/lounge/ - Lounge

>>321031
If I could drive a car I 100% would.

Sound exhausting and troublesome

>>321032
same, I lost my driving license due to neurological illness

I lived out of my car for like a week. I onyl lasted a week because I wasnt forced to, and I had a room at my parents house. I just was fed up with dealing with my mom.

>>321031
A 300lbs wizard + a regular car to live in = ERROR COULD NOT COMPUTE



T_T

I plan on living in a van as hatchback cars sound uncomfortable mostly. I am doing my best to save up and get a cool spacious retreat to cope until i say goodbye to the world.

>>321031
I can't drive vehicles but for a homeless fren it isn't a bad idea live in a car

>>321031
i do this. not in the winter though but throughout the warmer part of the year. i bought an old delivery boxtruck and this has opened up travel for me. it has too many advantages to count.

>no need for nightmarish overcrowded public transport like train or bus
>go travel on a whim, whenever you want, no need to plan ahead many months in advance
>no need to book stupid hotels which would force me to use credit cards
>travel at your own speed, no need to rush, when something looks interesting i can just pull over and stay a while
>it is cheaper. the economy of scale is broken. i wrongly assumed bus and train are the cheapest way but they are not, they exist to enrich the owners, the train and the bus cost more then the diesel to go someplace when i ignore the yearly upkeek of tax and insurance but i am paying that anyway because i want to use a car for hauling, shopping and getting around.
>i can stand up inside the truck, i build a simple bed and a shelf that can hold free banana crates from the supermarket. also i build a table/workbench that i use to lurk on the laptop or make food
>is super nice for physical activities. i go skating and it is nice to have enough storage capacity to keep all my gear and some extra clothing

this car was like the best thing that ever happened in my life and my only regret is not getting it sooner. if i knew how nice this would have been i would have done this when i was younger.

sleeping in it is difficult though. just going in a random city or town and finding a place to sleep is a learning process, requires some getting used to.

>>321148
>i insist on being 300lbs, it is way better, you plebs don't know what is good, i don't care about digestion, taste is the only thing that matters, how does it feel in the mouth

they make cars in all sizes. in a boxtruck it could work. see how nice the driver seat is in a boxtruck? it is not crammed into a narrow cockpit, you can just get up and walk into the back, no squeezing or awkwardly hoisting yourself out, it is way better then a car. i live in a big city with very little parking space where my car doesn't make sense but everywhere else boxtruck is better, there is no comparison, regular cars are just inferior.

>>322721
>see how nice the seat is in a boxtruck?


Thank you for enlightening me on boxtrucks!

regards, the 300lbs.

>>322738

>regards, the soon to be 295lbs.

when i got the boxtruck all of these possibilities opened up to me and i became waaaaaaaay more active as a person. i'd expect you might experience something similar. envigorating, life-affirming and empowering feelings were felt!

all of the sudden i was out and about every day. i used it to throw stuff away that i hoarded, got rid of stupid impractical furniture and hauled materials to build my own furniture. started visiting these nice used furniture places where i found many treasures for little money. then i travel to other cities that aren't too far away via the autobahn, i once used it to drive to a house 2 hours away that was potentially in my price class. i used to be on foot and on bus/train and i never experienced this ability to reach places that are farther away then the big city i still live in. hopefully not much longer and when it is time, i can use the boxtruck to move to the other place in my own pace. not having to deal with stupid moving company assholes.

also used it to help my father the fool clean up his hoarding and throw away 40 year old paper files he will never look at again.

just the overall interaction with all kind of objects no matter how bulky has improved my life to new heights. now i walk into the construction store curious like a child, wanting to know what everything does and doing more and more myself. installed myself a super nice kitchen that is perfectly tailored to the reality of how i want to eat with a self-connected sink and faucet and i have electrical outlets everywhere. just pure practicality.

>>322739
>>322739
Cool :)


Thanks for the analysis, because Ive been looking for a reason to declutter or go full minimalist, even

>>322796
i liked the idea of minimalism for a while but i never quite got there.

what bothered me about minimalism was the lack of tools. if i don't buy tools then i don't have acceptable access to tools. what would be my alternative to owning them, some stupid app i could use to rent them i guess, i'd hate that. same with the car, i'd hate to rely on some car sharing.

i have a lot of shelving because i like having storage space. another real nice thing i can do with the car is buying stuff in bulk. sometimes i encounter a deal that is too good to be true and then when i have storage, i can buy without worrying where to even put it. i do think i have gotten quite good at it.