RV Spending - 6 month comparison

One of the biggest questions we had starting out was “How much will this cost”? We looked at other RV blogs and saw everything from $500/mo to $6000/mo. We scoffed at the $6000/mo, thinking that these people must be living in the lap of luxury, at rv resorts and going on the yacht with Laurent on Sundays. After keeping track of our spending the last 6 months, I’ve got to say I’m astonished at how much we have spent. Some of it, like entertainment and food, has been us being completely frivolous. It’s easy to think that you need to be a part of every new experience. Some of it has been really frustrating, like having to pay to spend weeks in hotels while our rv was being repaired, not to mention the costs of the repairs. So without further ado, here is how much we have spent to live on the road for our first six months.

Holy crap, it is so much more than we had thought. That’s not including things like health insurance, internet, and recurring monthly costs like Netflix. Our experience has not been one of saving money. We actively budgeted very closely last month and it would have completely skewed our numbers, but my hope is that our next 6 months will have much lower averages. We are now slowing down, we have taken care of the major repairs (though who knows when the next is), and we are fine taking our time in our adventures instead of spending a ton of money to see everything. Our lifestyle has actually cost more than when we were in an apartment - there are so many more opportunities to spend money on the road. We’ve got new food options every week, cool sights that we’ve never seen, and we drive more often to explore. We were more homebodies when in Minnesota, if only because we had tried new things over a much larger period of time. So to those of you who are looking to find out the costs on the road, know that budgeting will be your best friend.