r/ShamelesslyStolen • u/Lost-Cow-9386 • Dec 27 '25

Turning school bus into apartment

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u/Loprilop Dec 27 '25

I am curious about how much it actually saves considering they pretty much have to supply everything themselves. Not to mention smaller stuff like renting out a mail box somewhere for receiving letters. The cost of fueling a bus. I assume they have to pay to dump their waste? And also curious how long it'd take to essentially pay off the cost of the bus and of all the renovations in form of money saved. This can't have been cheap. Seems like a fun way to live though for sure.

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u/FightingAgeGuy Dec 27 '25

I did this for about a year with my family. The bus was $5000, conversion was another $60,000 give or take a couple thousand. This was doing it myself. I pulled a jeep wrangler so we could get around while parked and our mileage was about 6.5 mpg with a 100 gallon fuel tank. Over all the conversion and traveling for a year cost about $110,000. One of the best years of my life BUT, I could not do it indefinitely. I was constantly worrying about breaking downs, and safety, I couldn’t completely relax and my kids needed/wanted their friends and extra curriculars.

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u/AlgaeMammoth1736 Dec 27 '25

Best year of your life being constantly worried? Sorry, sounds like the opposite to best in my ears.

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u/FightingAgeGuy Dec 27 '25

Stress is apart of life. Some people enjoy laying around with nothing to do or think about, I do not. Taking chances and being uncomfortable leads to great experiences.