FAQs: How do you take payment? When do I pay you? With what do I pay you? How exactly do I place an order?

How do you take payment? When do I pay you? With what do I pay you? How exactly do I place an order?

When do you pay me? Before the spell is started. It’s just like you were walking into McDonald’s: your order the fries, you pay for the fries, you sit back and wait while they head out back and make the fries. Just like that. You order the spell, you pay for the spell, than you wait while I head out to make you your spell.

How do I accept payment? Cash only. You can pay me in person with cash or you can pay me online via PayPal and wait for PayPal to give the money to my bank and wait for my bank to give me the cash for you. In any case, until I have the actual cash physically in my hand I won’t lift a finger to do a bit of work for you.

How to I take payment?

Cash in person or PayPal online.

With what do you pay me?

Cash and cash only.

In person, I only accept cash. I do not accept checks unless you are a close and trusted long time client and I know you have the money and the check won’t bounce. I’m sorry, but I’ve delt with too many scam clients and their bouncing rubber checks, and I no longer accept checks as a result. I can not accept credit cards or money orders or travelers cheques or wired money or non-American currancy because I am not a business, I do not have a cash register, I wouldn’t know how to turn your wires/Franques/ruppies/yen/etc into US coinage and greenbacks and I have no way to scan or accept your card, I am just an old Gypsy woman, living in a 22 foot motorhome with 15 cats.

Online, I only accept PayPal. Payments can be sent via PayPal to xavychup@yahoo.com . And as PayPal waits 5 to 7 days before transfering the money to my bank and my bank in turn waits another 5 to 7 days before giving me the money, that therefore means that if you pay online, you will have to wait upto 3 weeks before I start work on your spell, because Honey, until I have cold hard cash in my hand, I do not consider your bill paid, I will do not work without being paid up front. Don’t tell me PayPal has it, don’t tell me it’s in the back…that means nothing to me. It PayPal has it than it’s of no good to me is it, seeing as I don’t have it yet. Likewise if the bank has it, it isn’t yet mine either, is it?

How do you place your order?

You place your order one of two ways:

No Hurry

#1) You walk up to the door of No Hurry, knock on the door, get attacked by 15 cats while you wait for me to answer the door, you tell me what you want, I tell you what you need, you give me the money and your email address than go home, in a few days I get started on your spell and keep in touch with you about it via email.

My Home, My Office, My Front Door

#2) You head to my Etsy shop, tell me what you what, I’ll tell you what you need, in a few days I’ll set up a custom listing for you, you buy that listing, pay Etsy, Etsy pays PayPal, PayPal pays my bank, my bank pays me and after I have the cash in hand (which has been known to take up to 3 weeks) than I will start doing your spell.

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~Rev. Wendy C. Allen aka Empress EelKat of Laughing Gnome Hollow

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RE: Idea anybody willing to try?

Idea anybody willing to try?

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I have read and enjoyed a book by phil garlington THE RANCHO COSTA NOTA that suggests that worthless desert land can be gotten on the cheap. junk trailers pulled out there , water and food trucked in and a at least semi private very cheap existence can be had, is anyone on here doing this? anyone want to go in on few worthless acres?? let me know please

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I wouldn’t want to live in a desert no matter how cheap (or even free) it was. However… Alaska is right up my alley and they still do staked land claims just like they did in the 1800′s. It costs $5,000 for a claim (most are 5 acres). I am planning to do this and live in a motorhome there, after I graduate.

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No Hurry or How I Came To Live in a Motorhome

No Hurry

or

How I Came To Live in a Motorhome

May 9, 2006 started like any other day. It was warmer and wetter than usual, seeing that a hurricane was currently trapped in the Gulf of Maine and spending the week flooding rivers, washing out sand dunes, and uprooting trees. May 9th was the first day of no rain in more than a week. My first chance to go out in the garden and examine the damage. I had no idea that when I stepped outside of the house that day, I would never step inside it ever again. The house was in one corner of the farm, and the garden was in the opposite corner, over a steep hill and across a dangerously swollen brook. The farm being boarded by beach on one side and swamp on the other, with a brook crossing though it, meant even without the hurricane we live in a very wet area. The swamp could no longer be seen, as the flood waters had risen over the top of the grass, making it look like a small lake had surrounded us. I had been examining the damage in the garden less than 3 minutes when my 14 year old brother came running down the hill and across the bridge, his eyes wild with terror as he said: “There’s something wrong with Daddy and the house is full of water!” The rest of the day was a blur of police, EMTs, and ambulances. Daddy was in a coma and the house which had stood there only minutes ago, was a pile of rumble, crushed by a flash flood which had came and went in only seconds.

