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So Much Storage

You never realize how much storage you have in your Foretravel until you start emptying it. I am finding things I don't think my wife remembers she packed.
Steve DeLange
2005 U320T 40'
Pearland, Texas

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Reply #1 –
We had the same thoughts when we were emptying the old U225.  Both of us found things, we sort of did not remember loading, or using in the two years.  So everything went into boxes, onto shelves.  Then about 4 weeks later, the new coach in the shop, it was off the shelves into the new places.  All of it fit, and we have more than half our spaces empty, still after a year of use, and with week trips and month long trips.  Who knew we needed so little and have so much storage?
Dave Cobb
Buckhorn Lake Resort The Club, #6202, Kerrville TX
check the map.  I do rent it out when I am traveling!
2001, U320, 36' #5887, in Kerrville, FT Club #17006, (7/23 to present)
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L, Summit, white
EX: 98 U295, 36' #5219, (mid door), (4/13-10/23)
EX: 93 U225, 36' (4/11 to 4/13)

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Reply #2 –
Steve,  Wait til you unload your FT after ten years of use, I have no idea where some of that stuff came from or what to do with it. :)
Gary B

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Reply #3 –
Gary, After 30 years in houses, moved to a small rental,put stuff in storage, year later had not used much of it
so sold what I could. Goodwill and dumpster the rest. Hope to be in shape to find an FT soon. Always enjoy your
posts. Lots of goodwill on this site.

Dan

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Reply #4 –
We are starting to exercise the 1 year rule.  If we haven't used it in a year - get rid of it.  Of course that does not apply to my tools.  ;D
Scott & Carol Seibert
2001 42' double slide U320 - Sold
Previous - 2002 36' U320

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Reply #5 –
1 year rule doesn't apply to my wife's jewelry either.  No way I am going there.
Steve DeLange
2005 U320T 40'
Pearland, Texas

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Reply #6 –
Quote from: sedelange –
1 year rule doesn't apply to my wife's jewelry either.  No way I am going there.

I was quoting a price for a new reaching spinnaker for a Corsair 27' to a client.  I mentioned the price and he repeated the $ number x 2.  I corrected him, thinking he had not heard me.  He smiled and said, no, he heard me, but was figuring out his full cost, as he was married, and she liked her share.  He said her share would be jewelry.
Dave Cobb
Buckhorn Lake Resort The Club, #6202, Kerrville TX
check the map.  I do rent it out when I am traveling!
2001, U320, 36' #5887, in Kerrville, FT Club #17006, (7/23 to present)
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L, Summit, white
EX: 98 U295, 36' #5219, (mid door), (4/13-10/23)
EX: 93 U225, 36' (4/11 to 4/13)

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Reply #7 –
Quote from: Dave and Dolly Cobb –
I was quoting a price for a new reaching spinnaker for a Corsair 27' to a client.  I mentioned the price and he repeated the $ number x 2.  I corrected him, thinking he had not heard me.  He smiled and said, no, he heard me, but was figuring out his full cost, as he was married, and she liked her share.  He said her share would be jewelry.

We have known many couples who adhered to the "tit-for-tat" rule (whatever you spend on a bauble I get to spend). If we had followed that rule we would have had a much less adventurous life.

Craig
1993 U225 36' Unihome GV with PACBRAKE exhaust retarder, Banks Stinger and Solar Panels.
Toad: 1999 Jeep Wrangler 2-door soft-top.

"No one has ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke."

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Reply #8 –
Plenty of storage... the more storage I have the more places I have to loose what ever I"put up"... I aggravate myself both in the coach and my parts building... When I put it up I may as well hide it because I will have to open every flippen cabinet to ever go back to it.. just me.
Dub McBride 1996 270

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Reply #9 –
"We have known many couples who adhered to the "tit-for-tat" rule (whatever you spend on a bauble I get to spend)." We never consciously followed that rule, but when we were getting ready for the auction we found literally tons of stuff that we didn't need, and some of it neither one of us remembered ever getting. We're going to try to follow the one-year rule once we hit the road. We're still getting rid of stuff while we wait for the place to sell.

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Reply #10 –
I finish purging ours tomorrow.  Everything going in the new one has to fit in the back of the Grand Cherokee because we drive to Nacogdoches to pick up coach and then 10 days on the road. 
Steve DeLange
2005 U320T 40'
Pearland, Texas
 

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Reply #11 –
Quote from: sedelange –
I finish purging ours tomorrow.  Everything going in the new one has to fit in the back of the Grand Cherokee because we drive to Nacogdoches to pick up coach and then 10 days on the road.

You are going to amaze yourself, as to what fits into the jeep and how little it will seem to be in the new coach.  We threw some stuff into the truck, to go get our coach, and then camped for 4 days before getting to the shelves of stuff in the warehouse.  Of course we did not have the huge collection of special glass ware for different bar drinks, that we still have not used a one of, in the first 15 months.
Dave Cobb
Buckhorn Lake Resort The Club, #6202, Kerrville TX
check the map.  I do rent it out when I am traveling!
2001, U320, 36' #5887, in Kerrville, FT Club #17006, (7/23 to present)
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L, Summit, white
EX: 98 U295, 36' #5219, (mid door), (4/13-10/23)
EX: 93 U225, 36' (4/11 to 4/13)