Mark I started watching your videos some months ago while recovering from a serious cancer operation, I won’t have many years left, but I tell you what , you have inspired me to live more and more for the now. Thanks buddy
I admire what you are doing Mark. A van fund is seriously important especially with an older van. Not because of repairs but because if it gets hit by another vehicle the insurance company will most likely write it off and settle with a pittance compared to its replacement value. Always keep an eye on the prices of vans similar to yours and have at least 70% of that amount saved because I assure you, the insurance will pay out a lot less. So yes a van fund seriously important. Van life could end at any minute without one. P.S I worked in insurance I know what I’m talking about. 😊
You’re entitled to replacement value. They try offering less but if you refuse the first offer and say your van was in A1 condition they will raise the offer.
A man after my own heart, rum and coke, I like woods Navy rum, my brothers fault as he was in the navy, I want to try kraken but unsure of the spice in it, cheers my friend enjoy x xxx
hi mate,same as comment below! going thro cancer treatment at 45 years old..your videos and way of thinking are brilliant! my attitude to life changes a whole load..keep doing what ya doing pal and living the dream 😅 much love big man..kenny fae Scotland 😆😆👍👍🏴🏴🍻🍻
Love you're videos mark ,I so want to do the vanlife ,sell my house and just get freedom .I'm very broken diagnosed with complex PTSD as well as other issues and I think the break from the rat race will help ,just need to wait till my daughter is a bit older and can live on her own
Bless ya heart a change of environment is one the best things for your condition my friend has your condition Fear The Beard I done a video about him his also a TH-camr
I love the quote “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That is why we call it the present” I’ve worked with so many people who have been driven by money and they’ve achieved nothing from their life.
@@stretch4666 that’s all well n good all the time your able…. But as the years roll by and we become less able…. How you going to pay n survive 🙏 just a thought 😉👍👌
Only reason I want money now is to pass my test and get a van. Bones too old to work everyday now too. Never had money! Just got council flat two weeks ago and don't have any money or food and miserable but I'm going to get a job after Christmas and every penny is going towards having you life! Lovely bloke. Literally can't wait to wake up in a van and be able to do whatever I want.
Gidday mark, cheers for all the effort you put in foing your vids.......im foing up an old ford ambulance 1979 dentside...straight six...gunna hit the road and paint landscspes for a living..... ex tradesman, drainlayer...btoken body....but not broken spirit. Jay. New Zealand.
Nearly every van lifer ive seen icluding you dear mark i would choose you all as freinds your happy down to earth funny and what you see is real no fake stuff keep us laughing mark you have freedom that no money can buy❤
A driver who delivers where I work, told me about his Brother who lives in a show house, works like a dog, never goes anywhere. He said, he has a posh house, a new car etc. He said but I have stories of places I've been, adventures I've had, and I'm a so much happier. Good on you Mark, another Kraken good video (See what I did there lol)
Hi Mark, been following you for a few months and love your honesty. After 31 years my missus up and left just like that. House sold, split the money. I now have Chirpy my motorhome. I live in him most of the time but stay at my sister’s place sometimes. After a couple of years on my own I am in a good place. I travel when i want, fish when I want play a bit of guitar, paint a bit and metal detect. Hope to meet up with you in the future mate. Keep smiling 💙
Mark you would be VERY wise to pay up to your full stamp, so that you get a full or a better pension ... for which you will be very grateful for, when the time comes. I worked all my life and get the full (old) pension, and I could NOT live without it. We all still need food and you need fuel. Listen to your accountant, he's paid to advise you. HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you and Sally 🎄❄️☃️🎄
@@MadMarkvanlife Mark you have until April 2025 to make sure you've paid your full stamp as it comes to an end as of April 2025. I'm to check my own at beginning New Year 2025 as I'm 56 fella, Steve from Manchester 🇬🇧
No money, no pension, no saving……NO SHORT TERM MEMORY!!!! So funny, write some notes that’s what I do! CRS is contagious I’m sure!!!! Brilliant, love your videos especially the moments of CRS. Stay positive. Take care pal.
You're right about German vans even Chrome from Vancity Vanlife in Canada is splashing out on a new Sprinter van...I digress... Bidding you a happy Christmas & prosperous new year.
