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Next week I am ordering my fuselage kit which will be paid in full, and shortly after that the finish kit too. It's a good thing to join the ranks of full time RV'ers.
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I can relate. I owned my cherry Cessna 150 for 18-1/2 years. I loved that plane. But people kept telling me that once the RV was flying, I would lose interest. I just didn't believe it. But they were right. It was not until my 6A was flying that I truly came to resent it, not because of the obvious differences in performance...that is to be expected...but mostly because of its recurrent costs for parts, service, annual inspections, etc. Owning an experimental airplane really puts that into perspective.
December past, the 150 found its perfect home. A captain for a major airline bought it for his 16 year old son. The son's first flying lesson was with his father ferrying that little 150 hundreds of miles back home. After several stops, it finally made it to its new home 12 hours later arriving with an uneventful night landing. The new owner called me and couldn't have been more pleased. Now
that part of the story was bittersweet for me.
This shot is the last time I saw N3107X as it departed my airport one final time on the morning of December 17, 2006.
After the check cleared, I bought the RV-8 kit.
Finally!!
Now that my 6A is flying at about 100 hours per year I am so happy I got rid of the 172 even though it was a nice plane it was a gas guzzling slow poke. A Mooney may be a bit more difficult to give up except as you implied there is more Money in Mooney than in an RV! 
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