agent
Real Estate Agent Walk Through to tell us improvements
ALSO
Work with sons to get their driving licenses so they are ready for Florida
Get Movers for Inlaw move in Februrary
UPCOMING
Jan 31 - House Fix-up Consulting and quotes
Feb 13 - Go to Florida for the house building arrangements
Feb 27 - Move Inlaws
March 13 - Reserve tables for Spring rummage sale
March 26 - Finish fixing up the house for sale
March 26 - Finish cleaning out the garage
March 27 - Reserve St Paul for June Grad Party/Anniversary/Going away party
March 31 - Will insurance cover our move?
Then in April... we stage the house and get it listed.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVTIES
Income Taxes
Plan furniture layout in new house
Find doctors, dentists, etc in Florida
Purge Purge Purge
What if we have to rent in NY?
Where will we rent in Florida?
===PURGING AND PACKING TIMELINE===
Prepare the area for move day. (A) Pack it (B) Discard it (C) Keep only what is necessary
BACKLOG
Storage Room
Tub City
Wood Shop
Gym
UPCOMING
Feb 13 - Office closet
Feb 20 - First Floor hallway
Feb 27 - First floor coat closet
March 6 - Bedroom 1 Closet
March 13 - Bedroom 2 Closet
March 27 - Kitchen Closet
ALSO
Pack the inlaw in preparation for the Februrary move
Sunday, January 10, 2021
T-Minus 169 Days: February Trip to Florida
We are planning our February Trip to Florida! We'll be in Florida for three days. During that time, we want to walk the lot where our house will be built, go to the Design Studio to pick out everything for the house, look around the surrounding area, and visit some furniture stores to get ideas for our furniture budget.
We were on the fence about returning to Florida only 3 months after our last trip because COVID is pretty bad in both Florida and New York. Also, the two week quarantine that is required when we return to New York is very harsh. But the timing is right to get off from work, and we found an incredible discount on airline tickets.
My wife has been pouring over AirBNB to find a place for us to rent. The place we rented in November was good but it isn't available for our February dates.
We will be moving to Florida in July but our house won't be ready until sometime in August. Therefore we will need to rent a place for four to eight weeks. This trip will give us a chance to confirm a few short term rental communities we might want to live at during the Summer of 2021.
We are excited to be making these plans and look forward to our upcoming trip!