So Erik and I are debating selling our camper at the lake. We laid out our pros and cons.
Pros:
1. It is a special experience with our boys.
2. We have made many great friends at Tony's.
3. It is also a great way to keep up with friends that also camp there.
4. We all love the lake, especially when it is sunny and warm.
Cons:
1. Even though boys love it they are exhausted after staying out there due to later bed times, overload of activity, and there schedule gets thrown.
2. Extra expense of the camper and lot rental. Not to mention groceries, gas, etc. So changes that we want to make on our house tend to go on hold.
3. We don't have a boat so we don't have regular access to the water.
4. We love it when its warm, but get no use out of it when it is rainy and cold.
5. The maintenance of our home goes down over the summer and we are trying to win the battle of an overgrown lawn as well as a ridiculous amount of laundry.
6. Since we pay for it we feel like we need to use it and tend to not do anything else over the summer.
So you can probably see where we are leaning. Any thoughts to help a girl out?
4 comments:
ugh...hard call. The lake is so fun when it's nice but it is also a lot of work. Sorry I can't help you decide!
That would be too bad if you left the lake, but it is understandable as to why you need/want to.
You'd always be welcome at Carol's.
Amy
I wish wish wish so much much much for a camper at the lake. I don't even know where there IS such a place around here - I wish we were close enough to the DL area so we could have a spot in a 'familiar' area...seriously.
I'd do it in a heartbeat.
but...then there's the other side...we are busy all. summer. long. We are constantly going to this bbq or that wedding, this car show or that person's hickamabob...So if I DID have such a place...when the heck would I go to it?
Especially as your kids are getting older and getting involved with things like baseball, etc...
not an easy decision for you to be sure...
I don't want to be a bubble-burster, but it looks like a pretty straightforward call to me, based on your own list of pros and cons. Just from a financial and time standpoint, think of the different ways you could invest that money and the time if you weren't always feeling pulled to the camper?
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