Well said. Im in my early 20s I feel a lot of pressure to work ‘full time’ and get a mortgage and live this traditional life but I know that this just isn’t the way I want to live. I want a life that I can live to the full and not just working to pay massive amounts every month and have no money to show for it and no time to go out and enjoy life. Simplicity is the best way to be able to enjoy life ☮️
Get yourself a van you can live in and instead of paying huge sums in rent, spend it on living your life. You've got another 40 years to prepare for the remaining 20 years so save half now what you want then and you will have enough, this is easier if you dont go giving it to a bank or a landlord. I'm sure many of us would if we could have our 20's again. Good luck.
Immy I’m 26 from uk and feel exactly the same as you do… I’ve seen my mum follow this traditional path and struggle like hell, most people that follow this path are absolutely miserable. I don’t want a fancy career that takes up all my time and I don’t want a property with no end of bills, I want to live a simple life, I refuse to follow their footsteps!
agree. sadly... don't think the youth of today will watch this... as much as they'd benefit! I'd love for mobile phones to stop working, I often think that'd benefit everyone... social media gone. (except mark of course who is a positive influence, but he's a different breed compared to most nowadays)
I'm 45, my lad is nearly 18, obviously I'm a wealth of knowledge just like you mark 😂 but I'll tell U one thing.. He will most likely ignore all the advice, and soon find him 45 years old trying to tell his own kid the same things 😂😂
Love the msg and I agree 👍escaping the programming is not easy. Labels cars and house I have chased it all and now 51, on the rd to wanting less and more minimalist ways.
Never a true word be said ........... Been full-time van dwelling for over 10 years, had the house , money coming out of my ears but in the end all it gave me was stress, anxiety and eventually panic attacks with running my own business , house bringing up kids etc , the ex done me a favor in the end. She kept the house mortgage free and I bought my dream motorhome an a class carthago e class and traveled around Europe for 4 years , came back realized my rig was to Big for the UK , so downsized ..... Now I'm now in a sprinter. The only bills are my workshop rental, fuel , food, insurance and tax . I will never go back to the work to pay bills I will live in a tent before I put myself through that stress again.
Mark you read my mind as usual... 100% agree. I used to be in the top 1% of earners living off passive rental income in my own detached home surrounded by trees. I had stability, happiness, and the basics paid for me- food, water, bills, without the grind of work. But after losing all of that (victim of crime), I’m now struggling at the bottom 1%. I can say with certainty: the top 10% do get stability, happiness, and health but it's all at the expense of the bottom 90%. It’s wrong. For most people vanlife is the only affordable escape.. unless you're wealthy or have unique opportunity. It's unnatural. The sustainable way humans thrived for generations was for to support parents as they aged. Now people can’t even afford kids. I’m in mid-40s with no kids, never had the opportunity. Society made that choice for me. Women nowadays are taught to prioritise career & only interested in ‘model looks’ men or millionaires. This system forces many men like myself into isolation not by choice... It’s a tragedy, and it’s by design. I have no idea what I'll do for income when I "retire".
@@Fina-x5n bless ya heart thanks for sharing every van dweller I personally know chose van life only one person didn’t however his thriving now and wished he lived in a van years ago 😀
Still can't get my head round it went to sleep one night woke up looked in the mirror old bloke looking back at me proper made me jump 20+ years gone just like that
Exactly Mark,57 now remember 17 getting my driving licence and it’s gone in a flash and I’ve done nothing really,considering van life,love your channel 🙌‼️
Fair play to you Gazboboutdoors...That's always what I've said...council tax is such a rip off its got to be illegal....at gazboboutdoors...how have you managed to not pay this scam bill for the last 10 years? Assuming you are a full time working person? Be interested how you managed it without being hounded through court?
@shauncodling5261 well I don't remember ever getting a AOE.. I never paid it directly.. But I have always had the letters and the odd bailiff visit eh... I've had a few court summons letters but I just tear them up.
@@GazBobOutdoors Ledgend...yeah we all need to become van dwellers then we can all tare up their mickey mouse summons letters and laugh and tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine 😂 they wouldn't have the leverage over people living in properties to threaten anybody anymore then with their fakery BS threats!!!
Hi mark , couldn’t sleep was listening to you looking at the stars though the skylight of the van which is my home, I agree thinking back the years feel like days, wish you all the best for this new year ahead, regards tom 👍
Hello Mark, can I ask you a question. I know that you have said that you have teddy bear bedding, where did you get yours from, has it lasted and not gone flat and worn out looking in no time like our bedding has.