What we did not know was Daddy had taken out a “reversed mortgage” on the house, which stipulated, he could live there until he died or was unable to take care of it. Daddy had only been in a coma a few days when the bank came to us and told us the farm was theirs, by being in the hospital over a certain amount of days my dad had forfeited the loan, and me, my mom, my 3 teenaged brothers, 2 dogs, 3 birds, and 9 cats suddenly found ourselves not only houseless, but now landless as well.

It would be another 2 months before Daddy would be pulled off life support, because his medical insurance said they refused to pay another day of the $13,000 a day machine my dad was hooked up to. We were not given a choice, we were simple told one day by the doctors: “We took him off life support last night, because his insurance was cut.” By some miracle he continued breathing on his own, and would be in the hospital another 6 months. Nearly a year after the flood, he was sent home and found out what had happened. Now disabled, barely able to talk or walk, my dad, a life long poultry farmer, suddenly found himself crippled and living in his car.

Meanwhile, my mom had gotten a divorce, remarried and left taking my 3 little brothers with her. Me? I have Autism. I was 30 years old. I had never been to school, never driven a car, never really had contact with humans outside of my family, and had barely spoken a word most of those years. I had been removed from school at age 8, told I was too retarded to be worth teaching anything to, told I would never amount to anything, never drive a car, never have a job, and college was out of the question. No one attempted to teach me any of those things and my childhood, teen and young adult years, had been spent gardening, and rescuing animals.

Fortunately we still owned part of the land, as my dad had divided it up before taking out a mortgage. Here stood the last remaining barn and enough land for me to pitch a tent, only I had no money and no idea how to get any. The concept of a job had never been taught to me. I built a tent out of a 8×6 tarp, and that is where I would live for the next 6 years, including through 3 blizzards and 5 more hurricanes. I was alone for the first time in my life. My dad was in the hospital and who knows where my mom had run off to. By October 2006 I had my first job, at age 31. By December I had my car, a $900 1992 Volvo 240GL, which I have since found out was so cheap because it has a bad habit of falling apart, usually while driving down the road. Though I had the car, I was not yet able to drive it, but it was a place to live in on days it was too cold or wet to stay under the tarp.

I discovered that if I had a college degree, I could get a better job, so college became my next goal, though to jump from Grade 3 to college 27 years later, with no schooling since I was 8 years old, meant I had a huge challenge to hurdle here. Math was than and still is, my biggest challenge, but I finally received my GED in December 2010 and my driver’s licence August 2011. September 2011 I started my first semester of college at YCCC. I transferred to SMCC in the Spring 2012. I had now completed nearly everything the psychologists had said someone with my kind of Autism would never do: I had a job, I had and was driving a car, and I was in college. The last step was to be able to live on my own, in a place of my own, without the help of shelters, soup kitchens, and food pantries. I had to move out from under the tarp and find a place to live. This has troubled me for the past 6 years. See, while I can work, my Autism limits what I am able to do, and also limits who is willing to hire me. The result is I make $7.75 a hour for only 14 hours a week, which barely pays the $40 a week gas I need to get to college, not to mention the constant repairs needed to keep my car running. Thankfully I can eat at the college for only $5 a meal, otherwise I’d still be eating only 1 or 2 skimpy meals a week at soup kitchens. I can barely afford to eat and drive to college, how can I afford an apartment when prices are more per week than my income is per month? After searching high and low for a solution, a solution presented itself one day when visiting a relative and watching Robin Williams (than) latest movie: “RV”. My tarp-tent is pitched on the boarder of The Powderhorn Campground. I spend each summer surrounded by thousands of RVs in all shapes and sizes, but I never once thought of them as anything but vacation vehicles. I had never been inside one, and I had no idea that nearly 20 million Americans live in them full time. I could not afford a house. I could not afford an apartment. I could however, if I saved enough money, eventually afford an old motorhome. It took me three years to do it, but I finally saved up $4,000 and set out to find myself a motorhome.

