Sup PrepHole. I'm the guy who made a bunch of running away from home and van threads a few weeks ago. Sorry I've taken so long to come back, I've been on the road and all my mobile ips are rangebanned.
>why should we care?
You claim that /in/cels never last PrepHole but I'm out to prove that wrong. My plan to maintain comfort is to use my gym membership for showers at least every other day and going to a college library to study/charge stuff as well. I have an unlimited 5G hotspot through Calyx so, for the most part I'll always be connected.
>How is it out at this point?
It's not. My goal isn't to go out, it's to stop paying rent. I also have long-term unmedicated ADHD so going nomadic makes me feel fulfilled.
Nice blog homosexual but keep it to the general
holy
At least this guy is actually walking the walk unlike all the underage homosexuals who constantly spam this board with their fantasies of running away
Using your student loan money to live like a hippie for a year isn't based at all. I mean, I'll give him this. I'm sure its liberating and fun, but in the long run he'll go hey maybe I should have just graduated and worked my ass off and saved up money and actually did this without the financial stress and burden of having to go to soup kitchens for meals.
There was a time drifters were frowned upon. I miss those times. I'm not saying this to be a dick. I'm saying this to try and help you. The harder you work in your 20s the easier your life is in your 30s because you reach management/coast sr level positions and wiggle the mouse all day.
/misc/ is shit. Only go there for the edgy memes after some big news story happens, but the news is gay, so don't watch. If its that big a deal you'll hear about it through word of mouth.
>just slave away for 50 years and only have enough time to fully experience life when you're 70+ with health problems, if you haven't dropped dead from the accumulated stress by then
Solid advice, boomer
You're just delaying the inevitable lol
>he's not based, he should just wageslave through his youth until he can live a comfortable /in/ life and maybe go hiking on the weekends
Silence, bugman. No one wants to hear your boomerisms.
Yes, by the time he joins the workforce, he will be amongst the 22 year olds.
Remember the kids that got held back in school? He is basically holding his self back willingly, in the real world.
Unless you're pursuing something you really give a frick about (which most people don't), you're trading the prime of your life for some creature comforts down the line.
>for some creature comforts down the line
which aren't even guaranteed. See all the stories of people who drop dead within a year of retiring after working their lives away
That's an interesting take on "Being a productive person until the day I die."
Everyone wants to be a leach. Nobody wants to work to make anything.
The "rewards" for being productive aren't worth it anymore, for the vast majority of workers making under $100k. The reward system needs to change if you want more slaves on your plantation, Mr. Shekelstein.
OP here. My thread isn't about being a NEET cheaply. I'm working through math problems 6-7 hours a day on average.
To the detractors
>if you work so hard why haven't you graduated at 26?
I'm horribly depressed living in a permanent residence and I start to become a shut-in playing vidya and browsing PrepHole all day. This is just as much of a "liberation" choice as a productivity one. I'm camping 3 mi from a library that's open 9 hours a day. Why is it so hard for you to believe I'm being productive? Do I really need to work as a full-time math student? I'd have to work full-time to get a lease and that's not feasible with my current class load.
gimme the QRD on canvas tents. They're very expensive. What makes them comfy? Are they good in extreme cold? Currently in a $34 walmart 3 person dome tent that I like very much.
>The "rewards" for being productive aren't worth it anymore
the rewards are having enough spare money and free time to do what you love, if you are unlucky enough that you couldn't get a love you enjoy doing. that is fine, it's perfectly possible and reasonable to get a balanced, fulfilling life that way, and live at peace. it gives also a reasonable position to do new things: you can try different outdoor activities, try to meet different people, have stability to look for other jobs and opportunities elsewhere etc
what's optimal is to love your job, your main occupation, but that is a different thing for each person and for many people it is not reasonable to do. it doesn't mean that you are a bugman just because you didn't drop your job and house and family and friends to live in a shitty van in the middle of nowhere even though you enjoy the outdoors
I think you're ignoring how the vast majority of people actually live their lives. They get burned out from their jobs and simply waste time/money outside of it to "relax". Some people aren't wired for the life you describe, that doesn't make them mentally ill, degenerates, that just means they need to approach things differently. People in this thread are bashing me for using student loans to pay for gas but people are using their credit cards to pay for car loans and drinks to unwind but that's ok because they're employed and live somewhere?
Im a neet with a trust fund set for life. But I find places to volunteer and give a lot of charity/bake for people. I try to improve the world a little every day.
Gay neet here with no trust fund. Will you marry me?
