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Eating Cheap
Besides Fuel, Food is going to be your next biggest expense. Well for us it is. But we have found ways around the high food costs. Eating out: We have a dog we don’t go out to eat much, if we do we pick it up and bring it back home mostly. But even a [...]
Bad Weather and Planning
Storms can put a damper in your plans. They can stop you and keep you at a location longer than you really want to be. If you are prepared for bad weather you will already have a weather radio that will keep you up to date with current weather conditions in the area. We never [...]
Getting around to being Healthy
When you are in your RV or living on your boat, you don’t really need to worry about being healthy. It’s part of the lifestyle. You are always walking somewhere and not sitting in front of the television. Many of us have bikes that we use more than our cars. If you are on a [...]
Staying at Walmart
Walmart – They’re everywhere, everywhere you drive you usually pass a wally-world somewhere, usually several times a day. The nice thing about Walmart is that usually they have Huge parking lots. This is where you can take avantage of staying for free. Not only Walmart is a great place to shop but you can park [...]
Living and Traveling with Pets
We have our dog with us everywhere we go. She’s been with us for years and she has us trained the way she wants that it would be a shame to give her away so that she would have to start all over. Traveling with Pets So we are blessed to have her loving companionship [...]
Living on Less Money
Living on Less money than you make is the only way to save for your future or for your dream vacations. We have been in that vicious circle of never having enough money to pay bills, and always being broke, we hated it. We felt like we were working for nothing but just a person [...]
Getting Healthy
In our past lives we were couch potatoes. We worked our 8 hours, came home did minimum amount of work, then ate dinner in front of our best friend, the television. Most of the time dinner was delivered to our door, the pizza delivery man knew us well. We not only watched shows that were [...]
Internet Access
If you are like most of us, we would be lost without connecting to the Internet to obtain email, weather updates, and updating blogs so that friends and family can keep up with our activities while we are out on the waters or roads. Maybe if you are like us you need to access the [...]
Maintenance and Breakdowns
Hopefully you won’t have a breakdown, but if you do, you may be in the middle of nowhere and facing an expensive tow back to dock or to a garage. Sometimes you can fix it yourself and nurse your vehicle back to get it repaired. But to do that you will have to carry some [...]
Provisioning and Storing Food for Trips
Eating out every day can be great if you can afford it. We chose to eat at home and not eat out as often to save money and giving us more time to do what we want. It can really stretch your budget if you eat out allot. We usually carry about a month’s worth [...]
Space Saver Vacuum Seal Storage Bags
When you live in small places and with little storage space you have to get creative with things that you must have and things that you just want to have. Big plastic totes usually take up too much space and getting them inside the boat or RV can present a huge problem. We solved this [...]
Marine GPS
Getting a good Marine GPS is key to finding where you are or where you are going on the waterways. You will need this to get your boat and your passengers around safety. You will probably want to have one that you can update the maps and plot out your course. They are also now [...]
Living Cheap on the Road or Water
Living Cheap. Sounds boring doesn’t it. But it doesn’t have to be. It can be fun. When your trying to stretch your money so that you don’t have to go back to work sooner than you want to you will find ways to cut back. One thing that you will notice that you cut back [...]
Free Docks or Anchoring out
Other than fuel – docking is going to be your next expensive thing while being on a boat. Prices for marinas vary quite a bit. You have to do some research to find the best deal. Some of the best marinas for prices do not have their own website, so you will have to find [...]