Yesterday, February 21, 2012 was a very big day for me. A milestone. Yesterday I bought a 22 foot 1975 Dodge Sportsman F40 Class C Motorhome. Her previous owner, a race car driver, had used her as a rally car, and painted her to match his race car, a Sublime Green 1970 Dodge Charger. He called her “No Hurry” because she moved so slow and never seemed in a hurry to get any place. She is bright fluorescent, metallic lime green, with flat black racing stripes, and covered sides and back with race car sponsor stickers. Inside she has NASCAR decor and a 2 inch thick shag carpet. And now for the first time,  I am at school today, as a person who is no longer homeless. My house may be small, just 22 ft long by 9 ft wide, and it may be on wheels, but it’s a house, none the less. Once again I have a bed and a toilet, a full kitchen, a dinning room, there’s even a bath tub (a rare thing to find in an RV), a bright 1970’s mustard yellow bath tub surrounded by green shag carpet, but a bathtub never the less. A place to wash, a place to eat, a place to sleep, and for the first time since I started college, I can do my homework at home, no more coming to college early and staying late, trying to get all my homework done all in one day! And more importantly it’s warm and dry. Everything is small of course and being 40 years old it has it’s problems, but still, it’s a house and for the first time in 6 years, I can finally say, I am no longer homeless.

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RV Fultiming "Winter Camping" Questions

I’m not new to “winter camping” or 24/7 year round boondocking. I live in an area that gets 5 to 7 months of snow (more on a “cold” year), and usually spends 2 of those months at temps of -20F to -48F before wind chill factors (and living on the coast, we get a lot of high winds all year long). I lived fulltime in a tent since 2006 (no electricity, no running water, etc), during that time we had 3 blizzards (one which buried my tent under 9 feet of snow), 2 ice storms, and 5 hurricanes. So, extreme winter camping is a lifestyle for me. I love the cold and snow, I avoid the heat and hot climates.

I’m upgrading. I’m moving out of the tent and into a motorhome. I have not bought it yet, but the one I’m planning to buy is a 1988 Class A 31′ Georgie Boy TravelMaster. (Which has already been customized for fulltime boondocking, thus why I’m trying for this one first.) If they sell it before I come up with the cash to pay for it, I’ve got a few “back-up RVs” on my list, all are 1980s Class As. (After spending 2 years going in and out of every new and used RV, MH, TT, 5Th in the state I came to the conclusion I prefer the Class As of the ’80s.)

So, here’s the thing. I’ve never lived in a motorhome before. This is going to be a totally new thing for me (as well as being the LARGEST living space I’ve had in 36 years – I lived in a 16′x9′ beach cabin before the tent.). And me, living in the types of places I like to live I’m going to have to make sure it gets winterized for some heavy duty super cold regions. (Once in the motorhome I plan to spend a lot of time boondocking between Maine, Quebec, Yukon, Alaska, Colorado, etc, exploring the coldest iciest parts of North America – it’ll likely never see a warm day again once I own it!).

So my question is: what the heck do I need to do to my motorhome to winterize it? Does anyone have any advice on “RV Boondocking” in extreme cold regions

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

Answers To Your FullTime RV Living Questions: I want to start full-timing. Who is responsible for paying for stuff? What expenses am I responsible for?

 I’m sorry, but I have to say this seems like a pretty silly question and I’m not sure why it was even asked or if maybe not all of the question was written down? ???

Okay, so you want to go full-time living in an RV and you want to know who is responsible for your expenses? Uhm, hello! YOU ARE!

You want to go full-time living in an RV and you want to know which expenses you are responsible for? Uhm … ALL OF THEM!

Okay, I’m thinking I only got part of the question. So I am going to analyze and deduce and adjust my resulting answers accordingly, to see if I can figure out what it is you meant to ask here.