@@danielking7133 teddy bear bedding is the finest you can buy it practically from most big supermarkets they have there own brand however I prefer the original which is from Dunelm only sheets don’t last they will go totally flat with a month or so I always buy new teddy bear bed sheets regular
Hi mark i left school at 14 years old and started working straight away, 33 years of work and had it all cars,vans,houses ,boats you name it I had it and lost it all, that’s when I realised you don’t need much to survive, I work when I need money but only a couple of days a week and never 2 days in a row 😂 i like to say I’m semiretired 😂. If you don’t have a big lifestyle you don’t need big money 😊
I had opportunities to buy property but I'm glad I didn't tie that noose around my neck for 30-40 years. At 15 I knew I needed to get out and see the world and that's what I did with the money I earned as a tradesperson. All my money was spent in escapism from work and the matrix and I don't regret it. It was the best education and experiences I could have given myself. Travel opens you up and expands you so much so that when you revisit old friends decades later, you realise they are still stuck in the same mindset, immaturity and ignorance as when you left them and it's not possible to go back there. Sad but true. My advice is the same as yours - find a way, a lifestyle that suits you.
Very good advice Mark. You've got something many people have not got. You've got to know the real you, the real deep down you, not the you that life pushes around like a puppet, but the real you. I've only just wrote on another channel where the old guy has lost everything to a partner at 76 that I'd rather go out of this world with a smile on my face and if that means I will go out penniless then so be it.
Ty for sharing Mark . So true. I feel the same . What a crazy ride . 59yrs old I'm now decluttering and focusing on what really matters . My son in his 20's and is aware of what's going on in these uncertain times. He does not want to get caught up in the matrix and become a slave to the system. Through his eyes he is looking at everything on a global scale ❤
Mark you're gonna have to stop telling folk just how good van life is, if you don't the roads & park-ups are gonna be full to capacity by those who have realised, I thought about van life 20 odd years ago & it's just now at 57 that I'm seriously looking for a suitable vehicle, my plan is to at 1st keep working as I am just the van will replace my rented house, a house that will never be mine, I fell into that trap, this worm is turning. Be well 🤘
Seems sad if you think in 40 years you have achieved nothing, and van life is the best life you can have. I'm sure you have many things you are proud to have done Mark. Learnt early in school that if you don't fit nobody will care. Haha When I was 17 at my first job, I had a day off virtually every week to do other things, until the boss called me in the office and thought I should take my job more serious, expect me to knuckle down and work hard, I just walked out. worked occasionally over the years doing various things, traveled to countries, Never been tied to a money orientated lifestyle. Many of my friends never made it to 60, so Do what you want to do, just be happy. Don't chase money, fame, and don't have regrets. Godbless 😊🥰😇
Yes. Think of the damage caused us by being raised on the TV. I imagine that level of programming is a thousand times worse for the youth of Today. What would I tell my younger self? (I'm 51)...What I would tell myself is to break free of the system. I'm still not there yet myself. I'm leaning heavy into it. But yeah, the sooner the better.
I’m 28 and I find it’s so hard living in a house flat I don’t like that thought of being there every day like you said come back to the same place the same view houses I have lived in. I literally destroy because I I don’t know if it’s OCD, but I constantly have to move furniture around knock walls down then put them back up again well I don’t do it but luckily I’ve got somebody who does that, but I’m mean it’s that bad to knock a brick wall down and then want the brick wall put back up again so I cannot wait to start my life and I don’t wanna waste any of it because time is the most precious thing so if I was 28 now, so if I was 17 again, I would still say to myself you don’t have to do what everyone has done before you i.e. whoever looked after you whether you’re in care adopted everyone gets a house flat then you’re told it’s better not to rent because you’re just making that person rich so get a mortgage and eventually you’ll sell it after 25 years and then make us have some money but then if your house not grey and when 25 years go by what are you gonna do? I didn’t have the money in my pocket now so that’s the advice I would give more already. I’ve just repeated what you said so yes I would give the advice that you gave. I really do hope you can understand my messages. You’re mad Mark. I’m bonkers Bella LOL.😂
Difficult one ... I've been piss poor and I've been relatively wealthy.. I'd choose wealthy any day , i suppose it comes down to how you define wealth... but having a few quid gives you more opportunities
You won 🏆 mark whether you realise this at 17 or 57. I used to work in a care home with people 80/90?that wished they lived more had adventures and created happier memories. They live with the regret every day that they gave their whole lives working to pay a mortgage and just to end up in care home. Your doing this now and if you focus on you health and fitness you can be even stronger in the years to come. I will be doing van life around March I’m 39 in March and I’ve been working to survive since 15? I was in the care system. No mother father in prison. I currently cant drive and am taking my test now. Mark you are a legend and you are on your healing journey. I hope I can meet you one day when I start van. Take care my darling. ✌️
Hi Mark just subscribed to your channel loving your videos and totally agree with you.Through previous experiences myself ive realised that less is more material things mean nothing.The world is a big place there's lots to see and do and so many amazing people out there to meet.Why do so many young people fall into the trap of the mortgage situation tied down and all the stresses that go with being caught up in the Matrix.Well said.x
Your bang on mark 👏. I almost fell for last rubbish years ago. But didn't luckily. We're all all humble in my household, and defo don't keep up the neighbours. We have everything we need and no stress.
