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we sold our home, and sold it completely furnished., we sold our other home last year completely furnished, down to the silver ware, linens, boat, walked out with our clolthes and pics., we wanted to make it easy to move., as we already bought our new home in tv last month, moving to tv in 2 weeks. Just a note of encouragement to anyone thinking of doing the same ! with the cost of moving and everything, it's just material stuff, you can buy new with what you save, go for it, get relief and move on to important things - FUN !!, se ya in a couple of weeks. trish
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we sold our home, and sold it completely furnished., we sold our other home last year completely furnished, down to the silver ware, linens, boat, walked out with our clolthes and pics., we wanted to make it easy to move., as we already bought our new home in tv last month, moving to tv in 2 weeks. Just a note of encouragement to anyone thinking of doing the same ! with the cost of moving and everything, it's just material stuff, you can buy new with what you save, go for it, get relief and move on to important things - FUN !!, se ya in a couple of weeks. trish
Good Morning and Congratulations,

And I just have to tell you that I absolutely love your philosophy on the stuff. We have a couple of friends who have done just that to get on with their retirement dreams and they have never looked back. No regrets whatsoever.

You are so right. It's only stuff.

As I have read these moving threads, it has made me wonder if it is possible to find some really nice furniture in used furniture stores in the TV area. I would guess that a lot of people have moved some very nice things and then decided that they could not use them.

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Congratulations! Isn't it a whirlwind of emotions.

We tell our son and daughter (and grandkids) tonight. We're going to Easter Service together and then over my daughter's home to celebrate our birthdays (Me and my hubby have b'days a week apart). I know they will be supportive on the outside but it's going to be raw emotions for them on the inside. We're pretty tight knit and family has always been a priority in all our lives. But they know the house is for sale; they just don't know that it's been sold.

I was told the buyer will be out next week when the inspector is here. She's from TX so I'm hoping she looks are my furniture and wants to buy it.

Again, congrats. Keep us posted on your progress
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As I have read these moving threads, it has made me wonder if it is possible to find some really nice furniture in used furniture stores in the TV area. Boomer
I have posted many times about "Bargains and Treasures" which handles Village furniture on a consignment basis. At a risk of being boring, here is the information again. They pick up daily from 13 Village homes and much of their inventory is from Southern Lifestyles and is very gently used. I furnished my entire house from B & T - patio, bedroom, living room, dining room, pull-out sofa for spare room, entertainment units, computer desk, etc.

You have to spend a lot of time there as the "good stuff" sells immediately when it is placed on the floor. I practically lived there for a month!

Directions: Located south of CR 466 between CR 301 and CR 101. There is a small road (almost looks like a driveway) on the south side of CR 466 (OPPOSITE MacDonalds golden arches sign on the north side). Turn south and follow the road, it will curve and take you to a small plaza with B & T.

Good luck, please let me know if you want any other information.
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Barefoot,

Thank you for the information. I will put it in my TV folder.

Good wood pieces are so nice to find, gently used. We will be trying to furnish a patio villa. I hope before year's end.
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Congratulations Trish and family! Welcome and the best of luck to you...JohnnyM
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It's just material stuff, you can buy new with what you save, go for it, get relief and move on to important things - FUN !!,
Great attitude, you'll have a wonderful time in TV
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Congratulations! Great news!
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Congrats!!

Happy to hear the house sold as a turn-key. We are considering doing the same.

As everyone has said, what you have now most likely will not fit into your new lifestyle in TV.


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Good Morning and Congratulations,

And I just have to tell you that I absolutely love your philosophy on the stuff. We have a couple of friends who have done just that to get on with their retirement dreams and they have never looked back. No regrets whatsoever.

You are so right. It's only stuff.

As I have read these moving threads, it has made me wonder if it is possible to find some really nice furniture in used furniture stores in the TV area. I would guess that a lot of people have moved some very nice things and then decided that they could not use them.

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My wife, the bargin hunter/furniture refinisher, has made extensive investigations into most of the local TV second hand stores and claims that the prices are too high - probably due to the high demands of well healed TV recent retirees.

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We are hoping Peggy and so is Scottke.
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Hi Chuck,

Thanks for the information.

Lately, I have become the queen of the thread hijackers and I am starting to feel guilty so I am trying to mend my ways. Here I am all set to get into a big discussion about furniture in a thread that is really a celebration of house sales.

I love to talk about furniture and have given quite a bit of thought to how to furnish the patio villa when we buy it.

But for now, I think I am going to bail on this thread and later start a thread devoted to just furniture. I have a lot of questions and I always find good answers here at TOTV.

So when you see my new thread begin, I hope that you will join in and please bring your wife to consult. Something tells me that she has a great eye for the good stuff. Anyone who can refinish always does.

I will get back at some point with the new thread, but Mr. Boomer just went up onto the roof again, and I have to go outside and run around and around and around our house screaming most hysterically, "Oh Honey, please don't fall. Please don't fall. Please don't fall. Aaaaaaaaaaaugh!!"

So I'll catch you later. Er, I mean I will catch TOTV later, not Mr. Boomer. At least I hope I don't have to catch him. But I sure would try if I had to. I guess I'd better get outside. I hear the clomp, clomp of big workboots on the roof.

Oh btw, Chuck, nice work with the doodads.

And once again, Big Congratulations to the successful sellers. We aren't selling our northern home - at least not right away. We want to have a patio villa in TV and we plan to spend a lot of time there.
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When we all get to TV, we'll have to start a Newbie club!!
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