I can see three scenarios that could result in this question:

Scenario #1) You are a teenager or young adult still living with your parents and getting ready to go off on your own or maybe go to college and are planning to move into an RV for however long. Not having any money of your own you feel it is your parents responsibility to pay for your RV expenses and they disagree with you and so you are now asking me what it is that you are supposed to be paying for on your own and what your parents are supposed to pitch in.

My answer to Scenario #1) : As a teenager or young adult just starting out, it is understandable that you may at first need some help to get by while you are first on your own. Now moving into an RV is a big step for anyone and even more so for someone just starting out on their own. What expenses should you pay for yourself? Ideally all of them. If you do not yet have a job, my first advice is to start looking for one, BEFORE you move out on your own, and than save every penny until you have enough saved up to be able to support your RV lifestyle for 3 months. Than move into the RV and continue to work, while using your savings to pay for the first few months expenses. After this point you should be settled down to a routine enough to know how much your expenses are and be able to live quite well on your income.

Okay, so maybe you do need your parents to pay for a few things to help you get started. But try to be reasonable about it. Think about the expenses you ACTUALLY NEED and do without the ones you SIMPLY WANT. You don’t NEED $50 a month internet access when you can use free Wii-Fi at Starbucks or public libraries, at least not when you are starting out. You don’t NEED $75 a month TV when you can watch free movie and TV show DVDs from your library – you can get by for the first few months without TV. You don’t NEED to start out with a brand new $150,000 motorhome when you can get a 5 year old used one for a $1,000 off Craigeslist.

So you are just starting out, what do you need? The RV for one thing (including registering, insurance, maintenance, repairs, etc.). Food to eat. Water to drink. Gas to get from your parking spot to work. And a place to take a piss. That’s it. Nothing else. Not one solitary thing. Everything else is a WANT, not a NEED. Those things cost me under $150 per month. I live quite well on my $2,000 per year income.

If you are working a regular job, than you are making no less than $7.50 per hour, which is $848 a month if you are working part time and $1,200 a month if you are working full time. And Honey, if you are living in an RV and your expenses are over $200 per month, than something is seriously wrong with your spending habits!

Now if you are still looking for a job, than you may have to ask your parents for help, yes. But don’t just ask for them to pay your bills for you! No! Ask for a loan. Ask for a loan LESS THAN $3,000. You can live in an RV very well, for a year, with $3,000 and by the time that money is gone, you should have a job and be able to both support yourself AND have enough to pay that $3,000 back.

Now …….

Scenario #2) You are a couple about to leave in your RV and the wife is saying the husband must foot all the RV bills, while the husband is saying the wife should, or maybe one of you wants each to pay half and the other disagrees, or maybe one of you wants to pay for everything and is refusing to let the other help out, and so on and so forth. Unable to agree which of you should pay for what you are now asking what I think.

My answer to Scenario #2) : As a couple, this is harder to answer. Lots of factors are involved here. I know some men who absolutely refuse to allow their wives to hold jobs or spend money. I know some wives who are so “independent” that they refuse to allow their husbands to pay a penny for anything. There are couples that divid all bills in half equally. Others each pay for what they use, keeping everything separate. And for each of the above there are dozens of variations in between.

To answer your question requires you look at how you are handling money matters right now. Is your current set up working for you are a couple? If so than there is no reason to change it.

Personally I think it is best for each to pay his own way, and split the stuff you both use. or example, if you put $200 worth of gas in the RV, each of you should pay $100. If only one of you has a computer and uses the internet, than only that person should pay ALL of the computer and internet bills. This is the easiest and most fair solution.

Scenario #3) It could be that you were asking for a list of what expenses RVers have.

My answer to Scenario #3) : Depends on your personal situation and your location, the type of RV you own, how often you are parked, how far you travel, etc.

A quick list of your expected expenses includes:

Cost of the RV itself.

Cost of a tow vehicle, if needed.

Cost of the toad, if you have one.

Registrations, inspections, and insurance for each of the above. (Remember that an RV is a house and needs BOTH auto AND home owners insurance.)

Gas for each of the above.

Oil, batteries, and repairs for each of the above.

Power supply: electric hook-ups, solar panels, wind turbines, generator, propane, etc.

Water supply: tap hook-ups, self contained tank storage, etc.

Food.

TV, phone, and internet if you chose to have any of these.

