we hate rv life
that's right we said it we hate the rv life we're Jimmy and Lisa with Find Us Camping
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so we'll get into our story in just a few minutes why we hate this rv life now we've
been doing it for what seven or eight months we're gonna tell you the five main things that
we hate about it i mean just plain and simple and a bonus at the end so stick around the bonus the
most asked question about people living this rv life so let's get all these things started and
see why we hate it so the first thing on our list is something that can happen in
your just your sticks and bricks at your regular house definitely and that is
i hate my neighbor they're terrible just kidding that hasn't really been a problem for us most
of the time we're okay with our neighbors some are a little louder than others some have more
stuff sitting outside and some don't necessarily pay close attention to their animals but at the
end of the day the flip side to that is you don't like them you can pack up and move
or if that's not an option because there's not another site or you just don't feel like
packing it up guess what in a few days either your neighbor or you probably going to move
anyway it's not like you bought the house and you're stuck with your neighbor for a
couple of years you know that kind of reminds me because when we came here our neighbor left
no they didn't we didn't have a neighbor for for two days the first two days we were here i said
i'm not sure something's going on and they're not putting somebody beside us or what maybe
there's something at the desk this says don't park them by these people well we have neighbors now
and they're fine they're i mean we barely even see them on either side so it's all good but
there is potential that you don't like your neighbor and that could happen at home
if you got that hope 30-year mortgage to hope they move out or are you you got to move and it
doesn't work that way so but in rv life you know we're only here for a few days we're going to move
on down the road so how bad could it be suck it up buttercup that's it so number two on our list
as well everybody has if you've been traveling long enough it's the mishaps things that just
don't go as planned and i guess this is another one that you know things happen in your sticks
and bricks that you don't always plan on you know you could have a tree fall or you know something
crazy go on a leak and a roof or your washer goes out whatever i think our biggest mishaps if you
guys are following us around is when i had trying to be nice and put the awning out for somebody and
so i could walk those dogs what are you looking at our awning that's now
what is this perpendicular perpendicular to the ground instead of
parallel with the ground not a good day big old 20-foot awning came crashing down so
that's one of the mishaps it wasn't a little mishap it was pretty big 20 20 feet worth of big
1500 worth of big big mistake um and then those of you who have watched also saw our mishap with the
water oh that was your fault here too yeah no it's always me um when you carry water on board you
have to make 100 sure you cut your pump is turned off and that you don't have things stored that can
fall on the pedal of the toilet and cause it to fill the tank completely and overflow the floor
you know what the worst part is oh no don't you tell everybody what happened on your first
rookie mistake it wasn't my rookie mistake my husband no no no no not the water pump turned on
and i had a big bag of dog food that wasn't from the canister and it was sitting in here
and while we traveled it fell off and landed on the foot petal
and filled the entire back black tank up and we didn't know it till we got here and got set up
and water was pouring out of the bottom of the camper but i still think it was somebody else's
fault and you were supposed to turn to the best part about it is the other side of this wall is
the living room so the water's running under the wall and it's into the living room now
so there's that back on your head and here's the culprit right here dog food
hmm two mishaps the good news is they were just that mishaps we had one more mishap with your
favorite little dog yeah but that's kind of not so much on the mishaps that's on another section
we're not going to talk about him just yet now i'm not talking about that part i'm talking about when
we had him on at least oh god yeah and he chased a squirrel when he was younger and he pulled my
common denominator in some of the mystery he pulled my grill over after we had the charcoal
going it was bright red just getting ready through those nice big fat steaks on the grill
squirrel literally because he's a terrier and he took the legs out and then he ran that way
and the whole girl just came over on the ground so we almost had dog kabobs but max was fortunate
he lived to see another day 14 more years of it little fella yeah so um you know things happen at
the end of the day the camper didn't burn down we had to start over with our our grilling that night
the awning came down but it can be replaced the toilet overflowed but we cleaned it up so let us
know your mishaps if you're having some mishaps let us know we love to hear somebody else's
mishaps because we want to sit back and laugh at them just like everybody's laughing of ours so