Hi Mark, as regards your van lasting forever, you mustn’t forget the vehicle structure, I’ve noticed there is rust on your van, rust will kill your van long before your engine and gear box fail.
Great video Mark, 5 years in my van and love the freedom, merry Christmas to you,jesus is the reason for the season, stay blessed , greetings from oregon 🇺🇸
I admire your positivity mate, I was following a YT van lifer called Roads Home but he's so so negative to the point where it's clearly broken him, it's sent him paranoid.
im naturally negative and been working hard on changing my view,thinking more positively and slowly but surely its making me feel better about myself and my circumstance. slowly not being ashamed and loving myself, being myself and letting ppl in
Don't worry about money or pensions, it's really not that important. You can be the richest person in the room with a bank balance of zero. We all go in the same size box when the adventure is over so no point sweating the small dtuff
Money is the root of all evil your right . I've never cared about money and your right about everything thank you for your videos and being you y.your amazing Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
I guess im luck to have had an amazing childhood, and extremely lucky yo still have my wonderful Dad, In my first marriage i had everything big house nice cars, never really wanted for anything, but I wasn't happy, I learnt that all of those things dont matter, im happy now in my second marriage, to someone i have known all my life, Our mums used to walk around our village with us as babies in our prams, we went through all school years st the same schools, Went separate ways once wevleft school, met up at a school reunion, we were both already seperated, things happen for a reason Im a big beliver in that,
Some people incl some TH-camrs are negative just to get attention, like you I work 3 months driving a truck which is more than enough to fund this FT life also I too have a van fund, before I started this I made sure I was debt free with made and makes this lifestyle easier...I dont care what other people have got, whether its more or less than me or they live in a mortgage 4 bed house in leafy Surrey, it makes them no better than me, im happy and very content with what iv got, I can honestly say the only thing I worry about is making sure I dont run out of milk for my tea, as long as I wake up every day then everything else is a bonus...
Oh mate 56 seconds in and I’m laughing my head off wishing you all the best. Thank you for these great videos. It’s the only sense of normality these days. Good on you mate and don’t worry about not having savings or anything. The way the world’s going you don’t want to own much is gonna get taken off us anywayespecially when they introduced the digital currency so all the best. Thanks for the laughs. Happy days. Regards from New Zealand it’s a bloody madhouse out here.
You can live in a house and be miserable or happy, you can live in a flat and be ok or miserable, i live in Australia and my husband and I travel in our caravan and meet people who are van dwellers, caravan dwellers and most of them are happy , well presented and hard workers, well travelled. In my opinion its not where you live it’s how you live . It’s summer over here at the moment and we are in a caravan park by the sea , lots of van dwellers here at the moment. We do have an ordinary house but we are at our happiest when we’re on the road. All the best to you
Hi mark it best to have nothing I have work since I was 15 years old retired in 2010 but stayed working until I was 71 my state pension is not bad I have a very small private pension and since this government got in I now have to pay tax . By the time you get your pension at 70 just enjoy what you have got 😋
If everyone 1 bail's out of normi world.....next time we go to M&S for our sour dough bread..it won't be on the shelves bruv.... Diesel to fill our van won't be available at fuel stations. I see where you're coming from tho... encourage a better existence for people...but a consumer society we are ... incudes you & me . Just a thought for you to mull over. Peace & ❤ to you for empathy and honesty in your vlogs👍
Omg this man is a legend, your great Mark yr honesty is soooooo cool, I’m the car gal that follows ya and it’s friggin cold as I don’t have a jackery thing yet just lots of candles yep in the car lol, u don’t need dosh I had dosh n lost dosh a nicer person I am without it 🎉 each day I live in the present moment too and I soooooo get Mother Earth thing I’m just listening to the wind 😂 where’s ya Christmas lights then 😂
Hey Mark Great video as always how strange you launched this video and I've just launched one talking about the opposite of my vanlife journey and how it has INCREASED my earnings! Im very blessed as its securing my financial future!
Great video but I worry that if I don’t save, in a few years time I’ll be fooked. Late 50s now so I’ll still have another decade to work at least, manual work as well, health permitting. But you need money. I’m not disagreeing with you, but your reality is different to mine. Then again that’s why I subscribe to your channel, because you’re living many people’s dreams. 🙌
I was in same position as you. 6 years ago I sold my house, bought a caravan (sited off grid but secure) and a Campervan. Winter months in Camper in Europe, Summer months in UK in caravan. Still got my house money invested.....
