Van Dwelling - Adam The Woo - TheDailyWoo Archive

0:04 this is my first video of my van

0:04 dwelling experiment Adventure whatever

0:06 you want to call

0:18 it I was paying $550 for my apartment

0:22 every month I didn't have a roommate I

0:24 didn't have a wife I didn't have a Livin

0:25 girlfriend I had no other secondary

0:28 person that was helping me out with

0:29 bills

0:30 so $550 every month of my paycheck went

0:34 to rent and 100 to 150 of that on top of

0:38 that went to utilities so on average I

0:41 was spending $650 to $700 a month every

0:45 month for my

0:56 apartment another thing that got me

0:56 thinking

0:57 was my van payment every month on this

1:00 van is $440 a month I got this van for

1:05 the sole intention of my band touring we

1:09 needed a tour we were going to do a few

1:11 East Coast tours the van we had was a

1:15 minivan that I used to own that the

1:17 transmission was going out on I always

1:19 swore throughout my life that I would

1:20 never make a car payment I'd always

1:22 drive a clunker you know something off

1:25 of Buy Here Pay Here

1:26 lot and I would just you know use that

1:29 till it fell apart

1:30 well we decided to go on tour as the

1:32 band by the way the new threat is the

1:35 band name check us out on iTunes the new

1:37 threat look it up download it give us a

1:40 little spending money maybe make a ham

1:42 sandwich or a balone sandwich this is

1:44 called subliminal

1:46 advertising so many years have passed me

1:51 by I've got my

2:00 girl one of the really good things about

2:00 having the limo tents on the van is the

2:02 fact that you can't see the curtains

2:03 that are inside there that way police

2:06 officers passer buers and very nosy

2:08 people won't realize that you're

2:10 sleeping inside and they won't also be

2:12 able to see the curtains which will also

2:14 make them a little bit more Curious so

2:16 limo tent is definitely uh the way I

2:18 decided to

2:25 go so I got to thinking what can I do to

2:25 get rid of the payments on this van and

2:28 actually own the van

2:31 so the idea I came up with is I'm not

2:33 going to pay rents anymore I'm not going

2:35 to pay utilities anymore I'm going to

2:38 sell all my stuff that I can't fit in

2:39 the van anything that's not a necessity

2:42 I'm going to get rid of it and that's

2:44 basically what I did to be owned by the

2:46 things you own is a very difficult thing

2:49 to

2:50 overcome it definitely was not easy but

2:53 once you start getting rid of stuff at

2:54 least for me it wasn't really that hard

2:57 basically now all I really need is

2:59 what's in the this van for

3:02 now maybe there'll come a point in my

3:04 life when all this will seem like a

3:05 really dumb idea but at this point it

3:09 makes a lot of sense the van I've had

3:11 for about 3 three and a half years is

3:12 the Ford E150 van it's a

3:16 2006 um I'll show you kind of what I did

3:18 to it if you look here um you'll see the

3:21 limo tent so if you'll notice the front

3:23 window has no tent on it uh if you go

3:26 around to the front you'll see there's

3:27 no tent there's no tent strip across

3:29 there just to try to create a little bit

3:33 of uh unnotice ability I guess you could

3:35 say I don't know if that's a word but

3:37 unnotice ability is the word uh I'm

3:40 going to coin that phrase right now one

3:42 thing is for sure if you decide to go

3:44 this route um you're going to get very

3:46 little support in your Endeavor

3:49 everyone's going to try to talk you out

3:50 of

3:51 it I say everyone but a very good

3:54 portion you might find one or two

3:56 like-minded people that will give you a

3:58 little bit of support but even those

4:00 people as much as they like to talk

4:02 about them doing it most people don't

4:04 step up to the plate and actually do it

4:06 themselves basically by me doing this by

4:08 moving out and saving myself around $700

4:11 a

4:13 month I can get the things that I want

4:16 to get which is a new video camera this

4:19 video that I'm filming is on a very very

4:21 lowquality digital camera I really want

4:24 to step up my game start making some

4:27 documentaries other things on YouTube I

4:29 want to film a video every day so I

4:31 really want to take my videos to the

4:33 next level this is actually giving me

4:36 the ability to do that so I was also

4:37 able to get things fixed on this van I

4:39 would have had to save for about a year

4:42 to get new tires alignment oil change

4:45 all that stuff on the van that would

4:47 have all been my little bit of extra

4:49 money the 10% of my check that wasn't

4:51 going to rent the van payment all that

4:53 stuff now I have $700 a month to play

4:57 around with my goal is as of this video

5:00 is to have my van paid off on my

5:01 birthday which is August 10th that will

5:04 be 11 months earlier than when my payoff

