Full Time RV Living - RVing Retire Early

If you have never considered full time RV living, it is one of the best ways to retire early… think again. A lot of people do it, they enjoy the lifestyle, and it can be a very frugal way of retirement living. We RVed for 6 years for 6 to 22 month stretches at a time.

Now it is not frugal if you have to have an RV like Jeff Gordon lives in when he competes in NASCAR. You can spend over a million dollars on an RV. You can see the same scenery in a motor home or travel trailer costing $15,000 or less. Somewhere in between those 2 extremes is one of the best ways to retire early.

Full time RV living does entail some sacrifice however. Due to storage limitations there is no room for your riding lawnmower or snow blower. Unless you like Ice fishing you won’t need a winter wardrobe either. It seems most full time Rvers gravitate to warmer climes. Why?…because they can.

When your home has a steering wheel in the living room you are not bound to any one spot. It is always warm somewhere…picking your climate is one of the real pluses of RVing.

Don’t like the neighbors, loud parties, barking dogs…that can be a problem if your home doesn’t move. No problem in an RV, unhook and move.

Of course the more you travel the more you will spend on fuel and short stays at RV parks. A long term stay, a month, is much cheaper than the nightly rate. This will be you after a while. You will travel like crazy when you first have an RV…as you become exposed to more locations you find favorites and stay longer in specific places. You will also be spending less.

The larger the RV park the more varied the activities, and the more likely for you to find someone else with your particular interests. You want privacy you can dry camp (no utilities) or stay at smaller parks. It is your choice with full time RV living…flexibility is the key.

By adopting lifestyle of full time RV living, you can get rid your house and personal belongings. Yes, it can be emotional at firs, but you will get used of it. When we decided to RVing after retire early from corporate jobs world, we gave away most of our stuff to family and close friends. We open garage sales and donated some items that we don’t think we need during our RVing. As full time RVers, we can stay communicated and not lost contacts with our friends and family. Emails, post mail, cell phones, internet access and other communications media on the road has helped us to close those boundaries.

So if you have a bit of wanderlust and like having location options, full time RV living can be one of the best ways to retire early. It sure beats continuing to work.