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Americans Abroad: Sandra and Jeff's Travel Blog

Two Retired Americans traveling and living abroad, on a budget, one country at a time

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Our Backstory Story: How We Traded Our Oregon Home for the World

Last week we met a gal who had lost everything in a fire. Purely a chance encounter but we asked if there was anything else she needed – furniture and such, especially, because we had stuff that needed to be donated or junked and if she could USE any of it, that would be preferable. Yesterday morning Sandra contacted her about coming to see what we had that she could use and arranged a time.

We told her that of all the stuff there – we had set our remaining items aside – if she could use it or she knew someone who could use it or if she thought she could sell it and use the money; just take it. She had a helper show up with a trailer and said they would take it all. I pointed out some things that maybe were just scrap and she said ‘Nope, we’ll take ALL of it’. They loaded up the trailer and both pickups with stuff from the main house and coming back today to get everything from the old house.

Super excited about her taking so much stuff; other wise I was going to have to make a truckload run to the SuperThrift and then another one to the landfill.

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