Full Time Living Recap (Almost 1 Year)
I am making this post in part for my own benefit and in part for others. I have posted and read here for at least 5 years in preparation to try living in an RV full time. My goal was to see other pa...
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You are one of those people on that cable TV show "Going RV" where newbies go to an RV lot and look at RV's and have really really bad opinions of RV based on them having never been camping or ever been in an RV.
"oh, this fridge is too small"
"the bedroom is too small"
"the closet is too small for ME"
"I dont want to have to fold down the bed every day"
"not enough TVs in the camper"
"I dont like the stripes"
"propane stove, ick"
just on and on, not that you are this dumb, as this TV show highlights the worst things newbies at RV lots say or do... But, sounds like you made a series of bad decisions. Buying two new vehicles then complaining of depreciation when you lose half the value as soon as you drive it away is not a full-time RV issue, that is your personal economics issue.
Too small a space is another bad decision, and makes it sound like you really are not the RV type...
Yes, it is bad to RV in hot places in the summer or cold places in the winter, but being mobile you could have planned it better and been in comfortable places more.
I would have towed a used trailer with slide-outs (bigger foot print than motorhome) and an over-compensated truck to tow it. One insurance payment instead of two, one motor to maintain, one transmission etc... Buying used you either do not lose much or break even or get lucky and sell camper for more than you paid, which I always do.
Buying used and paying cheap enough you spend less than the new one would depreciate as soon as you drive off the lot, so even if when you get done you just abandon the camper somewhere you come out ahead of a new one... that is if cost is priority over maybe more reliability of a new, but new ones always need to be fixed, where possible some used ones have already been fixed. 1,000 possibilities here so hope beginner forum users dont try to explore every single one of them...
Anyway, congrats for getting out there and seeing the country, you made memories. Yes, it is hard living in an RV, so much more comfortable in a big house where you can spread out, but you make sacrifices to do the traveling. This is just an individual thing, some people enjoy roughing it, and some people dont want to. There have been times where Im stuck in RV in places that are not destination worthy and I get bored and am ready to give up, other times I pinch myself everyday that I wake up to the vistas and location and cant believe Im there....
"oh, this fridge is too small"
"the bedroom is too small"
"the closet is too small for ME"
"I dont want to have to fold down the bed every day"
"not enough TVs in the camper"
"I dont like the stripes"
"propane stove, ick"
just on and on, not that you are this dumb, as this TV show highlights the worst things newbies at RV lots say or do... But, sounds like you made a series of bad decisions. Buying two new vehicles then complaining of depreciation when you lose half the value as soon as you drive it away is not a full-time RV issue, that is your personal economics issue.
Too small a space is another bad decision, and makes it sound like you really are not the RV type...
Yes, it is bad to RV in hot places in the summer or cold places in the winter, but being mobile you could have planned it better and been in comfortable places more.
I would have towed a used trailer with slide-outs (bigger foot print than motorhome) and an over-compensated truck to tow it. One insurance payment instead of two, one motor to maintain, one transmission etc... Buying used you either do not lose much or break even or get lucky and sell camper for more than you paid, which I always do.
Buying used and paying cheap enough you spend less than the new one would depreciate as soon as you drive off the lot, so even if when you get done you just abandon the camper somewhere you come out ahead of a new one... that is if cost is priority over maybe more reliability of a new, but new ones always need to be fixed, where possible some used ones have already been fixed. 1,000 possibilities here so hope beginner forum users dont try to explore every single one of them...
Anyway, congrats for getting out there and seeing the country, you made memories. Yes, it is hard living in an RV, so much more comfortable in a big house where you can spread out, but you make sacrifices to do the traveling. This is just an individual thing, some people enjoy roughing it, and some people dont want to. There have been times where Im stuck in RV in places that are not destination worthy and I get bored and am ready to give up, other times I pinch myself everyday that I wake up to the vistas and location and cant believe Im there....
