I feel like you always hear about people growing older, their children moving out, and then downsizing to a smaller place.
It’s just the natural progression of things when your family is no longer under the same roof and you don’t need that much house to yourself.
Somehow, my mom didn’t get the message. Even though all of her kids are grown and moved out of the house, for some reason, she is living in a larger house than ever. We never had as much property or as much home as my mom does now, all on her own. She is 60 years old and living on a small horse farm. Her house is quite spacious and it seems like it would create a lot of problems. First of all, I’m not sure why she wants to keep up with cleaning that big of a space. Secondly, she says that her energy bills are outrageous because the cost of heating a large space like that is very significant. She said that the insulation in the house isn’t great and even though she’s replaced all of the windows with double-pane insulated glass, she feels many cold drafts coming from the outside. I feel like she’s paying and heating up a really big home when she can only occupy a single room at a time, and maybe she should start with downsizing her heating space. That’s why I, for Christmas this year I’m getting her zone controlled heating and cooling, whether she likes it or not. If she won’t downsize her house, then I’ll downsize the workload for her HVAC system.