Using Your RV more like a tent
I am new to rving and one of the things that scares me about it is the maintenance with plumbing and electrical items as well as costs involved. Has anyone purchased an rv and tended to use it more li...
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beemerphile1 wrote:
No I've never used any of my RVs as tents. I pay for luxuries/amenities and I use them.
I'm curious if you live the same way at home. Do you have inside plumbing or do you have an outhouse?
Do you have heating and cooling?
Maybe instead of a refrigerator at home you store your food in the spring house and the root cellar?
Do you have electric lights or maybe you're still using whale oil lanterns?
Maybe I'm being silly, but if you think about it you will see the point.
I'm curious. Why do you care how I use my RV.
No I don't live the same way at home. IF I did, I'd stay home. No need to tow a trailer for hours, and then live as I do all the time. What would be the point?
I camp. I cook outside, I sit outside. I go inside my TT to sleep, and that is all. We don't allow the kids in there unless they are going to bed. When dry camping. We use the CG facilities. I sit a Aquataner on the picnic table to be used for cooking, and cleaning. I heat water on the fire for sink baths. I use lanterns for light. I do use the fridge, as long as the battery holds out, then we use coolers.
However. When we have hookups. We use all the accessories. Except the inside stove. I still cook outside. Again, Camping. And for many reasons ,I don't want the smell of cooked food in the TT. One is, Bears like it too much. The other. I just don't want it in there.
If I was just going to sit in the RV. I'd just stay home, and save the money.
We only bought the TT because it got to the point that it rained every time I started toward the pup with the crank in my hand. The TT is already up and dry. Just got tired of setting up, and tearing down in the rain. That it had a bathroom. Was just a bonus. More storage space :B