5:09 balance is due so they open up the door

5:11 and you know nothing really different up

5:13 here you can see where I've started to

5:15 put the

5:16 curtains uh this curtain here is a

5:18 complete blackout curtain I bought up

5:20 front I have the little my little phone

5:23 charger that I can charge while I'm

5:24 driving there's a copy of my Band

5:27 CD the new threat make sure you get that

5:30 bad boy on iTunes the world's smallest

5:35 apartment so we'd enter

5:38 inside you see the curtains all the way

5:40 around um those are dark curtains over

5:43 the top of the limo

5:44 tent then you got on the side you got

5:46 other regular curtains I got some

5:48 hanging clothes then you got some

5:50 smaller curtains up front here that you

5:53 can kind of see through with a limo tent

5:55 it really makes it impossible especially

5:57 at night and then across the back window

5:58 just to give me

6:00 a little bit more privacy I put a black

6:03 trash bag taped it up on there so it's

6:05 100% SE proof cannot see in this is the

6:09 other side as far as the bed goes if you

6:11 look under here here's an air mattress

6:14 so I got a twin size air mattress with

6:16 the sheet on it I've got one regular

6:19 standard sleeping bag for when it gets a

6:22 little bit cold got a regular blanket

6:24 any of these I can utilize how I see fit

6:27 and then I've also got a0 de sleeping

6:29 bag

6:30 so if it gets super cold climb inside

6:32 this bad boy zip it up and you're in a

6:35 little cocoon a full size body pillow to

6:39 block the back window so I'm not leaning

6:40 against the window and then I've got

6:42 three four five pillows back there

6:44 plenty of pillows also across the back I

6:47 have a curtain rod wedged in there with

6:48 the curtains now what I did to make the

6:50 bed was I took the two regular seats

6:54 that were already included that mounted

6:56 here here's the mounts

6:59 like you'd see in a regular van and I

7:02 took those seats and I turned them

7:03 sideways facing each other so it made a

7:06 u-shape so the backs are here that you'd

7:08 sit on and there's the

7:10 u-shape I took some wood balanced it out

7:13 so it created completely balanced and

7:16 then I bought this twin size air

7:17 mattress put the air mattress on top of

7:19 it I use my base amp from my band it

7:23 fits perfectly with the air mattress

7:25 sets right on top of there I've also got

7:27 our band's t-shirts here

7:30 I've got the merch rack I've got this

7:32 which I can use the bathroom in in case

7:35 I can't make it to a bathroom I can

7:36 always go pee in that I have my

7:38 toiletries here I have my laptop here my

7:42 Dawn of the Dead sticker best horror

7:44 film ever made I have my two Bas guitars

7:47 I have my work shoes there and I have

7:50 two duffel bags for clothes all my work

7:52 clothes are in

7:53 there and all my personal clothes after

7:56 work and my days off are in Here and Now

7:59 that's really all I need I'm a huge

8:01 movie fan and uh it was very tough to

8:03 get rid of a lot of my DVDs cuz I don't

8:05 I really don't want to have 200 DVDs in

8:08 here cuz it's kind of pointless so I

8:10 pretty much just kept a few key ones so

8:12 I got a few of my DVDs here of course I

8:14 got back to the future got a little

8:16 Threes Company can't go wrong with some

8:17 John Ritter then I've got some uh some

8:19 other DVDs try to keep me motivated a

8:21 little bit a huge Superman fan so I got

8:24 a little Superman the movie in

8:26 there and then I got ones that kind of

8:28 relate to my

8:30 situation kind of relate to my situation

8:32 a little bit we got The Truman Show uh

8:35 Jim Carrey played a guy that definitely

8:36 was looking for some adventure and

8:37 wanted to get out this kind of sums up

8:40 how I've been feeling lately and why I'd

8:41 even kind of went this this route with

8:43 the

8:44 van you got the mosquito Coast Harrison

8:48 Ford's best movie it's about a guy that

8:50 just uh just got tired of a lot of

8:52 things and kind of kind of sim doing

8:55 similar things to what I'm doing now and

8:57 what a lot of other people are kind of

8:58 thinking and feeling so if you haven't

9:00 seen this movie check it

9:12 movie They

9:12 Live and of course Taxi Driver nothing

9:15 gets you more excited and and thinking

9:17 man I can do this on my own than Robert

9:19 dairo taking his fist over the stove

9:22 come get

9:23 some by not living in my

9:26 apartment and for utilities I'm actually

9:28 saving myself $22 a day all month even

9:32 days I don't work once the van's paid

9:34 off in August I won't have a van payment

9:38 I won't have rent and I won't have

9:40 utilities that'll be $37 every day I'm

9:43 not putting towards all those

9:46 expenditures I can do a lot with $37 a

9:49 day

Van Dwelling - Adam The Woo

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