After downsizing life has changed. I had two of everything and six was better. I had more stuff and more house than I needed. I didn't want to deal with it anymore, I was tired of thinking about it and after having so much for so long, I was done. I wasn't into someone doing it for me, paying someone just didn't feel right or really isn't who I am. Now I realize I should have kept it for my wife's sake and just paid someone to do what I didn't feel like doing anymore. After working all day I'd come home and build or maintain homes all night. I don't even enjoy mowing the yard anymore. Trees and perennial flower gardens a hundred foot around with enough flowers and bullshit to choke a horse. The pool had me tied to the house, if not just to empty the skimmer at least once or twice a day. It was salt water, less maintenance, but, never the less, it didn't take care of itself.
It really doesn't matter, my life has no reverse in it. I offered to buy her a condo at the lake and she said no. She said I'd want another boat, which is true and I'm not spending 150 thousand to get back into that game, that train left the station a long time ago..............Oh I said the pool was a few hundred feet up the street, it's closer to 4. Everything is a few hundred feet to me, you should see what I told my wife a foot looks like.......