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Making the Leap!

“You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.” ―  Colin Wright We have sold off the last of our kingdom, and chosen a life of simplicity.  Carol and I for years have had a dream of getting a sailboat to live our dreams out, before we get to old to travel and experience the things we only dreamed of before.  We had a plan of becoming debt free, and have worked very hard to aquire that goal.  We are almost 100% there too!  We have saved, invested and succeded in this endevor.  We have not always been this lucky, we both have had our financial woes, as most people have.  What commidotiy we did have was excellent work ethic.  So we sat down and decided what we wanted, and a deadline to get that. Getting rid of stuff was hard at first, but as we sold more and more stuff, the bank account became larger.  We saw that the dream was reachable.  We made boxes for all four children of stuff we thought they might want. We scanned a lot of pictu