Any health insurance and medical supplies you need.

Clothing, bedding, furnishings, etc.

If you have pets or children, anything they need.

These are you basic expenses which all RVers have. Anything over that is extras.

Tip:

While it may be tempting to start out in a new RV, keep in mind that a new trailer costs $35,000 – $150,000 and a new motorhome costs $75,000 – $300,000. It is also temping to rush out and get a loan so you can buy a new RV. Stop and think. You’ll be paying for that new RV every month for the next 20 to 30 years. Do you REALLY think you’ll still be living in that same RV 20 to 30 years from now? What about interest? Whatever the price tag is, you’ll be paying nearly twice that amount if you pay via a loan, as a result of 20 to 30 years of interest (and possibly late fees). Think too about resale value. 30 years from now you’ll have a hard time selling your $300,000 coach for $5,000, IF you can even get that much for it. Look around the used lots: those $5,000 motorhomes are only 5 to 10 years old. You can always buy a big/newer/better RV later when you are better able to afford to pay cash for it.

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

Answers To Your FullTime RV Living Questions: I can hardly wait to get started! I wish I could sell my house and go right now! Any advice?

I have but one word to say to you:

Rosebud.

I will direct you to the name of my motorhome: Rosebud.

Ever watch the movie Citizen Kane? Yes? Than you know why I answered your question this way. No? Than rent the DVD and watch it today, learn the meaning of the most famous line in movie history:

“Rosebud”

No time to watch the movie? I’ll make it easy on you and sum up what the word “Rosebud” means and why I named my motorhome Rosebud.

I’ll start with a quote from another movie: The Dead Poet’s Society. (When you get done watching Citizen Kane, watch the Dead Poet’s Society, you’ll see the meaning of my answer if you watch both movies back to back.

” Carpe Diem - Seize The Day - Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may.”

The story of Citizen Kane is this:

On his death bed, a very wealthy, very hated, very old miser, sat starring into a snowglobe than mustered every last ounce of strength he had to say to his nurse: “Rosebud”. Than he feel down dead.

Having no will and no known heirs, his lawyers were convinced that Rosebud must be the person Kane intended to leave his worldly goods to. And so begins the movie as these men dissect every aspect of Kane’s life in search for the girl, the secret wife, the hidden lover, the daughter, the maid, the nurse, someone ANYONE who ever entered Kane’s life, whom was named Rosebud. In doing so they find his diary, and begin reading…the rest of the movie is in flashback, detailing Kane’s life from the day he was born until the day he died and the story goes as thus:

Kane was happy boy, oblivious to the hardships of the world around him: an abusive father and mother who cared only about money.

WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE. (4 minute clip)

Time moves on. The boy grows up. In a few short years he is a millionaire. He owns every thing and every one. The more money he gets the more powerful he becomes. Soon Kane is the evilest, wickest, greediest, cruelest, miser in the land – poor people are shattered and crushed in his path as he builds his giant empire of possessions, houses, and wealth.

Late in life Kane is hated by every one. He never married. He has no family. Money and wealth have made him miserable. The more he owned the more unhappy he became. Now he sits alone, sick and dieing and his masion. Unloved. Uncared for. Looking back on a life fill with regret: regret that the young man never carried out his dreams, never did the things he wanted to do as a boy, never had time to find a woman to love, turned his back on everything in pursuit of wealth, and was no sick, alone, and dieing… holding a snowglobe and remembering the only time in his life he was ever happy, his time spent with the mysterious elusive Rosebud.

And so the lawyers come to the end of Kane’s diary, no closer than they were at the beginning of the movie, to find out who this Rosebud was.

Having no heirs, Kane’s vast estates are taken over by the government, and everything considered “junk” is sent to an incinerator to be burned…

I’m not going to tell you the end of the movie, and who Rosebud is, instead…here is the last 3 minutes of the movie, you can watch it for yourself and see who Rosebud was, and why she was so important to this man’s happiness:

WATCH THE VIDEO CLIP ON YOUTUBE (3 minute clip)

Go back and watch the first one again…now the second one…did you see her? Look close and you’ll see Rosebud in both clips.

