Chatting about down sizing to a smaller dream home
Talking to friends about down sizing brings a lot of headaches!
Do we need a house with two toilets and bathrooms, a family room and formal lounge and dining we all ask.
Do we really want to leave our loved garden that we break our backs at each day trying to get to one more weed or that snail that is eating our seedlings. The weeds start to get a long way down on some days to pull out!
The idea of a retirement village sometimes is frightening, especially when we see the issue with living close together when there is a pandemic. We personally like our back garden facing north to get the winter sun so why would we want to move?
When we down size we have to sort out the treasures that we have had for so many years, which ones do you give away or which items do we give to the Salvos?
I know we have gone through all this 20 years ago with our late mothers, it is emotional.
Give items to grown children and what did they do they sold them! No emotional attachment to a lot of items.
Sometimes I think I would like to be a Pharaoh and take everything with me! LOL
I would HATE to have to move from where I am now -- NO immediate neighbors -- loys of wildlife and no traffic noise and a big block -- which has a wonderful garden and that I can no longer keep to it's best -- but I would neck myself if I ever came to the point of going into care -- plus if you sell and buy you are up for a hell of a lot of stamp duty -- or whatever they intend to put on instead -- you would be better off using some of that money to pay someone to come and do a bit of gardening now and again -- although maybe not be able to afford it very often.
I was interviewed for home help 11 months ago -- and still waiting -- and at this time I do not care to have strangers in my house or near me -- why the hell can't this unthinking government allow us to get the money and pay someone we KNOW is safe and is looking for work to come and do some jobs and they could also be recommended to our other friends, as it is the way it is people are waiting and most DIE b4 they get any help at all -- and they are paid a miserable wage and I have been told by a friend that they got a new person every week and the work was not done right and also -- this below is a quote
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'My elderly mother has had numerous small precious items go “missing” and so many breakages that it would make you weep.
As of July 1st, the hourly rate that is charged to the client's account is Now $60 ! The carers that come around of course don’t get paid anywhere near that amount low to mid $20s, so the care companies are making a killing financially!'
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So why can't they give us the money and we can employ would we wish