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Tour of a Solo Woman Living Cheap in a Minivan | No-Build Van Life
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2021
- INTERVIEW WAS DONE IN WINTER OF 2020
A Fantastic Super Cheap and Easy Van Build With No Construction or Tools Required!
Today we meet Amanda. She started in a Honda Fit and then moved into a Dodge Caravan minivan.
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Bob never doubt what an awesome himan being you are. You’ve never changed no matter how successful you’ve become. Your generosity and kindness towards other is remarkable.
When doing inexpensive and imaginative solutions don't forget Tractor Supply store...hermetic sealed buckets, small canister spray bottles used on horses, camping supplies, etc.
Thanks for that tip I never thought of going to tractor supply for supplies.
It’s cheaper to buy your pellets or shavings for your “toilets” there compared to Amazon too usually. Plus heavy duty tarps & line!
Tractor Supply-40lbs for $6.49 +or - works well
Amanda has great tips, and she's never shy about moving stuff around to find a better fit.
I think that is key to a good van setup. Being able to adapt and move things around to find what really works for you
So practical.
Everyone seems so much nicer in this environment..possibly due to the utter happiness of the situation
Love the video, I really like what you said, " come on out and try it, even if it's just a day a week".
I love no builds! You can change things around to fit your needs or just your mood. Plus I think you can fit more in no builds. Love it! I’d like to see more no builds.
Me too. I've never built anything in my life! I'm a beginner and need an easy way to imagine this lifestyle could work for me.
How do you tie things down?
Sweetie. She's inspirational. I love her attitude.
Vanlife is getting more and more appealing to me. l watch so many CZcams solo females how to get going on the road. 2022 here l come. lm going to do this and maybe Bob can interview me too one day. What a blast this will be for me. If all these women can do it so can l. My new year resolution...get on the road and go go go.....
Did you do it? 😊
I love Amanda’s spirit. So beautiful. So positive. Thank you BOB. Thank you Amanda. Wishing you well.
Follow Amanda already - yay for minivan no-build builds!
What a great attitude she has. I love the idea of the van and she's got everything I can think of that I would need and I'm an older woman. I like the way she's got it all set up so that she can access everything inside or outside it's just very impressive way to go Amanda!
Winston has the good life
Goodies special bed
Thanks for the tour
My 09 Dodge Grand Caravan also has no built in items. It is nice I can unload the whole van and take it in a couple times a year to get the interior cleaned. Amazing the amount of storage there is once all the seats are removed also. I always tell folks to keep it simple. I am someone who just slept on the floor for the longest time and then upgraded to a roll up mattress. Now I have a small fold up cot since being off the floor in cold weather is better. Not as cold that way.
I'm not as flexible as Amanda, but her bed looks so comfy. I need to be a little off the floor.
Her practical thinking is so smart.
hey, i was also looking at this car although a grand voyager not caravan. I heard this car has reliability issues but if you look after it well and do small things yourself it can be ok. How are you finding it? really good cars for this type of life
Much love to Bob, the HOWA family, and you all! ❤️
Love your channel and love 💗 Winston!! That big box of sweet tarts is hilarious. I hope to be able to meet you and other women van dwellers. You all are such an inspiration!
Soooo simple and practical n everything essential needed to live on the road! Very realistically do-able for just about any newbie on a budget or on constricted time limit! Thank you!
I will never be able to do what you do. Although if I had seen people redoing bus and box trucks years ago i think i might have wanted to try it. I'm to old now, 76 years old, not in the best of health and lost my husband 6 years ago after being married 54 yrs. I tell you this life style is very appealing to me.
I also agree with the lady, I had it all, and now i have gotten rid of almost everything i owned, and i fined the less I have the happier I am.
