all right we've been living in our RV full time now for almost four months and to be
honest when we started we didn't really know what we were doing or what we would need to
make this RV more comfortable for us but after doing this for four months now we feel pretty
confident that we know what the most important things are if you're starting out in RV life
so today we're going to be sharing our top five things we cannot live without in our
RV
[Music] thank you all right without a doubt the most important thing we have in this RV
is this reverse camera if I didn't have this there's no way I would be able to drive this
RV to some of the spots that we do like this awesome view here we've got a lot of the places
you go to there's very tight squeezes and you can't see anything because there's no
rear view mirror obviously if you've never driven a truck or anything like that it's
really hard to see where you're going when you don't have a rear view mirror also this
thing is a little bit wider than the actual body and the side mirrors you can't really
see what's behind you so having this reverse camera has been hands down the most important
thing we've got in this RB all right we're going to try and back out of here using only
the reverse camera most of the time that's all I need many will sometimes get out and
like stand right behind the RV and just put a hand up or something if I'm going to hit
something but this is pretty much all I use to reverse and this is a pretty tight squeeze
here but I think we should be right [Music]
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all right so when we first moved into the RV we had no idea that you couldn't drink
the water well then maybe you shouldn't drink the water we just filled up the tanks we drank
from out of the Taps for about a week and we got really sick we actually we didn't know
it was the water for a while because we had a big family get-together and we were like
drinking a lot and going out to eat and we were tired so we thought maybe that's what
it was and then one day Mandy just turned around and said I think it's the water and
that's when it clicked and we sort of figured out that you maybe shouldn't be trusting not
only your tanks but where the water supply is coming from so we knew that we had to figure
something out we're filling up five gallon jugs from Walmart but that gets really annoying
as well until we found this solution which is the water drop water filtration system
and what this is just basically a five liter jug where we can fill it up from the tap any
City water and we're good to go after a couple of minutes it filters out all the bad stuff
and we can drink it we can take it with us if we want to go down the beach or something
we can store it in the fridge so it stays cold but we usually just keep it up here and
now we've been using this to drink out of and we haven't been sick and it's been amazing
so this electric water dispenser is fully rechargeable it runs off a battery and it
has a one key control the countertop water dispenser gives you an experience Beyond traditional
pictures and dispensers faster filtration more precise filter materials and effortless
operations the water filter's premium carbon block filter materials offers high accuracy
excellent absorption and zero carbon leakage it effectively reduces impurities enhancing
the Purity and taste of the drinking water so this inbuilt battery actually lasts for
30 days off one charge which helps us to save time without having to charge it all the time
the water contacting components are made from bpa-free Material ensuring that every drop
of water is clean and safe for consumption it's delicious so as I said this is absolutely
perfect for us because we can keep it in the fridge and keep it cool and we don't have
to worry anymore about getting sick from drinking the water out of the RV and we also don't
have to like find Walmarts every few days to fill up being great I don't think we could
live without a water filter system like this so if you want to get your hands on one of
these yourself if you're in an RV we'll leave the link down below for you
all right so the next most important thing believe it or not when we started Living in
the RV about three months ago we didn't have any experience and we had no idea that you
can't use any of the power outlets unless you're plugged into Shore power which is very
rare the only reason would be plugged into Shore power is if we're at like a full hookup
site which costs about 60 70 80 sometimes even a hundred dollars so most of the time
we're just boondocking like this and after a while we figured we have to get a generator
and this thing has been awesome it's a VTO man 1800 solar generator and it's actually
worked really good for us it's can be charged three ways either using solar you can plug
it into your 12 volt which is like your cigarette lighter while you're driving which is pretty
much how we do it most the time if we're driving more than two or three hours it'll pretty
much get a full charge otherwise we'll use the solar when we're camping for more than
like a few days every morning I'll just get up and I'll put this outside with the solar
and we'll usually get full charge if you leave it out there for like eight hours but a couple
hours a day is enough and it'll get you enough charge to keep using everything otherwise
if you are plugged in you can just plug it straight into like a power socket and use
the 110 volt we can charge our computers here using the USBC inputs so that's great all
of our Electronics like phones and our camera we charge with it and we also plug our modem
into this that stays in there full time pretty much and then anything else like accessories
that you have that just need to charge we can use this and it also has this place where
you can plug in cables and jump start the RV if we run out of battery thankfully we've
never had to do that we actually haven't bought cables for it so if we did run out of battery
we'd be screwed but that's good to know that we have that in case so yeah if you're planning
on doing any kind of off-grid camping like us then you need a generator and having something
that charges three different ways has been perfect and it lasts like a really long time
as you can see it's at about 45 yeah if we use that all day charging our computers phones
