Annual cost to fulltime

jorbill2or wrote:
Many stokes for different folks .. That's why seeing many peoples ideas / budgets are important I have no doubt I can full time on 20 grand .. However I don't want to !!! Luckily ( and I know I am) have 3-4 x that amount "all in " if I want to use it so I can stay in " nicer" parks , travel more, eat out more.. It's nice to see budgets that are more like what I'm planning.
Most posts are "how little can I spend and still full time" but that's not my situation and as I've said I know many more who must spend more than they let on but don't want to get run over by others "overspending" ! ;-) in many cases it isn't how cheaply can I full time it's what will it cost to full time under less restrictive circumstances. Everybody has their own normal and that's ok ..

We are in the same situation. We don't have to skimp, we don't really "budget" per se, we track all our expenses. As I mentioned, we spend about $72,000 a year. More if we do something like spend the winter in the Keys (Yikes!) etc. But spending $72,000-$80,000 a year is us not holding back at all. we eat out whenever we feel like it, buy whatever toys (cameras, phones etc) that we want, and stay at whatever RV park we want.
For us, we are spending maybe 15% less than we did when we owned a house. Some of that savings is the fact that we don't "vacation" like we used to. No trips to the caribbean, etc. We have a cat, and cat sitters are tough to come by on the road.

Our first year out we went a little easy on the spending until we saw how it was going. Then we decided we could afford to spend more, and we figured if we ever needed to, we could slow down and volunteer or work camp. We have been, until now, rare fulltimers. We move at least once a week or so, all year long. That adds substantially to the cost- no monthly rates for us, and lots of diesel fuel, but we've had a blast.


Sue