2003 Summer in West Yellowstone:
40 hrs. p/wk @ $7p/hr for each of us. Full hook-up site was included. That income allowed us to pay the few monthly bills we had such as insurance and phone as well as the following-
$500 p/m to a terminally ill sister
$400 to pay vet bill for our sons dog
$400 p/m groceries
$200 p/m "extras" spent at Wal-mart
$200+ p/m on gas
$260 for quilts made by Nancy for my granddaughters
As well as various up-keep items on the motorhome, eating out a couple times a week, clothes and many misc. items I can't even remember.
If we were in our stationery house, we would have needed $3200 every month just to break even and that wasn't even having any fun! Before we went to fulltiming we were drafters making pretty decent money but barely making it. Now that we are fulltiming, the wages are far less but then so are the expenses. I have seen it written elsewhere and agree, if you have expensive habits when you are stationery you will also have expensive habits when fulltiming and of course the reverse is true also. We find that we fall somewhere in the middle, we spend less in some categories but more in others. Financially, though we now live job to job (we don't have another source of income) we are better off then when we were stationery.
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