Homeless - safe to store propane/gas in car while sleeping?

[mileena]

Hi, does anyone have advice?

I am homeless, and live and sleep in my car. I want to buy a propane or gas camping stove burner so I can boil water to make spaghetti, etc.

I am thinking of buying this one:

Camp Chef Explorer Camping Stove from Amazon

Is it safe to store propane or gasoline next to me while I am sleeping in the car? Should I get a carbon-monoxide detector to mount in the car? There is no place I can store it outside at, and my self-storage facility is almost two hours away from where I live.

Thanks!

Also, where can I pull out my camping stove to cook, next to my car? Will any large parking lot or city street do?

[rockhillmanor]

BigPackFan wrote:
I don't care if the OP is a troll or not. No one is forcing me to read the posts. Rockhillmanor, no one is forcing you either. If you don't like the thread, maybe ask for your money back! Oh, wait.....

So I guess that YOUR opinion is the ONLY one allowed on this forum?
If someone does not agree with YOU then you feel the need to slam them?

Everyone here has their right to their opinion, hmmmm pretty much what forums are all about. Perhaps blocking all the forum members that do not agree with YOU would make you day a little easier to handle.

I don't know how much are rents in your area,and how much it costs to buy good food,so if YOU were making 1000$ a month,could you really afford to live anywhere else but your RV??

SSI = Section 8 housing. Doesn't matter what the rent is in the area of where the beneficiary lives the government pays for almost ALL of it. The gov cuts a check directly to the landlord. I know I rented to Section 8's.

[mileena]

free radical wrote:

you get plenty of sunshine down there dont you?
why not make yourself a solar cooker?

solarcooking.org/plans

Thanks free radical. Someone mentioned that to me, but I hear it takes a few hours to cook your food that way. I want something faster, as I am very busy. I can afford to buy a decent camp stove.

(Now I am just waiting for the ignorami (yes, that's the correct Latin plural) here to ask stupid questions like:

How are you busy if you are homeless?

How do you have money and nice things like an expensive smartphone and laptop if you're homeless?

How do you know the Latin plural of ignoramus if you are homeless?)

(I tried to use brackets above, but I guess you get an error as the site thinks it's invalid formatting.)

[popupcamping]

mileena wrote:
Wow, I'm having fun at reading the past four pages full of ignorant posts accusing me of trolling. Lots of unwarranted assumptions and lots of viciousness. Oh well. Believe what you will, but just know this: I feel good knowing I am better than you.

And if this isnt enough for mods to end this stupid thread then there is no hope for this forum.

Close it..actually delete it

[BigPackFan]

I don't care if the OP is a troll or not. No one is forcing me to read the posts. Rockhillmanor, no one is forcing you either. If you don't like the thread, maybe ask for your money back! Oh, wait.....

By the way, here's one example of how a "genius" can end up on the street: Homeless Teen

[free_radical]

mileena wrote:
Hi, does anyone have advice?

I am homeless, and live and sleep in my car. I want to buy a propane or gas camping stove burner so I can boil water to make spaghetti, etc.

I am thinking of buying this one:

Camp Chef Explorer Camping Stove from Amazon

Is it safe to store propane or gasoline next to me while I am sleeping in the car? Should I get a carbon-monoxide detector to mount in the car? There is no place I can store it outside at, and my self-storage facility is almost two hours away from where I live.

Thanks!

Also, where can I pull out my camping stove to cook, next to my car? Will any large parking lot or city street do?

you get plenty of sunshine down there dont you?
why not make yourself a solar cooker?

solarcooking.org/plans

[free_radical]

rockhillmanor wrote:

As for the OP.. She sounds like a sharp girl trying to live with what she has... Hats off to her.

Would you say the same thing if it was one of your children? Kudos my dear child you are living on the streets, I am so proud of you.:R

A smart girl?
Making $1,000 a month and living on the streets. What's wrong with this picture?
e.