They've got you where they want you.. in a box with a number, watching their TV programming, at the mercy of bills, taxes etc which can and will continually rise.
Money doesn't make you happy just makes life easier when your tied to a house and bills ,your mind set and the company you keep in my opinion makes you happy ,I intend to get as close to being free as I can and it ain't being tied to a full time job until I'm 67 🙏
Nothing wrong with a drop of rum but watch yourself. If you've been drinking and your in your van with access to your van keys and the law finds out van life could come to an end.
Thank you for sharing Mark. I understand exactly what you mean about 'money'. From cradle to the grave, all we are taught is 'you need money for this, you need money for that, you are a nobody without it'! TOSH!!! Such a shame the majority of us do not realise this until later in life. Just a false concept. Good luck to you Mark. I'm enjoying your videos so keep them coming in 2025. Wishing you blessings of good health and happiness this season and beyond. 🙏💚
Don`t bother with the NI stamps then you can top the State Pension up with the Pension Credit which comes with all sorts of free things (Dentists etc) Makes a mockery of people who try to be straight.
U hate money but everything cost money, mental circle. Vehicles loosing value, property increase value. Who is more secure property owner or vehicle owner
Property "owners" are at the mercy of the controllers hiking up taxes, utility bills, council tax, inheritance taxes etc. The system wants you in a box that they can control.
Once you've live outside of the matrix you see the world completely differently. Box dwellers could never understand. I was driving by some dwelling boxes the other day and it struck me how all the normies live in a numbered box. Hundreds/thousands of boxes all next to each other, each with their own cell number 😂
Good to hear, your views Mark. You can't live an 'alternative' lifestyle and claim government handouts. Of course its up to individuals but i would never touch. Haha you have an accountant wow, i wouldn't trust them. Enjoy your life, its the only way, Take care 🥰😊😇
born 6th march 1961 - 5th april 1977 state pension is 67, I’ll believe it if & when i see it . Happiness is a state of mind , not a state of ownership. Society is consuming the world , not living on the gifts of it’s generosity. I know what enough is , i’m guilty, i could probably do less :0)
😂...If time is money, then you dear sir must surely be a millionaire! Also better to live your alternative lifestyle to avoid being stuck inside a building on an ugly town and imprisoned in a job with it's blinding, monotonous routine, grafting away just to make some one else rich! Much bettet to be time rich and live frugally. Enjoy your drinks life is friggen brilliant Mark.
Hi, I'm due mine in 14 years, 12 years after I've paid for the full state pension. Now how many of us won't make it. Take care and live a good life. M.
@ Hi, 1971 for me so it’s 67 at the moment and my full pension is due to be paid when I’m 55, from the last forecast I had. I did contact out so it’s been longer than 35 years for me to reach it, but that is still 12 years before I get to claim the state pension. Before you as you get nothing for the extra 12 years of pension payments. Take care M.
Mark I started watching your videos some months ago while recovering from a serious cancer operation, I won’t have many years left, but I tell you what , you have inspired me to live more and more for the now. Thanks buddy
Bless ya heart ❤️ thank you 🙏
I admire what you are doing Mark. A van fund is seriously important especially with an older van. Not because of repairs but because if it gets hit by another vehicle the insurance company will most likely write it off and settle with a pittance compared to its replacement value. Always keep an eye on the prices of vans similar to yours and have at least 70% of that amount saved because I assure you, the insurance will pay out a lot less. So yes a van fund seriously important. Van life could end at any minute without one. P.S I worked in insurance I know what I’m talking about. 😊
Well said
You’re entitled to replacement value. They try offering less but if you refuse the first offer and say your van was in A1 condition they will raise the offer.
