I Moved 17 Times in 10 Years...
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I just found your channel and binged many of your videos because they are so comforting. It's surprising to me that videos such as this one don't have more views. Your storytelling is engaging and you seem like such a lovely person!
Aw thank you so much!!
I totally agree! You should watch her other channel, called Charlie Nebe, it's storytelling at its best!!!
I have lived in 37 homes, and 7 states in my 80 years. And I have also organized the DVDs at Walmart.
Oh, the snowpocalypse. In Alabama, we called it snomagedden.
Excellent video! I loved it and your map is awesome! Thank you for sharing some of your history. I hope you do more stories ☺️😌
I vote for Storytime with Charlie!!!
Also, don't stay somewhere just for family. So many people I know are "stuck" because they live near relatives, and they feel guilty for wanting to leave.
YOLO
GO!!!!
I attended 14 schools in 12 years... I think. We moved a lot. After age 18 I moved less, about every 2 years. Then I bought 5 acres in the mountains and here 10 years. The longest ever. I like your idea.
ooh this just inspired me to do one for the schools i moved to. i didn’t move states at all in my school years but i swear i’ve been to almost 10 schools and i couldn’t do the logos and stuff
I love it that you're an extreme introvert like me. I really relate with the "learning to play on your own" idea. If I had to wait for someone to go with me before doing the things I want, I'd have a very limited life. I go to restaurants, I travel, I do movies, dancing, anything I want. It's very freeing.
I'm trying not to want to know about the Oklahoma Pregnancy comment, because you just breeze past it, and I understand that it is personal, but my mind is just spinning it's wheels. I am on my own pregnancy journey and I immediately want to hear other people's experiences. I also want to know how you and Matt met and all of that.
Hope your journey has been going well. I had a baby in February and have had a bit more time to watch lovely videos like this one.
Great idea! Loved hearing the stories!
What a wonderful surprise to find out that you had a baby. In all of your videos…I haven’t heard about your baby. What did you have: a boy or a girl? It’d be so much fun to see pics of your Bundle of Joy! Congratulations 🎈 to you & your Husband…even though it was 2ish years ago…I just found out!
I love this idea! I completely agree with doing things on your own, some of the best experiences I’ve had were going to concerts, traveling, seeing movies, etc. on my own. Enjoying your own company is one of the best things you can learn to do.
Preach! It can feel a little awkward at times, but then you start enjoying your own company so much!
Learning to enjoy your own company is the best gift you can give to yourself and actually others too, as those who don't can become demanding in a way that actually ironically pushes people away.
I shared this with my 21yo. I think you have a lot of exceptional advice packed in here. Dare I say even Wisdom? I think so, even if some of it you were merely passing along. I believe that is also a sign of a good person, knowing what advice you were given and which of it to share and what of it needs to stop and age on out of here 😁 Oh, I saw a video that made me think of you. If you ever want to move again, France might be a good choice. The facilities that make Leavers Lace I believe it is, they employ workers to run the looms and also lace inspectors that, once the lace is off the loom if they find any mistakes they fix the weave by hand. You have to learn/know Every Single Stitch to do this job and they don't exactly have people lined up for these positions. There's only like 100 looms left and once they're no longer anyone around to fix those then no more lace can be made on the looms. Sounded like a project you and Matt would take on one day 😂
Oo I saw that video too! Was absolutely fascinated.... I am dying to tour Europe just to see and learn about embroidery and lace. Someday! (And thank you so much for your kind words my friend!)
Seen that one too I loved the idea, wish I had seen it when I was in my 30’s and not then my 50’s 😹😹 now 60 but that would have been a dream job, I have noticed more and more younger people have been turning back the clock to the older arts, so just maybe it will gain some traction in the future.🤗
@@dawsie I have seen this trend starting back too. I'm hopeful that all the lost arts will be restored! 💙
What a great idea! I loved hearing all your stories, and the map turned out beautiful. Congrats on finding your true home, too!
