Thursday, September 4, 2008

12 Tips for Living Out of Your Car

Some useful tips for Casey:

Most jobs, I came to the conclusion, were ridiculous — and if I worked at them long enough, I would become ridiculous, too. My bosses knew that I didn't want to be there; they didn't want me there, either. In the two months after that I'd discovered that I wasn't cut out for mowing grass, pouring coffee, tossing pizza, unloading trucks, customer service, shoveling dog food into bags, or — what started the tailspin — serving deep-fried bricks of suet to my distended countrymen.

I did, however, have a 1996 Integra GS-R, finished in the most ebony of color schemes and with which I sure as hell wasn't going to part. That's how, for the next three weeks, it was mi casa es mi coche. I've been there and didn't get my eggs scrambled, and there's no reason why you can't, either. But rather than survive by your wits alone, take a minute to run over the following tips so you don't make some of the same, dumb mistakes that I did
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Continued here.
Hat tip to Wagga for the sweet find!

3 comments:

Ogg the Caveman said...

Murst!

I have heard of people living out of vans in college to save money, but most people who live out of cars are called bums rather than frugal.

Guess which bucket Fliptard goes in.

Ogg the Caveman said...

Ballard's rolling slum

Anonymous said...

There is much better written material coming outta the back of that card-boarded over Ford Escort than Casey ever penned, that's for sure!