Van Shopping

Not being forced to rush the buying of a van or other vehicle-type to live within gives you freedom.

Freedom to wait for the best deal. Freedom to buy the best vehicle make and type to fit your needs.

For various reasons I decided a Chevrolet / GMC cargo van is the best van for my needs.

A long-wheel-base style (LWB) will offer the most interior living room.

A 3/4-ton version with the beefier 4L80-E transmission (tranny) will hopefully allow vehicle longevity.

I would prefer a 6-cylinder engine but I think the 4L80-E only comes with the V-8 engine.

 

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Hello and THANK YOU to all the visitors!!!

Looking at the accumulated statistics WordPress offers its users I was surprised at the many different countries this blogs’ viewers are living within.

I am a life-long USA resident who made two overseas military tours to the Orient back in the mid-1970s.

 

From Korea to Thailand and points in-between I was among the very large percentage of Navy sailors from the lower levels of the socio-economic hierarchy.

 

I am well-aware that poverty and homelessness occurs across the planet. I also know that in comparison, on average, USA residents have a generally better life than many other people.

Though poverty, hunger, medical pain, all the bad things make me sad I will leave world-wide concerns and commenting about negatives in other countries to other folks.

I will stick with the general theme of offering advice and sharing information about how to best handle homeless living.

Some of what I write is applicable to folks in countries other than the USA. Differing laws, statutes, social norms and other things vary so you have to determine how to best interact with your immediate environment.

Okay, folks… time for the revelation of where readers live or… were visiting when they were on the Web while inside that country.

 

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Pure Homelessness

Pure homelessness is having no place to consider YOUR home.

No tent, no vehicle… nothing.

I do not consider a homeless shelter to be a home. It is a place to keep the wind and rain off you but the many negatives of being forced to sleep in a homeless shelter prevent it from being labeled a home.

An abandoned, empty house can provide shelter but since you can be tossed out at any time by an owner, the police, whatever that place is also just a shelter, not a home.

Many people in the USA would not consider a vehicle to be a home but for those forced to live in a vehicle it can be a home and much better than pure homelessness.

 

This blog entry was prompted by my seeing a few folks lately who appeared to possibly be homeless who were pulling wheeled luggage behind them.

If I was in a state of pure homelessness I would also likely seek a wheeled luggage device to allow me to have a few possessions to make my miserable life a little better.

 

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Pictured above is the High Sierra AT659 32 -Inch Expandable Wheeled Duffel with Backpack Straps found at Amazon.com.

Amazon has a large assortment of wheeled luggage. The reviews left buy others can assist in deciding which style, type, model, etc. is best for you.

If you are akin to me, planning ahead for bad events, now is the best time to seek out what may be a life necessity should homelessness occurs.

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Home on Bicycle Wheels

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(pic from Gizmag)

 

Above is the Zambulance, a nifty device built in Zambia and used for transporting folks to medical care facilities.

The Zambulance is simply a bicycle trailer with a liquid-impervious mattress which allows patients to lie flat in relative comfort. A curtain provides privacy, along with shelter from heat and rain.”

I leave it up to you to create a list of advantages and disadvantages of the device if used by a homeless person to avoid total absolutely no home to live within.

Importing one from Africa is not realistic. However, making one similar yourself or having made locally by someone with the needed skills is a possibility.

I am mentioning this possible “mobile home” to make you aware of this type of non-traditional home to assist you in preparing for what may be an inevitable event.

 

You are Despised

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Class warfare has infested all parts of the USA.  A minority of wealthy and powerful greedy vile scum are using their wealth and power to keep a large percentage of the USA population as mere serfs that serve their masters.

The federal government is a useful tool for those enslaving We, the People!!!

I discuss the class war in my Disgruntled Old Coot blog.

 

This post is a warning to you masses of common folks who are despised by those higher up the socio-economic hierarchy.

You commoners are mere tools to serve the ruling masters and their assistants.

The ongoing attempts to legalize the many millions of invaders, the illegal aliens, will severely economically harm the huge numbers of USA citizen working-poor and unemployed.

I fear that legalization is assured due to the efforts of the ruling class and their politician lackey scum.

Prepare for the future, folks. When the illegal alien invaders are legalized be prepared for an even larger onslaught of mega-millions more invaders.

 

Toss in the newly-legalized invaders who can now legally bring in their extended families and the HUGE influx of laborers will ensure that only minimal wages will be paid and there will be no need to offer any benefits.

Social services will also be inundated so do not expect any assistance form those sources for various reasons that are too complicated to cover here.

Where is the HUGE influx of folks higher up the socio-economic hierarchy?

That will not happen. The elites will not dilute their wealth and power!!! But they will dilute YOUR very minimal wealth and power since doing so makes the ruling class evermore wealthy and powerful!!!

Class warfare, folks. And We, the People are losing badly.

Prepare for very tough economic times.

I recommend being as mobile as possible.

Own a vehicle that you can live in and escape the areas where the soon-to-be-legalized invaders live. The competition for work and social services where the illegals congregate will be intense.

My decades of living among the illegals also taught me that if you are not of the same ethnicity of the invaders and their citizen comrades of the same ethnicity you will likely face many hurdles finding work due to prejudice and you may even suffer persecution.

I was shot at for being a White USA citizen… a despised Gringo.

And MANY other horrors I experienced along with friends and neighbors. I mention some of those in the other blog.

You have been warned, folks.

I predict horrors ahead as the ruling masters clamp down ever harder upon USA society’s lower classes.

 

 

Your Friend the Tarp

Tarp – waterproofed canvas,  tarpaulin

The term is also used for the thin wide and long sheets of waterproof plastic that often have grommets on the edges allowing the use of a rope to secure the tarp so that the wind does not blow the tarp away.

The tarp I believe handiest for the homeless folks are the type seen at Harbor Freight stores and many other stores selling articles of that type.

Silver and blue are common colors but camouflage styles are available.

cammo tarp

grommets are those round metal things on the tarp’s edge

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If you do not have a vehicle to live in you may be forced to create a camp in a wooded, isolated area inside or near a town, city, whatever. The camouflage tarp will make it easier to remain hidden.

A tarp is good for repelling rain and snow and the wind. They can also be placed on the ground to keep you and your stuff off the ground.

The plastic tarps are not too heavy, especially the smaller ones, so you can carry it with you.

Tarps can also provide shade when the summer heat hits.

I have never had to use a tarp to assist in creating a living space thanks to always having a vehicle to live in when homeless.

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Get Ideas From Videos

YouTube is an awesome site with many videos to watch.  All kinds of stuff… serious, comedy, bizarre, informative… everything imaginable except pornography. Well, some of those videos showing politicians spewing their BS and serving their corporate and elite-class masters while spitting upon the HUGE mass of us common folks can be considered pornographic in a way.

Below are a few sample videos of people using their van as a house… a home… an abode, a shanty on wheels.

Maybe we will see an idea implemented in real life to assist us in making a vehicle a decent place to dwell.

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