Okay, so now that you’ve watched those 2 video clips and know who Rosebud is, did you figure out yet WHY it is my answer to your question?

No? Let’s move on to The Dead Poet’s Society than…

John Keating: Mr. Pitts, would you open your hymnal to page 542 and read the first stanza of the poem you find there.

Pitts: [reading the poem title] “To the Virgins To Make Much of Time”?

John Keating: Yes, that’s the one. Somewhat appropriate, isn’t it?

Pitts: GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day; To-morrow will be dying.

Keating: “Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.” Why does the writer use these lines?

Charlie: Because he’s in a hurry.

John Keating: No. Ding! Thank you for playing anyway. Because we are food for worms, lads. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die.

…(points to 100 year old photos of school boys)…

John Keating: They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? – - Carpe – - hear it? – - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

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And that is my answer, my advice to you:

Rosebud.

Carpe Diem.

Seize the day.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

Make your life extraordinary.

Do it now. Do it today.

Do not put off till tomorrow what you should have done today.

You say (about fulltimeing and living in a motorhome):  ”I can hardly wait to get started! I wish I could sell my house and go right now! Any advice?”

I ask you in turn: Why are you waiting? Seize the day. You want to sell your house? Than sell it! You want to live in a motorhome? Than get off your ass and go live in a motorhome! What’s stopping you? Money? You can get a $1,000 motorhome off Craigeslist and be on the road in less than a month. Don’t wait til you have $150,000 to buy a new one, start living your life now in a used one, you can move up to a new one after the sale of your house goes through.

Look around at the hopes and dreams and goals you watch fade and die like withered rosebuds every time you put off your dreams and stash them away in your “someday” pile. Don’t let your rosebuds wither and die. Gather them up today while they are still alive and fresh.

How many rosebuds have you gathered today?

Or how about thinking on it this way:

When you are on your deathbed: How many rosebuds will you be wishing you had not let pass you by?

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

If You could ask a full-timer anything, what would you want to know? Questions To Ask Yourself Before Moving Into an RV & FAQ About Full-Time Living in an RV…. Your Questions Wanted….

As you know this blog is still new and far from being “ready for readers” and has a long way to go before it catches up with my most popular blog “EK’s Star Log” which as of today has 5,483 posts (since 2003), 183,000+ unique visitors, hundreds of subscribers and 7,000+ regular readers. Star Log is where I do my random anything-goes yapping, as it is my “personal” blog, and unlike my other 34 blogs does not have a specific topic.

However, unlike Star Log, Houseless Living is a blog with a focus and a single topic: Houseless Living, with subtopics including such things as homelessness, workamping, boondocking, full-timing, camping, living in tents, cars, vans, trailers, boats, or motorhomes, etc. I’m still working on the bugs in the layout, as there is a glich somewhere causing the blog to load slow and not load certain posts. Seems to be an html error which can take a while to fix as it required reading the code itself.

ANYWAYS…while I’m doing that, I thought I’d get ready to get the “on topic” posts started, and do so by sending out a request to my Star Log readers and asking you to ask me questions on the following topics:

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Moving Into an RV

 FAQ About Full-Time Living in an RV


Answers To Your Motorhome Questions


Answers To Your FullTime RV Living Questions         

Answers To Your FullTiming Questions

Answers To Your Boondocking Questions 

If You could ask a full-timer anything what would you want to know?

A few I thought up so far include:

Would I Be Happy Living In An RV For An Extended Period Of Time?


How do you pay for this lifestyle? What type of work do you do?


How do you survive cold New England winters in a motorhome?


How can you survive in such a small space?

So, leave a comment here (or elsewhere on one of my many social network accounts) and tell me what questions you have, and I’ll try to answer as many as I can by using them over the next few months as topics for my blog posts.

