This month's blog carnival at Families on the Road is talking about mistakes you've made along the way.
The universal truth and biggest mistake that immediately surfaces deals with stuff.
We brought too much stuff, and then we acquired more; rocks (my mistake, pets), feathers (I mean quills), sticks (sorry, wands) treasured art (ok when my children are the artists I'm the guilty mislabeler here); it still takes up physical and mental space.
It is an ongoing project.
George Carlin makes me laugh about stuff. Speaking of stuff; if you haven't seen this it is definitely worth a gander.
As with most subjects this is not unique to living in an rv.
We fill the spaces we have.
Other mistakes are more specific to us.
Was a failing hitch a mistake or just a narrowly avoided disaster?
Was pulling down a long narrow cliff sided road and discovering no place to turn around something you can put on a list of "not to do"?
On the other hand not checking to see if certain hot springs were still operational BEFORE we made a midnight trek could probably be classified as a mistake.
Oh and not testing the 'newly repaired' black tank BEFORE re-installing it might make it on my husband's list of mistakes.
Speaking of my husband's list I think he might also include trying to do repairs while parked on the incredibly small shoulder of a surprisingly busy highway.
Alas, mistakes, as painful as they may be at the time are also usually the stories you bother sharing with people later.
We shed stuff clear across the country! I think we actually left a trail. :) And we can relate to busy highways too! Much more convenient to break down in a nice quiet lot, if you could only arrange such things! :)
ReplyDeleteChildren's art! I couldn't do that one so I delegated that to my husband. We've homeschooled since the beginning and my daughter is now in 3rd grade. A lot of stuff that this little girl created. What do you do with all that? I couldn't do it. I just gave it to my husband and said "do whatever you want with it, please don't tell me what you did."
ReplyDeleteMy husband has no problem getting rid of things. I love it!
19 years later and we STILL have too much stuff.
ReplyDeleteThis post made me giggle! We have the same issue with the 'pets', 'wands' and other items that keep creeping into the caravan.
ReplyDeleteWe have had such issue with going on long, narrow roads too. I get so scared!
We've been travelling and homeschooling for 5 years now. The only thing that has kept us clutter free is my strict policy on "artwork", "pets" and "wands" (weapons). They get to play with it, display it or torture eachother with it for one week. Then they get to take a picture of it and give it back to nature or the recycling bin. I am known to be so serious about my stance on stuff, that my son recently asked if he could keep his birthday present or would he have to give it away in a week!
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