I'm 55 have been doing vanlife 5 years, I work about 8,9 months a year in construction, I enjoy being minimalist and love the peace the lord gives me the days I might be feeling low
Spot on,I'm 55 today,and flipping heck,I don't know where the years have gone,I live with my cat in a 1 bedroom flat,I am worried about the future,need to get my act together.
Me too 60 this year I feel exactly the same years just gone and I didn’t even see it😳by the way what is the top your wearing I love the pattern where can I get one?👍
Yea your right mark all material things do not matter what is important is adventure in life and time for yourself.too much work is no good for anyone❤
At this age, 60's, we have the ability to contemplate life. BECAUSE we've LIVED! We've done what the younger adults are looking forwards to achieving in their years to come. Thing is, with our lifes experiences behind us we know the pitfalls and traps. We discovered the wisdom available by living the experience's and working out what wont do. At 66 after a life of topsy turvy turmoil I've found my peace. It's a great place to be. And the young one's? They need to live life by their own decisions and become who they need to be. 💚🌏💚🇳🇿
Love listening to u mark Modern life is a jokeshop 👍💶💶💶💶 I live in a working class area of Dublin 🇮🇪 3 bed houses are nearly half a million now😅😅😅😅 I spot camper vans everywhere now
Hey Mark as a 66 year old, age 57 to 66 will go even quicker. So stay on that simple outdoors journey. Great sense vlog. Roll on the weekend when your van fixed and you can flock off. Id tell the youth of today to stay humble be kind be smart and go live their lives dont get tied down by work or relationships have freedom earn enough to enjoy the day and experience all cultures travel and be enriched by what planet earth offers naturally automatically without crazy costs. Definately forget need for possessions and material. I had it all but by borrowing money with interest what a trap.
I'm going to be 56 in two weeks. Believe me, I know exactly what you mean when you say "where the fuck have those forty years gone?!" I realized a while ago that things won't make you happy, but I'm still trying to find the courage to break free.
HI Mark I'm 63 an bin full time in my sprinter for last 7 years I dread to think what this world will be like in another 40 years !! Not sure I would like to be around to be honest 😅
Mark , sadly i dont think young people are going to have the opportunity to live whatever lifestyle they choose unless a lot of people wake up to whats going on........dont get me started lol !!!
wise words . i knowing it came from a man whos been through it all. not many guys like mark on TH-cam. if you don't go along to get along. your alienated. or hated . its nice to have something to keep a guy going some few hours of each day. but once a person has their health .and enough to eat . and a roof over your head. you aint doing bad at all. thanks for the wise words. and the real chat with your youtubers.💪👍
Mark, it is so so true about one day you're 17, u turn around and you're decades older! Father Time stops nor slows down for no one!!!!!! We all waste our lives don't we, it's sad!!! We get swayed/brain washed, but everyone when we're young, brought up to believe this or that, led to believe we can't do exactly what we want to do, gotta pay the ones who rule us, the ones who don't help us do shite, as far as out work, but the MF's still want your money, it's nutzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, absolute nutzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz lol Matrix/Hamster Wheel, so right about that too!!!! I can only imagine how free u feel now that you finally said, eff it, I'm going to do exactly what I want to do, when I want to do it, how I want to do it, on my own terms, not the effing crooked govt. why try and keep us under their thumbs! Love your channel Mark! My advice to younger kids, would be to save every penny that u can so when u get to be older, u can do whatever the eff u want too and no one, no one, can tell u, no, u can't do that!!!! Take care, be safe, and above all, do it your way and HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!! Tell Sally hey!!!!!
I'm 57 got caught up in all the mortgage and children thing at 20 worked hard all my life did ok advice enjoy your life the best way you can tell your parents you love them my farther was a hard man farming background telling each other you loved them was not a thing they are both gone naw thats the only regret I have not telling them i loved them naw its too late❤❤❤
Looking at forty years in front of you , you think that's a life time but looking back at forty years it flies. Life's to short so it's very good advice to not spend the best 40 years working. I say it the best forty because you have youth ,health on your side. First forty is easy the second won't be .because your health declines you'll know if your that age what iam on about.
