RV LIVING FULL TIME! 3 WAYS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN FASTER

Are you wondering how to shorten the timeline for full-time RV living? We've lived full-time in an RV for over four years and love it. We have a few tips for how to prepare for full time RV living so you can make your dream happen.

Let's get started with our tips to freedom:

How to prepare for full time RV living

1. Cut expenses to extremes

Put every expense in your life on trial for its life. If you had to live on less, how would you do it? Could you do it? 


For example, if you lost your job and had to live on what resources you had available, how long could you stretch that out? What would you sell? Make a list of all the things that are nonessential and start selling those. You can't take that stuff with you or most of it when you go full-time in an RV. 


One thing you can do is scan all your photos. You don't need to keep a bunch of physical photos with you. You can also read books online. You don't need to have physical books. Donate those books to a library.


If you've got time to sell all of this extra stuff that you have, you'll get a higher dollar for it rather than selling it quickly at a lower price. 


We both have different experiences with this. Twice I have sold everything. When I moved from Virginia Beach to Florida, I sold all of my household, and I sold it within a month. When I decided to go full-time in the RV, I went to Destin and sold everything in two weeks. It can be done. 


Another thing you can do to help increase your intention on this is just to imagine that you or a friend needed emergency surgery. It would cost maybe $20,000, and it was not covered by insurance. How would you come up with that money in a pinch? That will set your mindset about how you would create that income and what you would cut. 


At one point in my life, I had a hard time and needed to cut everything I could to the bone. I got rid of my cell phone plan but found an alternative.


It was a Google phone, and I was able to take phone calls and get voicemail when I had WiFi. Otherwise, it could leave a voicemail, so it acted like a phone. I could use my apps when I had WiFi. You can go to Starbucks and use your app. Of course, it's a bit inconvenient, but when you have to do it, you can do it. 


I got rid of the newspaper. I got rid of the cable. I got rid of all the nonessentials.  

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2. Find additional income

There are all kinds of ways you can get a part-time job to supplement your income. Maybe contract work or online work. Maybe sell things that you make if you're crafty. Can you be a consultant or a coach on a topic? Do you have a second language skill? Some websites allow you to teach people across the other side of the planet. 


There are so many different ways, especially with the Internet access we have these days; the possibilities are endless. If you can just increase your income by $100 a week, that's $400 a month that you can put toward saving for this goal.

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3. Start saving now

Let's say that you need to come up with a $5,000 or $10,000 down payment for your RV using the tips we've mentioned. How fast can you do that? I think you can do it faster than you think. You put your intention behind it.


Maybe you're going to do cash, and you're going to look on Craigslist or some other classified ads for maybe a gently used or well-used RV if you're kind of handy and you can have fun fixing it up.


You can find an RV for very little money. $5,000 will buy something that you can start RVing in. It doesn't have to be the RV you're going to have forever.


Maybe you just get your feet wet for a couple of years, and as you have the funds available later because you'll save so much money living full-time in your RV, you'll be able to invest in something nicer in the future.


So start saving today, right now. 



Bonus tip


Make a vision board. Put your intention out there, and focus on it every day, and it makes you get there faster. Take a screenshot of us right now with Cathedral Rock in the background. If this is your goal while you're RVing full time, then you can just take a picture of us and then take a picture of yourself and put your face in front so you can picture yourself in this spot right here in Sedona. It is amazing. 


You can put these pictures up on a wall or a tag board, whatever you want. Add pictures of amazing places you want to visit, wherever they are. You can make it a screensaver on your phone so that every time you pick up your phone, you see it. 


Also, watch videos about RV living full-time. The more you immerse yourself in this lifestyle, the stronger your intention will be, and it will happen for you. That's precisely what I did.


It may take some time, but keep your intention on what you want to create in your life, and it's going to happen. So if you make a vision board or dream board, we want to see it. 


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If you have tips on how to go full-time RVing faster, please share them in the comments below. If you are full-time right now, share with us how fast you were able to do it once you made the decision. What are your top tips for making that happen?

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