Cost of RVing

Gdetrailer wrote:

doxiemom11 wrote:
We have been full-time for 11 years and have never paid over $38.00 for a night of camping with our motorhome. We use Passport America for 50% discounts, have used the Good Sam discount, stay in Corp of Engineer parks, county, city parks and smaller mom & pop campgrounds. We seldom park at a Walmart and have never parked at a truck stop. There are plenty of less expensive places. Of course rates would be higher for a vacation to a special place, but I'm not on vacation. We have full-hookups 99% of the time.

:R

Not "everyone" fulltimes.

Not "everyone" likes to "limit" their camping lives to Corp Engineers, county, city or small mom and pop camps.

Corp Engineer, county and city parks tend to not be available "everywhere" let alone where popular attractions are..

My county has no Corp Engineer parks.

No County parks you can overnight or camp in.

No city parks you can overnight or camp in.

Many city and county parks are not designed for overnighting or camping and gates close at dusk and open at dawn and folks are expected to leave before gates close.

Besides, your fulltiming at $38 per night, that is $13,870 per yr!

I live for free compared to that as I own my home and property and it has been paid off for the last 20 yrs and has gained equity.. My local taxes cost me $800 per yr and gas for heat and electric costs on average $100 each per month.. So, my sticks and bricks costs me an average off about $3,200 per yr or $8.80 per night!

Beat that..

Now THAT'S just funny!!! How's the sticks and bricks work for you on the road? Good MPG? Comfortable? What do you do when you reach your destination in your sticks & bricks??? :W Talk about comparing apples to oranges!

A1ARealtorRick wrote:
Now THAT'S just funny!!! How's the sticks and bricks work for you on the road? Good MPG? Comfortable? What do you do when you reach your destination in your sticks & bricks??? :W Talk about comparing apples to oranges!

Also... what does it matter if the county Gdetrailer lives in doesn't have inexpensive parks? I see little point in taking your RV out, if you're not even going to leave the county -- barring, of course, a few exceptions where counties are geographically massive. Which is certainly not the case up in PA.

And to their greater point - a little planning goes a long way towards finding what you want or an appropriate compromise.

A1ARealtorRick wrote:


Now THAT'S just funny!!! How's the sticks and bricks work for you on the road? Good MPG? Comfortable? What do you do when you reach your destination in your sticks & bricks??? :W Talk about comparing apples to oranges!

Sticks and bricks are my residence, not my RV.

My RV is "mobile" and I can take it anywhere I wish to.

I can hop in the RV and go places or I can choose to stay at my sticks and bricks..

My RV is a temporary retreat, we take it places to hike, bike, sight see, not to live in it full time..

Some of us poor working slobs also have no choice but to have a real sticks and bricks because the job required us to physically show up to a physical building each day and finding campgrounds open in the winter in northern areas are not in the cards.

Dreamy eyed folks buy into the idea that owning and fulltiming in a RV is going to save them tons of money over a real stationary sticks and bricks.. It is not, unless you wallydock 365 a yr and even then you have to heat it, you have to feed it fuel to move when you get chased out of your free spot and you have to spend a lot of money on generating electricity.

When someone says they haven't paid more than $38 per night, it sounds inexpensive, until you add it up for a yr which is $13,870 and that is a lot of money just to park a vehicle each night.. Costs me $8.80 per night to live in a house, park 5 vehicles and a camping trailer plus a flat bed trailer..

Because of that, I can afford to spend some money a couple of weeks a yr camping at more expensive campgrounds around fun attractions and resort destinations instead of way out of the way never heard of backwoods camping spots for $38 per night or resorting to camping in county or a city park???..

Gdetrailer wrote:

A1ARealtorRick wrote:


Now THAT'S just funny!!! How's the sticks and bricks work for you on the road? Good MPG? Comfortable? What do you do when you reach your destination in your sticks & bricks??? :W Talk about comparing apples to oranges!

Sticks and bricks are my residence, not my RV.

My RV is "mobile" and I can take it anywhere I wish to.

I can hop in the RV and go places or I can choose to stay at my sticks and bricks..

My RV is a temporary retreat, we take it places to hike, bike, sight see, not to live in it full time..

Some of us poor working slobs also have no choice but to have a real sticks and bricks because the job required us to physically show up to a physical building each day and finding campgrounds open in the winter in northern areas are not in the cards.

Dreamy eyed folks buy into the idea that owning and fulltiming in a RV is going to save them tons of money over a real stationary sticks and bricks.. It is not, unless you wallydock 365 a yr and even then you have to heat it, you have to feed it fuel to move when you get chased out of your free spot and you have to spend a lot of money on generating electricity.

When someone says they haven't paid more than $38 per night, it sounds inexpensive, until you add it up for a yr which is $13,870 and that is a lot of money just to park a vehicle each night.. Costs me $8.80 per night to live in a house, park 5 vehicles and a camping trailer plus a flat bed trailer..

Because of that, I can afford to spend some money a couple of weeks a yr camping at more expensive campgrounds around fun attractions and resort destinations instead of way out of the way never heard of backwoods camping spots for $38 per night or resorting to camping in county or a city park???..

Spoken like someone who never actually full-timed or tried extended boondocking. It can be as cheap or as expensive as you make it out to be, and of all the people I know, not one of them wallydocks more than a day or two per year and they're asked to leave sites even less often. Most of the people I know work full-time from the road, many of them including myself planning their career paths accordingly to allow them to do so.

Also, you're disingenuously comparing a paid off home to full-timing, which isn't the case for most people. I suspect the majority would be paying rent or a mortgage for a while before that becomes applicable to them.

More importantly, for a lot of people, it's not about the money. There is a difference between full-timing because you want to vs have to.

I think all the usefulness has been wrung from this thread and now it's getting personal.

Closed.