Have we all liked the video guys? 👍
A man after my own heart, rum and coke, I like woods Navy rum, my brothers fault as he was in the navy, I want to try kraken but unsure of the spice in it, cheers my friend enjoy x xxx
hi mate,same as comment below! going thro cancer treatment at 45 years old..your videos and way of thinking are brilliant!
my attitude to life changes a whole load..keep doing what ya doing pal and living the dream 😅
much love big man..kenny fae Scotland 😆😆👍👍🏴🏴🍻🍻
Thank you 🙏 all the brstb
Love you're videos mark ,I so want to do the vanlife ,sell my house and just get freedom .I'm very broken diagnosed with complex PTSD as well as other issues and I think the break from the rat race will help ,just need to wait till my daughter is a bit older and can live on her own
Bless ya heart a change of environment is one the best things for your condition my friend has your condition Fear The Beard I done a video about him his also a TH-camr
@@MadMarkvanlifeI'll look him up and see if I can find the video you done about him too
Keep the cool videos coming mate
I love the quote “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That is why we call it the present”
I’ve worked with so many people who have been driven by money and they’ve achieved nothing from their life.
Yep 👍 ain’t that the truth
@@stretch4666 that’s all well n good all the time your able…. But as the years roll by and we become less able…. How you going to pay n survive 🙏 just a thought 😉👍👌
Only reason I want money now is to pass my test and get a van. Bones too old to work everyday now too. Never had money! Just got council flat two weeks ago and don't have any money or food and miserable but I'm going to get a job after Christmas and every penny is going towards having you life! Lovely bloke. Literally can't wait to wake up in a van and be able to do whatever I want.
Do it my friend wishing you all the best
Gidday mark, cheers for all the effort you put in foing your vids.......im foing up an old ford ambulance 1979 dentside...straight six...gunna hit the road and paint landscspes for a living..... ex tradesman, drainlayer...btoken body....but not broken spirit.
Jay. New Zealand.
Bless ya heart enjoy you’re travels
Nearly every van lifer ive seen icluding you dear mark i would choose you all as freinds your happy down to earth funny and what you see is real no fake stuff keep us laughing mark you have freedom that no money can buy❤
Thank you 🙏 happy days
Your a star Mark, you always brighten my day with your videos, thank you. Take care and have a great Christmas and a fine 2025 :)
Brilliant thank you 🙏 merry Christmas 🎅
A driver who delivers where I work, told me about his Brother who lives in a show house, works like a dog, never goes anywhere. He said, he has a posh house, a new car etc. He said but I have stories of places I've been, adventures I've had, and I'm a so much happier. Good on you Mark, another Kraken good video (See what I did there lol)
Thanks for sharing
I love your laughter Mark, it always brings a smile to my face. Merry Christmas 🎄
Happy days Merry Christmas
Hi Mark, been following you for a few months and love your honesty. After 31 years my missus up and left just like that. House sold, split the money. I now have Chirpy my motorhome. I live in him most of the time but stay at my sister’s place sometimes. After a couple of years on my own I am in a good place. I travel when i want, fish when I want play a bit of guitar, paint a bit and metal detect. Hope to meet up with you in the future mate. Keep smiling 💙
@@KelvinDixon-v4i sounds bliss thanks for sharing
When you’re grateful for what you have, you’re a rich person 🙌🏼
Mark you would be VERY wise to pay up to your full stamp, so that you get a full or a better pension ... for which you will be very grateful for, when the time comes. I worked all my life and get the full (old) pension, and I could NOT live without it. We all still need food and you need fuel. Listen to your accountant, he's paid to advise you.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you and Sally 🎄❄️☃️🎄
Well said 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Yep 👍 thank you 🙏
@@MadMarkvanlife Mark you have until April 2025 to make sure you've paid your full stamp as it comes to an end as of April 2025. I'm to check my own at beginning New Year 2025 as I'm 56 fella, Steve from Manchester 🇬🇧
If you don't have enough pension stamps you would get pension credits top up anyway you'll be alright settle down darlings❤
@ happy days
I think you're brilliant, Mark! You say it how it is. Enjoy your videos.
@@carls3365 thank you 🙏
You're bang on Mark
Merry Christmas 💜
@@lolafrance1 brilliant thank you 🙏 Merry Christmas 🎅
👍🏼
You make so much sense, enjoyed the truth. Maybe I need some rum . Happy Christmas. Cheers
Happy new year
Diversing is a perfect word, we know what you mean Mark, keep on keeping it real. 😊
Thank you, I will
Thanks
Bless ya hearts thank you 🙏 very kind 😀
I'm doing my part bro..always wat h each video a few times..I enjoy hearing you while I'm out and about. 🤓✌️
I appreciate that
No money, no pension, no saving……NO SHORT TERM MEMORY!!!! So funny, write some notes that’s what I do! CRS is contagious I’m sure!!!! Brilliant, love your videos especially the moments of CRS. Stay positive. Take care pal.
