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Oil prices down.Y is a quart so high?

Hi all. Going to change the oil in my Class'A'. Went to the auto parts store to get the oil. Conventional. A Barrel (55 Gallons)sells for about $32 on the world market. WHY does it STILL cost about $5.00 a QUART???:M

RV friendly homes

My wife and I would like to spend more time out with our RV but our current home makes it difficult to be away for long periods of time. We have a 48 acre ranch in texas that requires a considerable amount of maintenance. We would like to sell the ra...

Where are you at?

Is this the place to put this, not sure? My wife and I don't do a lot of long distance traveling, usually once a year, like now. It's the week between Xmas and New Years and we're a couple lets say our mid to late 40's... We're camped in Biloxi Missi...

finding rv parks and rv resorts

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need a good cabinet cleaner

What's a good cleaner for the fake wood cabinets that will give them a shine but not leave a film that might hold dust??

Weight of Trailer ?

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5er Graphics

Our decals on the front cap of the 5er are fading so we would like to replace them but not with the original ones.I thought I remembered seeing on this or some other site where someone had a source for decals of various subjects such as mountains, et...

Oil and Water

Am I getting this wrong?Oil is trading around $26 per barrel right now.Doesn't that make it cheaper than a gallon of drinking water from the store?

our first attempt at being snowbirds

Hello, Last February we were all set to go to Florida for the month to try out being snowbirds. Because of all of the snow we got here in MA we were unable to get our RV out of our yard or even if we did make the turn onto our very narrow street. So...

Home sensors for seniors?

I'm looking for information on remotely monitoring my MIL. She is in her 80s and lives alone 350 miles from us. She is in very good health, but we're afraid she might fall or something and nobody will know while she suffers. We do have a neighbor who...

Portable Cooktop

I have been looking for a portable LP cooktop which could be used outside the RV. I've heard bad things about several of the brands on the market. I came across the Atwood 56494 Drop-In 2-Burner and have read the reviews which, I think, have been f...

Oil Prices Nosedive: Good News at the Pump

The price of U.S. crude fell below $27 a barrel amid a global glut in oil supplies that seems to be getting worse. That's the lowest price since May 2003 and a far cry from the $100 a barrel it fetched in the summer of 2014.Article here.

Tire Gauges

Something happened today to make me doubt the accuracy of the tire gauge that I have been using the past few years. So what brand of tire gauge is a "good" one? How can you check the accuracy of a tire gauge?Thanks for your help.

tongue weight questions

We just purchased our first trailer. I bought a Sherline tongue weight scale. The scale is showing about 500 lbs at the head. I have an Equalizer hitch, the receiver head weighs about 55 lbs and each bar was about 18 lbs. Question: Do I include th...

A cell phone request

Fellow campers, please turn off your speaker phones when talking to Aunt Milley or Uncle Joe, etc. The other day as I was sitting peacefully, reading at my camp site, my next door neighbor who was less then 50 feet away came out of their RV and proce...

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