Posted on 01/12/2022 4:06:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
A woman has revealed how she has managed to save more than $27,000 on bills and rent since moving into a narrowboat.
Elizabeth Earle, 33, first bought her narrowboat, the Leviathan, for $5,200 in 2019 and has since spent an extra $16,500 on renovations and decor over the past two years.
“My bills are extremely minimal, I’ve gone from paying $1,642 a month with rent, gas and electric to just $347 a month on the boat.”
“The rent for my marina spot at Mancetter is $164 a month, but it allows me to use the facilities, so that’s been quite nice during the winter as I’ve been able to get hot showers – as I’ve not managed to get the gas and hot water sorted yet.”
“I pay $131 a month for my boating license, boat insurance is $10 a month and the Canal and River Trust tax is $136.”
“I cook off a camp stove and rely on my log burner to keep me warm.”
“I also love my wood burner, it makes the boat so cozy on cold nights. It’s the heart of the home.”
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whatever floats her boat!
;)
That generally applies only to people who should have never bought a boat in the first place.
There are still boathouse dwellers along the upper Mississippi like at LA Crosse WI, but cities keep cracking down on them.
I have an above ground pool.
It’s my Harley that doesn’t sleep in my garage.
It’s my boat, which isn’t doing a 7 to 10 year stretch up on my driveway.
It’s my 2 seater euro basket case that never gets finished in time for my baby daughters graduation...
There’s alot to be said for an above ground pool. When I’m done with it maybe I’ll raise trout and use the circulating trout water for the hydroponic green houses that are yet to be built.
She fixed hers up to be rather nice.
I am posting from our live aboard sailboat in the Indian River in Southern Florida. We’re on a mooring (not an anchor at thi time) and are quite comfortable. We don’t have a lot of bills other than the mortgage on the boat, insurance, food, the mooring, and, the storage unit that I have some things stowed that won’t fit on the boat. No car (the city we are in has a free bus), and, we are quite comfortable.
It’s a good life and it keeps us active.
If the Bahamas ever makes up there mind on what they are gonna do about Covid, we’ll move over there for a bit. Who knows! We might end up in Fiji.
Before I got married, I lived year round on a 31 ft sailboat in Michigan for three years. I bubbled the boat in the winter and closed off the forward cabin so I only needed to heat the main cabin with a space heater.
It was, indeed, an inexpensive way to live. One of the most interesting thing was the striking difference between winter and summer. Friends over all the time in the summer but like living in a cemetery in the winter. Got a lot of reading done in the winter.
Frozen in during the winter?
—”We don’t have a lot of bills other than the mortgage on the boat, insurance, food, the mooring, and, the storage unit”
WOW!
That is fantastic!
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Epictetus
Go Stoic!
A hole in the water into which one pours money. Yeah, do miss them.
Well, we don’t have a lot of wants, but, we have the money that if we want something, we can get it.
When we had a house and a car, it was a lot harder to do.
Being Florida residents helps a lot too. No State tax and the sales tax isn’t that much more.
Just wish I could figure out how to have a 55in TV on board. :D
The advantage of living in Southern Florida! We just all meet at a picnic table to visit.
And, as a less than a ‘people person’, I get my alone time in.
1) The day the guy who sold it to you dies in an unexplained house fire.
The rivers only annual boat licence with the canals and river trust tax is only 454 quid so those numbers don’t add up either. Even the canals and rivers licence and tax is just under 800 quid.
hehe
I saw a documentary on those canal boats. Pros and cons with it. Very interesting for a different way of living however for only a few years from what those that do this said.
There’s a lot of alternatives to having a comfortable place to live than a house. If you’re resourceful and have a talent of utilizing what you have it’s remarkable how cozy you can live.
Plus there’s various ways to stream line your expenses in order to work at getting what you want.
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