Homeless and Unemployed

We just put the finishing touches on our house today. Fixing up a couple nail holes and taking out the last of our 'stuff'. We left a bottle of wine, keys and a welcome letter for our new tenant.

Even with a serious effort to purge of extra 'stuff', we still managed to almost completely fill up a 10' x 5' storage locker. The plan is to come home in X number of years and buy a 'tiny house'. We've done a lot of research and love the idea of living both clutter and mortgage free, so we'll have to really go through all of our stuff and decide what's important to keep, and what we simple THINK we need. The locker will cost us ~$120 per month, but we get 2 months free because we signed a year contract, plus we got a $300 credit from a $75 Groupon deal, so we don't actually pay anything for another 4 months or so.

We'll be living rent free over there and the rental income will nearly pay the mortgage, so we're pretty happy with the whole situation. Building equity back home while travelling and saving overseas is our best case scenario. Everything has finally come together. We signed up to take our TESOL course pretty much the same weekend that we moved into our new house, and so the idea to move overseas was a little daunting. It's been a bit of a hectic 6 months or so, but everything has seemingly fallen into place. We got lucky with a lot (Julia's parents bought our SUV and a lot of our furniture) and our house was rented quickly and was a better situation that we anticipated (mid month move in rather than March 1st). We were ready to have to pay the mortgage until as late as May 1st, as we were told that the rental market was tough right now.

Julia finished work a week ago and I finished this past Tuesday. Within the space of a week we both became unemployed, homeless and gave up both of our vehicles. It feels fantastic.

We each have 2 suitcases, a carry-on, personal item and of course I'm bringing a bicycle. That's it, and we couldn't be happier.