Live big by living SMALLER...our new truck setup!!!

We sold our truck camper. I know, I know, "But you just bought it!!" "But didn't you spend all summer in it?!"  "I thought you guys loved it!" "You Clarks are crazy!'

Yes, we've heard all of the above, and then there's my personal favorite: "You could only have shocked me more if you had said you were pregnant!"

It is nice to know that all our friends and family listen and follow what we do, and are rightfully shocked when we up and sell our home-away-from-home. 

Here's how it happened...

Step 1: Finally bring the truck camper home and unload it for the winter.

Step 2: Take pictures of it, just in case, because it's emptied and clean.

Step 3: Drop camper off at storage.

Step 4: Breathe a collective sigh of relief! It's done, put away for the winter, and all of our belongings are in one place again! Yay!

Step 5: List truck camper on Craigslist (for more than we paid for it) to "see what happens"...

Step 6: Get a legitimate offer in less than one week.

Step 7: Show camper to buyer, start waxing nostalgic.

Step 8: Buyer pays for camper, we make money, and camper gets loaded onto someone else's truck and drives away.

Step 9: Feel equal measures of freedom, joy, and sadness.

Step 10: Take extra cash and pay off car.

Step 11: Start feeling really good about having no car payment, no camper to maintain, and some extra money in the bank!

Step 12: Kasey starts planning an all-out dream vacation to Tahiti in 2016...

Step 13: Hal waits about 48 hours and then starts revamping the back of the truck for our 'new' camper setup...

Over the past weekend, while I was working, Hal managed to outfit our truck bed with a SWEET setup that will let us sleep in the back of the truck in style. He did it all by himself and for less than $75! Can't beat that...

Custom benches for each side of the truck, complete with cubbies

The finished product, which has three separate pieces for the bed, so that you can move them around and even have a headboard, as shown here!

Delta approves!

Bed on top, storage on the bottom! Perfect!

So, that's what we've got going right now. And though I still have some lingering sadness over the truck camper, I'm starting to remember why we wanted to "Live Big by Living Small" in the first place! So much less stress, less commitment, less work in general. 

Now, this isn't to say that we didn't LOVE our time in the truck camper. We did, and spent 70 fantastic nights in it this year. And we were able to sell it for a little more money than we bought it for. That means we lived for over two months in it for FREE! I'll take it!

Thanks for following all our 'Crazy Clark' lifestyle changes!