New beginnings at Thrifty Cottage & welcome to winter 2017

Why hello there, remember me?

It has been a very long time between postings.  Our family has gone through an enormous amount of changes in the last 6 months and blogging went on the backburner.  I had even considered starting a new blog, but I have been blogging on this one for a long time and I love it.  When I really thought about it, I didn’t want a new blog at all.

WHAT HAS CHANGED?

For Sale!

Greg and I made the HUGE (for us) decision to sell Thrifty Cottage in Sydney (ie our home) and move on to bigger and better things.  So much had changed in our lives over the past 5 years and so much was changing in the area we were living – upper north shore Sydney.  Although our actual suburb was still fantastic and we loved it, the surrounding suburbs were changing with lots of high rise units being built, lots more crime, less community spirit and house prices were (and continue to) be absolutely CRAZY!!!  It was no longer the place we both grew up and we were becoming less and less keen on our kids being in that area.

To add on to all this Greg was promised a number of career enhancements if he met certain targets and criteria in a new role (within the same company).  He fulfilled his end of the requirements (and more) however all that very hard work was not rewarded, despite him going to the MD of the company and putting forward his situation – it really cemented our decision that it was time to move on.  “Lesson learned – ALWAYS get things put in writing!”

HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

It was very full on.  I had to find somewhere to live and the most important thing was find a suitable school for the boys.  Then we had to sell our house.  It sold in one day for the highest amount we were expecting!  We then had 6 weeks to resign from work, pack up our house, organise a removalist, find a house and move!  It was such a crazy busy time, but we did it J

I HATE packing.....

Seriously, I really, REALLY hate packing........ really!

WHERE?

Fun on the Sunshine Coast with cousins

We made the decision to move to the beautiful Sunshine Coast of Queensland.  Basically, my sister and family had moved there about 12 months ago and loved it.  My sister kept telling us to move up as she was so happy.  Whilst I was checking out real estate with her I discovered that we would be able to buy a beautiful home up there and have no mortgage.  In fact, we would most likely have money left over for investment purposes!  This was another huge factor in our decision.  And when I say home, I mean a home that met our needs – large enough and with a pool.

We still will have our Thrifty Cottage v2 and this will be our continuing journey but a new beginning.  I am really looking forward to our new fantastic life in a very beautiful part of the world called the Sunshine Coast!