{"id":3622,"date":"2016-02-03T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:45:48","slug":"and-thats-the-way-the-money-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"And That&#8217;s the Way the Money Goes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop goes the weasel!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/images.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"579\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to track my expenses this year, just to see where the money gets spent. One of the questions that people have when considering whether or not to go full time in their RV is how much things cost, so I have decided to share this information.<\/p>\n<p>So, now that I&#8217;ve closed the book on January, I&#8217;m ready to review how things have gone.<\/p>\n<p>Campsites \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$950.43<br \/>\nRV Maintenance \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $737.06<br \/>\nGas \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$321.25<br \/>\nGrocery store purchases \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $291.46<br \/>\nEating Out \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$156.62<br \/>\nOther purchases \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $85.72<br \/>\nTourism and Entertainment \u00a0$41.00<br \/>\nTolls and Parking \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $48.25<br \/>\nLaundry \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $23.50<br \/>\nFood and Drinks on-the-go \u00a0 \u00a0 $12.83<br \/>\nClothing \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$0.00<br \/>\nTruck expenses \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $0.00<br \/>\n<strong>GRAND TOTAL \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $2,668.12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not including health insurance and medications in my records. Those items are not particularly negotiable and they would be the same if I were living in S&amp;B. (S&amp;B is RVer talk for &#8220;sticks and bricks&#8221; &#8211; a house.)<\/p>\n<p>This month, I drove 2,168 miles and visited three states. I stayed in eight state parks, one national park and one RV Resort.<\/p>\n<p>My average price per night was $30.66. I hope to get that down in February. I have no plans to book any nights in RV Resorts. I much more of a state park, BLM, boondock sort of person.<\/p>\n<p>I also hope that I don&#8217;t have any more RV maintenance for a while. I have to start squirreling money away for new tires. But, I think I have enough rubber on them to keep rolling for a while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tires.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tires.jpg\" alt=\"tires\" width=\"613\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop goes the weasel! I decided to track my expenses this year, just to see where the money gets spent. One of the questions that people have when considering whether or not to go full time in their RV is how much things cost, so I have decided to share this information. So, now that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=3622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And That&#8217;s the Way the Money Goes&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[397],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rv-expenses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}