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat










Answers To Your Motorhome Questions, FAQ About Full-Time Living in an RV, Questions To Ask Yourself Before Moving Into an RV, Full-timing, Fulltimer, Motorhomes, Living in an RV, Living in a Motorhome, RV Living, RV Lifestyle


Answers To Your Motorhome Questions, FAQ About Full-Time Living in an RV, Questions To Ask Yourself Before Moving Into an RV, Full-timing, Fulltimer, Living in an RV, Living in a Motorhome, 

Some Thoughts On Living in Small Spaces…

I grew up in a beach cabin. 7 people. 8 dogs. 9 cats. 3 birds. In a 1 bedroom beach cabin 16 feet long by 9 feet. This sort of thing is not unusual in my town, which is a tiny Maine beach resort with 8,000 residents. More than half the houses in town are under 1,000 square feet, many under 300 square feet. Ours was one of the larger houses. Behind our land is an RV resort with 400 lots, beside them is a “hide a way” campground with 225 lots. Across the street and down away is the largest of our towns 30 RV parks, which has 725 lots. Many people in these parks are fulltimers. So, I grew up with the “small living lifestyle” and growing up in this town, I was well into my 30s before I realized that the year round residents of our town were sort of considered as freaks to the rest of society, seeing how the entire community was made up of families living in homes smaller than the average family’s bedroom! In fact I was shocked to learn that people ACTUALLY LIVED in houses that were bigger. (You can tell I had never been outside of this town. Also I have Autism, so I’m not prone to thinking about what other people do much.)

Anyways. May 9, 2006, a flood came home and took the house with it. I was surrounded by death and destruction and found myself alone. Just me, 2 dogs, and 9 cats. Me with Autism and having no idea how to do pretty much ANYTHING.

I stayed on the land, but having no house, I lived the first few years under a 8×6 tarp. I eventually got a Volvo and lived in that for the next couple of years. I am currently in the process of buying a motorhome, and should be moving into it this fall. A 31′ Class A from the 1980s, it’ll be my BIGGEST home yet – at 31′x9 ‘ it is almost twice as big as the 16′x9′ house I grew up in, and it’ll be just me and the cats, in the house I had been one of 7 people.

When I tell people about my motorhome I’m buying (for $3,000) and how it’s like moving into a mansion for me, they respond wit: “That tiny thing? You call that a mansion? What the heck did you live in before?”. Than they laugh and tease me about it. Well, I don’t care what they say. I’m glad I’m getting this motorhome. Having all that living space available for me and the cats is going to make HUGE improvements in my life. I can’t wait to move in.

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

Storing Canned Food and Jars in Your RV.

Ckerr wrote:    I’d like information on how to store canned goods, etc so they don’t come flying out of the pantry when you open the door after a move. Also tips for making the most of limited refridgerator/freezer space.

I had this question a few months back, (about storing canned foods) forget where I asked it now, but I do remember the answer I was given, and thought I’d pass it along.

When you buy food, veggies, fruit, soups, sauces, etc, in cans or glass jars, dehydrate them. If you don’t have a food dehydrator (I don’t), spred the contents of the can/jar onto a cookie sheet (drain juice from fruits & veggies first!) and “bake” in the oven at low temps (250-ish) for and hour or two, untill the food is completly dry.

For soups and sauces, you’ll end up with a sheet that looks like fruit leather. Use a knife to cut the sheet into squares.

Store dried food in ziplock bags or plastic tubs.

To rehydrate, just add boiling water and cook/serve as usual.

If fully dryied with zero moisture, the dried foods will keep idefiantly (as long as they don’t get wet).

I have no idea why I did not think of doing this myself, but once I found out about it, it’s just amazingly the best way to store food. An in a motorhome you you don’t have to worry aboout dented cans or broken glass jars, AND dehydrated foods cut down on weight A LOT and storing them in zipper baggies means you can tuck a whole patry full of food into a counter drawer so it’s huge on space saving too.

Hope that helps. (I know it helped me when I was told about doing this!)

This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

>Houseless Living: Tents, Cars, RVs. So, what Should I Talk About?

>I’m starting this blog on Houseless Living: Tents, Cars, RVs. So, what Should I Talk About?

I suppose I should mention that this is an RV blog. The picture of me standing beside a motorhome in the banner probably tipped you off to that fact already, but you know how it is with blogs, any body can put anything in the header.

