Best Car Living Essentials For People Who Live Out of Their Car

Car camper, car living, car liver, car dweller, whatever the heck you want to call yourself, we all have one thing in common; the desire to live with some semblance of comfort. If that’s not you, then well, you’re probably that Florida man on the urbancarliving subreddit who slept on the beach all summer in 200 degree heat and called it heaven. There are quite a few car living essentials that you won’t even know you need until you get out there.

If you’re in a situation where you’re living out of your car, you are most likely buying only what you need and not what you want. There are exceptions to this of course, some people save copious amounts of money from living this lifestyle and choose to splurge. I can’t blame them, they’re saving $2,000 in rent or mortgage payments so they probably have quite a bit extra to play with.

If you can now afford Chik-fil-a and Red Lobster where you couldn’t before, treat yourself to a couple crab claws and fried chicken sammiches. I try to keep my daily food spent under $7 every day as I’m all about saving as much money as possible. Anyways, I’m getting greatly off topic here. As you will soon be able to notice, I can talk about car living all day long.

What is Our Mission

I decided to build a website around car living essentials and my own personal car living experience. So it’s a store where you can find everything that you might need all in one place and my blog where you can find car living tips mainly, and some of my stories. I don’t expect people to care about either of these things, it’s just what I desire to do.

I know that I’ve asked around on the urbancarliving subreddit in the past about what items I’m going to need out there the most. Having them categorized and all in one spot for the eye to see is hopefully helpful to some people. The main goal here is to provide car living essentials at the lowest price on the market, and categorically group everything into one location so we can improve our quality of life.

About the Car Living Essentials Store

Products you’ll find populating the store are simply urban car living essentials that I know are necessary and other car dwellers know are necessary. What I mean by necessary is “extremely helpful”. The items will come in handy for you immensely while you’re out there car living.

Every product in the store is something that I’ve needed on my car living journey, OR something someone else in this life recommended or uses. All store additions will be sourced from the urbancarliving subreddit. For example, homeless car-liver Billy replied to a Reddit thread where someone is whining about the cold weather and recommended his favorite bunny rabbit parka, we do our best to get the very same parka, if not, something very similar.

A Little About the Owner

I’ll keep it short because I’m not particularly exciting or anything. I too, live out of my car just like so many other people are doing in this day and age. I never realized how many other people were living in their car until I got out there. I made this decision on my own and wasn’t forced to. That might not be all the way true though, since I left because of how behind on rent I was becoming. I might’ve scraped by, but anyways, that doesn’t matter. I was also leaving behind a disgusting six year long past in that apartment. A six year long period of heavy alcohol abuse, uncleanliness, laziness, depression, and negative emotion. It was absolutely essential to leave, no matter how much I wanted to change, I doubt I would’ve been able to do much while still living in that hell hole.

Now I work on the road in the coziness of my car while getting to travel anywhere I want. The best part about nomadic car camping has been the freedom to be able to “pack up” one morning and try out a new location. I’ve been moving from place to place so often that in the five months I’ve been at this I’ve driven over 10,000 miles. If you’re wondering about my work, just think Ebay. I’m an introvert, so I rarely get the urge to find people to chat with, so that’s another reason why I can be so content with just myself and my car. I could spend a month watching Youtube alone if I wanted to. Someone like me doesn’t have too many car living essentials, I just need to say cool and stay private. Other people need quite a bit more, though. I said I’d keep it short, woops.

End Goal

Another purpose of my creating urbancarliving is to improve my website creation and management skills in order to add another thing to my resume. I would absolutely love to be able to create WordPress websites for people and get paid for it. It’s been a blast setting up this website, and I know there’s a ton of improvements needed, so in the end I want this website to be something impressive.

I don’t think there’s anything out there that covers this, car living essentials. It could be nice to have everything you need for car living in one space. And if we don’t yet have what you’re looking for, bookmark us and come back at a later date because we’ll eventually have everything.