Downsizing

[BengalHawk62]

(01-14-2016, 09:31 AM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: My neighbor had a trampoline. I despised it. They placed it on the property line, so when I came home from work, it looked like it was literally in my yard.

They had 2 girls, aged 10-11. Not a big deal, except they jumped on it all day, and would invite the rest of the girls in the neighborhood over. This sounds like a Brad Fritz post.

I'd try to go in the backyard after work to do some gardening to relax, and there would be 10 girls jumping on the trampoline yelling. So I'd fake put on headphones, no use. I put up a line of 20 arborvitaes. They'd jump over the top and yell my name. Wtf.

It gets gusty in our backyard because it's open, and one stormy day the trampoline took off and rolled down the side yard, into the front street and got stuck under someone else's mailbox. Some of the metal leg supports were in my yard and had smashed up against my house and broke a speaker grill, lol. That was the last we saw of the trampoline.

Thankfully those bastards moved. I have a picture somewhere of their bent up trampoline taking up half of their garage and sticking out halfway onto the driveway. oddly, most people in my neighborhood don't use their garage for cars - they store a lot of junk in there and keep their cars on the driveway. People say they don't know when I'm home, and I say yeah, because I use my garage what it's intended for!

I landscaped the backyard to the point I can't mow much back there anymore. It takes about 40 minutes to mow now as opposed to 90 minutes, but with less room to landscape I might be on my way out of this house too.

I feel like downsizing is a good move, if I knew better I wouldn't be in a house made for a family - everything is more expensive, heating bill, etc. Right now my retirement life looks like paying off the house and working 20 hours a week. Could have paid it off much sooner if it was a smaller house.

When I moved in, I remember taking 2 days off work and driving non stop back and forth for 4 days straight moving things. Being single sort of helps in the amount of junk. Mine were mainly electronics.

Here's the arborvitae line:

You've got an awesome backyard!