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[littleminnie]

What age do you think you will downsize?
We won't stay in this house forever, I'm sure the cleaning and maintenance will get too much eventually. I'm thinking in another 10 years when I'm 65.

[honeybun]

We have already done it. My son calls it our twilight years house 
Only trouble was he had moved out when we came here and then he moved back for another three years so it was a bit of a squeeze. My daughter still lives mostly at home.
I have never regretted it for one minute.
I was 50 and my hubby was 60, but our old house was unsuitable on so many levels from being huge and constantly needing work to horrible neighbours.


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[Joyce]

Doubt we'll downsize. We have 3 bedrooms which are necessary for family visiting. 3rd bedroom is fairly small & hubby has his guitar set up in there. I'd rather move from where we are, but doubt it'll ever happen.

[honeybun]

We still have the same amount of rooms....just smaller 

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[littleminnie]

We've got 3 bathrooms (well 2 and a downstairs toilet & washbasin). One of them needs replacing, just had a quote and is quite expensive. Its just the maintenance and the cleaning plus the garden.

[Taz2]

Does anyone feel sad at selling what has been a happy family home? I love the idea that my sons can come back here to the house they grew up in and they love it too but maybe thats because it was what I had. My parents stayed in the house I was born in until they died so I always had "home". Anyone else feel sentimental in this way?

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[Joyce]

I never felt that way about my mum's place, maybe because we moved several times before that. Home to me is Inverness or anywhere along that coastline. Any time we head in that  direction I feel a homeliness sweeping over me from Elgin all the way to Inverness. Only lived in Elgin for just over 3 years, same with Inverness.

[honeybun]

We have moved quite often but one house we were in for 12 years so it was the only home my daughter had ever known. We took our memories with us I think along with a million photos.
My mother still stays in the same house I grew up in but I think of it as her home and not mine to be honest....although I own half of it. 


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[Pennyfarthing]

Does anyone feel sad at selling what has been a happy family home? I love the idea that my sons can come back here to the house they grew up in and they love it too but maybe thats because it was what I had. My parents stayed in the house I was born in until they died so I always had "home". Anyone else feel sentimental in this way?

Taz x

My cousin sold her house recently to downsize.  They had lived in their large Arts & Crafts house for 15 years and put it on the market and it sold in 8 hours!!!  She was ever so sad and hadn't expected to feel so emotional.  She is now living in a flat they own until their new, smaller house is built.

[Taz2]

It's a strange feeling. We've lived in this house for almost thirty years. I only feel at home when I go back to where I grew up though but that's not the same since my parents died. I've never really settled here to be honest. Probably because I never wanted to move in the first place!

I can see the point though in releasing cash by downsizing.

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[thorntrees]

We keep thinking about it, house is too big really as is garden. It's great when all the family come and there are enough bedrooms and bathrooms but now our youngest daughter is living in Canada and the eldest has two teenage children busy with activities,  that doesn't happen so often. It's not just the house though it's the thought of finding a new GP, dentist, neighbourhood etc. Add that to the physical effort of packing up and moving and it all seems too much trouble, perhaps we'll just install a stair lift and employ a cleaner and gardener!! We have moved lots of times as my DH was in the RAF but have been in our present house 14 years so I have got out of the habit of moving house. Maybe we will think about it again in the spring, certainly can't face it in the winter.

Thorntrees

[honeybun]

It's the packing. It's not until you start to put things into boxes that you realise just how much you have 

We have been in the same area for 29 years. Our last move took us three miles away to a village.

We are still incomers even after nearly 30 years....our kids are born and bred and accepted. My hubby is English.....he will always be an incomer 

Funny places small towns and villages. 

On a more serious note.....down sizing is much better than equity release I think......I'm very sceptical about that.


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[Ju Ju]

We had intended to upsize as the children got older. Moved here in 1986 just got 5 years! However, the mortgage rates increased but not our income, so we stayed put, but in a lovely location. It was a squeeze with 2 teenagers and I remember discussing the possibility of moving, but my lovely MIL told me to hang in there as once the children moved out it would it would be ideal for two and for growing old in. She was right except for when my son comes to visit with his wife. Where are we going to put the baby?!!

[Joyce]

In a drawer Ju Ju.  Actually did that with our daughter when she was little at my mum's. Didn't shut it, obviously. Padded with blankets, she was blissfully unaware. We bought a travel cot for our grandchildren. They now sleep on futon.

[honeybun]

My sisters grand kids sleep on blow up mattresses with sleeping bags. It's an adventure and sleeping at grans is great. Kids will sleep anywhere and really don't care if it's the floor or not, as long as it's warm and comfy.

When my daughter had sleepovers I used to stress where they were all going to sleep.....well on the floor of course......silly me  .......we once had twelve of them all at once.....sardines 


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