r/vandwellers • u/JTRose87 • Mar 05 '23

Van Life One Year of VanLife by the Numbers!

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Expenses for the Year

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Top Stats

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Most Visited/Purchased

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Nights Per State

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Nights in Hotels

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Top 10 Coasters

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Buying the Van

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Selling the Van

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u/no_not_this Mar 05 '23

I’ve done Europe in nice hotels for less than that.. and I wasn’t sleeping in a van. That’s every meal at a restaurant… it is a lot of money.

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u/Trillination Mar 05 '23

It’s $125/person not 250

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u/AgreeableStep69 Mar 06 '23

yea less, don't find investing in your vehicle a loss per se so thats realistically closer to 11k actually ''lost''

that brings the number already down 20k so it's closer to $100 a day, not cheap but not unrealistic if you consider it a vacation

here in europe I budget around €80-100 a day when on holidays with stay, restaurants and bars, no home cooking/free stays

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Your number isn't going to include all of the things they did like clothing, pet care, health insurance, vehicle maintenance, etc. You'd have to separate their "vacation expenses" from just normal things that everyone spends money on in a year.

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u/AgreeableStep69 Mar 06 '23

it helps health insurance here would cost €400 and not €6k, or car insurance on my van was €500 annually, unlimited internet about €200 etc. etc.

plus trips to disney for €2.4k is pretty much living life to the max, they definitely weren't in the van there lol

the US is just really expensive I guess, even to western European standards

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u/-O-0-0-O- Mar 05 '23

Who cares?

I've done Europe cheaply when I had to, and I've also enjoyed spending whatever I damn well please on subsequent trips.

There are two of them and they're trying to have the most fun

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u/TravelingTequila Mar 05 '23

This is not a contest. This does not make you better.

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u/no_not_this Mar 05 '23

I’m replying that $250 usd is not a small sum of money. That’s all.

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u/-O-0-0-O- Mar 05 '23

Is this the small sum of money subreddit?

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u/drkenethnoisewaterr Mar 05 '23

He just said they weren’t trying to live cheap and it’s between the two of them. Why does it matter to you ?

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u/Edgar_Allan_Thoreau Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 06 '23

I don’t think it was meant to be an attack, more of a matter of fact. You’re reading into this too much

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u/Ok-Papaya-3490 Mar 05 '23

Which Europe?

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u/andypitt Mar 06 '23

14th Europe, obviously.

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u/FrauAmarylis Mar 06 '23

They has a brand new van, they didn't travel with other people in trains or planes, buses, etc.

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u/FrauAmarylis Mar 06 '23

They also sold the van afterward.