Now you see it, now you don't. For WHATEVER reason it seems like in RV cabinets there's so
much unused space and it doubles as a nice long pillow in this video we have got amazing hacks
that are going to make your life easier but here is the kicker these are super cheap these are very
basic and you could probably implement most of these right now you're going to want to stay tuned
first up on the list is a little mod that we made back in this area now what actually used
to be here is a TV and we took all of the TVs out of our RV yes we did I wanted a shelf up
here to be able to utilize this space because it was really empty what we did is actually
this is a closet made shelf that we installed upside down because being upside down it has
this lip here versus coming over that way anything that I put up here on travel days
isn't going to slide off was a pretty easy install all the parts were from Home Depot
foreign next up on the list is this Nifty little tool that I was recently introduced
to so now why I love this for RV life small living it like does the job of two different
things so anytime that you can like condense things down and have a smaller footprint like
it's totally your friend so this is actually like a little cutting board and a knife all wrapped
into one you can chop all sorts of things with this and you don't have to get out a big huge
cutting board which is totally your friend when you're trying to minimize endless walk
all right so the next hack is when you bring something into your RV or tiny home whatever
it is get rid of unnecessary packaging there is so much packaging that manufacturers put
their items in that's really unnecessary when you bring it into your home so perfect example
is right now I've got these two boxes of cereal here these boxes are huge and they're taking up
a lot of space in the cupboard let's get rid of this unnecessary packaging with the outer box and
we're just gonna keep the cereal bag right now it looks like this and in just a minute Magic
the next hack is actually how to make your space feel bigger so this is perfect for pretty much
anybody and everybody that is full-time RVing or if you have a small apartment tiny home and
that hack is to clear off any of your flat surfaces and put things away into cupboards
or other areas that are not in this flat surface area it just makes your space feel
so much bigger when you have those flat surfaces cleared off of all of the Clutter
oh next up on the hack list is actually something that I have just found out about
this is a new hack this is a storage pillow what we're going to do is I always carry extra
blankets in the RV because sometimes we do end up camping in colder climates and we need those
extra blankets but we don't always need the extra blankets because we're not always in
cold climates or in scenarios that you need them so with this particular storage pillow
this is designed for things that are soft so things like extra blankets extra pillows this
is perfect when you are full time and you have things like hats and coats and mittens
and gloves and things that you don't need year-round but you just maybe need them part
of the year so with this nice little storage pillow I could actually put quite a bit more
in here you can store all of your extra soft items and it doubles it has a nice long pillow
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you how many times I've used these services in the past only to get an alert when we're out and about
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all right so the next hack actually has to do with folding and that is we're gonna fold a shirt and
we're gonna actually fold some of Ben's underwear sorry Ben we're gonna have to show everybody your
underwear but let's start with our shirt folding hack now this is a great way to be able to store
a lot of shirts in a small spot so we're going to take one of our experiences over things shirts
and we are going to fold it up so the first step is you're just going to take the very bottom part
of the shirt and you're going to create kind of like a little pocket across the bottom of the
shirt then you're going to fold it into thirds and then turn it around and just roll this up
in to this pocket like this and then fold it over and you have a very nice compact shirt
roll now this is great for storing away things like in your RV but also if you're
traveling this is a great way to be able to fit a lot in your suitcase and it stays nice
and organized it's not going anywhere I can throw it at Ben totally fine but you can also
put it in this drawer here you can see everything is nice and neat and folded very easy to get out
of shirt when you need it so the next tip men's underwear now this works regardless of if you
have a box or brief style or a different style of undies we're just going to lay it out flat
and then we're gonna fold this over the waistband we're gonna fold it into thirds and we're gonna
wrap this around fold this over and it becomes nice neat kind of little package that's what you
so I can just put all of this in a bin and then this bin sits in our
drawer nice neat organized plus you can fit a lot more in a small space
and it's like Christmas it's like opening a present every morning so you'll have to
let me know so far what is your favorite or let me know in the comments what are some
hacks that you're using to make RV or small living easier I would love to hear your ideas
so the next pack is when you have bins and things like that to actually label what's in
them and that way when you see them at a glance it's really easy to know exactly what's in that
bin especially if you're not using clear bins so I have a label that I have put on my bin
that I keep our laundry stuff in Ben has been the master with this with labeling all of the
bins that he carries all of our miscellaneous photography videography equipment electronic
stuff that is in our RV closet so a label maker when your RV living is definitely your friend
our next hack is use any unused use base so when we first moved into this RV we quickly realized
that we had a big huge unused piece of storage space and that was actually underneath this couch