@@judywilliams2313 so happy for you being married to your beloved for 54 yrs and so sorry that he passed. I’m just a few years younger than you and starting to have serious health problems but I still keep my SUV loaded up to go do what I love which is boondocking and seeing the national and state parks and monuments, and sleeping in my car. Nature can do wonders for your mental and spiritual being which in turn helps your physical health, too. Being outside and free makes me feel alive! If not now, when? My time is getting shorter by the minute! May God bless you!
Nice...no build van...nothing to hold anyone back! Love it! 🥰💕🙏
Hi bob. Amanda is a doll. Love you and your videos. Love cody and your family. A fan from texas. Thank you for everything. Love you all. Ma y god bless. Prayers is with you all. .
Great on-site interview.Bob and you are both inspirational. See ya in Quartzite.
Way to go Amanda! Ive been following you for awhile. You inspired me to buy my mini van and live the life I want!
After doing CDL Truck Driving for 2 years, I bought a 2003 Toyota sienna and I tried living in my van for two weeks and let me tell you. once you figure out what you really need. You come to find out you really don't need much in this world to be truly happy.
That’s it. Best comment ever.
@@roxi.onmyjourney facts
Great Video! I started watching Amanda in Feb. 2021 and have learned so much! I’ve learned so much from both of you. 🙌🏼💯😃
Congratulations Amanda on being featured on this channel great build
Yay thanks Jim!!
Its smart to use what you have to start. She has everything she needs. Very flexible no build. Some people are so obsessed with their build they never hit the road. ....just always getting ready.
GREAT VIDEO YOUNG LADY THANKS ALOT SAFE TRAVELS FOR BOTH YOU AND YOUR LITTLE DOG WINSTON
I love seeing how people incorporate their pets and that's one of the main things I search for while I'm researching this lifestyle in case I might have to do it I have three small Chihuahuas and an indoor duck so making space for them and me would be my main priority I'm a prepper and I already had my SUV meet out as a bug out vehicle but I'm going and looking on CZcams and seeing how people are setting things up and what it can use because I can't build anything nor I can buy a platform or anything so I'm working with what I got and also I can't remove the seats out of my SUV because I'm looking to trade it in once I get the title I'm going to be working on trying to find one of those vans with the beds in the back and with the high tops we had one when we went to go on vacation and it was purple and I loved it and it's kind of like what I'm looking for
You have a pet duck? Did I read that right?
Sounds like you'll have to find one of the old RVs with the tiny bathtubs 😂😂🐥
Yes, but didn’t she say she left her cats in her apartment that she doesn’t go back to except a week a month, or something?? SURELY not.
Yes on the Yeti! I love not having to worry about power and I have gone almost 8 days with one filling of ice!
Some great ideas here!! Thank you... I will go look for her CZcams channel right now! Amanda is a great orator...
Amanda is so full of energy and talents. I wish her the best. Thanks Bob.
I follow her and think she's great, thank you with sharing her and her home with everyone!
Thank you Bob & Amanda
Great Video !!!
Just love her non build. I just got my van and I've been getting ideas of how to do a build. Can't wait to get on the road.
So enjoyed Amanda's tour. Ty Bob! She's done a good job in creating a van-home suited to her needs in such an economical way. Lots of ideas any one could use.
I'll be looking her YT channel up for sure.
Thanks Bob & Amanda ! More great info & inspiration here !
I like this chick she gets straight to the point and to the questions before Bob even asks them like the toilet and shower. And I love her van build.
I follow Amanda on CZcams. She has great content and tons of information that she constantly updates.
I just love her spirit, she is infectious.
Another great video Bob, thanks for sharing Amanda's adventure.
Sometimes when I see people building stuff with WOOD material in their vans I think: *Expensive, *time consuming, *Unnecessary Added Weight, *Bulky and less space.
These videos give me ideas but I agree that material choices matter for sure.
