My fine, beautiful furniture that is for sale has not sold. It’s on craigslist in an area where there is no market for it. It is now going to have to come with me till, it can be sold, for what it is worth.
Beautiful chair: 80s NYC Door Store
Lots of these cubes
Cotton chintz comforter-hard to find one of this quality in this color
So I gave the go-ahead first thing to have all the existing furniture torn out, except for the living room sofa.
Where kitchen booth was. I see a shelf now, that can hold my printer.
I was originally going to keep the bed, as it has a ton of storage underneath, but I am not able to lift the storage lid, so it would be wasted space. My bed will go there instead and I will be able to use the under bed area for plastic storage bins of clothes. I have to put all those clothes some place.
Where the bed was
So the dining booth, the living room stand and the bed are now gone. Buyers already showed up to take the booth and stand. The bed is still for sale, but I am starting to get calls, after I dropped the price.
Both booth and stand gone to make room.
Removing RV furniture can be a problem, as it can leave holes in the floor, where the furniture was. There was some of that in this case, but not as much as in most cases. The kitchen floor is pretty much in tact, except for the wheel well and there is a hole in the carpet where the stand was removed. That area will be covered by the stove/fireplace. There is no sign of the bed having been there except for the disassembled pieces waiting for a buyer to take them away.
I have been down in bed since the purchase of the RV and it was a pleasant surprise to get the pictures of the areas where the stuff was removed.
The microwave is also gone. Not something that an electrosensitive person should have, nor anyone else for that matter. I remember watching season 1 of the Osbournes, where the microwave door opened and shut all the time. The first thing I thought is “How long will it take for one of them to get cancer?”. As it turned out, not long. Sharon Osbourne had stomach cancer, by the beginning of season 2. Microwaves were illegal for a long time, in the Soviet Union, due to health risks. They turn food into free-radicals! I personally think they just plain destroy food. They make a nice plate of left-overs into really sickening mush!
Free-radical-wave!
So far it seems the microwave does not work. So it will have to be tossed. I have not been able to get any info, as to any chance it may be good and I am not able to test it find out, either now or after I move. So it will have to be tossed and not sold.
The stereo was an AC unit, that was of no use to me, even if it had been working, which it was not. So it’s removed and in a landfill somewhere.
At this point of the project it got put on hold, due to the fact that I did not get the stove that I had originally picked out, last year. They changed the model and failed to tell the dealers. Before, the stove ran free of any electricity, my requirement. Now it requires AC power, that I can not physically tolerate.
After I took a couple days away from all of this and doing something else fun-I did though have to study my solar books, during my holiday, the project is back in action again.
Stove came with the wrong pipes and have to wait for the right ones
The installer has found a way to make it work off the DC solar and have a battery pack of AA batteries for back-up and to place it where I can reach it if they need changing on the bad days.
I at no point have been foolish enough to think that going off grid would not come with a lot of challenges. Especially having health issues and disabilities thrown into the mix. How often do you hear ” I can not live in a tiny home or off the grid, I have bad health or am old”. My plan here is to prove those statements untrue and to show those people they can do it. This is the whole reason this blog exists: to show it can be done by doing it and how I did it after it’s done.
Stove is going here
I would be hard pressed to find anything as stressful, or anything that could cause this many tears and ups and downs. It’s par for the course with remodeling alone, let alone going off grid, when you are used to the system. Remember the episode of “American Dad” when the neighbors bet Fran and Stan that their marriage would not withstand the stress of a kitchen remodel? They ended up at war and dividing the house in two. I am still asking, if my life and I will be in one piece at moving time? Fran and Stan had a happy ending and I am hoping for the same…