Things to do when you live in a motorhome for a long time

Imagine the change when you have spent 8 years on a sailing boat......
We never throw toilet paper in the toilet, so when you go to a "real" toilet you sit there with the paper in your hand looking for the bin.....

There's nothing wrong with shouting at someone who lets the water run, is there? Fresh water is not so plentiful anymore.

We have become good at saving electricity. Nothing unnecessary that is on in stand-by mode, they actually draw a lot of power then with or lamps shining in spaces we are not in. On the boat, we have to produce our electricity ourselves with the help of sun, wind and diesel so thriftiness is more or less forced.

I recognise myself in what you write about the toilet haha Letting water run and washing dishes under running water we have not done at home, so it is not something we "think" about anymore, just turn off the tap. Certainly we reused cups and glasses more in the motorhome than here at home.
And now that we are home, we have to "find" each other to talk. In the campervan, it was just to talk. I miss the small cosy area in the motorhome and can't wait to get out again.
A good start to 2016
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Exaktamento, recognise everything (except the toilet lever we have a push button) laughing at myself many times after returning home!
When cooking at home in the villa, I look for the wrong pans, having used other pans in the kitchen tent during the winter (they are then stored down there over the summer).
I imagine myself that we stimulate the brain by living in different places and maybe it keeps the dementia away longer ha-ha ☺️?

So. More people would need the spartan life in a motorhome, it seems, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with telling people to turn off the water tap or to save on dishes. I think the same way myself, but have also realised that I have become much more relaxed since I moved from my 2ROK with a hand dishwasher to the family home with a dishwasher. For better or worse. However, it sometimes feels like I do nothing but switch off ceiling lights after people. Why does it have to be lit everywhere if you are not in the room?

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Thanks - I'm glad you appreciate it! But wow, what a trip - you must have really downshifted a lot. We really want to get a smaller motorhome and travel around in it. Now I have to read your blog! In terms of lifestyle, we have come quite far, but we still have an incredible amount of stuff so the clearing continues. We have taken a little at a time but I think it's time for a major purge soon.

Haha, so funny - it's so easy to get used to certain things and start going on routine 😉 But many of these are good to continue to adopt in everyday life! A clean fridge - why not? Not to mention being kind to the environment with less water etc! Bringing the camping life into normal life!

en: Yes, an extra backup is a must! I have lost a lot of pictures once due to a hard drive crash. Something you do once and then learn the hard way.

Oh yes, when I lived in my folk bus, my whole life was a tetris in getting the few things in the car again after, for example, cooking. Everything had its place and you had very few possessions that you cared for tenderly. I take that experience with me in my apartment today:)

Hahaha! Think how environmentally conscious you can become after a year in a motorhome! Environmentally conscious in a double sense;-)
Even if we don't go camping, it doesn't take more than a few weeks to get used to "old" habits. It takes much longer to "put them on" again...

The idea of letting the water run while brushing your teeth, for example, is something I sometimes catch myself doing. Starting to get better at not wasting water...

I recognise myself!

RV life is healthy.
One of the things they learn is how to economise on resources.

So true!...and so many funny comments! Great comment/question for everyone!

We recognise ourselves so well. We have a primitive little cottage on an island in northern Sweden where we spend May-September. Dry toilet outside, cold water comes in a black hose through the forest. The kitchen outside. We have all your routines. But we have to go home to Umeå once a week to shower.
So 8 months of the year (the cottage and Greece) we do not throw the paper in the toilet and it is difficult to change.
Birgitta, direct from Paleochora, southern Crete.

We lived in a caravan for some time. Not for months at a time, but all in all it was a lot and a lot "on the road". Of course, it went perfectly well, the equipment is superb. But a completely different environmental approach. Not only that you get drinking water and fill it up, there is a grey water that has to be awakened manually.
We slept very well in the double bed in the caravan, but when we came home, everything was so BIG!
And I recognise this with the shower, toilet and fridge. I think I'm pretty environmentally conscious even now, I've also lived in a villa, so.

but pretty good habits to bring home too, for the sake of the environment!

So funny post with subsequent, equally funny comments, ha ha! 🙂
I'm also a person who goes and turns off the water for people who are slacking off. I also usually go and close the fridge door for those who leave it open while "they're just fixing something" :/ and turn off lights in rooms that no one is in. Is it not part of the reflexes you are born with, to switch off when you leave a room?

Fun read and spot on Freedom...we will be out until mid April so we are in the spar system....