let us know what you're having um i guess number three is going to be 400 square feet
leaving 26 2700 square feet of home you have to get creative very creative you have to
think of creative ways to store things you have to downsize what you're taking with you this isn't my
my forte here because i just take everything and just push and push and push and that doesn't work
because just like being in an airplane things shift during travel so you can push things
in the cabinet then when you get where you're going and you open it things come tumbling out
so you want to try to strategically place things so that even if they do move around a
little bit it's not a catastrophe and that also includes things that you may or do
leave sitting on your counters because they will also shift during travel so you need
to put them in places that they're not going to jump off into the floor
because when you get where you're going and you start running your slides out you may not see
that item that was on the counter and is now on the floor when you run your slide out it gets
smashed behind the slide i know somebody's had that happen so let us know let us know how many
times that you've brought your slide out and the coffee maker is behind it and you crushed a coffee
maker or you or you just didn't shine a drawer all the way and this hasn't happened pulled the whole
handle off of it in our last rv there was a slide that i couldn't get to it before i started putting
the slide out and one of the drawers for cabinet doors this one's your fault too i'm i'm not sure
there's a lot of common denominators here because there was a cabinet that we kept the blankets
in and either the cabinet door didn't get shut all the way or it bounced open during travel
either way when i started running the slide out i heard a crack and i stopped by then i was able
to squeeze through and see what was going on so i opened the other slide squeezed in shut the drawer
put the slide back out and all was well nothing broke but i have heard stories of people that
lost an entire drawer or cabinet door to a slide and again kind of like mishaps
it uh can be replaced let us know what your mishaps are we so we're doing this because we're
trying to tell you everything that once again what we've had going down the road and we want to know
what other people have had what other issues have you had and if you have some cool
storage solutions please share let us know i have a couple that i really like
um but i'm always interested to hear what other people do because it's usually
why i think that come but uh rvers tend to have to be really creative with where to store things
and how to store things so that they don't end in disaster so the number four is travel days
right i'm sorry rainy days there's nothing worse than a rainy day when you're camping except
it gets you get time to get a lot of things done that's when we try to get we try to look at the
weather for the week and if there's a rainy day on wednesday we try to plan schedule around that
everything we possibly can on a wednesday we'll try to do most of our work on wednesday or any
extra things that you've been wanting to get done like cleaning inside inside the camper thank god
it's only 400 square feet it doesn't take you that long but the rainy days it's time for the great
big steam clean get down on your hands and knees and really clean the camper out real good because
you don't want to do that when it's 75 degrees and sunny outside or it could be laundry day a lot of
people have on-board laundry we don't as of yet so and there's a toss-up please comment below your
side of that story because some people say it's better to have i just don't want the laundry mat
it saves you the money of the laundromat of course you have to buy the machine my plus
for the laundromat is i can go do four loads at one time four loads wash four loads dry laundry's
done we work number three we work laundry together we both go to the laundromat whether it's at the
campground or a laundromat we throw everything in there we sit and we do a little bit of work we
talk whatever we need to do when the buzzer goes off we throw everything into the dryer and when
it comes out i fold it up i'm going to say i help fold but i'll be lying if i told you i'll help you
he makes sure everything's turned right side out and kind of flattens it out and gives it to me so
my fold goes like this yeah it's a mess push it down we're not gonna let him fold it's just not
gonna happen or he can do towels so basically two hours we have a week and a half worth of
clothes done we're in we're out it costs a little bit more money but it's finished so versus if it
was on board you could just do a load every day or every couple of days or you know whenever whenever
you have enough to throw a load in so there's i know there's there's there's people that are
you know like really have a big opinion about one way or the other let us let us know we we
are thinking about people about the washer and dryer i just haven't convinced myself yet let
us know which one is your favorite brand if you have one and you really really really like it let
us know we're going to start doing some research on it because it is costing some money to go to
laundromat sometimes you it can be very i'm gonna tell you what some of the campground laundromats
are pretty nasty so then you have to go to the laundromat out in town and god knows what you're
