Getting creative with limited space
I am about 5 months away from starting full timing. I have been slowly getting ready for over a year now. I am starting to realize just how tight it's going to be in my little ol' Class B motorhome. A...
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I decided against the plastic shelf in the bed area. For one thing, I'm a few inches too tall for laying straight across it. I hate that my feet touch the opposite wall at all. If I lay diagonally across, I can stand it better. It wakes me up, it seems, if I shift a bit and my feet touch the wall. Unless it was something else that was waking me up.. who knows.
I lived in my 67 Shasta trailer for 6mo in 2008 in an RV park across from 2 busy train tracks with a crossing just down the road. It only took me 2 nights to get used to the train horns at 3am as they rolled past less than 500ft away. But I'm a lot more sensitive about feeling than I am sound... so I could see how maybe I wouldn't be able to get used to feet touching the wall. Maybe wearing socks would help. I may have to try that tonight and see if it does.
You are right about food storage. I can store a few extra canned goods for emergencies just about anywhere else in the van since they won't spill, need no refrigeration, don't easily crush and bugs can't get into them.
One thing that is going to take up a lot of space in my fridge is a 2.5qt pitcher for iced tea. About as small as a pitcher as you can get. Tea is cheap and economical and requires less overall storage than sodas. I rarely drink soda anyway. The sugar will have to be stored in the fridge to avoid inviting ants. Sadly, you can't easily get bags of sugar smaller than 5lbs. I might just have to switch to water to avoid having to store 5lbs of sugar when I buy a fresh bag.
Dirty clothes is going to be an annoyance but a laundry bag or two up on the front seats will do nicely for that. They can be tossed in the back for driving.
I lived in my 67 Shasta trailer for 6mo in 2008 in an RV park across from 2 busy train tracks with a crossing just down the road. It only took me 2 nights to get used to the train horns at 3am as they rolled past less than 500ft away. But I'm a lot more sensitive about feeling than I am sound... so I could see how maybe I wouldn't be able to get used to feet touching the wall. Maybe wearing socks would help. I may have to try that tonight and see if it does.
You are right about food storage. I can store a few extra canned goods for emergencies just about anywhere else in the van since they won't spill, need no refrigeration, don't easily crush and bugs can't get into them.
One thing that is going to take up a lot of space in my fridge is a 2.5qt pitcher for iced tea. About as small as a pitcher as you can get. Tea is cheap and economical and requires less overall storage than sodas. I rarely drink soda anyway. The sugar will have to be stored in the fridge to avoid inviting ants. Sadly, you can't easily get bags of sugar smaller than 5lbs. I might just have to switch to water to avoid having to store 5lbs of sugar when I buy a fresh bag.
Dirty clothes is going to be an annoyance but a laundry bag or two up on the front seats will do nicely for that. They can be tossed in the back for driving.
