Selling the car, the house and buying a Motorhome

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I'm used to living in tiny places anyway.

Park it outside my work. No more council tax, bye bye electricity bills. Hello touring every weekend.

Anybody lived out of a van before?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not recommended in certain parts of the country...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear, you'd think they could have maybe left it in a safer place.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

But seriosuly, I know there are a few folk on this board who've been in bands etc, surely someone has lived 'on the road'?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Rumpie & Mr Rumpie, some time soon...

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― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

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― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've always enjoyed living in one for a few days but the Toilet Issue always seems to me a good reason for having plumbing. Or even the Toilette Issue in that having a bath/shower is Quite A Good Thing.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Don't they have toilets? Most campsites have chemical waste disposal points to get rid of stuff.

Many camper vans have showers too. Mr Rumpie could drive me to work whilst I showered! Steamy fresh!

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Of course they have toilets, but you have to clean them out!

Eh, as a kid I fantasized about a big swanky caravan but now? Shit no. Safety reasons and also sound related problems: I'd never want to be caught in a storm or what if your partner likes to do LOUD & PASSIONATE lovemaking? So... uh... no thanks. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

pillow over face, obv.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, as Nathalie says, they have toilets and showers and I've even seen one with a titchy bath but you got to hook yourself to the water or the disposal place and in the summer chemi-loos pong almost constantly, so you'd have to be at a campsite and while I can cope with a campsite loo block for three or four days any more would be depressing.

I think a barge would be a better option. Although again with the chemi-loos...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Go to the swimming pool and use their showers! (that's what we had to do when our shower was knacked a few months ago)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I could never imagine sitting on a carvan loo. I mean, yeah sure, if there was no alternative but for the rest of my life? (Of course not constantly... you know what I mean.) I like to have my privacy - noone hearing the noises I make - and also what about stretching your legs? It doesn't seem possible in a regular caravan.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

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― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine in grad school has been living fulltime in a VW camper van. It's worked out pretty well for him - he occasionally goes to Germany for study, so he doesn't have to pay rent on an empty space. He's got some office space in his department for school-related things and a gym membership for taking showers.

I'd do the same thing if I was in a similar situation.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Hey, look, there I was 11 months ago contemplating a barge and here i am now, actually looking at barge magazines and thinking of selling the house, downsizing everything, and living the simpler live. Fresh air, no mortgage, less cleaning. What's not to love?

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Really? Lucky you. I can't even get Mister M to go on a camping holiday with me.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just getting so fed up with housework.

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

good time to sell, esp if you live in midlands

― 696, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

In my experience of barges you just replace housework with astonishing amounts of clutter. Plus you bang your head a lot.

― stet, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Revive because it's the most logical life goal at the moment.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 05:16 (ten years ago)

a hydrocarbon intensive way of life is not as logical as all that

― Aimless, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:39 (ten years ago)

Slab City in your future, Elvis?

― nickn, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 22:56 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

No way... I checked out Slab City last year and there's an intense edginess to the place that if you make one wrong move, you're going to be killed quickly and silently. There's talk that the state is going to sell the land and that only makes the situation there worse.

FYI, it's going to be 116 degrees there tomorrow.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 June 2015 04:32 (ten years ago)

Within Slab City is East Jesus, which seems to be the version I could live with. It does seem to be invitation only, though.

― nickn, Thursday, 18 June 2015 05:12 (ten years ago)

Kevin McCloud's basically got a TV programme about this at the moment: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jun/16/kevin-mcclouds-escape-to-the-wild-review

First two episodes have very much been of the middle-class-Londoners-make-killing-in-property-and-sell-up-to-build-cabin-miles-from-anyone feel. ie. most people cannot do this.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 June 2015 13:49 (ten years ago)

This is a bit of a counterpoint, though: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32974131?SThisFB&fb_ref=Default

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 June 2015 13:51 (ten years ago)

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