Spot on mark 👏 at the end of the day the amount of time we have on this planet is a lottery I'm now only 47 and out of the group I grew up with I'm the only one left . live for yourself not for others your time can end in an instant. is the advice I'd give the youth of today much love my friend 🙏
Worked my ass off now 60 lost my wife way to early 12 yrs now have all the fricken toys HD RK, the van golf cart . A fair pension on ss survivors 6 yrs claim max , sitnn on qtr million in equity pymnt 20 % of my income . No work retired 6 yrs ago dud van life 5 yrs now , thinking the ocean really the place to be , get a boat n sail the open seas. Glad i just made the american dream , i could down size n live n travel very welll, oh have a standing CASH OFFER on my homestead 5 days qtr million in cash . $$$ sime to think about
My advice would be work hard save hard and whack as much as you can into a pension. Live cheap along the way and escape the rat race as quickly as possible. Don’t count time in years. Count it in summers. How many summers do you want to enjoy life.
So freaking true,it does go so quick…..as for material things,the generation these days only wish for them,and in 40yrs time they will say the same thing you are saying now
Consuming - too many people measure their success and achievements in life by how many showy 'things' they own. Luxury cars will be someone else's old banger one day, and someone else will live in the big house they grafted to pay for, we all leave the same way, and can't take the 'things' with us.
At 62 now, wish I'd know then what I know now. I wouldn't have stayed 'safe' in the same job/career taking shit off the bosses. Wouldn't have got married to the soul sucking ex and wouldn't have had kids... I'd have gone to some country where you could buy some forrest land, built a cabin and gone all Grissly Adams lifestyle... Totally off grid and out the Matrix... Now that would have been the finest...
I think we adapt to our situation, and if we have more we are ok with wanting more. Have less, crave less. If you have less you realize what is actually necessary to live happily.
Agreed mark. I live in a 7 bedroom house got the flash cars etc. I’ve never been more unhappy since moving in here. I’m tied because of the kids /schools etc. I watch your videos & look at your life with envy. Material things mean nothing!! ❤️❤️
Joined the British Army at 16, finish my working life as a Prison officer.... 3years to go and then retirement... Sell the house .. Van life! Und fuck the corrupten system! Love your video Mark!
Hi Mark, I couldn't agree more with you. I'm 57 now. 3 months ago I made the decision to get rid of everything and buy a van. I gave myself 6 months until the end of March 2025 to move out and have a van to travel in. 3 months to go and I'm well on the way, sold/gave things away. Sold my 2015 Ford Tourneo micro camper which I spent the last 3 years or so travelling around Scotland in (part time). Now looking for a van and getting ready for the next adventure over the coming months. I need to do this while I can. I enjoy your inspirational videos. Cheers! 🙂👍☠
Strangely enough,, 40 years ago if I could go back,, instead of making my mark on the black market,, I would go back and made a business of building,,, I was caravannlifing back then.. collecting washing machines and lead pipes for scrap.. But I could have made a lot of money in hindsight,, so that what I would have done ifni could,, make as much money as possible being self employed and when you've got enough fk off out the uk ASAP... Then buy a van and a bit of land... or boat...
The advice I would give is that they have to question their schooling and education early on. We are indoctinated and brainwashed from there. The teenage years are so fragile and precious. if it goes wrong there, you're always playing catch up. Two days into my first job selling print to businesses on the knocker and I wept as I walked over a bridge in my suit and tie. Failed my exams and ended up doing work that I had no passion for. You are a kid at 10 and an adult at 20! How can you be expected to decide on your future in those ten years?
Well my friend there’s family’s living in vans now home schooling there children I interviewed a family of 7 living nomadic with there pick up truck and caravan it is doable 👍
being 45 this year think the youth of today dont have the work ethic and the drive because of society and gaming and to them easy life wanting to be full time gamers and lay abouts
You know what Mark, I never ever wanted to get a mortgage and i knew that from a very young age, i never wanted to spend all my days working etc... i just didn't want it. I spemt a lot of time on the dole and you know what it was alright, me and my mates would get our giros and go off to London or wherever... we just didn't care,. I did have depression since childhood maybe that had something to do with it, but thats how it was anyway, i just wanted to enjoy my life rather than chase the $$$$
Nice Thoughts Bruv - I’ve tried givin the Youths advice and they don’t listen, so I guess they have to do what I did and work it out for themselves -it’s 50 years ago sinceI was a Youth but a totally different world where Common Sense Died in 2020 R.I.P. 🪦
At 82 remember life is like a toilet roll the nearer the end you get the faster it goes
Well said. Im in my early 20s I feel a lot of pressure to work ‘full time’ and get a mortgage and live this traditional life but I know that this just isn’t the way I want to live. I want a life that I can live to the full and not just working to pay massive amounts every month and have no money to show for it and no time to go out and enjoy life. Simplicity is the best way to be able to enjoy life ☮️
Don't get a mortgage mate....the fact you're already realising it's not for you speaks volumes........
Get yourself a van you can live in and instead of paying huge sums in rent, spend it on living your life. You've got another 40 years to prepare for the remaining 20 years so save half now what you want then and you will have enough, this is easier if you dont go giving it to a bank or a landlord. I'm sure many of us would if we could have our 20's again. Good luck.
