I couldn’t afford my pricey rent but now I pay just £53 a week and I’ve saved £11k in a year – here’s how
A WOMAN has revealed how she pays just £53 a week and has managed to save a whopping £11k in one year.
Brittany Cosgrove, 27, from Wellington, New Zealand, was struggling to pay $500 (£267) in rent for a "damp, smelly and cramped" studio flat - so she decided to give it up.
While it might seem small for some, the designer joked that it's larger than some of the flats she was looking to rent, and it has everything she needs.
Everything except its own bathroom, that is, but that doesn't phase the 27-year-old who said it's actually pretty easy to find somewhere nice to shower.
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Additionally, if she decides she wants to spend the money, the free-spirited Brittany can stay in a holiday park for an extra £10 a night where she has access to the park's facilities.
To live in, the van costs Brittany roughly $100 (£53) a week, which includes registration, maintenance, petrol and the cost of parking.
In Brittany's home city of Wellington, she was looking at sharehouses for up to $400 (£214) a week, and that's not something she wanted to spend.
We also shared how this family-of-four completely transform rundown bus into three-bed paradise with an indoor climbing wall to travel the world.
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Meanwhile, this woman sold her £150k dream house to live in a VAN – it had its own ballroom but she prefers life on the road.
This couple ditched their house to live in a van, it saves them £800 a month and they're about to have our first baby in it too.