using the internet it'll probably use like five percent maybe so as long as you're putting
it in the sun for a couple of hours every day you'll never run out
all right so like everybody one of the reasons we love rving is because we can be out in
nature and a little bit disconnected but we don't like to be totally disconnected and
that's mainly because obviously everything we do for work is online we have to upload
these videos uh edit we've got lots of emails we need to take care of and uh for the first
month we're in the RV we didn't have any Wi-Fi we just had our phones but we can't actually
hotspot our phones in North America because we have unlimited plans using olafly which
is great to have unlimited data on your phone it's awesome but they don't let you hotspot
so when we're in Canada we actually found we were looking for a bunch of different Wi-Fi
services and the most obvious one was starlink but we saw a lot of kind of negative reviews
about starlink just as far as if you are somewhere that's pretty built up like a city especially
in the east coast of America it's going to drop out it's not going to give you very good
service so we found an alternative which is maple Wi-Fi and we ordered uh one of their
modems they sent it out to us it took a couple of weeks but we got it and this is it this
is a tiny little modem that they send out it can be charged using a battery so we plug
it into this generator here we can either just like leave it plugged in all day and
it'll stay on and keep running or you can put the battery in the back here battery goes
in there and you can charge it up and if we want to like work down the beach or we want
to take it we can even take it to a cafe or a restaurant and we have Wi-Fi with us anywhere
we want to go so how it basically works is it runs off the 4G LTE system which is what
like phones run off and it'll sort through all of the different service providers in
the area and pick up whoever's giving the best signal so usually it's like a t or Verizon
and it'll just pick up whoever's giving the strongest signal but you can change it so
that it only picks up certain providers and that's sometimes good because when it's jumping
between providers you might not get like a steady signal but it's been really good for
us we haven't had any issues getting servers mainly because we're always pretty close to
like a town and I find in the United States like you never really that far off the Beaten
Track sometimes we'll pull in somewhere and there's only one or two bars on our phone
or there's no bars and so we know that the Wi-Fi is probably not going to work and we'll
move and go somewhere with just like a little bit better service but it's been really good
and they offer an unlimited monthly service there's no contracts at all it's about 159
Canadian dollars a month and that's for unlimited data it is tailored towards Canadians it's
a Canadian company that's why it's called Maple Wi-Fi but it actually works across all
of North America so the United States as well we've been using it pretty much only in the
United States and it hasn't dropped out at all so when you sign up all you have to do
is order one of these and they'll send it out to you and it's pretty much ready to go
out of the box plug it in they'll give you all the details on how to set it up which
is really easy you just need a password that's it and then um you're good to go and you have
unlimited Wi-Fi across all of North America so this is not only for people in RVs but
maybe if you're traveling for business or you've got like a cottage and you want to
take your Wi-Fi there with you for a weekend away Maple Wi-Fi has been great and we definitely
recommend it [Music] okay so one of the hardest things that anyone who lives in an RV will
tell you is buying things online when you're in an RV is a nightmare because well unless
you like really good at planning which we're not we don't know where we're going to be
next week let alone three weeks from now like sometimes when you order something it says
you know five to seven business days which could be two weeks like we have to order this
modem this generator all the upgrades we've done to this thing we've had to order online
and we found it was nearly impossible to get it right until we discovered traveling mailbox
we got it yay
this is traveling my old box thing it's pretty good yeah yeah so basically it's a digital
mailbox where you get things sent to an actual physical location they send you a notification
once it's received they'll send you like a picture of the item they'll hold it for you
for up to 30 days if you get mail they can forward it for you they can forward packages
for you using FedEx or UPS or USPS basically they'll send you a quote of how much it's
going to cost to get it forwarded to you so what we do is when we get something into our
mailbox we'll wait till we get like two or three items and they can consolidate it for
you it costs five dollars to consolidate then you get a quote of how much it's going to
cost to be sent by FedEx or UPS or whatever and then we just decide where we want to be
in like a few days because it usually comes within three to four days with FedEx and it's
been really good and it's only ten dollars a month so we get all of our mail now gets
sent to the one place and when we think we need it or when there's enough there that
we can get it all sent together we'll pick a spot where we're going to be we either use
a U.S post Office which you can actually get things sent to using general delivery or we'll
just pick it RV park and go and stay there for a couple of nights and make sure that
it lines up with when we're going to get our package so I think we're going to keep using
this virtual mailbox for a long time even when we're traveling overseas because it just
holds on to stuff for us this has been really good for us so if you're interested in using
virtual mailbox check out the link down below so that's it that's pretty much our five most
important things we have in our RV that we cannot live without if you have any suggestions
for things you think might make it easier for us or if you think we could upgrade any
of these items let us know down in the comments below thank you for watching and make sure
you subscribe and we'll see you in the next one bye [Music] thank you