Immy I’m 26 from uk and feel exactly the same as you do… I’ve seen my mum follow this traditional path and struggle like hell, most people that follow this path are absolutely miserable. I don’t want a fancy career that takes up all my time and I don’t want a property with no end of bills, I want to live a simple life, I refuse to follow their footsteps!
Do what ever is best for your own emotional wellbeing if anything negs you out don’t do it less is more 😀
agree. sadly... don't think the youth of today will watch this... as much as they'd benefit! I'd love for mobile phones to stop working, I often think that'd benefit everyone... social media gone. (except mark of course who is a positive influence, but he's a different breed compared to most nowadays)
I'm 45, my lad is nearly 18, obviously I'm a wealth of knowledge just like you mark 😂 but I'll tell U one thing.. He will most likely ignore all the advice, and soon find him 45 years old trying to tell his own kid the same things 😂😂
Ain’t that the truth 👌
Love the msg and I agree 👍escaping the programming is not easy. Labels cars and house I have chased it all and now 51, on the rd to wanting less and more minimalist ways.
Well said!
For me, it's always been about travelling. Travel more. See the World. Then you will have no regrets in later life. I think.
We come into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing.😊
Spot on mark very sound advice
Never a true word be said ........... Been full-time van dwelling for over 10 years, had the house , money coming out of my ears but in the end all it gave me was stress, anxiety and eventually panic attacks with running my own business , house bringing up kids etc , the ex done me a favor in the end.
She kept the house mortgage free and I bought my dream motorhome an a class carthago e class and traveled around Europe for 4 years , came back realized my rig was to Big for the UK , so downsized ..... Now I'm now in a sprinter.
The only bills are my workshop rental, fuel , food, insurance and tax .
I will never go back to the work to pay bills I will live in a tent before I put myself through that stress again.
Brilliant 🤩 thank you 🙏 for sharing
Good views on life mate .. 👌
Mark you read my mind as usual... 100% agree. I used to be in the top 1% of earners living off passive rental income in my own detached home surrounded by trees. I had stability, happiness, and the basics paid for me- food, water, bills, without the grind of work. But after losing all of that (victim of crime), I’m now struggling at the bottom 1%. I can say with certainty: the top 10% do get stability, happiness, and health but it's all at the expense of the bottom 90%. It’s wrong.
For most people vanlife is the only affordable escape.. unless you're wealthy or have unique opportunity. It's unnatural. The sustainable way humans thrived for generations was for to support parents as they aged. Now people can’t even afford kids. I’m in mid-40s with no kids, never had the opportunity. Society made that choice for me.
Women nowadays are taught to prioritise career & only interested in ‘model looks’ men or millionaires. This system forces many men like myself into isolation not by choice... It’s a tragedy, and it’s by design. I have no idea what I'll do for income when I "retire".
@@Fina-x5n bless ya heart thanks for sharing every van dweller I personally know chose van life only one person didn’t however his thriving now and wished he lived in a van years ago 😀
@@MadMarkvanlife I can't even afford vanlife sadly...
@@Fina-x5n 😞
Still can't get my head round it went to sleep one night woke up looked in the mirror old bloke looking back at me proper made me jump 20+ years gone just like that
@@markw2640 yep 👍 it’s mad lol 😂
Great vid Mark as always
What advice can I give to the man who has everything
Get yourself a Alternator 😂😂😂👍
lol 😂 yep 👍
Exactly Mark,57 now remember 17 getting my driving licence and it’s gone in a flash and I’ve done nothing really,considering van life,love your channel 🙌‼️
Exactly! Thank you 🙏
2k a year for council tax what am I getting back apart from an empty bin?
i stopped paying it over 10 years ago.
Exactly 👍
Fair play to you Gazboboutdoors...That's always what I've said...council tax is such a rip off its got to be illegal....at gazboboutdoors...how have you managed to not pay this scam bill for the last 10 years? Assuming you are a full time working person? Be interested how you managed it without being hounded through court?
@shauncodling5261 well I don't remember ever getting a AOE.. I never paid it directly.. But I have always had the letters and the odd bailiff visit eh... I've had a few court summons letters but I just tear them up.
@@GazBobOutdoors Ledgend...yeah we all need to become van dwellers then we can all tare up their mickey mouse summons letters and laugh and tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine 😂 they wouldn't have the leverage over people living in properties to threaten anybody anymore then with their fakery BS threats!!!
Hi mark , couldn’t sleep was listening to you looking at the stars though the skylight of the van which is my home, I agree thinking back the years feel like days, wish you all the best for this new year ahead, regards tom 👍
Wonderful thank you 🙏
Hello Mark, can I ask you a question. I know that you have said that you have teddy bear bedding, where did you get yours from, has it lasted and not gone flat and worn out looking in no time like our bedding has.
