What are you all up to
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Whilst you are occupying your house, your caravan lies empty and unused. The only difference between your house and your caravan is that one is static and the other is mobile. Both are designed to be lived in!
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Me too, house is home, caravan for holidays.
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Ironing completed
Weather now worse heavy sleet, 
even the dog doesn't want to go out! 
Just wondering what other inside jobs need doing.
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The other problem, cariadon, is the expense of maintaining what is in effect two homes. The caravan come fully furnished and equipped when you buy it. The house, on the other hand, comes with nothing. So you have to buy kitchens, bathrooms, carpets, three piece suite for the lounge etc. If you are opposed to getting into debt, all that expense is hardly going to avoid it, is it?
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Actually houses do usually come with a kitchen and bathroom, it's just that it might not be to your taste
I like to have the caravan for holidays as it's a different place to stay.
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It's probably snowing there, especially Chipping Norton as it's so much higher.
Not got round to finding jobs yet, still on CT!
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And me. I've just been to see some elderly neighbours who are poorly. Whilst we were talking their kettle boiled dry on the gas ring, I feel awful not to have noticed it, so they're probably blaming me for talking! Must go now and get on with a few things myself.
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We get different places to stay just by moving our caravan from one site to another, H&T! Also, everytime I get home from work, it feels like I'm on holiday because all around me are people lying out in their relaxers in the sun during the summer! It never feels like that in a house, does it?
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Not necessarily, cariadon. House prices can fall in a recession. It all depends on the market and what people can afford to pay that determines whether or not you can sell your house at the price you want or expect! It also depends on location. Properties in areas where there is plenty of employment available might sell faster and at a better price than something in a rural or remote area where there is high unemployment.
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Cannot see many out in their relaxers,here
And when enquiring bout equity release earl last year we were offered £185,000,when OH went home yesterday,there was some mail and the offer had gone up to £201,00c0annot see that happening ,with the caravan
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A rare trip into Kendal this morning. We usually avoid it and head east to Kirkby Lonsdale, but there was a bit of business to do.
It was worth it though as the local fish man was on the market and I bought a load shrimps, to put in the freezer and pot another day. As we're the last of the big spenders I also bought a comb, and my husband bought some shoe laces!
And an extra treat of a bacon sandwich and coffee at the “2 Sisters Cafe”.
What else can you do on a miserable cold damp day.
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The caravan is home to me, cariadon. I don't need any other home than that. After all, you can't live in two places at once, can you? So it means one lies empty whilst the other is being used.
You really do have a weird and wonderful logic Malc. On the other hand you need someone else's house for your mail, insurance etc. etc. also whilst your driving one car the other is sitting empty.
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Just back from Minsmere. First time I driven my car in over a month, so been saving lots of money
!Saw the glossy Ibis, it was only a couple or hundred yards from the Eels Foot CL/Inn at Eastbridge I'll post a photo on the wildlife thread later
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Good luck with that, JVB66. The only problem is that if you use that money to spend more time away in the caravan, you'll be leaving the house empty for longer and longer periods of time. So how will you manage maintenance of the property and the garden will also get overgrown and turn into a jungle whilst you're not there and become an eyesore for your neighbours? You can realise the equity simply by selling!
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What! and go live permanently in a tin box, they are meant for touring. We have children and grandchildren to stay and in their own rooms, we cook in a kitchen not a tent, we don't have to uproot after being evicted after so many days, the water runs endlessly out of the taps with no fetching or connecting hoses, the list is endless.
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If you have a big enough caravan plus awning and side annexes, you'll have plenty of room for your children and grandchildren, Metheven.
As for having to move every 3 to 4 weeks, by the time you've stayed that long on one site, you feel ready for a change scene!
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I get to see lots of othef places when on holiday and I can sit in a relaxer after work too, in my garden.
By the way what would you do in the event you didn't have your cousins address to use? No permanent address could prove to be difficult.
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Yuck !! Drizzle turned to rain,heavy at times,so no boat lifts today ,home early ,catch-up time !! 0
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I love going away in the caravan, and love the space it has for just the two of us; but I also like the way it is just a “little house” that I can equip and almost play “house” with, like I did way back in the day.
But more than that I love our house, with all it’s rooms and quirkiness. I like the fact that visitors can get lost! Or that I can escape to a quiet corner.
There’s room in our life for both. But the caravan could never be home.
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We already spend about 150 nights away per year and our gardener keeps an eye on things now so no different, and its great to have a base, also we can entertain much easier when there is a full fat kitchen to use and a big garden with plenty of sitting space,without reverting to "temporary " chairs and as we get older our house becomes more inviting,during the dark days of winter,so our base is also beckoning more,also where we live has all we need including good neighbours, who can be relied on,so no selling and moving for us,
What are you going to do when most of your "equity?"is to old to use,including yourselves
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I wouldn't bother with finding any jobs Helen. Find a good book to read instead.
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