|
Ravus
Not an EggshellWalker
Registered: 07/18/03
Posts: 7,991
Loc: Cave of the Patriarchs
|
This may sound crazy
#2966513 - 08/05/04 12:05 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
But does anyone have any experiences with living in a tent? If you live in a warm place like, say, California, and have one of those big tent like things over your home tent to keep the rain from flooding it, a propane stove to cook and boil water, a clean stream and water filtration system, sleeping bag, and a job to buy drugs and food, then why isn't it possible? You can partially separate yourself from the system, while living with nature and not having to pay rent, water, electricity or heat
You could work out the rest of the details there, and after all, humans used to live in worse. Does anyone have any comments or experiences with this?
-------------------- So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
|
MAGnum
veteran
Registered: 07/08/04
Posts: 2,421
Last seen: 12 years, 3 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2966547 - 08/05/04 12:14 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Do it, I might someday.
|
Ravus
Not an EggshellWalker
Registered: 07/18/03
Posts: 7,991
Loc: Cave of the Patriarchs
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: MAGnum]
#2966555 - 08/05/04 12:17 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah, I've been seriously considering it. If you're not a very materialistic person, and don't mind a bit of hard work, it wouldn't be that bad
-------------------- So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
|
MOTH
Wild Woman
Registered: 06/06/03
Posts: 23,431
Loc: In the jungle
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2966898 - 08/05/04 04:55 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
If you get evicted from your apartment and need a cheap place to live, tents are the way to go. When my husband and I were having roommate problems we considered living in a tent.
Unfortunately, I get quickly tired of it. Everything feels dirty and during the summer it's wickedly hot and then there's the bugs.
Of course, you may have better results and enjoy it more then I did!
|
Dreamer987
The VerbalHerman Munster
Registered: 04/15/03
Posts: 5,326
Loc: Texas
Last seen: 16 years, 2 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2966998 - 08/05/04 06:27 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
I could see myself doing that, than i could see myself getting tired of it real quick and going home. the real problem would be making incom. Not alot of people will hire you if your living out of a tent. But than again, you just gotta be covert about it. Frog said she's a homeless lawyer or something. My mom, and aunts and uncles back in there hippie days camped out on lake travis for several months.
--------------------
|
Barbi
Plastic Person
Registered: 04/22/02
Posts: 12,976
Last seen: 19 years, 4 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Dreamer987]
#2967010 - 08/05/04 06:38 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
when it comes to people, it IS all how you present yourself for them to interpet you.
Sadly, living in a tent sounds like you are just trying really hard to make it a pain to present yourself in a good manner.
|
Renegade8
Niggar please
Registered: 10/11/03
Posts: 386
Loc: Orange County
Last seen: 15 years, 6 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Barbi]
#2968359 - 08/05/04 02:34 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
You're right, presentation is everything. I lived in my truck at Wal Mart for a few months while I was looking for an accounting job and even for a few weeks after I found work. One of my co-workers was shocked as hell when I told her where I "lived."
And Frog pulls it off even better than I did - you'd never guess if you saw her dressed for court. Was kinda fun going out to pool bars when we were both homeless "professionals." I love fucking with people's assumptions about me.
-------------------- I'm just see-through faded, super jaded, and out of my mind. - R.I.P. Layne
|
OuchITripped
|E|C|S|T|A|C|Y| ~ ~ ~My Anti-Drug~
Registered: 07/01/04
Posts: 412
Loc: Dallas, TX
Last seen: 19 years, 6 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Renegade8]
#2968518 - 08/05/04 03:00 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
But the problem is, how do you shower... probably a bad idea to goto work smelling like shit everyday, where do you goto the bathroom, what do you use to wipe your ass with, how long can you keep it up, how do you get to ther store/work/wherever you need to go, if you don't have a car, your fucked. if you do have a car, then this might be possible, however, how long could you keep it up for really, how do you have female encounters?
Ravus: Hey, wanna go back to my place? Ravus' Female friend: sure
***Ravus and his female friend drive home*** Ravus' Female friend: haha, that's funny, your little brother is camping in the backyard!!! Ravus: No, that's my place. Ravus' female friend: take me home, now, no wonder you smell, BASTARD
-------------------- If mushrooms grew in my house, and I could smoke in here, i'd have no reason to go outside? -Brock D. 2004 (that's me) --------------------------------------------------- if you feel like your gonna puke just go ahead and puke you'll feel much better afterwards. sometimes its fun, as long as it doesn't come out your nose, that sucks -Sherm (from the shroomery) Better smilies coming soon! By suffer ---------------------------------------------------
|
rogue_pixie
faerydae
Registered: 07/28/04
Posts: 3,977
Loc: UK
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2968585 - 08/05/04 03:15 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
I used to live in a teepee, back when I was a wee 'un.