@@danielking7133 teddy bear bedding is the finest you can buy it practically from most big supermarkets they have there own brand however I prefer the original which is from Dunelm only sheets don’t last they will go totally flat with a month or so I always buy new teddy bear bed sheets regular
Thanks for that Mark
Thats called growing up Mark everybody goes through it everybody has their regrets cheers Trev Ebygum in Oz
It does indeed & the older we get, the faster the time flies by…
Hi mark i left school at 14 years old and started working straight away, 33 years of work and had it all cars,vans,houses ,boats you name it I had it and lost it all, that’s when I realised you don’t need much to survive, I work when I need money but only a couple of days a week and never 2 days in a row 😂 i like to say I’m semiretired 😂. If you don’t have a big lifestyle you don’t need big money 😊
I've bought all my latest branded T shirts from local charity shops.
You don't have to break your budget! 😊
Love charity shops
So true.
Couldn't put it better myself 64 now, and I was stupid and grew up too late
I had opportunities to buy property but I'm glad I didn't tie that noose around my neck for 30-40 years. At 15 I knew I needed to get out and see the world and that's what I did with the money I earned as a tradesperson.
All my money was spent in escapism from work and the matrix and I don't regret it. It was the best education and experiences I could have given myself.
Travel opens you up and expands you so much so that when you revisit old friends decades later, you realise they are still stuck in the same mindset, immaturity and ignorance as when you left them and it's not possible to go back there. Sad but true.
My advice is the same as yours - find a way, a lifestyle that suits you.
Bravo my friend 👌
Very good advice Mark. You've got something many people have not got. You've got to know the real you, the real deep down you, not the you that life pushes around like a puppet, but the real you. I've only just wrote on another channel where the old guy has lost everything to a partner at 76 that I'd rather go out of this world with a smile on my face and if that means I will go out penniless then so be it.
I could listen to you all day a very wise man big respect
Happy days thank you 🙏
You are totally right in what you say... I worked and spent money like water. Now at 61 years old.. Now as gone so fast..
Ty for sharing Mark .
So true.
I feel the same .
What a crazy ride .
59yrs old I'm now decluttering and focusing on what really matters .
My son in his 20's and is aware of what's going on in these uncertain times.
He does not want to get caught up in the matrix and become a slave to the system.
Through his eyes he is looking at everything on a global scale ❤
Mark you're gonna have to stop telling folk just how good van life is, if you don't the roads & park-ups are gonna be full to capacity by those who have realised, I thought about van life 20 odd years ago & it's just now at 57 that I'm seriously looking for a suitable vehicle, my plan is to at 1st keep working as I am just the van will replace my rented house, a house that will never be mine, I fell into that trap, this worm is turning. Be well 🤘
lol 😂 yep 👍
Seems sad if you think in 40 years you have achieved nothing, and van life is the best life you can have. I'm sure you have many things you are proud to have done Mark.
Learnt early in school that if you don't fit nobody will care. Haha
When I was 17 at my first job, I had a day off virtually every week to do other things, until the boss called me in the office and thought I should take my job more serious, expect me to knuckle down and work hard, I just walked out.
worked occasionally over the years doing various things, traveled to countries,
Never been tied to a money orientated lifestyle.
Many of my friends never made it to 60, so
Do what you want to do, just be happy.
Don't chase money, fame, and don't have regrets.
Godbless
😊🥰😇
Yes. Think of the damage caused us by being raised on the TV. I imagine that level of programming is a thousand times worse for the youth of Today. What would I tell my younger self? (I'm 51)...What I would tell myself is to break free of the system. I'm still not there yet myself. I'm leaning heavy into it. But yeah, the sooner the better.
I’m 28 and I find it’s so hard living in a house flat I don’t like that thought of being there every day like you said come back to the same place the same view houses I have lived in. I literally destroy because I I don’t know if it’s OCD, but I constantly have to move furniture around knock walls down then put them back up again well I don’t do it but luckily I’ve got somebody who does that, but I’m mean it’s that bad to knock a brick wall down and then want the brick wall put back up again so I cannot wait to start my life and I don’t wanna waste any of it because time is the most precious thing so if I was 28 now, so if I was 17 again, I would still say to myself you don’t have to do what everyone has done before you i.e. whoever looked after you whether you’re in care adopted everyone gets a house flat then you’re told it’s better not to rent because you’re just making that person rich so get a mortgage and eventually you’ll sell it after 25 years and then make us have some money but then if your house not grey and when 25 years go by what are you gonna do? I didn’t have the money in my pocket now so that’s the advice I would give more already. I’ve just repeated what you said so yes I would give the advice that you gave. I really do hope you can understand my messages. You’re mad Mark. I’m bonkers Bella LOL.😂
Bravo well said 👌
Difficult one ... I've been piss poor and I've been relatively wealthy.. I'd choose wealthy any day , i suppose it comes down to how you define wealth... but having a few quid gives you more opportunities
My advice to young people would be this .......follow your heart , live free, die well.
