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Sassy Shows us How She Converted her High-Top Cargo Van

Jun 06, 2021
the end, so you have to duck your head down a little bit and then, um, because this fan was completely empty, naked, I call it um. I insulated it myself following your advice Bob with the styrofoam board so in some places it is two inches or thicker due to the configuration and in some places it is just a sheet, is it a

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van initially? Yeah, no, so I think the isolation has helped a lot. I know that sometimes there is a debate about whether or not you should have isolation. I personally. I think it's great because when I need heat, it stays warm for quite a while before it gets cold.
sassy shows us how she converted her high top cargo van
I haven't experienced any hot days on my trips so far, so I don't know what it will be like when it gets hot. weather, but I don't know why I'd be here in a warm climate anyway, right, I could be swimming or fishing or something, that's why you live on wheels, yeah, so, this is a privacy curtain and, uh, right now it's covering some clothes. but right there it creates a bathroom when there's two of you, a nice, big bathroom back there and that's why I put the sink in there too so it doubles its function as a place to clean or the kitchen sink, right where the stove goes.
sassy shows us how she converted her high top cargo van

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Here all my tools are in these little drawers, more plastic drawers, more plastic jars, but it can be that easy. I probably spent maybe 15 to 20 dollars on all of this here including the wood this is contact paper you can buy a roll of and slap it on there and then fix it with black tape um this is my most food here and there there's my master bathroom, so you only have one toilet there, that's my deluxe bucket toilet, okay, bye, I'm lucky enough to have a camp, a folding camp. toilet seat hello, does that make sense?
sassy shows us how she converted her high top cargo van
It's probably an old thing, oh yeah, but it makes things real convenient and just uses the bags, yeah, eggs and sawdust, oh, gravy, right there, yeah, right there mister buddy, he's my buddy, he keeps you nice and warm, especially nice and warm. With the insulation of it, I guess if I had the money I would buy a wave three because I heard they have thermostats and you don't have to keep them running back and forth to the heater to turn it on and off, you don't really. I have a thermostat, well then I'm fine with mine, but they put out less heat half the heat, so you could leave it, turn it on and leave it on and not have to mess with it.
sassy shows us how she converted her high top cargo van
I see that's why I really like them, yeah, the downside with that is that it's a good exercise, right, yeah, you need something to do, yeah, and then recently we added all these wonderful little gadgets, kinda of storage to make up for an unused area, I mean, you can choose. Buy one of these for about 11 or 12 dollars and then slice it if you want or I guess you could hang it full length if you wanted but this works for us and the

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net behind you nut thrift store cargo found them. for a couple of dollars hang things from our bungee cord, these as many of you already know are those wonderful Lucy lights, they are solar once you buy them, they are free, charge them every day or not even every day.
I've never seen them go off, they're super, they'll stick, they'll light up anything you can read with them, do fine point needle work, if you like, they're good and this, uh, this particular

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top has quite a few windows. , so yeah, you have a very open feel here, I love it, it's very, very inviting, oh, one other thing, you'll notice that this counter is not full width. I couldn't see any reason to place it. a full width counter on a pickup truck, so this is just, I don't know, maybe 14 inches, a little over a foot, and it will hold your camp stove, which is your main concern, yeah, this is a ball of salad, I gave a friend a template.
On mine, we cut a hole in it and put it there. I put it there and then it just fits in a bucket. You've probably seen millions of those works. Okay, so you have a five gallon bucket or something underneath like gray water. tank yes, more, more, more pockets, more pockets and a tailgate, getting vertical space is really important and you've done a lot of that with the pockets, the shoe pockets and the cargo net. I preferred not to put cabinets in the upper parts. above, so what you see as the wood frame is in no way attached to the fiberglass, it's simply attached to the roofline and the window frames and, uh, the front, uh, the front cabin on wood and that's it, otherwise it's more or less independent. less and like many

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roofs you have a large storage area over the cab yes and your reflectix for the windows up here is not stored yes I have a whole container of car supplies and tools under the box I bought recently. a tow strap and a pair of D-rings based on your video about those things because I went on an adventure to the top of a northwest mountain and it was pretty treacherous and when I got home and watched your video I thought I'm going to go out and buy those things in case I get into a tight spot, I can get out well calm peace of mind preparation yes, a lot of preparation gives you the best possible result yes, now there are many things I am still working here, as you can see, this is the system electrical that I just installed, so it's a little ridiculous and it's all over the place and it's certainly not screwed down yet, which people won't do.
Don't worry, don't be afraid right now, I'm tying it up so I can hopefully get home safely and then I'll build the vented box and bolt it to the floor underneath, I tie everything down real tight, yeah, one step at a time, yeah , shameless. I think you've really covered it. You just responded. You answered a lot of people's questions. How can you be sure? Can I do it myself? Your answer is yes, yes, that's right, do it, that's right. I don't have a no, I don't have a no for you, yeah, I think if you want to do this, set your intention, that's the first thing because when you set an intention, you're more likely to do it if it's just a vague one.
Dream it, it may not come true and I realize I am at a point in my life where I can set the intention. I'm not working anymore. I've given up some of my volunteer responsibilities, so I opened up. It increases my time frame and that's important too but I hope this fan

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people that maybe they don't have the option to live in a house or I mean maybe they need to move into a van and if that's their situation, I think what I have done. Here it can be done, step by step, you don't have to do it all at once and it doesn't have to cost a lot of money, and you can feel comfortable, confident, happy, productive and relieved that you have it figured out. some of your problems this way you will never be homeless, no matter what happens with the economy, you are fine, I think so, thank you very much for sharing your house with us and it is very inspiring, it is a pleasure, thank you, okay.

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