This gives you ideas of layout, materials also what you need for power etc
Love this very motivated
I love your van . I’m a 59 year old lady and I’m currently living with my dad I take care of him he’s 91 years old . My plans are to buy a van and live in it when he passes away . I get his house when he dies but my profession ( hotel housekeeper) doesn’t pay much where I live at Flushing Ohio so it would be hard to pay my utilities and still have any money left over for anything else . So my plans are to rent the house out and live in my van . I really like your van but I think I need one where I can walk around in it . But it’ll all depend on what I can afford . Stay safe and hope u have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year . And who cares if your doors a different red . It opens and closes that’s all u need .
@@justwannasay5454 yea I’m getting up there in age and I’m hoping that my father hangs in there for a few more years so I’ll be even older when I buy my van and live in it .
Hope you get some good tenants.
Two of my favorite CZcamsrs in the same video!!!
You are so kind, my friend. 😍
Yay, love her & her little love bug's super simple build and her YT channel. She has great tips, always gets to the point with no fluff😁🐶🐈👍
Amanda has such a wonderful energy!
how lovely! Thank you Amanda! I am happy to see her cozy home and her toilet example!
AMADA IS AWESOME!!!!!!!
Another great video, Bob. Thank you, Amanda, for sharing your story. Love the simplicity.
Just became a new subbie for Amanda, watching from across the big pond..wishing I was in my beloved Arizona... My favourite state year round..
Thanks for sharing your build with us and for doing a “minivan” tour Bob xoxo
I am in Quartzite too! I love what you did with your van.
I love her attitude, she is so chipper and happy. I so enjoyed this van tour. I will definitively go check out her channel. Happy travels Amanda!
I am so freaking jealous of her head room!!! I'm 5'8 in a Santa Fe. The seats are just folded down and I'm too tall to comfortably sit in the back unless I leave the back passenger seat up. I definitely can't sit on my bed. I think I'm going to take off for the RTR and if I like traveling as much as I think I will, then I'll have the back seats and the back plastic cargo box that's set in the floor taken out.
Thata girl, she did great!
Amanda is Awesome and you're really cool too Bob I want to thank you both for being here I feel like you both are faraway friends
Good interview Amanda! I enjoy watching your channel, you are so darn positive!
I've been subscribed to Amanda's channel for awhile lol.
Im getting ready to start my adventure. Been looking forward to this.
Thanks Bob. Enjoy these videos. Learn so much
Congratulations to you Amanda! Great stuff right here.
Thanks Brian!
Great video! Love Amanda. Thanks Bob!
It's important to do things at your own pace to transition to this lifestyle. For me, saving enough money and running my jewelry business is imperative if I want to do my business remotely. At the same time know that you will not be able to anticipate everything, so just adapt and make things work.
Some day I would love to meet you Bob! ❤️
Didn’t know about the electric water pump so thanks.
I am totally with this young lady and I will have a trifold mattress in my Honda Odyssey, I can fold it up during the day and have much more space!
shes so nice and sweet.. it seems she is ALWAYS up beat...i did subscribe to her Channel..thanks bob for bringing her to lite..
Gypsy J
I follow Amanda on her channel and have for a good while. I adore her, thanks for the interview. I learned more of her story from this interviews than from all the videos she shares.
Amanda, I like your story. Will follow your channel!
Thank you!!
Great build and good tips.
Talk about a no build build! Awesome !
Yay, Amanda’s interview and tour is ‘live’!
Yaaaaay!!! ❤️
So helpful and informative
What a nice interview
Smart young lady
Blessings family. I actually got a collapseable Toltec from Walmart 3 weeks ago. On clearance 🤯 quite possibly the best thing I got for my van hands down
That’s what I’d like to have when it comes time for me to join the van life .
