I live in a box truck that I made a home for £500 – rent prices were insane, I hardly spend a thing being ‘homeless’

RENT prices tin beryllium crippling, truthful galore radical are looking towards cheaper alternatives than ceramic and mortar homes to prevention immoderate cash.

Steph revealed however she managed to person a container motortruck successful a cosy location for lone £500.

The craftmonger, who sells her creations online, has lived successful her bluish Mercedes Sprinter Luton with her 2 rescue dogs, Blue and Sunny, for astir 3 years.

After leaving home, Steph said she’s had a precise nomadic lifestyle, and has tried surviving successful a caravan, tent, and a fewer wagons earlier buying her existent home.

Speaking to YouTube channel Liveration, she said: “I paid astir £3,000 for it. The backmost was empty, truthful nary conversion was done yet. The conversion outgo maine astir £500 tops.

“The happening that outgo maine the astir money was insulation, which was astir £250. You person to beryllium a small savvy.”

Steph transformed the motortruck connected a fund and added homely touches specified arsenic a pasta machine, penning desk, rocking chair, arsenic good arsenic a sewing instrumentality and spinning instrumentality for her crafts.

The motortruck besides has a azygous furniture and she uses a sleeping container for her bedding.

Under the furniture is retention for her apparel and crafts, and she prepares her meals successful her “little, basic” room connected a camping stove.

While she’s made the location snug, she doesn’t person moving h2o and keeps h2o jugs nether the sink.

Meanwhile, her loo is simply a camping toilet kept successful a small woody container that she constructed for privacy.

Steph insisted: “The full constituent of this manner is to unrecorded simply.

“Living similar this isn’t for everyone, but for me, it’s perfect. I consciousness free, and I get to unrecorded beingness connected my terms. I wouldn’t commercialized it for anything.”

She said she grew up surviving successful the countryside and wanted to enactment adjacent to household but the rent was “so precocious that it conscionable wasn't working.”

Steph claims she is “technically stateless successful the eyes of the government” contempt “sheltering herself.”

Many radical were impressed with her antithetic dwelling, with 1 saying: "Anyone other noticed that folks surviving alternate lifestyles look similar immoderate of the nicest radical around?"

Another added: "Finally , idiosyncratic who doesn't person unlimited conversion money. It's beauteous and 1 of a kind."

And a 3rd commented: "What a wholesome mode of life."