The Zen of Full Timing - Living Comfortably
The Buddha taught that Attachment was suffering. Attachment having to do with, on one level, the amount of stuff one has. Well if preparing to be full-timers doesnt bring you face to face with the ...
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4X4Dodger wrote:
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1. Real Wine Glasses The best ones you can get. A set of four
2. One set of 4 real plates (not plastic or melmac) and silverware
3. A set of 4 Real glass drinking glasses
4. Really good sheets and bedding – no sleeping bags except as guest sleeping.
5. A really good comfortable chair – one inside and one for outside
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We've already done this and we are not full timers. My attitude about my TT is, it's my personal resort. I want it to be my private 5 star motel. So we've already supplied it with the best we could get. We do use Correlle Ware however, instead of real China.
Also, our first camping trip of the "season" has a tradition, been doing this for years now: First night out (usually in the campground and set up by now) ... it's a really nice red sweet wine and cheese and crackers for supper. It's elegant, and "romantic". There's just something about that first night "out". So it's 100% special!
First morning out (after the first night) ... breakfast ... is ALWAYS T-bone steak and eggs. We usually wake up normal time, but don't actually get up and moving until around 9:00 or 10:00. So first meal of the day is usually mid-morning! We make it 100% special! We've not missed doing either one of these activities in over 15 years now. We did the same thing when tent camping, and also with our PUP. The kids ate good at least once a year! (They had Sparkling Grape Juice. We never told them it was not alcoholic. They figured it out after a few years though!)
On a more routine campout, (not full timing now), we purchased a good electric flat griddle, a good electric skillet, and a set of real fireplace pokers and tools for campfires.
Sheets and blankets are a high quality, we replace the pillows every Spring, and we use a good soft toilet paper! Not the cheap junk or the RV stuff.
AND.... we use electric blankets ... dual controls, king size for lots and lots of coverage!
Our trailer is our 5 star resort. It's not a trailer, it's our resort. We've done the "rough and rugged camping" enough when we were younger. Now it's time to REALLY enjoy life! I'm not a full timer. Maybe I never will be, but we do keep the trailer supplied with the best we can get!
