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From Welfare Queens To Dumpster Kings

Feb 19, 2015 12:45PM PST
Would you live in a dumpster?

Not me. There have been times I thought it would be fun to buy an old bread truck, or UPS type truck and fix it up nice in the cargo area. Put fake bakery signs on the side and travel around the country, parking overnight at 24/7 stores and looking like a vendor's truck, but sleeping in comfort instead in the back. You could visit a lot of interesting and historic sites on the cheap that way.

The luxury version.

The fixer-upper

One advantage of these is the opening inside the cab to the rear, better than crawling through sliding windows between a pickup cab and a camper.

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Or...for the minimalist
Feb 19, 2015 6:07PM PST
Borden milk truck that came to your home.

There's always an old postal vehicle. I recall, in the late '60s, a one person truck that was very narrow. The mail person could access rural boxes on both sides of the road from the driver's seat. I had a high school classmate who purchased one of these for some odd reason. Not a good dating vehicle but, if married, you could keep her in the back. Devil
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Feb 20, 2015 1:22AM PST
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Had to...
Feb 20, 2015 2:29AM PST

Once home, I got out of the USMC, and lived back home had to get a job, in the 70's. Things weren't too bad as I lived with the parents but once I got a new job in Ann Arbor, a college town. I had no idea that rent/eases were that much and way over anything back home and generally at least 50% more or even twice for similar living. I did have a "Chevy van" which I finally decided to live out of. The whole idea was to save enough in order to pay 1st, last and deposit in order to even get a place. That lasted about 1yr. and finally moved in and that's the most cash I ever had until then. It wasn't that bad until "winter arrived". Having being recent USMC, living out of a van wasn't that harsh to me but winter was an incentive for me. I had my system and made the best of it but once I found a place, life was better as well being a member of the racquet ball club plus handball. While, I didn't live in a milk truck I had lived in quadset huts and a rack for my enlistment and other humble lodgings. Make no thought I was prepared for van living, but allow me to explain, it was the 70's and I had converted it to what was expected on such a van. Wink -----Willy Happy
...go ahead just ask me???