is it feasible to live in a camper van all the time? what about being a bit clever about it? could it work?

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Basically folks im having some ideas recently and i thought id put this stuff up here where the whole world can join in on this subject. Its all about living in a camper van and firstly let me say i dont mean a VW camper, too small, too unreliable i cant see it happening.

What im talking about here is a nice minibus conversion, like say an Iveco or an LDV minibus or something like that (anyone from abroad they are UK vehicles you'll find them on Ebay to see what i mean.)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=ldv+minibus&_sacat=9800&_odkw=iveco+minibus&_sop=1&_osacat=9800

These have space in them which i think cant be underestimated - i think you'd go mad cooped up all the time.

I wouldn't be filling all the available space with various cupboards and cabinets like i see everyone else doing, leaving a narrow passage in the centre to move about. id prefer carpeted floor, lots of cusions or bean bags, a folding camping table, something like this to cook with :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Azura-3400w-Electric-Induction-Twin-Portable-Cooker-/110965627047?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Kitchen_Ovens_Hobs_Cookers&hash=item19d61118a7

not a whole bloody oven and a whole unit to fill up the van with it, ive used these things in studios etc. before and they are more than fine. I dont see the point in creating a kitchen in the back of the camper, kind of goes against the idea of it i think.

Anyway il continue- so we have a single quite large storage chest with all the stuff inside it, lockable. blacked windows, curtains, nice warm thick carpets, insulation- maybe carpet the walls eh? theres no rules on this stuff- whatever works i think.

So, id have my camper, i can cook in there, sleep in there on a mattress or blow up bed or whatever. Have a camping battery so i can watch movies on my laptop at nights - imagine if you will, living in a small studio. what do you do in the evening? what would be so awfully different? you cook dinner, you sit down with a bottle of wine and a movie. then after you go to bed. Have a small fan heater to give you comfort. Same in the camper.

Now, heres where my clever idea could take this to the next level.
There are problems, security being one of course. Also where to park safely and comfortably at night. people and places get funny about that. What about power for charging your batteries?

well I was sitting and thinking about it and then it hit me - Why not rent a garage!? or a lock up or whatever? my god think of it- it could be ideal? you park in there, every night, rent one that has lights and electricity so you can charge up stuff, it would be warmer. you could sleep safe knowing that padlock cant be broken.
You can use it as storage too! Now the thing about these garages and stuff is that they rent for say 10 per week to what.......50? maximum? not even that!
So if you did all this right, you could pay 100 TOP a month for that privilege and cut out alot of the downsides of the whole idea. Imagine the insurance company when they hear its in a secure padlocked garage constantly? another saving!
Whats left? toilets and showering.
Well, imagine all the money you would save, imagine not paying the rent you are now and instead just a fraction. Id go swimming or working out at a leisure centre and shower there. Get healthy too! Toilet? well come on, adapt right? im sure you could arrange something, possibly utilizing the old water bottle rinsing technique used by our arabic pals hell i wouldnt mind. Or get real regular and go at work/at the gym.

I know this is all a bit odd but just consider it, could it work? i swear it could. Within months you could save up so much money, over a 1000 easy. Sure youd have to get used to it but as i said you would still be living your life. going to work, cleaning yourself, eating, relaxing. What would be so different?

If the garage owner spotted the electricity use a bit high then say your working on your van and stuff and hammer out some little deal.

So, what do you think folks of the world? do any of you do this currently? what about the garage idea? i cant be the only one who thought that. Any of you spend alot of time in campers now? tell me about it please.

I await your feedback and you yea, you can take the piss out of me or call me a dirty hobo whatever but this is a genuine post and question.

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It's not only possible, there is already a web community devoted to it.

Any one else in a self similar mold as I am, to be called lazy?

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I'm 24, and I'm male. And my step father calls me lazy. I'm in college, I need to take 2 more maths, I think, and one art history class and I am done with my entire college degree (was going to be bachelors but I'm mastering in art history...I think...lol). Which is fine, I'm in love with art, and don't mind being around it. And studying it , refreshing my memory, would be fun. I had one of the highest grades in my class, and my professor gave me a book on art history as a present, gift. Which was very nice of her. Lovely woman from the UK . I'd like to go there, to find, see that part of her that I've felt , experienced in class. Even if the people aren't any better there , than they are here, I think it would be humorous, delightful to go there and find that part of her .


