Room for Rent? Moving Aboard a 40 ft Sailboat

Walk into your bedroom and take a look around.  Not at the stuff in your room but the actual size of the room.  Bedrooms vary but the average American master bedroom is say 14 x14 or 196 sq feet.  Now imagine that room empty.  Let's start filling it up together but in a new, special way.  One half of the room will be filled with furniture permanently set in place - cabinetry if you will.  In, around, and on top of this cabinetry is filled with tools and parts.  Many, many tools and spare parts.  Food, water, equipment, gear and fuel take up the remaining area in this half of the room.  It's getting pretty full on this half.  Let's turn and focus on the other half of the room - the empty half.  First we need to divide that half into half again (1/4 of room in other words).  In this space we MUST put life saving equipment/tools that we hope to never use.  "WHAT" - you say -"take up vital space in my bedroom with stuff I may not use?"  Yes!  Much like the clothes you hope to lose weight and wear again, this equipment probably (hopefully) won't ever be used.  So now we are left with 1/4 of the room.  In this area, you are allowed to put whatever you like - clothes you wear, hygiene, books, music, hobbies, musically instruments, personal items.   But wait....you share your bedroom with someone so you really don't get 1/4 for your stuff.  You must share that 1/4 so you only get 1/8 of the room for your own personal area.  So how is it going in your 1/8 of the room?  Are you finding space for all your personal treasures?  Oh, I forgot to tell you.  Forget the rest of the house.  You are going to live only in your bedroom, no other rooms.  Your kitchen and bathroom also take up space in this one room as well.  How does it feel?  Essentially your newly filled bedroom is the equivalent of living in a cruising sailboat full time.  Welcome to our (soon to move aboard) new world.  Now you know why we have been purging all of our personal items like crazy trying to get down to the bare minimum.  Friends reading this.....we have more stuff to give you...er gifts, yeah....we have some gifts for you.