I love to hear your stories! I binge watch when I get the rare opportunity and have enjoyed everything. Thank you for sharing Charlie!
Contra Dancing! At least that's how I learned about English Country Line Dancing. For some reason in the 1980s, it was really popular among certain historical re-enactors in Boston, and they had Contra Dances in various places, and I learned how to do all the dances fairly well. It was so much fun!
You had such an eventful and varied life! I am in my early 20s' and can't live on my own nor travel much due to health reasons so watching videos like this one is my way of travelling and discovering the world from my room, and you have such a contagious energy and compelling way to tell stories I'd listen to an hour long video about each of the places you lived. And the final life-map looks so good and really makes dream. I kind of want to make a similar map of the books that really mattered in my life now...
Also, I discovered your channel less than a week ago and I'm just binge watching it now, you are so creative and interesting and fun!
I, too, am one who recently discovered your channel and am enjoying it thoroughly. I’m probably old enough to be your grandmother which prompts me to write about your comments about the Italian wine, Lambrusco. Decades ago in the hinterlands of Southern California known as Cucamonga there were several wineries. One was named Opici, and they indeed sold Lambrusco wine! I believe these days in the city of Ranch Cucamonga there remains only one winery. I gave up alcohol years ago but from time to time I have seen Lambrusco in Italian specialty markets and when I do it always makes me smile.
PS- I’m smiling again at the story of your bruised derrière. I, too, have a bruise photo of my completely purple left bun.”
Delightful video! So cool to hear all these stories from different places. I can relate to the butt bruise story. Fell down the stairs a few years ago and also got a huge impressive bruise on my behind. I video called my mum to show it to her because it was so impressive :D
Someone organized our Walmarts play dough bin. I think to many people were annoyed that they had been dumped by color so you were out of luck unless you wanted one of the top two colors. Must of been a mess when pulling them all back out. Lol
I can't express enough how much I enjoy your channel and your stories. Keep them coming. You are inspiring to this 64 yo.🎉
Aw, you brighten my day! Thank you so much for being here!
What a delightful video, Charlie! ❤️
Love this video! Life map, very cool. Stay sweet! Tell more stories.😊😊
I loved watching this tonight! I am in the midst of contemplating my life choices and this was just...oddly well-timed.
I have slowly become in love with your channel and I am working my way through all your videos. I have really enjoyed all of your videos but this one has been so lovely. I was genuinely shocked when you said you were pregnant in Oklahoma. It felt like when your parents just drop some lore from college while you are eating dinner.
i've been watching you for months and just now found out your husband is brazilian and you've been here! that makes me irrationally happy.
Oh my goodness, you were born the year my husband and I met!
I so wish I would have traveled abroad when I had the chance. One day when my kids are grown I hope to have time to travel around Europe with the hubs.
I organized towels in Marshalls. It was driving me crazy!
I put a quarter million miles on my stick shift/no air conditioning/no cruise control 1985 VW golf. When I became divorced at age 32, I made myself a life that included going to big cities because I enjoy big cities. I nearly moved to Mexico and had a 10 year plan. I almost moved to Chicago before that. I ended up staying in my same city which isn’t big enough for me, but I found my current husband of 27 years. His community in this city that I grew up in is so extraordinary that I don’t have any desire to leave this town anymore. Winter is really gray in Lansing, Michigan. However, the humans in this town our worth staying for. And the Arts community is really good. All the creative people know all the other creative people. Our town is about 120,000 people in the city proper. It’s the city which is the capital of Michigan and it’s also next to a Big 10 university town. I prefer cities with big museums and skyscrapers and subway system, but at least we get good entertainment coming to town and we are an hour from Grand Rapids Michigan, less than two hours from Detroit, and only about five hours from Toronto. Because our cost of living is low, we get to travel to all these other places which are just fabulous. So life is good. And yes driving a quarter million miles alone in a basic transportation box with no cell phone was one of the most life enhancing experiences I’ve ever had.
Found your channel and also am binging because that's how I am, and I had to throw in that Lambrusco wine is incredible, and also available at your local Trader Joe's! Okay, back to watching!!
