How do folks afford motorhomes

[suavecarve]

No inheritance
No lottery win
No Mortgage, having paid it off.
Always (apart from 1 year) been employed and worked shed loads of overtime to pay for things
Last bought a car 13 years ago and it was brand new, for £4,500 (scrappage deal) and still going strong.
Got rid of Sky, gave up smoking, dont go to pub, havent taken her out for a meal in 30+ years (unless on holiday), never bought her a birthday present, valentines card, anniversary xmas etc. Never bought anyone a card.
Pension and inheritance is the retirement plan as I only get about 3 months a year holiday in this job.
Wife gave up work 5 years ago as a school dinner lady.

We may not have earnt a lot but we spend it (or not) wisely.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Very hard work - hard work at blagging my way through life convincing people that I was a lot better than I really was and got paid a lot of money for doing not a lot. I should be embarrassed, but I am not……people still think that I am an authority of certain maritime matters. Paid cash for every van. Lucky to be able to do that, but never ever forget that my van does exactly thing the same as the fixer upper in the next pitch and we are all campers together

 

[Lenny HB]

Never earnt much last full years salary working was 17½k did a few years contracting earning a few k more than that but always saved and borrowed very little and had some good investments.
We can live off our pensions and afford 100k vans.
Couldnt afford nice things when we were young now it's nice to buy new vans.
But we are tight arse holes and like to camp for free as much as possible all the saved cash goes towards the next van.

 

[brynric]

First van, bought on retirement after 25 years of caravanning. Traded in our caravan and the used some of the lump sum to fund a motorhome and a different style of camping.
Eight years later my dad passed on and the sale of his flat meant that we could upgrade.
What we have now will have to see us out. But thats no problem, its very nice.

 

[Winger]

Me, I just buy and sell old tractors, easy money

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[Wissel]

I really don't understand why anyone is justifying how much they paid for their van?

Your money, do what you want with it? As everyone does?

Very bizarre thread IMO.

 

[Podney]

Sold my body

 

[Derek’soldvan]

Same as almost everyone else on here, I’m at work now & shall be all bank holiday to pay for what I’ve got parked up & not using.
As others said above, we’ve got a van either old or new but we share that common interest, enjoy what you have before it’s to late, a 100G van might be nice but what you’ve got, if it works, well ……

 

[Derek’soldvan]

Sold my body

Have you got a £100k van then?

 

[82125]

Dunno, I'd have to sell the house and live in the van if I spent 80/100 grand.

exactly this!
(I dont get why it seems unusual to do so lol!)

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[Lenny HB]

Have you got a £100k van then?

Probably a five Bob one.

 

[Northernraider]

One way i look at is if nobody was buying £100k vans there wouldn't be any second hand 25 -30k vans out there for me to buy

Fair enough i need to wait till I'm 80 for a morello to get down to 30k but im patient

 

[Bobby-gg]

Do you ask the same question to people who live in expensive houses?

 

[Northernraider]

Do you ask the same question to people who live in expensive houses?

I have to say when i watch programmes like location location etc and theres a 20 year old couple looking for a flat in london with a 600k budget im like how the fook are you affording the mortgage on that

 

[funflair]

One way i look at is if nobody was buying £100k vans there wouldn't be any second hand 25 -30k vans out there for me to buy

Fair enough i need to wait till I'm 80 for a morelo to get down to 30k but im patient

You must be extremely young as well

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[JoshnPen]

One way i look at is if nobody was buying £100k vans there wouldn't be any second hand 25 -30k vans out there for me to buy

Fair enough i need to wait till I'm 80 for a morello to get down to 30k but im patient

Good way of looking at it.... we're happy with little old van because she's all ours, and we didn't have to beg or borrow for her! Plus being small is a huge advantage when driving around those little country roads!!!

 

[jessthedog]

Sold my body

Was that you on the A1?

 

[Northernraider]

You must be extremely young as well

I reckon 31 years should reduce their price significantly.

 

[phillipsheila]

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Dirty buggers you lot
ps my wife had a few bob

 

[Northernraider]

I had to sell my arse down the docks
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Dirty buggers you lot
ps my wife had a few bob

That's a donkey

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[phillipsheila]

And im a jackass

 

[Wildbill]

A good set of spanners willing to lay under it to fix it bodge it
Probibly never have a new one so just make the best of what we have.
Bill

 

[Richard n Ann]

I had a few well paid jobs in Refrigeration and air conditioning. Never had anything on credit or bought anything flash, half the time I didn't even need to buy a car as I used the works van... So the money just built up in the savings account. Ann sold her flat and came here so she had savings and money from the flat. Put £18k each in and got a brand new van this is when prices were sensible in 2014.

PS no kids helps too.

 

[Woodmarrow]

Our love affair began when we hired a van a couple of years ago and took off round the North of Scotland. We knew we had to have one, and luckily found this van on Auto Trader in Inverness. I drove up (on work business) and viewed it. Did the due diligence and made an offer which was accepted. Yes, it costs a few quid in repayments every month, but in another 3 years it will be ours outright. We consider ourselves very fortunate to be able to afford this luxury (with 2 kids and a mortgage the end of the month can't come quickly enough sometimes). Just on our way back from Mull/Iona and considering our outlay well worth it so far. She needs 2 new tyres very soon though...

 

[PaulOH]

It is true that you bring what you know to the experience and I think this is further complicated by what you want from the experience, and that's what you probably end up paying for.

Owning a MH helps you understand a few things. With the expensive tech rigs, you get a sense of exactly how like a normal house it can be, all the mod cons.

With something more basic, its closer to the camping experience where you have to think about the power, adaptation and avoiding consuming resources that aren't readily available unless you plug in or find it somewhere else.

There's vans for every level (personally I have no clue about how someone spends more on a house when they buy a van) but personally with (grand)kids, go for the more basic - I feel it helps them understand that sometimes resources aren't limitless and are dependent on the quantity of sun, a tap with water, that kind of thing. it's at best only a couple of days of -what those who never had to do without- call deprivation and then they can be less deprived in a house!

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[Coolcats]

looking at the many high priced new cars out there and the price of housing it is unsurprising that people are willing to pay £100,000-£200,000+ on a MoHo.

The important thing is it doesn't matter if you spend £10K or the £200K on a MoHo its about stress free travel/holiday, and if you own the vehicle rather than the finance company so much the better.

So how do people afford big price ticket MoHo's its not just hard work, because you can work long and hard hours on minimum wage but as with everything in life there is an element of luck and good fortune as well.

 

[bobnick]

Not been caught yet

 

[Carpmart]

Everyone ultimately can have (does have) the same view when emptying the loo.. which MH you have matters not one jot…

 

[bobnick]

AND, left my home country for 40 years to work where they allowed you to save if you grafted.

 

[GirlyVanGirly]

A totally unexpected inheritance from a cousin I had not seen for over 30 years. It meant we could give up the tent and do folk festivals in more comfort, and much more besides.

She is called 'Irene' after my cousin.

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