I was gonna say that too but it's more authentic when he forgets wtf he's talking about haha 😊
lol 😂 thank you 🙏
Good luck to you mate!
Thanks, you too!
You're right about German vans even Chrome from Vancity Vanlife in Canada is splashing out on a new Sprinter van...I digress...
Bidding you a happy Christmas & prosperous new year.
Happy days Merry Christmas
Hi Mark, as regards your van lasting forever, you mustn’t forget the vehicle structure, I’ve noticed there is rust on your van, rust will kill your van long before your engine and gear box fail.
I like the diversions 😂 very easy listening Mark. Also love the way you are thinking. Spot on 😊
Glad you enjoyed it thank you 🙏
Very honest from the heart. all the best to you.
Merry Christmas.... whatever that means.
lol 😂 agree merry Christmas 🎅
Got to admire a man who can find contentment anywhere.....
Hell yer
Great video Mark, 5 years in my van and love the freedom, merry Christmas to you,jesus is the reason for the season, stay blessed , greetings from oregon 🇺🇸
Thanks, you too!
Fair play mate, you have freedom that's worth any fortune.
merry xmas Mark...lovin the content....lovin the vanlife..
Merry Christmas thank you 🙏
Cracking Video Mark so much truth spoken ❤
I admire your positivity mate, I was following a YT van lifer called Roads Home but he's so so negative to the point where it's clearly broken him, it's sent him paranoid.
Shame 😳
im naturally negative and been working hard on changing my view,thinking more positively and slowly but surely its making me feel better about myself and my circumstance. slowly not being ashamed and loving myself, being myself and letting ppl in
Bravo 👏
Don't worry about money or pensions, it's really not that important. You can be the richest person in the room with a bank balance of zero. We all go in the same size box when the adventure is over so no point sweating the small dtuff
Well said 🙏
Money is the root of all evil your right . I've never cared about money and your right about everything thank you for your videos and being you y.your amazing Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Thank you Merry Christmas
Julie: No, the correct quote is: "The LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil" Money in itself is not evil.
Hi loved it you talk a lot of sense you got my Sub thanks cant wait for the next vid
Thanks for the sub!
Yea! Happy!
Great video as always..
Thanks again!
Well said...everything you say is the truth... I am hoping to join the van life next year... Just getting a van is the hardest part. River Allen.
@@allenlegg6670 happy days
💯 Mark!! Cheers 😊
Same to you!
Nice to hear an honest man ❤
😀
All the best mark.👍
@@martinames1096 thank you 🙏
play the game your way mark, blessings
Bless you Mark for for saying it the way it really is out there 👍🍻🍻
Absolutely
Nice one.. Cheers !
Thank you! Cheers!
Bang on the mark Mark 👍
We will cross that bridge when we get to it darling 😊 have a great Christmas mate. 😊
Thank you 🙏 and you
Thanks Mark
Very welcome
Cheers!
But if I didn't watch TV, I would never have had ur beauty vids in my days! ❤
Happy days
As far as I'm concerned you're living the good life haha keep it up mate
I am!
Spot on as always
Thanks again!
Money is the route of all evil very true, cheers ill have a rum for you, tske care Mark
Happy days
Hi Mark. Love this video. You make me laugh. What you say is true 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
I guess im luck to have had an amazing childhood, and extremely lucky yo still have my wonderful Dad,
In my first marriage i had everything big house nice cars, never really wanted for anything, but I wasn't happy,
I learnt that all of those things dont matter, im happy now in my second marriage, to someone i have known all my life,
Our mums used to walk around our village with us as babies in our prams, we went through all school years st the same schools,
Went separate ways once wevleft school, met up at a school reunion, we were both already seperated, things happen for a reason
Im a big beliver in that,
Well said my friend
I’m admiring your hoody suits you. And yeah bang on the nail.