Anyways, I was born, raised, and live in Maine, I have 13 cats, and some people would call me homeless. Nope, I have a home, I just don’t have what people call a standard house. My house has wheels and her name is Rosebud. My backyard stretches on for thousands and thousands of miles all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Once upon a time I had a “regular home” but a flood came and took it away. Me and my cats spent the next 3 years living under a 8×6 tarp and survived through 3 blizzards and Maine’s coldest winter on record when the temps hit -48F. After that me and the cats moved in a Volvo. As hard as it is to live in a tent with 13 cats, it’s even harder to live in a Volvo with 13 cats, and a motorhome named Rosebud was the answer. Rosebud: my home, my office, my RV.

I plan to use this blog to share my thoughts, ideas, adventures, and advice on being self-employed, living and working a full-time RV LifeStyle with an army of cats, while boondocking in the wonderful (and sometimes sub-zero) state of Maine.

I hope to write a post a day featuring random thoughts as they pop into my head, and hopefully 2 or 3 posts per week will focus on something helpful to those seeking to live in an RV full time. If you’ve any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions on what sort of posts you’d like to see me write, please comment and let me know.

I hope you all have as much fun reading this blog as I know I’ll have writing it.

~Wendy

This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

>Welcome to My RV LifeStyle Blog!

>I suppose I should mention that this is an RV blog. The picture of me standing beside a motorhome in the banner probably tipped you off to that fact already, but you know how it is with blogs, any body can put anything in the header.

Anyways, I was born, raised, and live in Maine, I have 13 cats, and some people would call me homeless. Nope, I have a home, I just don’t have what people call a standard house. My house has wheels and her name is Rosebud. My backyard stretches on for thousands and thousands of miles all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Once upon a time I had a “regular home” but a flood came and took it away. Me and my cats spent the next 3 years living under a 8×6 tarp and survived through 3 blizzards and Maine’s coldest winter on record when the temps hit -48F. After that me and the cats moved in a Volvo. As hard as it is to live in a tent with 13 cats, it’s even harder to live in a Volvo with 13 cats, and a motorhome named Rosebud was the answer. Rosebud: my home, my office, my RV.

I plan to use this blog to share my thoughts, ideas, adventures, and advice on being self-employed, living and working a full-time RV LifeStyle with an army of cats, while boondocking in the wonderful (and sometimes sub-zero) state of Maine. I hope you all have as much fun reading this blog as I know I’ll have writing it.

~Wendy

This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

Friday 5 for July 8: Rock Star Treatment – A Blog MeMe

July 8, 2011

Friday 5 for July 8: Rock Star Treatment

Filed under: This Week’s Friday 5 — scrivener @ 12:01 am

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there, then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What instructions do you have for your chauffeur this weekend?
2. What instructions do you have for your personal chef this weekend?
3. What instructions do you have for your errand-boy (or errand-girl) this weekend?
4. What instructions do you have for your maid this weekend?
5. You don’t have a personal handyman, so I’m lending you mine. What three tasks would you like him to tackle this weekend?

Thanks for participating, and have a relaxing weekend!

Comments (4)

MY ANSWERS:

What instructions do you have for your chauffeur this weekend?

I’m going to The Moxie Festival Saturday, have my car ready, and make sure the chairs are packed so we have a place to sit for the parade. We have to get there early, the parade starts at 10AM and it’s a 2 hour drive to get there, make sure you get everything done today and get to bed early tonight. We live with the sunrise.

What instructions do you have for your personal chef this weekend?

I want eggs salad sandwiches and lemonade packed in the cooler. We are leaving with the sunrise, so you better set your alarm to get up extra early. Make the sandwiches first thing in the morning, extra Worschester Sauce and no onions! Don’t make them tonight, I’ll know if you did. I don’t want them sitting overnight and getting soggy. I hate soggy bread. No need to pack any Moxie we’ll buy it there.  

What instructions do you have for your errand-boy (or errand-girl) this weekend?

Take the day off. I won’t be needing you while I’m at the festival.

What instructions do you have for your maid this weekend?

Make sure my orange outfit is clean and ready to wear.

You don’t have a personal handyman, so I’m lending you mine. What three tasks would you like him to tackle this weekend?

I need some bunkbeds for my motorhome.

Could you re-seal the roof and all the windows? Nothing worse than a leaky RV.

I can’t think of anything else for you to do, I’m pretty handy and do everything myself, so I guess you can take the rest of the day off.

This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat