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eddie1261

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  • Birthday 06/27/1951

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    Music, dogs, seeing cities to explore each city's unique flavor and how they differ from my experiences.

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  1. Just so I know I am up to speed, this entire 3 page thread is about somebody concerned with getting local channels so you can see news about a city you don't live in anymore? Wow....
  2. So when he gets all that free stuff, he returns what he doesn't like or sends them a check for what he does keep? Accepting merchandise in exchange for positive reviews is the very definition of shill. I believe his current home on wheels is a converted GMC Savana van. I am not a fan of anybody who begs for a living. Starting with the people who harass me at the end of an off ramp going all the way up to the electronic beggars on youtube and Patreon. If you need money, get a job rather than begging people for charity. And this will end my part of the discussion.
  3. Actually when he started it was right after a very huge workers comp payout. That was (I believe) 4 vehicles ago, so he makes enough money to have bought 4 new (to him) vans. It's not hard to do when people send you free stuff in exchange for your positive review. Youtube shill is a popular occupation anymore.
  4. "Live", or "exist"? There is a difference. If you have to park in a big box store parking lot on the 17th and sit there for 2 weeks until your money comes in on the 1st because you have no money for fuel, that is existing. If you are good with sitting in a lawn chair staring straight ahead because you have no money to do things, that is existing. There was one youtube video of a widowed woman who has $600 a month in Social Security to live on. She lives in her car, eating gas station sandwich type food because she has no way to store food or cook it. She has to tightly budget gas and tends to go from driveway to driveway sponging off people for a month at a time. Is that living or existing? How do YOU live? You eat expensive dinners in restaurants every night? Do you drink? Smoke? How is the gas mileage in your RV? How often do you plan to move? Are you going to boondock or stay in RV parks? What do you do for entertainment? Those are the questions that will determine the answer to that question. In my case, I still live in my house on a fixed income, and I am making it WITH a mortgage. What will change for me when I hit the road is that I trade a mortgage and utilities for fuel and parks when I stay in them. The mortgage and utilities come to about $950 a month, so if fuel and lot rent when I opt to pay a park come in at $950, I will live just like I do now. Make sure you keep ONE large credit card at $0 for repairs. You lose a transmission and you are toast if you can't afford to fix it.
  5. That 60+ guy also makes $72,000 a year from Youtube income, gets donations to a Patreon account, and makes money as an Amazon affiliate.
  6. I bought a set by Oneida and they are great. I think I paid like $140 for the set. Amazon. Anything a magnet will stick to.
  7. OH - IO When you say 55k, is that what you have to spend or what you spend? You must work to have 55k available or have invested well in your past.
  8. My Class C is a 2000 but only has 34,500 on it, so I hope to have some time before the transmission explodes or the V-10 engine blows up. The first trip I have planned is going to cover about 2000 miles over almost 4 months, and if I land somewhere I like I will live there and do 1-2 week long trips after that. Pulling a light 2008 Toyota behind it, routing where I am not going up and extreme inclines as this is my first trip in an RV. Once I get more experience I may venture into some mountainous areas, but not right out of the gate. Labor Day through Jan 1 is predetermined anyway as I need to be near a Browns Backers club so I can watch the games, so that keeps me grounded 4 months of 12. That's 4 months I am not putting gas into the RV. That helps the budget too. Sure there is park rent, but it's either park rent of gas, so it's a wash. To the original poster asking about $2000 a month, investigate youtube and see how many people live in their vans on $500!! Of course, there is living and there is existing, but that's a different post. Living includes doing what you want because you can. Existing is accepting how things are because you have no other choice.
  9. Don't trustworthy trucks capable of pulling a 5th wheel trailer start at like $100,000 and go up to twice that? I see a lot on youtube of people with an actual tractor capable of pulling a commercial 40 ft trailer. Adding on the trailers that they have and they have like $350,000+ tied up in their rig. Makes my used 25 ft Class C seem so sad.....
  10. Also as you research, look at monthly rates. Places that are 30 bucks a night might be 250 a month. With hookups. Far better value in staying a month. The key is finding a place with enough to do as day trips with your toad.
  11. Minus 3? I'll stop whining about my plus 12 now!!
  12. As long as you stay away from any place that has "resort" in the name you should do fine. I read a few of those and they go on and on about the clubhouse, the shuffleboard, the swimming, the swings for the kids.... I'll never go into a clubhouse, I don't swim, I have no kids, and shuffleboard is for old people. So the things that make a resort a resort are extraneous to me and I will stay out of them. Parks that are in that $225-250 a month range are for me, but I foresee a lot of Walmart, Sam's, Costco, Home Depot and Lowe's type places in my future. I'm not making this move to an RV to sit IN the RV. Of course I understand that nobody is on vacation forever and there will be days I am not out seeing sites, and not ever day is going to find me on a beach or at the base of a mountain, but the cheap Slovenian in me will likely never pay exorbitant amounts for a place to PARK. As long as you don't park at the RV Mahal your budget should be fine. In my particular case my savings will come from my disdain for paying a restaurant to cook food for me that's only a little bit better than I can cook for myself. $10-12 for ONE meal? Nope. $10-12 a DAY is a lot in my mind. The key factor here is that I have lived poor my whole life so it won't be a culture shock thing for me. You'll be fine.
  13. Oh! I thought you were getting SSI NOW. Social Security ROCKS!! They start giving you back all that money you put in for years and if you earned well, you will be fine. I went out 17 days after I turned 62 and retiree is the best job I ever had.
  14. I thought SSI was disability. How do you have $2000 a month from SSI and an income that you expect to go up? Did I not digest what you said properly? Doesn't it take some major disability to get SSI? DO I just not really know what SSI is? On point, do you have any credit or do you live on cash? I ask because if you have a $1000 repair in some random June, that would be half your income. However, that same $1000 repair can also be $100 a month for 10 months, 11 if there is interest involved. I don't expect any major calamity the day I pull out of my driveway, but those expensive repairs are inevitable, so I made sure to amass enough credit to work through any unexpected major repairs. My RV is old but lightly used, so I hope to get through a year without the transmission exploding or all 6 tires blowing at once.
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