How do you decide how much to spend on an RV
We've been RVing for 16-17 years now, and are looking for a new RV, but are struggling on how much we are willing to spend. We are pretty conservative when it comes to spending money. We really ...
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Our old 5th wheel doesn’t really get used much and we are quite satisfied with it so spending more to get something better doesn’t have much of an appeal but I think if I were to retire and planned on spending much more time camping there’s two ways I could see myself putting a limit on what we would spend on a new unit.
1. I think I’d have a hard time having more than about 5% of my net worth tied up in something like a trailer.
2. I could see coming up with a formula like: days per year spent in the trailer x $60 per day x 10 = price of fiver. So if I was planning on using it 100 days per year I might be willing to spend 60k and if I wanted to full time with it I might be willing to spend $220k.
1. I think I’d have a hard time having more than about 5% of my net worth tied up in something like a trailer.
2. I could see coming up with a formula like: days per year spent in the trailer x $60 per day x 10 = price of fiver. So if I was planning on using it 100 days per year I might be willing to spend 60k and if I wanted to full time with it I might be willing to spend $220k.