I am not gay so no I will not
I don't need to be a leech, I just don't want to make a fortune for some guy I'll never meet while wasting away my entire life. But that isn't for everybody. Just as it is necessary for rulers to exist, so is there a natural need for working and slave classes. With some people their servitude is precisely the best thing that they can bring and also the best thing for them. It isn't like ultra successful have remotely the same mindset as the average wageslave or moderately successful person. If your goal is having kids, a comfy life and your own little corner, go for it. It's just not for everyone.
you've ignored every single one of my replies so yes, you are being a dick
lifes tough, get a helmet, wait, you can't afford one, kek
How old are you?
Generals are the cancer that is killing discussions.
You are an annoying yapping tiny dog
Go away your general sucks.
Brutal
So are you going to share your experience? Im interested in hearing your story
Sure, the whole story is long but I'm 26 and I'm finishing my online degree in math. I've always loved the nomadic lifestyle, doing a lot of travel and long weekends backpacking, even was a trucker for a few months (hated the industry). I decided now is the perfect time to hunker down and live a depression-era lifestyle so right now I'm in BLM land above a certain town in Western Oregon. I plan to ski at Mammoth in California in a few weeks and then probably on to Coeur d'alene or Glacier NP area after that
We don't care about your hippie bullshit frickface
I love making personalityless Hank Hill homosexuals line you seethe. You remind me of my brother. I'm conservative but our currency has been betrayed and I'm not going to pay rent prices right now. Again, there's mobile data everywhere so I can handle my classes and build my portfolio whatever. Nobody envies your life and my thread is PrepHole because I'm living out. Go away.
>[angry homosexual sounds]
kek
dont come back to jackson
And thus far, it has been excellent for my productivity. there's always something to do and I have no desire for downtime. with my brain, I'm either on all the time or depressed as frick so I'm feeling really good right now. I still wake up due to critters at nighttime. Last night was a opossum or something "whistling". I shouted at it and it shut up but then continued again and didn't stop until I fell asleep again. My food was in my car 1mi from camp so I have no idea what its fricking problem was
What's your living situation? A van? Tent? How're you making money?
Right now, I'm driving down about 2mi of logging roads to a patch of BLM land and setting up my tent 1000ft from where I park in a comfy clay pit.
I'm actually losing a ton of money due to crypto but I have FAFSA for school and $8k cash so I'll be ok for the next year I believe. Plan after that is a paid internship for data science or analysis while I work on Master's. I'm not a degen, just some of the people on this board are midwits who play identity politics
You should get a van. Doesnt have to be anything fancy, just a cheap ol mini-van. It would be a MAJOR upgrade from tent camping.
Also I saw you mentioned heading up to Glacier; you should wait a few months for the snow to melt before going further north. If I were you, I'd go south to Utah or Arizona and work my way north going through Yellowstone and eventually ending up in Glacier.
>It would be a MAJOR upgrade from tent camping.
How so? I've been getting good sleep the past couple of nights. I like to street park near college campuses and study there. Don't think that would go well with a van. Winter is a different story, however. Maybe if crypto recovers
So the premise is that I spend less money doing this than on rent. My car averages 34mpg and I'm only driving about 40mi each day I'm out camping. California will be about 850mi, but even then that's about $125 in gas. Also math degree so not worried about 5 figure debts
I will in the winter for my 7 days at JH, but yes, it's an overpriced tourist trap. Enjoy your "cowboy town" lmao
A nice canvas tent is far better and a fraction of the cost to upgrade.
Vans fricking suck, you can't even stand up in them
>using student loans for gas $ to drive to various parks and sleep in a tent
Please tell me more about how bad MY life is KeK
The sweet irony. I love PrepHole.
Sounds like fun, enjoy your adventure. Not enough people take the opportunity to do shit like this while they're young. Make sure to meet people and make friends while you're out there. Just don't be too irresponsible and frick yourself over financially something.
Souns quite confy. Just need a trustfund meh to milk
Damn all this moronation and never had sex to boot. Incredible
another comfy, rainy one out here. any insults for me today?
Best of luck to you anon. The less you need, the less you will have. So the fact you are beginning to practice the art of not needing now is good.
where is this? is that a rooftop in front?
Teton Pass near Jackson Hole: The Old Cowboy town full of Billionaires and ski bums that apperantly one of my thread's detractors wants to gatekeep from me.
if it's full of billionaires aren't you already getekept by virtue of not being a billionaire
or are you a billionaire?
No, I'm camping on public land and eating canned food so really only the price of gas matters in a particular location. My $840 student ski pass gets 7 days of Jackson (among many other things) so price of the lift passes don't matter either
I'm 26
What's your long term plan? I'm from Europe, so being a bum here is pretty entertaining since you can flip countries fairly easily, but I imagine US has a lot to offer due to being frickhuge and having great geographical diversity.