Now I know why you were recommended to me. I'm Brazilian!!
I loved hearing your stories - thank you for being vulnerable enough to share it!! ❤️ You've had some amazing adventures with some ups and downs - and I'm so glad you found Matt to live life with and enjoy what life brings together!!
This was delightful. You were so brave to simply follow your wishes moving from one place to the next. I've always been to scared. I'll try again
2 years late but enjoyed your story telling, glad you are still doing that ^^
I’m sewing while Listening to your soothing and exciting stories. My life story has too many criminal family members, all of whom were pillars of society, I wonder what kind of humor I could add to brighten things up!
Well color me intrigued already! Sounds like you could start a true crime podcast about your own relatives! XD
If you enjoyed English country dances, you might enjoy a Ceilidh (pronounced KAY-lee), though they're probably rare outside Scotland. It's a party, but with these Scottish group dances, maybe a little more active, but I think a lot of them have callers that help you learn the moves and call them out as you go. I've also only seen them with a live band :)
D'oh, posted that before you reached Scotland, I'm sure you know all about Ceilidhs 😅
I am also way more extroverted while traveling 😂. I'm a travel nurse and doing something like this is super interesting!! I love the way you tell stories. It feels like chatting with a good friend! Also, being from Oklahoma, that is not an untrue assessment 🤣
I loved your stories and I now know where in the southeast you grew up saying “y’all”. (I’m Louisiana)
I would love more videos like this! It’s nice to put on while I work, because you give me inspiration to actually work on my craft projects after work.
I so loved this video even tho im watching a year later..... from South Africa xx
I am two years younger than you and have lived in the same state my entire life. Heck, besides moving 300 miles inland for college, the same city my entire life. Maybe my thirties will be my time, because my 20s sure weren't! Thank you for sharing.
I just realized we are the same age and you are so inspiring and brave. I’ve been alone most of my life (I also have trouble making friends lol) and what you said about just going experiencing things by yourself resonated so much. I’ve never travelled on my own but your Iceland and Scotland stories greatly motivated me to travel on my own. Thank you so much for much for your channel and your content, it’s amazing!
The real version of a Pensieve.
Hey, I LOVE Desk Set! It's my favorite Hepburn/Tracey film
If I where to make one of these it would need to be for a king sized bed spread. Like you I didn’t start moving till I was 18 years old but since then I have moved 57 times. I’m now 61 yo, but I know I still haven’t finished on my journey.
Oh my goodness, that's amazing!!
Loved your storytelling! And your stitching, too. I've went on a hike in Norway (from Germany, so not so far away from me) on my own. It's a pilgrim path from Oslo to Trondheim and in total 600 km long. I honestly only did the first and the last section, so a bit over 200 km and it was so great. Doing everything on my very own pace. Sometimes going a passage with somebody I met on the way and enjoying nature, walking and my heavy backpack 😂
Even walking through a swamp with feet in the mud were worth it because in the end you were at a cozy hostel (with shoe dryers), sharing your room with nobody to up to 15 other people. Similar like your experience in London people often were surprised that I did the trip on my own. Like to do the missing 400 km one day in the future.
I like this idea. I might have to do them for my parents.
I was so fascinated listening to you, I didn't realize the time! I lived in 8 countries, and numerous places... what a great idea.... I wish I could embroider like that!
Thank you! That's so exciting - I wish I could get up to 8 different countries!
The TH-cam algorithm has come your way a number of times. I enjoy needlework. I then so enjoyed your video of your time on the Hampton Court course. This video of your own personal stories was lovely. Thank you for sharing. And must not forget the embroidery design is just great. Annette, West Sussex england
this was such a fun vid. you're two years younger than me and you've done so much more than i have lol.. but i do love hearing your stories
Aw thanks! It does feel like a lot, but there's also so, so many experiences I didn't have because I was too busy running around working random jobs.
@@gettheetothestitchery It's all a trade-off, isn't it?!
