I feel like you constantly 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 do not need that much property to yourself, and somehow, my Dad did not 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 property than ever. We never had as much house or as much home as my Dad does now, all on her own. She is 60 years old and living on a small horse farm. Her property is quite spacious and it seems like it would create a lot of problems. First of all, I am not sure why she wants to keep up with cleaning that big of a space. Secondly, she says that her utility bills are outrageous because the cost of heating a big space like that is really significant. She said that the insulation in the property is not great and even though she has replaced all of the windows with double-pane insulated glass, she feels many cold drafts coming from the outside. I feel like she has paying and heating up a entirely big home when she can only occupy a single room at a time, and maybe she should beginning with downsizing her heating space. That’s why I, for Christmas this year I am getting her zone controlled heating and cooling, whether she enjoys it or not. If she won’t downsize her house, then I willdownsize the workload for her Heating and Air Conditioning system.