@@1971JGG happy days
Happy Christmas mark
Same to you! Thank you 🙏
Wise words as usual
Some people incl some TH-camrs are negative just to get attention, like you I work 3 months driving a truck which is more than enough to fund this FT life also I too have a van fund, before I started this I made sure I was debt free with made and makes this lifestyle easier...I dont care what other people have got, whether its more or less than me or they live in a mortgage 4 bed house in leafy Surrey, it makes them no better than me, im happy and very content with what iv got, I can honestly say the only thing I worry about is making sure I dont run out of milk for my tea, as long as I wake up every day then everything else is a bonus...
Brilliantly said 😀
Hi mark have you watched. On TH-cam the log hoppers they’ve lived in a tent for 10 years. and working travelling around uk
Yes 👍
Well said, the Rum tells the truth. Merry Xmas. 👀👍🙏😁🌲🌲🥃
the Finest darling x
Bang on Mark , bang on
Oh mate 56 seconds in and I’m laughing my head off wishing you all the best. Thank you for these great videos. It’s the only sense of normality these days. Good on you mate and don’t worry about not having savings or anything. The way the world’s going you don’t want to own much is gonna get taken off us anywayespecially when they introduced the digital currency so all the best. Thanks for the laughs. Happy days. Regards from New Zealand it’s a bloody madhouse out here.
Happy days thank you 🙏
You can live in a house and be miserable or happy, you can live in a flat and be ok or miserable, i live in Australia and my husband and I travel in our caravan and meet people who are van dwellers, caravan dwellers and most of them are happy , well presented and hard workers, well travelled. In my opinion its not where you live it’s how you live . It’s summer over here at the moment and we are in a caravan park by the sea , lots of van dwellers here at the moment. We do have an ordinary house but we are at our happiest when we’re on the road. All the best to you
@@rowanbowyer6560 sounds great 👍
Good man as always 👏 don't be a slave to money 🤠 👍
Too right mark 👍
I love your van life❤
Cant beat the KRAKEN & THE CAPTAIN SPICED best drink ever 🙂 for me, i'm diabetic so its perfect ;-)
Happy days
Hi mark it best to have nothing I have work since I was 15 years old retired in 2010 but stayed working until I was 71 my state pension is not bad I have a very small private pension and since this government got in I now have to pay tax . By the time you get your pension at 70 just enjoy what you have got 😋
@@paulhulse1975 yep 👍 well said
If everyone 1 bail's out of normi world.....next time we go to M&S for our sour dough bread..it won't be on the shelves bruv.... Diesel to fill our van won't be available at fuel stations. I see where you're coming from tho... encourage a better existence for people...but a consumer society we are ... incudes you & me . Just a thought for you to mull over.
Peace & ❤ to you for empathy and honesty in your vlogs👍
Yep 👍 thank you 🙏
Omg this man is a legend, your great Mark yr honesty is soooooo cool, I’m the car gal that follows ya and it’s friggin cold as I don’t have a jackery thing yet just lots of candles yep in the car lol, u don’t need dosh I had dosh n lost dosh a nicer person I am without it 🎉 each day I live in the present moment too and I soooooo get Mother Earth thing I’m just listening to the wind 😂 where’s ya Christmas lights then 😂
Much appreciated thank you 🙏
Hey Mark Great video as always how strange you launched this video and I've just launched one talking about the opposite of my vanlife journey and how it has INCREASED my earnings! Im very blessed as its securing my financial future!
Sounds great!
Say hi to Mike and hope you guys have a good Christmas 👍
Thank you 🙏
All the time your healthy it's great , when you get sick that's when it's hell ,one day at a time ❤
You are a fucking legend my friend,top man, I absolutely love your videos and your attitude,don't ever stop ❤️💯🍻👍
Bless you thank you 🙏
Very true mark life is for living not working
go to partners cafe, brillant for a coffee or a fry up. 😄
Hippy at heart ❤️
Great video but I worry that if I don’t save, in a few years time I’ll be fooked. Late 50s now so I’ll still have another decade to work at least, manual work as well, health permitting.
But you need money.