I'm just doing this to save money and keep stress levels low while I finish my degree. I've lost over a million dollars in crypto in 2022 but I can still afford grad school so that's my plan next fall. Maybe crypto recovers and I can buy some nice land. Being a bum is super comfy here as you can tell by the excessive backlash I'm getting
>I've lost over a million dollars in crypto in 2022
Holy shit. How?
He bought crypto in 2022.
>he didnt start with a mil and only had a mil on paper
Well I had $1.5M on paper so I still have some left. I just don't want to drain everything to rent from israelites who never give my deposit back because they know I'm too lazy to challenge it
Do you heat up your canned food and if so, how? Just curious. I know I've eaten straight from the can without heating it up and it tastes fine
Yes, I use a Coleman two burner, though I haven't had a use for two yet. Lots of chickpeas and I wouldn't wanna eat those cold.
Sardines and Chicken from Costco as well. It was extremely rainy the past couple of days so I just had peanut butter crackers and sardines lol
>Sup PrepHole. I'm the guy who made a bunch of running away from home and van threads a few weeks ago
>I'm 26
Its not called 'running away from home' when you're 26, dude. Its called being homeless
He's just a homeless autist. Hopefully he doesn't kill anyone this time like the last few.
Shit, by the time I was 26 I was married and in my first house. I'm 31 now.
>today i realized I'm trying to help a homeless man
Frick, I hate the homeless, I never give them money and I tell them they smell and bring down my property taxes
I'm done trying to help OP. Frick the homeless
>you are now aware that the Buffalo shooter made threads exactly like this
Since doing this, I've completely gotten /misc/ out of my life and really only go on PrepHole to maintain my blog post here. Really been the greatest thing for deradicalizing me
Nice try. The Buffalo shooter was obsessed with /misc/ ideology. Things like "muh mgtow", survivalism, running away from home, and other lone wolf isolationist ideals that promote narcissism, violence, and extreme paranoia. The shooter was known to have posted on here, /k/ and /misc/.
In threads exactly like this one. Why the mods aren't taking action, who knows.
You're so mad lmao. I get called an angry homosexual throughout my blogpost but I'm chill out here studying. I'm on a major college campus every day studying as opposed to sitting in my apartment. Call me an angry incel if you like but I like it here.
>Why the mods aren't taking action, who knows.
yea, imagine they'd ban on sight every whiny homosexual like yourself
Promoting threads that radicalize people to the point of committing mass shootings, just isn't a good look for the mods.
I'm a simp who loves women. I isolate myself because of fricktard men. Men under 110 IQ who aren't extremely religious make me want to Minecraft
How long are you planning on doing this?
How do you plan on transitioning back to a regular life? Homeless people can't get jobs.
>Homeless people can't get jobs.
? Plenty of people are digital nomads. I have a South Dakota residency at a campground.
>Homeless people can't get jobs.
Depends on what you do. If you got actual skills (not copywriting shit and competing with Indians who do it for 2$ p/h) and they translate well to working remotely, you can do it. But it's better off going to cheaper countries to make it worthwhile. For most it is just a pipe dream as they are too lazy and have no skills whatsoever.
I agree. What I'm doing doesn't make a whole lot of sense past a certain age and my time is flexible as I'm a student instead of working. Through my research and experience, Colombia and Portugal are great destinations for that.
Just remember you're still in that pipe dream category until you've actually made it.
Well my entire argument is that I'm working harder on school/resume that I'm not depressed in an apartment and spending less money.
You don't need to justify yourself against strangers, you know that?
I just feel like there's relentless shilling against this lifestyle even though it could potentially help someone in my situation. There's a ton of open spaces out there. That's really the point of my blogpost
PrepHole is full of newbies and tourists. You got to think with your own head, you can't go around making decisions just because someone shitposted that your idea is garbage lol. PrepHole used to have very regular homeless threads. You're reading too much into this website.
Sorry, I sound kind of asshurt. It's just frustrating to keep explaining that this is good for me in nearly every way. I'm the worst kind of NEET when alone in an apartment
Looks awesome, OP. I've always been jealous of people like you who can just drop all their shit and live in the outdoors/travel. Like another anon said, you don't need any real reason to justify yourself for doing this, I'd say the adventure and memories of saying you did it is reason enough. I'm the same age as you, and I've always lived a normal boring life living by myself in an apartment and wage-slaving at a job and I always wished I could experience something like you're experiencing. Unfortunately, I am an introvert and a pussy.