@@janieleishman9130 ok not that u asked or even care but this kinda gets me thinking creatively wen I type so I'm just throwing stuff I wish I knew before. OK the humidity/window fogging is irritating wen u gotta get going. Tried a humidity box thing from the 1 store. Kinda helped . Idk if it's my city. Houston . Or if I did get enough of them idk. Um let's see me personally I don't cover my windows . Only the windshield if I gotta cook at night. In a parking lot or something. Me personally I love seeing the view and I definitely want to see if someone or something is coming in my area. In my opinion I don't worry because I'm not doing nuthing illegal. Like drinking or hanging outside the car. I keep 2 urine containers. Along with my colapable tolite. I'm 45 lol things happen. I also keep good garbage bags the stretch kind that smell like lavender or something. The bags for the toilet are 9 buks for 10. That's crazy to me. 5 bucks for 40 is better. Good places so far to park are Sam's lowes homedepot, no city parks tho they ran me off my first night lol. Um let's see junk yards are fun to me personally cuzz u can find all sorts of goodies. Plus it cheap . I keep my van original and clean I don't wanna stand out. Wasatiera are good too. I cook alot so I usually keep wash dishes next to a water fill machine. I got lucky yesterday it was all in the same parking lot. So I washed all my dished after I cook then filled up my water tank and went to wash clothes and I find things to do while my clothes are washing. For me I'm active so I never get bored really. My only concern now is gas money. I have no work rn that's why I got into this but hope that helps God bless
What is that?
@@dolores2716 a crapper to take a number 2 in. It folds up
@@williambrucesanders6878 Ahh. Thanks!
Omgosh! Such a cute little room you have! It's honey and cozy and roomy. I love it! Thank you for sharing it with us! XO 💕
A nice simple setup. Very similar to my setup except I have a bunk bed in my minivan for my son and I. I also travel with my little dog and love to see other people who also travel with their furry friends
Good job Amanda
she is awesome
Looks great and very simplistic. I have a Home Depot bucket with screwcap until I managed to get my hands on a couple of 3 gallons buckets but using one with a screwcap I bought in my full size van. Because it is shorter, it works better for me and I am tall. It'll hold plenty before you have to empty it. She probably be better with 3 gallon bucket especially in the minivan.
Sweet. Great interview!
Easy does it.
Nice job!
Amanda is really awesome! Nice person and great attitude
Amanda has created a simple set up which suits her travel and work requirements.
The 'No Build, Build' is infinitely variable and can be made to suit any size vehicle and lifestyle.
It may also be achieved with virtually no financial outlay.
A no-build is a creative way to downsize and use those items you will need, some “keepers” and donate the rest.
I recently moved into a 1-bedroom apartment with my cat. Having gone through a downsizing and parcelling out to cousins on bot sides pf my family as well as my brothers’ daughter, husband and 7 children, I don’t have much more to toss out. I am hoping to have a Ford Transit250 to fix up and move into.
My plan is to keep the apartment and travel, etc. part-time with my cat.
This is great!!! Maybe not expertly done but it works. Now this is just what someone like me needs, yes Obviously I would love to have a custom fully decorated for my taste but realistically that’s not what I can afford, so this would be perfect. Thanks for sharing, good luck to all
I am happy for you
GREAT video! I love Amanda and am a subscriber to her channel. I have a minivan also and am looking forward to hitting the road full time when i retire from teaching in a year and a half.
Thanks for another informative video Bob!
Thank you babe!
Amanda: FYI - "Costrd" is not a word. Cost is both the present tense and the past tense. Enjoy your travels!
I’m sure public speaking and just speaking in general creates space for accidental misspeak.
I really like her open floor concept. The only thing different with my mini van is I have a japanese futon that I keep rolled up. so the bed isnt down all the time.
Brilliant! Love and light to you and your handsome boy!
Love it
Nice!
Amanda! I gave you a shout out the the solo women's group you're in. I'm the mod. I tagged you. What a fantastic interview. And channel you have. -- Karen
good job amanda :)
I'm hoping to upgrade to scuba, or spacesuit.
Awesome!!!👠🚌👠
Very nice
Geez, I just watched a video from Amanda that just popped up on the feed!
Happy for u!!
Amanda is my fav well apart from you bob, so glad you interviewed her yay...
bro,cant wait on October todo arizona boondock on it your tips help.me with my stuff getting ready bro.