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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cannot tell you how liberating it was to sell our second home two years ago.  I cannot overemphasize how much work/stress it was to maintain another home in a different area.  Our visits were not enjoyable for me.  It would take half a day to pack and load up the car myself and the kids. We arrive, spend another hour unpacking.  Then, you either have to pack groceries or make a grocery run as soon as you get there.  We’d spend a lot of time meeting with AC guys, dealing with the broken dishwasher, figuring out what else needed to be done.  Then, when it was time to go, we’d spend the day cleaning out the refrigerator, taking out the trash, and either arranging for cleaners or cleaning ourselves.  We spent an inordinate amount of our disposable income on things like a new roof or new AC unit for the second home.  Also, we found ourselves almost never going due to kids sports, social obligations, etc.

I will never own a second home again unless I’m wealthy enough to buy a place with a second cottage and have full-time caregiver to take care of the house.[/quote]

Why are you doing so much packing when you go to your own home? Keep extras of toiletries and personal items and maybe even some clothes to minimize the packing and unpacking. I don’t understand about cleaning out the fridge, too. Did you only visit a couple of times/year? 
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+1. That makes no sense. Our multi-million friends are rich but not like mega wealthy and they just have a local woman who cleans, does laundry, and stocks the pantry, fridge and liquor/wine when they're en route. I assume they're just paying the house cleaner an extra hundred bucks or so to do a Target or grocery store drive-thru pickup. That's an insignificant sum of money to have everything stocked when you get there.[/quote]

We just stop at the local liquor store on the way in and stock up. 😀[/quote]

Same here. We stock up and only go a couple times each Summer. If we run out of wine in between visits, then we walk to the little shop in Penny Lane in Rehoboth.[/quote]

Love the little penny lane liquor shop … not that we drink that much! 😀 🍷 🧀 [/quote]

DP and I miss the one that was in the basement of Cultured Pearl. The free tastings were fun! 😂[/quote]

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