Listening to you is like listening to myself, 😊
Happy days
I’m 37. 20 years in.
@@Steve_Van777 Boom 💥 👍
You won 🏆 mark whether you realise this at 17 or 57.
I used to work in a care home with people 80/90?that wished they lived more had adventures and created happier memories. They live with the regret every day that they gave their whole lives working to pay a mortgage and just to end up in care home.
Your doing this now and if you focus on you health and fitness you can be even stronger in the years to come.
I will be doing van life around March I’m 39 in March and I’ve been working to survive since 15? I was in the care system. No mother father in prison.
I currently cant drive and am taking my test now.
Mark you are a legend and you are on your healing journey.
I hope I can meet you one day when I start van.
Take care my darling. ✌️
Thank you 🙏 for sharing
I hope you enjoy your new life on wheels. You have to get used to your own company and peace.
Hi Mark just subscribed to your channel loving your videos and totally agree with you.Through previous experiences myself ive realised that less is more material things mean nothing.The world is a big place there's lots to see and do and so many amazing people out there to meet.Why do so many young people fall into the trap of the mortgage situation tied down and all the stresses that go with being caught up in the Matrix.Well said.x
Your bang on mark 👏. I almost fell for last rubbish years ago. But didn't luckily. We're all all humble in my household, and defo don't keep up the neighbours. We have everything we need and no stress.
I'm 55 have been doing vanlife 5 years, I work about 8,9 months a year in construction, I enjoy being minimalist and love the peace the lord gives me the days I might be feeling low
Great video, Thankyou.
Glad you enjoyed it
Spot on,I'm 55 today,and flipping heck,I don't know where the years have gone,I live with my cat in a 1 bedroom flat,I am worried about the future,need to get my act together.
So true, so true. I know exactly what you mean - Happened to me !!!! - I’m also 60 this year - My advice, get the hell out of The Matrix ASAP!!!
Do what ever it takes
Me too 60 this year I feel exactly the same years just gone and I didn’t even see it😳by the way what is the top your wearing I love the pattern where can I get one?👍
Amazon my friend
Yea your right mark all material things do not matter what is important is adventure in life and time for yourself.too much work is no good for anyone❤
At this age, 60's, we have the ability to contemplate life. BECAUSE we've LIVED! We've done what the younger adults are looking forwards to achieving in their years to come. Thing is, with our lifes experiences behind us we know the pitfalls and traps. We discovered the wisdom available by living the experience's and working out what wont do. At 66 after a life of topsy turvy turmoil I've found my peace. It's a great place to be. And the young one's? They need to live life by their own decisions and become who they need to be. 💚🌏💚🇳🇿
Beautifully said ❤
Nicely put
Love listening to u mark
Modern life is a jokeshop 👍💶💶💶💶
I live in a working class area of Dublin 🇮🇪
3 bed houses are nearly half a million now😅😅😅😅
I spot camper vans everywhere now
Wow that’s insane prices
Hi Mark Would you ever consider fitting a wood burner in your van
Was going to maybe in future still not sure 🤔
Spot on. 👍🚐😎
Thanks 👍
Nothing but the truth here 👍
I listen to you cos you speak sense nearly all the time, from newly converted van lifer
Happy days
Hey Mark as a 66 year old, age 57 to 66 will go even quicker. So stay on that simple outdoors journey. Great sense vlog. Roll on the weekend when your van fixed and you can flock off. Id tell the youth of today to stay humble be kind be smart and go live their lives dont get tied down by work or relationships have freedom earn enough to enjoy the day and experience all cultures travel and be enriched by what planet earth offers naturally automatically without crazy costs. Definately forget need for possessions and material. I had it all but by borrowing money with interest what a trap.
Well said thank you 🙏
Time flys when your having fun
I'm going to be 56 in two weeks. Believe me, I know exactly what you mean when you say "where the fuck have those forty years gone?!" I realized a while ago that things won't make you happy, but I'm still trying to find the courage to break free.
HI Mark I'm 63 an bin full time in my sprinter for last 7 years I dread to think what this world will be like in another 40 years !! Not sure I would like to be around to be honest 😅
Absolutely
Your a good man fair play to you, 👏
I appreciate that
Thank you I'm 50 I needed to hear that
You’re welcome ☺️
Keep on smiling 😊
If I was back to 17 years I would have still become a Carpenter,had no kids lived out of my van and jobbed about everywhere 😊
I agree once again I’m sure we’re spiritually aligned and think exactly the same 😂
Great video mate.. honesty will always outshine the bullshit .👏
Perhaps you'll be granted eternal life, Mark. Then you can do what you like 4 ever ❤
P.s I was born in 1965 so I'm 60 in March 😊
Happy days
Totally agree but time was slower wen younger flies buy now I was thinking that last night how quick its gone 61 living in boat
There’s an old saying “you can’t put an old head on young shoulders”.