-------------------- "Whatever you do, you need to keep moving. Because when you stop moving you die (physically and emotionally). Good luck and blessings of happiness and fortune." ~ RandalFlagg RIP
|
Renegade8
Niggar please
Registered: 10/11/03
Posts: 386
Loc: Orange County
Last seen: 15 years, 6 months
|
|
I had a gym membership and just showered there every day. It also forced me to work out 'cause I didn't want to be one of those weird people who goes to the gym only to take a shower.
-------------------- I'm just see-through faded, super jaded, and out of my mind. - R.I.P. Layne
|
Northernsoul
Your Reality
Registered: 11/17/01
Posts: 2,290
Loc: Inner Eye
Last seen: 13 years, 3 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2968662 - 08/05/04 03:36 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Thats how alot of people live out there, not only in 2nd world and 3rd world countries, but also in the states. I dont know how many do it by choice though.
Why not just go on welfare and dump the job thing in order to buy food and drugs?
-------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- When it comes I'll know, I know Just take my clothes and leave And I'll be gone
|
Northernsoul
Your Reality
Registered: 11/17/01
Posts: 2,290
Loc: Inner Eye
Last seen: 13 years, 3 months
|
|
Quote:
OuchITripped said: But the problem is, how do you shower... probably a bad idea to goto work smelling like shit everyday, where do you goto the bathroom, what do you use to wipe your ass with, how long can you keep it up, how do you get to ther store/work/wherever you need to go, if you don't have a car, your fucked. if you do have a car, then this might be possible, however, how long could you keep it up for really, how do you have female encounters?
Ravus: Hey, wanna go back to my place? Ravus' Female friend: sure
***Ravus and his female friend drive home*** Ravus' Female friend: haha, that's funny, your little brother is camping in the backyard!!! Ravus: No, that's my place. Ravus' female friend: take me home, now, no wonder you smell, BASTARD
Ravus: Thats it bitch, you gonna pay like the rest of dem Female Friend: Ohh my god, please no!!!! Ravus: Huh!?!?! You like that bitch?!?!?! Female friend: Please let me go, I know your a decent human being even though you live like a dog in a kennel! Ravus: you calling me a dog, ya bitch??!?!?!?! Female friend: Noooo!!! Ravus: Shhhhh, easy girl, easy girl, stop clawing my face, we're just kidding, youve been punked! Wooooo, weee, we gotcha!!! Female Friend: Oh my god, your horrible...hahaha, I almost thaught that... Ravus: That I was gonna rape and kill you in my shack?! Female....yeah...heh Ravus: Youve been a good sport...
-------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- When it comes I'll know, I know Just take my clothes and leave And I'll be gone
|
Ravus
Not an EggshellWalker
Registered: 07/18/03
Posts: 7,991
Loc: Cave of the Patriarchs
|
|
I can't see that happening for some reason
Ravus: Thats it bitch, you gonna pay like the rest of dem Female Friend: Ohh my god, please no!!!! *maces Ravus in the eyes, kicks him in the nuts, runs out of car*
That sounds more like it
-------------------- So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
|
OuchITripped
|E|C|S|T|A|C|Y| ~ ~ ~My Anti-Drug~
Registered: 07/01/04
Posts: 412
Loc: Dallas, TX
Last seen: 19 years, 6 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2968821 - 08/05/04 04:03 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
so you do have a car!
-------------------- If mushrooms grew in my house, and I could smoke in here, i'd have no reason to go outside? -Brock D. 2004 (that's me) --------------------------------------------------- if you feel like your gonna puke just go ahead and puke you'll feel much better afterwards. sometimes its fun, as long as it doesn't come out your nose, that sucks -Sherm (from the shroomery) Better smilies coming soon! By suffer ---------------------------------------------------
|
iloveraving
Fighting themachine...
Registered: 08/27/02
Posts: 1,965
Loc: ..long road ahead..
Last seen: 17 years, 6 months
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2969063 - 08/05/04 05:11 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
2 years ago my friend and his dad hit some rough times, and were homeless for a while. They lived in a campground all summer, thank god things got better before it got cold (I live in the NE)
It was aight, they got a electric site so they had a minifridge and all that
|
felix
Registered: 01/20/00
Posts: 10,503
Last seen: 8 days, 13 hours
|
Re: This may sound crazy [Re: Ravus]
#2969079 - 08/05/04 05:17 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
i had a friend that lived at the beach in a tent under some tree cover. i imagine as long as you have a water source and food source, it's just fine. it's very possible.
-------------------- Real botanists laugh at HPS systems, we do however use high pressure sodium in the parking lot. - artthug
|
|