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How To Live Out Of Your Car

5.3.10 3:11 PM EDT By cwalters

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A few days ago, someone posted on reddit that he was divorced, unemployed, and now living out of his car. This prompted someone who’d already had the experience to post a list of tips for the (hopefully temporarily) homeless, including safe/legal places to park, strategies for staying clean, and how to maintain social connections. How does he know all this stuff? He lived out of his truck for over a year and saved his money to pay off $17k in debt.

“By request: I lived in my truck for 8 months. AMA” [reddit] (Thanks to Nathan!)

5.3.10By cwalters

tips advice homeless how-to saving money unemployed extreme frugality

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