My husband and I own our own home, but it wasn’t always that way.
Right after we got married, we moved into my husband’s apartment. It was a nice, little one bedroom apartment, but the area that it was located in made the rent outrageous. We stayed there for about five months before we bought our fifth wheel camper. We knew that living in a camper wouldn’t be easy, but it was only for a couple years while we saved up to buy our first home. The most difficult part about living in the camper was winterizing it and trying to stay warm during the winter months. We live up North, so the winters are dreadfully cold, and the thin walls of the camper weren’t very insulated. Some nights, it gets down to -20 or so, and that makes it insanely difficult to keep the camper warm. Some friends of ours told us that when they stayed in a camper during the winter months, they used a propane run fireplace to supplement heat. I can’t thank them enough for telling us about the propane fireplace because it made a tremendous difference! The only trouble that we had with it was trying to find one that I liked. Eventually, we found a beautiful, cherry wood one, and I absolutely loved it! I never dreamed that I would be able to have a fireplace in my fifth wheel! Before we had the propane fireplace, we could never keep the camper above sixty degrees on cold nights. Once we got it, we had no trouble keeping the camper at a cozy seventy degrees.