I'm just stumbling onto your channel here and loving your videos. Super fun - I was also a Stage Tech on Carnival, but I left in 2017. I met my now husband on the Glory. Thanks for the content, I'm pinning my new skirt together.
What a cool video! And such fantastic stories. So much history in a short amount of time. I went to Scotland and England once with my dad (researching family history in Edinburgh and Brechin). Of all the places we went, while the area around Brechin was gorgeous, if money and laws were no object, I'd pick up my sheep and husband and belongings and move to Scotland. I might even downsize my wool and fleece stash for that. But I'll settle for visiting again. And have a good cry when I got there, because that easily-crying thing? Yeah. Thanks for sharing all your memories! Hope you do another something like this again (even after the questions video).
Yes please.. more stories
Have to agree with others, I enjoyed the stories/chat vibes o this one! been bige watching random episodes and it really did feel story time with a friend you haven't seen for a while.
Your are an amazing story teller. Thank you.
Love this idea. Great for a square of a large quilt.
this was a while ago, i loved learning more about you. you are so brave to go and get what you want. to actually make it happen. i didn't know you had kids. i'm guessing that it didn't work out. i'm sorry. the part that i like best is the part that you said blah. i'm a huge romantic. i would love to see more of your wedding dress. if your ok with it of corse. you are a wonderful story teller and those memories are precious. love from Utah!!
This was fabulous! I love the embroidery and the stories were awesome.
Howdy from Texas. 👋🏼 This was a great idea and it is always enjoyable listening to people tell stories of their “non-traditional” life experiences. Thanks for sharing.
I loved this!
Im desperate to move, but until i save up I'll live vicariously through your videos x
I really love your channel. I was served my first viewing by TH-cam randomly and I am so glad that they recommended you to me! 😊
I think I am going to try this idea with the houses I have lived in. I love maps and mixed media and you have sparked some ideas for me. Thank you!
I love port. I am really going to enjoy some when I am drinking for 1 again.
Great idea and I really like how you "candyland-ed" the layout. I might have a go at this documenting the 19 places I've lived. Just one thing...you kind of glossed over your Oklahoma time after saying something very important.
It's the perfect layout for showing all your previous homes - especially with a grand total of 19! You should definitely try it out! (And yeah, I had to gloss over that area because otherwise the video would have been waaaaaaay too long - I can go on for ages!)
Thank you for asking but not asking that question. That was why I came. Hmmm. Still wondering.
I love your stories! I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about all your adventures while you made your life map. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Love your result! Would you mind telling me what type of fabric you’re using? I’ve got some unbleached flour sack kitchen towels that I think would be nice but I’m concerned they may be too dark.
Yes. I love your storytelling and I would listen to anything you had to tell. Keep it up.
💙 Thank you for sharing your story! BTW, I can't feel my feet so if I stand and close my eyes I have no sensation at all of where I am and is in its own way a sensory deprivation. I will loose my balance and fall if I don't hold on to something so not exactly a good thing but you got me thinking I should look at it differently and see if I can make it work for me lol
Oh my goodness, I'm sure that's a crazy and often scary feeling to have! I loved the sensory deprivation, but it was only an hour, so I'm sure living with that all the time is really tough.
As a military family we moved every two or three years and sometimes more often for 20 some years.
Your time in OK is some of the best times I’ve had here! You’ve always been such an inspiration to me.
Aww love you! I have such fond memories of both times in OKC... which is saying a lot, because let's be real... it's a little boring there. Hahahahaha
@6:20 hey! I live there too!!! It’s so pretty here!
I love this. I 2017, I did a stitch a day project, and did a large rectangle piece. I still need to frame it properly, but it has everything I could find from forays across the internet as well as an needlework book my mother got me when I graduated from high school.
I love this idea and definitely want to do it too!!
