Rant #3,672: Gone, Movin' On

It is time to reveal my little secret ...

Which has actually ballooned into two little secrets, but I am only going to talk about the first one today, because I have very little to say about the other.

I am not trying to be dodgy, but honestly, I do not know too much about the second secret, which isn't really a secret, it is a surprise.

It certainly was for me!

Anyway ...

Last week, as I mentioned to you, I went to the storage facility where we have a lot of things stored.

The reason my wife and I went there is that we received an email message that our monthly bill for storage was increasing by about $100 starting with the next payment.

This is ludicrous, to be paying nearly $400 a month for storage, or about $4,800 per year.

We spoke to the management there, and they gave us a slight senior citizen discount, but it all still works out to well more than $4,000 a year for storage 

Wouldn't we prefer to take the money we are paying for storage and use that for a larger apartment where we can store, display and enjoy all of this stuff?

As a lark, we asked the management where we live if they had a larger apartment available in the same development, and yes, they did have such an apartment available.

We looked at it, and it is really something.

It is about three times the size of what we have, with enough extra space to fit in everything.

The apartment is also the only one on the development with a terrace--and yes, barbecuing is permitted, albeit with an electric barbecue only.

And yes, the rent is a bit more than we had been paying for the smaller apartment.

But my wife, son and I spoke about it for a few days, and we decided that we are going to take on the new apartment--and we move in on April 15.

So the three of us are packing away everything, readying to move just a little further into the development.

And this time, in addition to doing the phone and Internet work to changing our address to the new one, I can actually do some of the heavy work, too, although I did promise my wife to limit what I can pick up and move.

It is exciting, it is exasperating, it is headache inducing and it is fun, all rolled up into one.

It has kept us up at night, and all the work has also knocked us out.

This has to be the final move, as we are getting older and it is just so difficult to do this all over again.

We were very happy with what we had, but now we are moving to something better.

With everything going on, we are really going to watch ourselves regarding our expenditures from now on, not that we haven't already been doing that.

My wife and I are going to have to continue to work for the foreseeable future, and our son's job status is still up in the air.

But sometimes, you have to take a big step to better yourselves, and we think we have done just that.

So for my family and I, April 15 is not only Tax Day, it is our Moving Day.

And we just can't wait!

Now, for the second secret ...

I can't tell you anything yet, because I simply don't have much to tell.

I will let you know when I find out more.

Promise.