Nearly there...

Unfortunately we've had internet issues which have prevented regular blog updates. Add this to the fact that I'm not the best blogger in the world and you'll find that my entries aren't as regular as I'd like. Still trying harder...
Tonight, my super hubby has managed to find a free wifi connection, so I'm making the most of it before it drops out.

Well, we now have just 11 days left in Germany! On 10 Sep, we'll make our final Fally - Calais rally, before we jump aboard the Eurotunnel bound for Folkestone. Pete will be doing some courses while we're in the UK and we'll also have a chance to have some family time (and a wedding!) before we head back to the continent in October.

It's hard to believe we're almost on the home straight. After months of planning and talking about going, we're now only about 6 weeks away from the big off. We've spent the last few weeks gradually emptying our lives. I would say de-cluttering, but it's been on such a massive scale, there's not a lot left! The various Facebook selling pages will be relieved that we're all but done selling as we were starting to get a bit of a name for ourselves as the couple who outsold everyone!

We have managed to reduce our lives to the contents of Dora and a cubic metre's worth of boxes. It's been emotional, but ultimately, it's been liberating knowing that the world keeps turning if you don't have a TV and you only own one cheese grater!

It's also an eye opener when you realise that you'll never ever get back what you paid for an item. We won't be buying much new stuff again; apart from maybe a mattress for our bed.

It's so easy, especially in this world, to get caught up in the 'Jones' way and before you know it, you've got more chopping boards than you know what to do with and the DVD player you bought last month is in need of replacing for something bigger and shinier. But in the end, it doesn't make you happy, it's very wasteful and it really doesn't matter. I'm certainly not going to get all orange boxey on you and say we're going to renounce all of our personal possessions and get back to nature, but I guess all I'm getting at is that we don't need as much as we think we do. We've always known it, but we've just been carried along with the 'norm' for so long, it's just the way it is (or, was). Leaving this environment and the 'norm' that we've come to know has really made a bigger and more positive impact on us than we ever expected.

De-clutter; you don't need half of what you think you do and it's good for the soul.