I grew up in Long Beach, CA and I also love it here. The Sun, wind, rain (when it decides to come) the sand and snow. Gorgeous. So grateful. Your embroidery is also beautiful 💖
It's a beautiful place to live for sure! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much, what a lovely idea this was, thank you for sharing your story ❤❤
Holding up my end of the Core member deal 😁. I am now going through your back catalogue and i very much enjoy these stories. I am just sitting in my kitchen and watching while I eat my breakfast.
Loved listening to all your stories, this was the perfect video to have on in the background whilst stitching :) Maybe the shaving your legs in a remote Iclandic hot spring is my favourite x')
That was definitely one for the books!
That was really cool. Thankyou.
This was so fun! I’ve only moved a couple of times and never far away even though I’ve always wanted to. Maybe I should embroider my “health journey” because there are some *interesting* stops on that road 😅
Also your wedding dress was gorgeous!!!!
This is such a cool idea. Now you are making me think that it would be a great idea to do. Well now, on my list it goes😅😂
Amazing video. I love the project and your story telling.
I love your story telling, and this is such a neat idea!
I saw your post on Instagram first, typed out a question and then felt very silly when, yet again, I came over to TH-cam and realised all the answers were probably in the video. So, I deleted the Instagram comment and started watching. Now I feel old. But I did like listening to your stories.
Hahahaha you are cracking me up! Clearly, I love to talk, so I'll always answer questions!
As a child we moved many times. We deing me, my dad and my mum. I got married at nearly 20 and the house garry and bought our house and lived in it for 20yrs. Then we moved to another house. We have lived here for 22yrs now. ( 42yrs married)
I love your stories ❤❤❤❤ just moved again from upstate New York to Northwest OKLAHOMA….😊
I love the stories.
AWESOME !!! Pregnant in Oklahoma in '17 ? My sister worked on the Imagination as a croupier Thanks for sharing 🥰🤩
That's so cool! I always love to hear about others who worked the same ships as me - it's such a small world!
i love your stories
I absolutely love your stories!
Absolutely amazing video! Let’s work on that Portuguese speaking, your accent is perfect!
This is ABSOLUTELY wonderful! I moved around a whole bunch as a child, and then, um, also a whole lot as an adult, but I think I've finally found "my" home in the Ozarks. But I haven't been to as many far-flung places as you! Super curious as to where you went to college (I'm near Fayetteville), but I noticed you almost explicitly don't mention it, so maybe that's being too curious.
You meeting a son of the 9 Old Men reminded me of a time when my sister and I were driving... somewhere... why?... hmmm... anyway, we stopped at Iowa 80 (the "World's Largest Truckstop" on, shockingly, Interstate 80 through Iowa) in the dead of night. We were browsing one of the gift shops all alone when [long story on someone else's platform deleted] we came upon a very old man who was a former Queen's Piper!
That's so cool!
Since you're in Arkansas, you might have heard of my university actually - I went to Ouachita Baptist! I usually don't mention it by name just because most people haven't heard of it (and I don't have the highest opinion of it either to be honest).
@@gettheetothestitchery Ahhhhh, I just transcribed an interview with a guy who grew up like a block from OBU and ended up going there! He goes on at some length about the Battle of the Ravine. It's an interesting little town.
I was wondering where you went to college! I went to Harding! I ended up living in AR for 8 years...undergrad and grad school, plus another year. @@gettheetothestitchery
Beautiful
Given your criteria of "living somewhere", I've lived in 47 places, including Europe and Asia.
I spent my whole life moving even before I was born lol, my Mom moved twice while pregnant with me, from the Shetlands to a small village in England then back to the Shetlands to be with Gran when she had me, but the same week she did that they came off the motor bike after a ewe decided to run out in-front of them, Mom made it back home to Lerwick where I was not meant to be born for another 6 weeks came early. We lived there for about a year then back to that small village again(my father was airforce he spent time at the Shetland base and the English base) we lived in a cottage that was over 500 years old attached to the pub right over the cellars 😹😹😹you could feel and hear each new barrel rolled down the Shute. We moved twice more after he left the airforce by then I was 3, in between those moves we also travelled back to the Shetlands between each move, when I was 4 we moved back to England to a new village where they ran a taxi business (he was bad at it) my one good memory was when he caught a live Pheasant and let it lose in the cottage😹😹we moved again after the business failed.