I dont know how much are rents in your area,
and how much it costs to buy good food,
so if YOU were making 1000$ a month,could you really afford to live anywhere else but your RV??

[rockhillmanor]

2112 wrote:
....So he/she has been living in their van for the past three years and is just now interested in cooking something?... :h

:B:B

[2112]

2oldman wrote:

2112 wrote:
For whatever reason none of those come up when I view her post history.

To see posts older than 1 year use Advanced search.

Ah, got it. Thanks for the tip.

I find it hard to understand that someone who writes so well chooses to live like that.

I have often dreamed of leading the carefree nomadic lifestyle but the life I have created prevents it. Maybe next time!

[westernrvparkow]

2oldman wrote:

2112 wrote:
For whatever reason none of those come up when I view her post history.

To see posts older than 1 year use Advanced search.

I find it hard to understand that someone who writes so well chooses to live like that.

I knew I had seen that screen name before in a similar post. Thanks for the suggestion of the advanced search. She/he writes so well because this is all FICTION. An interactive short story. Probably hoping that a few people will actually Google "Mileena" and go to his/her money making page. Mileena is "Catfishing" us. (An interesting movie, BTW, but didn't resonate with me because I am a skeptic first, believer second.)

[2oldman]

2112 wrote:
For whatever reason none of those come up when I view her post history.

To see posts older than 1 year use Advanced search.

I find it hard to understand that someone who writes so well chooses to live like that.

[JJBIRISH]

WoW, we have heard from 35 year health care workers, counselors, a medicine man, benefit specialist, tax professionals, tax protestors, judges, jurors, executioners, and one Indian chief… all pro bono, how lucky was she to come here and ask for some information…
The only thing I am sure of is, that I am glad I didn’t buy the RVnet healthcare plan…

[mockturtle]

Here's an intelligent-sounding woman who lives in her Prius: http://cheapgreenrvliving.com/priusliving.html

[2112]

rockhillmanor wrote:

2112 wrote:
....However, I do find it a bit odd that the OP has been a member for 3 years but this is her very first post. How can that be?
Strange indeed.

It certainly is NOT her first post she's been doing and saying the SAME thing since she signed up. From stealing breakfasts, up to and including bashing the police. And trust me no one believed her back in

2010

either...

For whatever reason none of those come up when I view her post history.
Thanks

So he/she has been living in their van for the past three years and is just now interested in cooking something? This is getting stranger by the minute :h

[rockhillmanor]

2112 wrote:
....However, I do find it a bit odd that the OP has been a member for 3 years but this is her very first post. How can that be?
Strange indeed.

It certainly is NOT her first post she's been doing and saying the SAME thing since she signed up. From stealing breakfasts, up to and including bashing the police. And trust me no one believed her back in

2010

either.

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/24301496/gotomsg/24302111.cfm
.....a car all by itself in a parking lot at night is suspicious. If I were a cop, I would be wondering if the car is abandoned, someone is hiding out there, someone needed help, or if there were teenagers in it having sex. However, if I parked near RV's, I don't imagine a problem.
.....security guard came by and was suspicious, since hotel guests usually park as close as possible to the hotel. He ended up waking me up and made me leave.


http://forums.goodsamclub.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/24301518/gotomsg/24304302.cfm
.....But I merely want some privacy and not to be woken up in the middle of the night. How would you RV'ers like it if the police pounded on your door every night in the Wal-Mart parking lot?

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/24301543.cfm
....Do you think the police would bother me if I parked on the side of the highway in my minivan?

from 2010~This person is the true TROLL and has at least 3 topics that have done nothing but bash LEO for doing their job. Evidently he/she has been stopped by a LEO doing their job and feels that he/she is exempt from any lawful LEO contact and needs to vent over and over. The mods are very quick to end a civil gun thread, but are very lax in allowing a LEO bashing to continue in multiple threads by one new person.

BTW: Mileena is a name of a Mortal Combat figure that the pictures of this character are too graphic to post here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mileena&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client...
Sounds like she just might have an additional income$.Just saying.