McMansions On Wheels, Have We Gone To Far
Just curious if others out there like me that think "Have we gone to far as to camping in a RV that cost many thousands of dollars", I sort of think how we use to camp back in the 50's, 60's and 70's,...
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Slowmover wrote:
I doubt anyone with a Newell goes "camping". And the thread title implies other than tent versus giant RV.
I take it to read that towables (in main) have gotten to be too much. And I agree. I can hardly see how my grandparents fulltimed across the US, Canada and Mexico without much more than clothing and food. That all aluminum 28' Streamline did the rest. The combined rig wouldn't have weighed much more than 13k.
Today there are these lumbering dinosaurs where the trailer itself weighs far more than that. What more is on offer? More space to heat and cool? More time spent cleaning?
Why on earth would someone want to solo in a one ton versus a full size car? Etcetera.
Mysteries abound.
Quantity replaced quality as a measure somewhere along the way.
Sort of like the size of the average American nowadays versus his forebear and the quality of their respective educations.
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Just read posts here when folks are asking about buying an RV. Within 5 posts, the "buy bigger than you think you need" comments start coming out. As a solo camper with two large dogs, I've read many posts telling a potential solo camper with one medium dog that they need at least 27ft to be comfortable. I do it very comfortably in 21ft.
I think as a people, we have been bulls$!!! by advertising. We fall for the ploys easier than ever before. People don't know when to analyze a statement, let alone how to analyze it. They read "apples last longer than PCs" and they see it as a fact without looking into it further. They read "go bigger than you think you need" and they take that as a gospel truth.
I also think that many people fall into the "high" to buy. My dad used to do this. He would buy something new and would absolutely love it. But as soon as someone else bought one (regardless of age, quality, etc.), he was suddenly disillusioned with his and within 2 years would buy a newer bigger one. He would see how excited that person was with their new item and he would want that feeling again for himself. He spent a lot of money replacing perfectly good vehicles, RVs, boats, etc., because he saw someone else excited about theirs. I think this happens a lot more - forums like this, facebook. We're exposed to other people's purchase joy so much that it's harder for us to not want more and more of it ourselves.