Anyways, I was working at a grocery store , doing stock , and I did good work, but I was over worked and didn't have perfect form, and I was able to hurt myself pretty severely . I made a few mistakes, and herniated multiple discs .

And have had two months of physical therapy because I hurt myself again, by trying to lift a picnic table I aggravated the injury. People call me lazy for not going out and getting another job, while my therapist says I have the worse hamstring injury she has seen in her entire life...

Not to make excuses, lol, well I am some what. I've only had one job, I'm 24. And my degree i nearly finished. I've almost graduated. And I understand those who care about you, when you get to a certain age, want to prepare you and want to try to force you to consider things on a more adult, responsible level of attention, focus ,than you would expect from a child who sits at home all day .

NONE , well , maybe one or two teachers/ professors in my life, as a exception, have said I was stupid, or un-intelligent. Rather, all too intelligent, far more intelligent than I am. HAHA!

I spend my life running in circles, what's the point!?

LOL , I like to try to figure out science fiction . I'm a artist by profession, I don't make any money, I mean college. Tough world, I know, I'm not afraid to struggle, I work when I have to, but I don't go out of my cozy little home here to prepare myself for when I'll be on my own.

I live with my parents...I do , and no girlfriend either...as a matter of fact women have the same effect on me as jumping in front of a bus would, if I saw one I adored while walking across a busy street...

I love artistic girls or the ones with wild crazy hair. LOL, does that make me sound more immature?
I love to look at nature, I love to go outside bare foot and just take it in, enjoy it. I love animals, I love to camp if I'm not afraid of the moth man cooking marshmallows outside my tent...

Some times you have to get out the tent in the middle of the night to go pee and you have to go into the woods a little...

Anyways, I'm interested in lots of things, that people discourage, and some of my family, such as my father's side, seems to think I'm retarded. Because, I don't socialize well, or have lots to say about politics or my life, or their lives, they seem to think I'm unintelligent, or stupid.

I'm just not that absorbed really, obligated to the same interests , ambitions, goals as they are. I do enjoy the idea of money, but I don't need lots of it to be happy. Just a nice home, perhaps a family some day would be fine. I've grown up spoiled, with more shit than I'll ever truly need.

It's not that I don't care about others, or have a interest in others, I'm just more of a existentialist and philosophical type person, if I too must role play what , who I am, like every one else.

It's not that I'm not willing to contribute anything, but I don't want to stress, burden myself, any more than I have to. I just want to enjoy life, I'm not afraid of working , I just don't want to over work. My mother is successful and all she EVER DOES is work. Her eye lids are put curtains over her eyes when she sleeps, she never turns off!
Her eye lids are but curtains over her eyes when she sleeps, she never turns off!
Thank you AB, that's another thing, I don't always get the idea across clearly. Never the less not every one thinks I'm a moron. LOL

Thank you AB, I'm open to people's opinions, right now I'm actually going up to the college to send out transcripts and work out scheduling classes.
Thank you AB, that's another thing, I don't always get the idea across clearly. Never the less not every one thinks I'm a moron. LOL

Thank you AB, I'm open to people's opinions, right now I'm actually going up to the college to send out transcripts and work out scheduling classes.

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there, now don't you feel better, having aired all your concerns to everyone?

you can't expect your family to always have your back. i NEVER got along with EITHER of my parents well, and it wasn't until my dad was close to death that he started to acknowledge me for who i was, instead of hoping for a young "him".

even my mom was dead set against computers ("they're the onset of the apocalypse!", lol), and when i made it into my CAREER, well, she still wasn't pleased with me. i had completely shunned any idea that either of them might ever accept me for me, and so i said "eff it!", and went on about my life. once my mom knew that i didn't care what she thought about me, she started to see how well i had made things for myself IN SPITE of either of them. one of her last few conversations with me involved her being surprised at how well i'd turned out.

at any rate, you can't please all the people MOST of the time, it seems, but if you stop setting the crux of your life at pleasing them and making them happy, you will find that YOU can be truly happy, and if that's not goof enough for them, then "eff 'em!", lol ;) sorry, just fooling about there.

but to be happy, you must CLAIM your happiness. it won't be given to you. as long as you are being the best you that you can be, then you're doing just fine. you're at a point in your life where you know what is needed of you, and as long as you aren't a serial rapist or some$#!+, any one of your family should be content, if nothing else.

after all, it's not like you promised an oath to turn out like one of them, right?

oh, and for the record, people who call you lazy are usually the ones who have regrets of it in there own past...not that i would mention that to them :D

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