Be Honest....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

[Blue Knight]

You have spent your kids/Grand Kids inheritance/Years of saving up/ Gone with out so you can buy a New/Second hand Motor Home...

Did you ever think you should not have bought that particular one..?????

And wished you had not................................and... "Why"..??????

Spend it all Mo and don't leave em' nuffing.

 

[peterc10]

Only had 2 mohos and never regretted either. The first one was bought on a whim as it was not the layout or A class I had set my sights on, but we liked the feel of it. And it taught me that my sights were wrong as regards the layout but right as regards the A class. The second one was a newer and better version of the same layout, but the A class I always wanted. So its a keeper until we either stop motorhoming or I fail my C1 medical.

 

[Sundowners]

We managed to avoid the children burden so spend it on ourselves and the Dogs Trust / Guide Dogs. Most of our friends have had the children hassle and they are now experiencing the grand children noose.
Some may like these shackles but not us.

No regrets having children, bought lots of love to our lives and still do. We made it clear when we retired we would not be permanent babysitters to the grandchildren, they are definitely not a noose round our necks, do we love them any less, of course not, and they know it too. Inheritance, they know they will get what’s left, if anything. They have both said enjoy your lives while you can.

No regrets on any caravan/motorhome purchase, they fit the bill at the time of purchase.

 

[Allanm]

Dont regret buying ours at all, sometimes think we should have bought a more expensive one, but they are all longer than ours and on reflection, I think ours is long enough at 7.5m.
What I did regret buying, every time I drove it, was our Winnebago Brave WB ( found out later that the WB stood for Wide Body!) . Great to live in, had everything we wanted, but I hated driving it. I think a hovercraft has more accurate steering and it was way too wide, especially when driving through the Dartford tunnel next to an HGV and on narrow lanes through roadworks, and on country lanes, and anywhere where cars were parked at the side of the road.......

Plus, our kids get an inheritance ( if there is any left) when we both die, we're spending our money till then!

 

[nicholsong]

No regrets about buying my N&B Arto(2003) 10 years ago.

Had I known Basia and I were going to couple up 2 years later I might have looked for an island bed, but not sure if they were available secondhand then and we are still OK with the transverse double. Also moving to Poland I might have bought LHD, but still not a problem, so would not change just for that reason.

I think that the reason we are still happy with the Arto after 10 years is the quality and the result of research, research........ and research. I do not make impulse decisions.....about anything.

Geoff

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[Garfields]

. They will of course have a lot of work on converting everything back to cash as am an avid collector of the unusual.

Is that the same as collecting junk

 

[Snowbird]

Is that the same as collecting junk

Similar. One mans junk is another mans treasure.

 

[buttons]

First motorhome in my twenties following a spell in tents and caravans, we started with a new coach built which was fantastic while the kids were growing up and never regretted a single thing, but life changes. Kids grow up wives come and go and as you get older your likes and needs change.

To be honest we were getting fed up with motorhomes it was all becoming a bit repetitive so rather than giving up, we decided to downsize and. Again not a single regret, we did it at the right time and now it is just a cog in out many types of holiday we experiences.

 

[Minxy]

We managed to avoid the children burden so spend it on ourselves and the Dogs Trust / Guide Dogs. Most of our friends have had the children hassle and they are now experiencing the grand children noose.
Some may like these shackles but not us.

Us too - a relative asked me the other day had I regretted not having children - er - NO!

I never wanted children and was lucky enough to marry someone of the same mind set.
I’ve certainly never ‘missed’ kids, and babies fill me with horror, my mum was the same but unfortunately for her it was expected of her!
We’ve never regretted a van, and are happy with what we have.

Same here to some extent, was adamant when younger that I would NOT have kids until we were in a financially good position to support them without worry or their having to go without (sensible stuff, not luxuries!), then it got to the point where we weren't that bothered which was good seeing as we never had any!

Of course we do have our furry family and get a lot of pleasure and love from them.

We hear too often about grandparents having/being expected to look after grandkids and made to feel guilty if they didn't ... a former colleague of mine had this, she and her husband were 'trapped' having to look after their grand-daughter every single week, which they felt that had to do as their daughter had got divorced and had custody of the good. The daughter was a nurse and put herself first, she was very ambitious, wanting to progress up the job ladder as quickly as she could without regard to her 'commitments' and IMV used people to enable her to do so. Her parents really wanted to get away in their camper/MH especially during the school holidays (he was a teacher) but at those times they were then expected to have said good every weekday! Even when the father got cancer the daughter still expected them to do it until he was too ill to do so, but when he went into remission it all started again as if nothing had happened, unfortunately it came back with a vengeance and by then it was too late for them to get away at all.

 

[Tony50]

We thought we'd support local industries and ordered our new caravan from a local manufacturer. Oh boy what a mistake
We had our bungalow roof retiled and felt substitute done took 7 weeks , they tried putting chipped new tiles on various places, a job I was told by another quoting Company should take about 2 weeks , called Roofers back twice for rectification work.

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[Shrimp]

I always feel for older-grandparent type ages-people who are toting toddlers/small children around.
Maybe they are doing it because they really enjoy it but I think mostly they feel they should to help their kids, Trouble is I think sometimes they make a rod for their own backs! Before they know where they are they can’t get out of it!

 

[Geo]

Told em more than once
I aint depriving them of their inheritance
Im simply driving it around for a bit

 

[PhilandMena]

Being a fully fledged FLT I have gone a stage further. I've told my children that as our home and remaining wealth will be left to them when we pass on, I want them to pay me £10,000 a year while I'm alive and they can keep the change. Its a great deal for them and us. They no longer send us Christmas cards.

 

[Skez]

Invested all our energies and virtually all of our income over the last 30 years bringing our kids up and supporting them to their own financial independence - the most rewarding thing we have ever done! They don't want anything from us financially, so we shall spend a chunk of what we have left on our new van (when it arrives!!!!!) Absolutely no regrets either on our first van - fell on our feet with it and didn't lose much when we sold it

 

[Chris51]

Only had 2 M/H -first Autosleeper "Sympathy " ) with 4 piece bed-too small and I am only 5"8".After 3 years sold it and bought 2007 Relay lwb and took 6 month building my own copied off a Vantage Sol layout -2 single 78" x 23" beds etc.Kids have their own houses (with our help ) and well paid jobs so any money we have gets spent on us. No regrets ,my old van does all the things a 60k one would and the other 50 k comes on useful.

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[Rosemary1]

I always feel for older-grandparent type ages-people who are toting toddlers/small children around.
Maybe they are doing it because they really enjoy it but I think mostly they feel they should to help their kids, Trouble is I think sometimes they make a rod for their own backs! Before they know where they are they can’t get out of it!

One of the ladies I work with started to use her holidays to look after her grand children as her daughter said she was having trouble getting the time off work.

Then the daughter asked if she could reduce her day by 2 hours a day and finish at 3 so she could pick the kids from school for her and give them their tea (sometimes keeping them over night so daughter and her husband could have some free time) , daughter (a nurse) didn’t want to as she needed the money.

Then her daughter asked her to work a couple of days less a week to look after a new baby so she could go back to work early as she needed the money and wanted to be her own person not just a mum. Finally my colleague gave up work all together as she was struggling to cope with the 3 kids and work any hours even though she needed the money (daughter didn’t offer to make up any wages shortfall or give her the equivalent of child care fees)

I did feel sorry for her but at the end must admit I thought what a mug - whose kids were they?

 

[Blue Knight]

old-mo

You still have far too much money left to pass on to the kids.

Shall I pop over to your gaff tomorrow morning with the new Concorde brochure.

I'll bring cakes