So what does an average day look like for you? Do you only eat canned foods or is there anything else? I know you said you spend a lot of time studying, but surely there are other things you must do for fun, right? Do you wake up and bros PrepHole for a bit, then maybe go for a walk after and then hit the library and study?Do you have a handheld game console or something like that that you play sometimes? I'd just like to imagine a day in the life for a second
I'm taking the GRE tomorrow so I've been studying a lot. It's a beautiful campus so I just take an hour break every 3 hours and go walk around and look at girls/buildings/landscaping. I work out every other day as well. Not really browsing anything other than this thread and no vidya. Though I'm spending time planning the next leg of my trip to ski in California. Some annoying car troubles
That's pretty chill, man! Good luck on that GRE
welp, fellas, I'm having car troubles out here in Oregon. This might be the end of the road for the ol girl. There's an Xterra for sale in this city so if it's cheap enough I might be able to keep the dream alive. Keep ya posted!
Oh shiet what ended up happening?
What type of troubles? Its probably pretty minor and fixable
Good luck and Godspeed. I'll send prayers for the car troubles--I pray for all that is good from God for you buddy
Living my dream
Make sure the Xterra still has a frickin transmission left. The 04-06 model years are esp bad
Good luck anon. Share some comfy pics.
Man, if you feel happy and having fun i'm glad for you. Keep your life well organized and you'll do just fine.
Have you had to deal with any car repairs or maintenance? Van life is cheap and easy until you're smacked by the a breakdown and cost of repairs on your old, overworked van.
OP here, car is fine-ish. Radiator died and I drove the car for a while overheated. I thought I fricked up the head gasket but it seems to be good. Wheel actually deformed massively yesterday but I whacked it back into place. Fun times, skiing hard, studying hard
Well did you replace the radiator or are you just gonna wing shit? I hate morons that destroy cars by neglecting maintanence
You're an inspiration for us wagies in our cagies and it makes others ragie. I hope to find my balls and join you soon brother
Ok. I guess I will be gay. For you.
Tomorrow
I'm pretty normal.
Of course I'm white lol
I'm not israeli bro
Whatever dude I'm just playing along to your stupid larp.
>play dumb games, win dumb prizes
I don't understand why you guys think OP has actually "gone out for the long walk"
all I see are pictures taken from a car window
Genuine question
I know he hasn’t gone for the long walk but his lifestyle is drastically different from ours and has some elements of outdoor living in it. Everything with a grain of salt obviously but I’ll admit I’m jealous that he’s not paying rent and taking care of his shit. Can’t knock that
Don’t really know what genuine question you’re tryna make
The same question I asked, but this time can you give an answer?
>all I see are pictures taken from a car window
last time I checked, people who are actually out like this arent worrying about updating their blog- they are doing stuff during the day and night
That’s not a question lol moron
But I’m not OP plus I haven’t gone through the full thread to look at pics so I can’t really answer further
>"That’s not a question lol moron "
>"Lol"
>"moron"
Learn to read
>I don't understand why you guys think OP has actually "gone out for the long walk"
>all I see are pictures taken from a car window
Infer the question, enragement child.
yeah pretty much as the other guy said. I haven't hiked much as I'm studying and resort skiing. I have some pics but nothing spectacular. This was a deer I saw on the trail during a 2 hr hike I did Wednesday
>Nice, maintained, recently driven on trail
Cool. Don't we already have a day hike thread ?
what exactly do you want me to do? I'm not on vacation. I'm living on a mountain trying to be productive. The point of my lifestyle is to not pay rent. I don't know why this makes you all seethe so much.
>what exactly do you want me to do?
>I'm on vacation.
>I'm currently camping on a mountain trying to be come off as rugged.
>I know I am having an easy time, clearly struggling
>Electricity is abundant, phoneposting is easy
>very rugged
why would I purposefully make my situation harder than it needs to be?
>bbbut you're larping so you need to larp better
I'm not larping, I'm avoiding rent. That's it. Be as impressed or unimpressed as you want. Some people respect that I'm willing to go through with it.
>why would I purposefully make my situation harder than it needs to be?
That's what I have been saying since the start.
Have any pictures of your actual campsites? You know the thing you sleep at when the sun goes down? Or are you just chilling in some guy's van ?
It's easy to take pictures out the window of trees and make a story, show the camp. Come on. With all these pictures, surely you have one with a camp in it? And don't take a day to find someone's site, be quick about it since you clearly have the time to respond to an online forum while supposedly roughing it
here
Nice.
Welcome to the PNW. I live in the area too and I applaud you for this post. Takes a lot of balls to do what you’re doing. Frick all these ppl that are shitting on you. Just because their too dumb to think outside of societie’s traditional standards. Times are changing. You have the freedom to live however tf you want here in the US so frick these weirdos that don’t know how to mind their business. Projecting negativity because of their own shitty sucker lives. Keep inspiring
You must be lost. Instagram is that way over there. Frick off.