gonna get until you get there so there is there is that downside but that's what we typically try to
do on our rainy days is clean inside the camper or get laundry done or if we have like an extra
thing at work that we want to work a report or something we want to work on we plan it for that
day and if there's more than one rainy day you can always like binge watch netflix or something
great all right off of that because i'm tired of the netflix binge watching so thank god it
hasn't rained in a couple of days number five one of the worst things that you have to do
just travel days don't get me wrong i love the drive i love to see the countryside
the places the places you get to see those are the plus those are the pluses for travel day is that
you get to go somewhere new and you get to check out new things you get to meet new people it seems
like lately every time that it's time to leave on the day it's time to leave it rains it's raining
and i'm gonna tell you what it hasn't rained this year it's poured so we're out there getting
soaking wet getting soaked water jumping off [ __ ] everything up backing up thank god i'm the
one backing up in the truck and she's on with the umbrella and all that kind of stuff but
last time it didn't rain though last travel day no rain when we were hooking up it might
have drizzled a little bit on the trip so we're thinking this is great they were calling for rain
it didn't rain it's sunny we're outside we got all the mutated music going on all is good and
then max you know little max again same same guy that took out the grill throws up in the back seat
what do you think
just another travel day of the dog with a sensitive stomach
love you max
again all you hear is you're going down the road it's like an alarm clock you hate to hear whoa
love that noise so yeah so that's a bad travel day when you're going down
the interstate what are you going to do i'm going to crawl to the back seat and
clean it up as best i can and remind myself how much i love my dogs and i know he can't
help it but it makes for a dog kebabs again makes for what started as a great travel day
turns it into a bad moment but just like all the other things we've discussed it's cleaned
up and it's good we're still on the road and all is well we're getting to go to a new place
meet new people check out new things so all in all travel day isn't as bad as long as
you like to ride and drive we switch back and forth you drive sometimes i drive sometimes
funny how i'm always riding when the dog gets sick it's a good thing it's a very good thing
so but anyway now for the bonus question the biggest commonly asked question i think
um to people that aren't in the rv community or maybe people that are new to the rv community is
how do you have sex in an rv we don't that's a lie so one of the funniest things that we ever heard
was at breakfast one morning outside the camper when some kids that were friends um
said to another set of kids did y'all feel that storm last night the camper was even shaking
really bad mom and dad said it was a really bad storm there was not a cloud in the sky no storm so
it's a pretty good thing though it's pretty funny we still laugh about it
but for us most of the time it's just us so we don't have the dogs
no max he can't hear he doesn't even know the dogs don't question why the camper might be shaken
they they can't anyway they can't say it out loud and we don't have kids with us that are asking
um the only problem that we could encounter is people outside might say
man the camper's shaking but you know what they say if the camper's rocking
don't come knocking on our door so yeah we said it there it is it's how it works in our world
anyway life happens and those are things that we hate about rv living so that's only five things
there's there's a couple more here and there but all in all rb life at the end of the day the downs
are they they i like i should say the ups and the positives far outweigh the downs the downs that
we have had some of them big some of them not so big we don't have anywhere in our plans that we're
stopping this anytime soon because it's all worth it it's all worth it to get to travel the country
we're here we're here to campground now that the reason we're here is because we met people in
one of our meetups and they called us up and said hey we're going to head to pigeon forge
do you guys want to go and hang out three couples here um including us that we met at our meet up
so we stayed in touch and here we are hanging out with them in pigeon forge so once again it's all
about the people and we're visiting forwards it's all about the places so it's so worth it
it's so worth the dog throwing up on the truck it's so worth the grill getting turned over the
awning cracking still a little questionable if it's worth the awning coming off the side
of the camper but at the end of the day those are all things that can be fixed or cleaned up
and we're all still going to live and nobody nobody died or got hurt really badly so it's
still all worth it let us know what you guys what is your what are your things you hate about rv
because we know there's a lot more of them out there and what are the things you love that's it
until the next time you find us camping or running from the storm same travels y'all
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