That’s when he was no longer part of our lives, it was also when my brother and I were placed in an orphanage for 6 months until Mom won custardy of both myself and brother after all of his and his mothers lies, by then Mom had a new man in her life who I later called Dad.
We moved again when Dad joined the British Army. Then before my 6th birthday they got married which meant we got to move again into Army quarters this time. By the time I was not even 7 when we moved 5 more times once back to the Shetlands because Dad was stationed in Germany at the wall and then to Ireland, once he was back in England we moved back into new army quarters.
Shortly after that Dad ended up in hospital for 6 months which also brought his army career to an end. We moved in with Mom’s brother for 8 months when we were granted a housing commission unit. It’s more like a full two story house built together with others of the same kind just 3 high and 50 long, all on top of their respective lockups on the ground floor 😹😹.
This was also when Mom stopped homeschooling us and we finally got to go back to school again.(was pulled from school after a teacher hit me over the head with her umbrella) there was a kindergarten school for my brother and junior high school on the estate that I went to that’s when Dad went back to school after work. We lived there until I was 14, (2 broken arms and one broken leg plus appendix operation not in that order😹)
We moved one more time into our very first own home in 1976 few months before Christmas 😹 we got to celebrate the silver jubilee for QEII in the new home the whole street was closed off on the offical weekend and we got to line the street with the dinning tables down the centre for a very long street party we hung flags and lights across the street I was sporting yet another broken arm 😹😹yep I was accident prone as a teenager 😹😹 we lived there until the 12th December 1978 which was also the day we left the UK to move to Sydney Australia.
I have moved yet 14 more times until my last move 15 years ago. I have spent 90% of my life moving do I still get itchy feet, you bet ya 😹😹but the accidents of my childhood have all come home to roost in my 50’s now that I have turned 60 I wish most of all to make one last move back to the Shetlands where all of Mom’s family live and where Mom’s ashes now lay with her parents. Dad has his family back in Sydney (reason why my parents moved 800km away😹) as Dad put it Mom’s family was more like a family than His. He too would love to move to the Shetland but Covid rules that out we won’t have the vaccine so we can not travel😼😼😼Dad can not move now because he’s had 7 micro strokes which has left him wobbly at the best of times. As he has said the story is not over yet and times are a changing yet again.
Did I mention I also managed to cram 2 months of intense trailing in the US where I traveled through 8 States in 6 weeks (was meant to be 8 wks but had to leave earl for a new job)
Yep I love travailing 😹 but I have always felt the need to keep moving. The past 15 years changed that plus my 5 cats and my Dad have me grounded for now 😊😊😊
I should make a travel story picture but as of yet not sure how I want to make it, I was thinking along the lines of merging pictures but no dates just too many dates in my story line to use.
Seeing this now, hearing you talk about not moving for some time. Makes me sad
I ❤❤❤ this!!!!
I lived in my childhood home until I was 24, at which time my fiance and I bought a house. We have since divorced, but I am still in that house. So I've lived in a total of 2 houses in my whole life. I'm now 64. LOL I just can't picture packing and moving so many times. Yikes.
we moved 8 times in my first 5 years of married life. this lead to all kinds of problems with our kids...now I have been in the same house for 20years. i dont like moving. at all.
What is English Line Dancing please?
sometimes you find the place that feels like home and you have to leave 😭😭😭
What is the fabric you are embroidering on, please? I can't see any hint of a weave and am very interested to know.
I'm honestly not sure because I got it for free from a stash, but it's almost like vinyl? On the front it's smooth and sort of plastic-ish or faux leather-ish and on the back it's slightly fuzzy... I wasn't sure how well it would do for embroidery, but it actually worked nicely!
Thanks@@gettheetothestitchery - That sounds very interesting indeed. Presumably, like vinyl, undoing anything will leave holes?