Create an Untethered Life Overseas
Last week I shared our first Countdown update. Now that we’re within 90 days of our planned move to Panama, I’ll post regular updates on what we’ve accomplished (or attempted) during the week to be ready for the actual move in February. I hope it provides some ideas and encouragement to those of you getting [...]
Things have been pretty crazy around my house recently, but in a good way. My husband and I are planning to move from Florida to Panama in February, so we’re now officially within 90 days of our target date. We can’t completely nail it — yet — because we need to find a tenant for [...]
I’ve found it! Earlier this year, I wrote about my disappointment in a product that promised to be a roadmap for expats. Instead, it was a bunch of fluff — mostly recycled fluff, at that. I haven’t given up the search, though, because we future expats need something that will take us, step by step, [...]
Last week I decided to post some items we’re selling on Facebook Marketplace. Little did I know that the “sharing” choices are different for Marketplace ads than for regular status updates, and that difference caused an uproar in the family. My in-laws have steadfastly refused to discuss our plans to become expats. It’s the unspoken [...]
Recently I wrote about chipping away at your stuff to free yourself for your untethered expat life. This presumes you’re like most other readers of this website, and you’re choosing your own expat destination, not being sent on an overseas assignment by a company. Just as you need to inventory and make decisions about material [...]
The story goes that Michelangelo created his beautiful statues by visualizing what was trapped inside the marble and chipping away everything that wasn’t the statue. Before you can untether yourself as an expat you have to undergo a similar transformation. You need to chip away everything that won’t work with your new life so you [...]
The battle to whittle down our stuff continues. . . I’ve posted before about our efforts to sell off the household items, furniture and furnishings that we don’t want to move abroad with. (You can see some of those posts here, here and here. (And no, that’s not my stuff in the picture.) Unfortunately, in [...]
Tomorrow our neighborhood holds a twice-yearly garage sale, and we’re participating. Yes, we need to get rid of a lot of excess baggage before our overseas move. Yes, garage sales are a way to do that. But I really, truly detest garage sales. I don’t like going to them and pawing through other people’s discarded [...]
We recently got a whole new perspective on selling stuff in preparation for our move. In the past, between eBay, Craigslist and other such venues, as well as the traditional garage or yard sale, you could move pretty much anything you owned in good condition. That’s changed. With the US economy still a mess, more [...]
Like many Americans, we treat our pets like extra kids, members of the family. Since they’re not going off to college any time soon, what do we do with them when we move overseas? We’re the proud parents of three smart and adorable Papillons. For those of you who aren’t up on the more esoteric [...]
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There’s a ton of information about different regions, countries and cities of the world. There’s lots of investment advice and information about protecting your wealth.
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There aren’t any road maps.
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