RV Life: Our Top 10 This Or That Items

In my previous blog, I wrote about how we pared down from a house to our rig. Everyone encounters challenges when doing so that will feel overwhelming, or impossible. Because of this, I have decided to expand on things we chose between before starting our full time RV life.

#10: All Your Pots and Pans or A Few

Here is common sense. We brought way too many! If you have two burners, a barbecue and an oven, you cannot use more than four at once anyway! Next topic...

#9: Seasonal Decorations or Purchase When Needed

This one was hard for me because I love Christmas and I love to decorate, but we took a 24W×36Lx8"D Rubbermaid bin and used one half for Christmas and one half for Halloween decorations. After all, there isn't much to decorate haha. We DO, however, plan to use a small, real tree to put on our kitchen table for Christmas so we don't have to store it.

#8: All Your Tools or Just A Few

We brought one small toolbox with a universal screwdriver, bits, a ratchet set, a lug wrench for the tires, some zip ties, pliers etc. On top of that, we brought our drill, circle saw, a small air compressor, a brad nailer, and weed whacker. We have had everything we've needed.

#7: All The Clothes You Can Cram In or Just A Few

DO NOT overfill your cupboards! It will just cause added stress when things start to fall out! We brought enough clothing for two weeks when we started out, and realized we didn't wear half of them, so we downsized again.

See our "Paring Down" blog for everything we have with us (which is way too much and drives us crazy hahaha).

#6: Keurig or Coffee Pot

We sold our two Keurig machines and got a twelve cup coffee pot. It is half the size, uses less wattage to run, and I did the math on coffee pods verses coffee. Wow!

Our Nabob coffee pods were eighteen dollars for a forty pack, and there was a lot of waste, which would have added to our garbage.

We buy the large cans of the same kind of coffee for fourteen dollars, and it lasts us over one hundred forty cups of coffee!!! This was a no brainer...we drink a lot of coffee (hahaha).

#5: Buy New or Buy Used

HANDS DOWN, buy a used rig!!! They are a fraction of the price, the kinks are all worked out, and you have more money left to make it your own or renovate (think new floor, your colors inside, perhaps a residential fridge?).

#4: More Bedding or More Heaters

This is a tricky one. We use no propane and live off grid, so we have no heat in our rig unless we provide it. If you have full hookups, this wouldn't even be a thought.

That being said, we each have three large quilts and one small one (my husband and myself use separate blankets). We fold the queen sized ones in half, so we are sleeping under the equivalent of six blankets each. This ensures we are good and cozy down to eight degrees Celsius with no heat on overnight. We vacuum seal them during summer to save space.

We DO, however run our generator twice a day (two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening), and have electric heaters on during those times if needed. This is directly dependent on your lifestyle and tolerance to cold.

#3: Rip Out The Stove Top or Don't

We ripped our stove top out so we'd have extra counter space, and because we don't use any propane to cook. By doing this, it allowed us to take a trip to Canadian Tire and purchased two Master Chef burners.

We were skeptical at first because the reviews aren't great, but we love our burners! They can boil a full, large pot of water in less than ten minutes! The size also makes them very easy to store when not in use.

#2: Toaster or Toaster Oven

If you don't have room for both, it depends what you wish to make. If you are just toasting bread, bring your toaster, but if you use your toaster oven for many things, bring that instead.

We had ripped our oven out of our rig, as we use no propane at all, so we went out and bought an Oster convection oven from Wal-Mart. It was really affordable and we use it every day! We have fit two pizzas in it, a roasting chicken, garlic toast, sausages, baked potatoes, potato wedges, peppers...it's endless and heats much faster than our full oven in our house ever did!

#1: Crock Pot or Instant Pot

This seems to be the number one question I see people asking. We chose our crock pot because we run off grid on solar and the wattage was lower, which meant we could leave it on without running our generator or depleting our solar.

We love our crock pot because you can cook anything an oven would, with left overs for lunch or supper the next day. It's a win win situation...and very easy with kids!

If you have any questions or comments on any other objects you are struggling with, feel free to leave a comment below, watch our videos on YouTube, or message us on Facebook or Instagram! We'd love to hear from you!

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