I’m not disagreeing with you, but your reality is different to mine. Then again that’s why I subscribe to your channel, because you’re living many people’s dreams. 🙌
@@1morewave yep 👍 I know where you’re coming from however I live in a van 🚐 so obviously I haven’t got the financial burden of running a property
@@MadMarkvanlifegreat outlook on your life buddy, keep up the videos, 🙌
Tbh cuz I live in a house mortgage free … for probably less than you pay each month for living in a van 😉👌👍
I was in same position as you.
6 years ago I sold my house, bought a caravan (sited off grid but secure) and a Campervan.
Winter months in Camper in Europe, Summer months in UK in caravan.
Still got my house money invested.....
Nice 👌
They've got you where they want you.. in a box with a number, watching their TV programming, at the mercy of bills, taxes etc which can and will continually rise.
@ Boom 💥
I work to live... not live to work ;-)
Mate good laugh 😂
Money doesn't make you happy just makes life easier when your tied to a house and bills ,your mind set and the company you keep in my opinion makes you happy ,I intend to get as close to being free as I can and it ain't being tied to a full time job until I'm 67 🙏
Happy days
Nothing wrong with a drop of rum but watch yourself. If you've been drinking and your in your van with access to your van keys and the law finds out van life could come to an end.
I know 😀
💯 % keep it real. 🇮🇪✌️
67 for us mate
The word is digress but we know what you mean 😂
😀
Money isnt the root of all evil, the love of money is.
Thank you for sharing Mark. I understand exactly what you mean about 'money'. From cradle to the grave, all we are taught is 'you need money for this, you need money for that, you are a nobody without it'! TOSH!!! Such a shame the majority of us do not realise this until later in life. Just a false concept. Good luck to you Mark. I'm enjoying your videos so keep them coming in 2025. Wishing you blessings of good health and happiness this season and beyond. 🙏💚
Well said thank you 🙏
Don`t bother with the NI stamps then you can top the State Pension up with the Pension Credit which comes with all sorts of free things (Dentists etc) Makes a mockery of people who try to be straight.
U hate money but everything cost money, mental circle. Vehicles loosing value, property increase value. Who is more secure property owner or vehicle owner
Property "owners" are at the mercy of the controllers hiking up taxes, utility bills, council tax, inheritance taxes etc. The system wants you in a box that they can control.
Yep 👍
Once you've live outside of the matrix you see the world completely differently. Box dwellers could never understand. I was driving by some dwelling boxes the other day and it struck me how all the normies live in a numbered box. Hundreds/thousands of boxes all next to each other, each with their own cell number 😂
@ basically yes 👍
Good to hear, your views Mark.
You can't live an 'alternative' lifestyle and claim government handouts.
Of course its up to individuals but i would never touch.
Haha you have an accountant wow, i wouldn't trust them.
Enjoy your life, its the only way,
Take care
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Thank you 🙏
born 6th march 1961 - 5th april 1977 state pension is 67, I’ll believe it if & when i see it .
Happiness is a state of mind , not a state of ownership.
Society is consuming the world , not living on the gifts of it’s generosity.
I know what enough is , i’m guilty, i could probably do less :0)
Bob on
😂...If time is money, then you dear sir must surely be a millionaire! Also better to live your alternative lifestyle to avoid being stuck inside a building on an ugly town and imprisoned in a job with it's blinding, monotonous routine, grafting away just to make some one else rich! Much bettet to be time rich and live frugally. Enjoy your drinks life is friggen brilliant Mark.
Well said thank you 🙏
67 for me i was born 1979
Hi, I'm due mine in 14 years, 12 years after I've paid for the full state pension.
Now how many of us won't make it.
Take care and live a good life. M.
Are you sure? I'm too born in 1979 and my pension age is 68
@ Hi, 1971 for me so it’s 67 at the moment and my full pension is due to be paid when I’m 55, from the last forecast I had.
I did contact out so it’s been longer than 35 years for me to reach it, but that is still 12 years before I get to claim the state pension.
Before you as you get nothing for the extra 12 years of pension payments.
Take care M.
Mark be very very weary TH-cam will be telling HMRC you are being paid money. Could end badly if you are not declaring
Yep 👍
Theres no LAW to pay tax never has been
@Demanduk I think big mick ... is a big sheep 🐑 😂😂
Brilliant you are great mate.
Thank you 🙏