The constant battle of weight vs convenience vs wants vs necessity is REAL. I always feel like we're reinventing ourselves. I also love to find new ways to make things better. I love the adventure of diving into the unknown on a project or repair. I've always liked figuring out how things work. For instance, this past week I tackled tearing apart our furnace, doing a tuneup and replacing the burner, igniter, thermostat and sail switch along with the gaskets. First time to dive into a Suburban furnace and I didn't end up with any extra parts. Well... sort of... Any time I tear into a project and open something up, I always find screws or parts that were dropped along the assembly line at Tiffin. I figure we've been able to reclaim a couple of pounds for storage by cleaning out these areas. LOL
We constantly go through our clothing and we are happy to donate articles that we don't use as frequently. We also decided to downsize the Instant Pot. Yup. We're going to put the 8 qt. into storage along with the Crisp Lid and try our hand at the 3 qt. IP. We also have an amazing rice maker (Zojirushi) that I totally love and I'll deal with the IP rice. (You may not believe it but it's vastly different between the two. Rice is not the same in the Instant Pot but to save room, I'll put it into storage and deal with it. My Japanese mother has spoiled me. She is a great cook and Japanese food is my favorite.)
We have also decided to give up the water softener and continue with some good filters and we installed an Acuva Water Purification System. (Acuva Eco NX-Silver UV-LED Water Purifier) We also purchased their smart faucet to go with the system. While we were traveling, we found that we could deal with the hard water that we had in some areas but I found that while boondocking we filled up with only the filter anyway. I didn't want to get the water softener out while people were waiting in line for water, etc... The water in the freshwater take was often times well water and we felt that a purification system would definitely ease our minds about the water we were drinking and using for cooking. So... getting rid of the softener for our winter travel months will be another 50+ lbs that we will free up.
Reinventing ourselves, changing for the better, always looking for ways to downsize and enjoy our fulltime RVing adventure is a good thing!