now underneath this couch we do have the heating vent so if we turn on the propane furnace this
is actually where the heat comes out for those and so the manufacturer didn't really like think about
this in the sense of storage because the heating vents are under there but there's so much more
space under here than just what it needs for that duct work the other thing was is this whole front
fascia of the couch was one solid piece so to remove it really didn't work well because you
were pulling this huge piece out and then having to reinstall it if you wanted to access anything
underneath here so we got a little ingenious and what we did was we actually took this off
and then we cut this board in half and installed a hinge so now we actually have a hinged kind of
door that opens up so we can access underneath here now this is a perfect area to store things
that you aren't going to access every day which we all have those types of items especially if
you are full-time rving but because this isn't an area where with our pets it can get animal
hair and dust it's best to keep things down here that are covered so Ben's bins bends bins I was
actually at the Dollar Tree today though and I found Dollar Tree actually is getting some
pretty exciting new things in now that they've raised their prices to 1.25 I found this little
kind of storage Cube that you could put something in if you needed to store it in a place like this
where you just needed to be able to keep some dust and dirt off of it this would be perfect
it has a cover obviously you wouldn't want to put anything like super heavy in here and then pick
it up and carry it but for just storing things this can be a really good solution we also have
have some things like this that we've gotten from Ikea but use this type of
space get a little ingenious if you have to we like to call that RV ingenuity tomorrow
so the next hack that is absolutely necessary for full-time RV small living is what I like
to call a one in one out principles that is if we're going to bring in something
new then we have to get rid of something and something needs to leave so one in one out
the nice hack is that if you have an RV and you have a propane oven and you're not really finding
yourself using the oven part for us we use our convection oven more than we used our propane
oven is to actually just get rid of it it's taking up a ton of space and so in our case,
we just installed this induction cooktop instead you can always get
the counter style induction cooktops but we gained so much more storage underneath
here with removing the propane stove that was taking up this space before
next hack is to use shelf dividers to give yourself more covered space
now for whatever reason it seems like an RV cabinets there's so much unused space
that doesn't have like shelving to really utilize all the space so in our cabinets
that's for sure the case so I use these shelf dividers to actually give us more
storage space you can pick these up at a lot of places they even have ones at the Dollar
Tree that you can use to expand that space it's definitely your friend for small living
the next hack is actually a new one with Dollar Tree products love me some Dollar Tree you pick
up one of these cooling rocks dollar 25 and then you're gonna bend it these actually Bend pretty
easily because the wire framing is pretty thin you're gonna bend it to the shape you want it
you can actually make it more narrow you could make it more wide depending upon the cabinet
space that you're working with and then you get some of these removable hooks from the Dollar
Tree I usually pick these up in the automotive section of Dollar Tree got these mounted on our
cabinet here and then I'm just going to hang this here and then I can put things like my foil our
sandwich bags things like that into here and it stores nice and out of the way and gives me kind
of some extra space in here because we're making use of the space now you see it now you don't
so the next tag has to do with things that you maybe buy in bulk so specifically for us with
our animals when we buy dog food and cat food I usually actually have it shipped to wherever
we're at with uh chewy.com dog food comes in a very big bag there is absolutely no way that
we have any space on the inside of the RV to keep a big bag of dog food so these are
actually from the Dollar Tree you find this in like the kitchen storage section so I will fill
these up with our dog food with our cat food with Alaska this will usually give us about
two to three days worth of food for him our cats it's actually almost a month's worth of
food that goes in here because they just don't eat that much and then we just go where we have
the dog food stored in our storage compartments on the outside of the RV fill this up as needed
bring it in here but that way I can store this in places like under the sink and it's out of the
way but I don't have a big huge bag of dog food somewhere in the way in the RV and it's sealed
so the critters don't get into sealed no ants rodents or whatever else you might end up with
so the next hack is a cool way to store all of your hair ties that are super easy to find
this is a book ring from the Dollar Tree and then you get one of those little phone poppet
button things and you stick that on the inside of a cabinet door a wall wherever
you want to put your hair ties on here super easy way to store them and to find them when
you need them so in this video we have got really hold on and we've got a leaf blower
if we needed to dust off a few things this is an this is Anne look at last week's video on
the leaf blower that's for sure can't talk this is a I speak is the English
cheese man where'd the one in go you didn't she's already there yeah just trust me
Ben feels like that I give him a present every morning just unwrap it and then taken wrong don't
take that wrong wrong take that wrong take that wrong now I'm gonna put a video right up here
of 30 hacks tricks DIYs mods that I know you are going to find super interesting right up here if
we don't see you out on the road or around the campground we'll catch you in the next video