Planning ahead... for moving.

[Pappy]

After bouncing around the world with a family as a Marine, working in Hobby Shops, and living in base housing for 16 years we bought a house and I don't see another move. I spent most of first 18 years in the same house, the wife moved every few months to a year.

With that in mind, everything I do to the place is what we like and want.

[LinuxRandal]

Barring me winning the Powerball, and buying a late friends house (bosses father in law, we talked about what it would take to convert it and it would end up with a 7 car garage), I am going to stay where I am. It gets paid off in just over three years (and I hate debt) and was a bear in some respects to move into.
When I moved, one of my bosses, and the forementioned late bosses father in law helped. I got my brothers help for an hour, at great expense. No one else in the family had the time of day. I moved my brother three times, my sister twice, my parents (and all three groups within 30 days about 5 years ago). Yet I now design stuff so that I alone move it (I don't have a couch). Plan like you do, and live like your not, is my view.