Less is more for sure! 👌🏻🚙👌🏻
Interesting facts to be trueful mark 🤔
Mark , sadly i dont think young people are going to have the opportunity to live whatever lifestyle they choose unless a lot of people wake up to whats going on........dont get me started lol !!!
You’re not wrong there 👌
65 now and trying to live consciously every single moment 😊 it’s the only way it works for me 😊
wise words . i knowing it came from a man whos been through it all. not many guys like mark on TH-cam. if you don't go along to get along. your alienated. or hated . its nice to have something to keep a guy going some few hours of each day. but once a person has their health .and enough to eat . and a roof over your head. you aint doing bad at all. thanks for the wise words. and the real chat with your youtubers.💪👍
Thank you 🙏 well said
so true Mark .. the years go just like that. 😏
My advice to the youth of today would be tell the institution where to go, ill live how i want.
Yep as u get older time goes faster im 51 now
Mark, it is so so true about one day you're 17, u turn around and you're decades older!
Father Time stops nor slows down for no one!!!!!!
We all waste our lives don't we, it's sad!!!
We get swayed/brain washed, but everyone when we're young, brought up to believe this or that, led to believe we can't do exactly what we want to do, gotta pay the ones who rule us, the ones who don't help us do shite, as far as out work, but the MF's still want your money, it's nutzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, absolute nutzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz lol
Matrix/Hamster Wheel, so right about that too!!!!
I can only imagine how free u feel now that you finally said, eff it, I'm going to do exactly what I want to do, when I want to do it, how I want to do it, on my own terms, not the effing crooked govt. why try and keep us under their thumbs!
Love your channel Mark!
My advice to younger kids, would be to save every penny that u can so when u get to be older, u can do whatever the eff u want too and no one, no one, can tell u, no, u can't do that!!!!
Take care, be safe, and above all, do it your way and HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!
Tell Sally hey!!!!!
Brilliantly said thank you 🙏
I'm 57 got caught up in all the mortgage and children thing at 20 worked hard all my life did ok advice enjoy your life the best way you can tell your parents you love them my farther was a hard man farming background telling each other you loved them was not a thing they are both gone naw thats the only regret I have not telling them i loved them naw its too late❤❤❤
One of the best , no more no less . Keep it simple folks.
My hardest thing, would to abandon my music and the instruments i use to express myself......
Take them with you 😀
Looking at forty years in front of you , you think that's a life time but looking back at forty years it flies. Life's to short so it's very good advice to not spend the best 40 years working. I say it the best forty because you have youth ,health on your side. First forty is easy the second won't be .because your health declines you'll know if your that age what iam on about.
2 minutes since l met Maggie 40 years ago😮😮😮
Spot on mark 👏 at the end of the day the amount of time we have on this planet is a lottery I'm now only 47 and out of the group I grew up with I'm the only one left . live for yourself not for others your time can end in an instant. is the advice I'd give the youth of today much love my friend 🙏
Bravo 👏
Hi mark you don't realise until you get older that material things doesn't matter I would sooner sit in a field in a tent
Yep 👍
Worked my ass off now 60 lost my wife way to early 12 yrs now have all the fricken toys HD RK, the van golf cart . A fair pension on ss survivors 6 yrs claim max , sitnn on qtr million in equity pymnt 20 % of my income . No work retired 6 yrs ago dud van life 5 yrs now , thinking the ocean really the place to be , get a boat n sail the open seas. Glad i just made the american dream , i could down size n live n travel very welll, oh have a standing CASH OFFER on my homestead 5 days qtr million in cash . $$$ sime to think about
Thanks for sharing
Oh Gawd!😮
Exactly 👍
That's funny about Fred Perry I have a hat and it cost £80
Used to love Fred
My advice would be work hard save hard and whack as much as you can into a pension.
Live cheap along the way and escape the rat race as quickly as possible.
Don’t count time in years. Count it in summers. How many summers do you want to enjoy life.
Reaching pensionable age isn't guaranteed, the government certainly don't want you to get there, live for today
So freaking true,it does go so quick…..as for material things,the generation these days only wish for them,and in 40yrs time they will say the same thing you are saying now
Consuming - too many people measure their success and achievements in life by how many showy 'things' they own. Luxury cars will be someone else's old banger one day, and someone else will live in the big house they grafted to pay for, we all leave the same way, and can't take the 'things' with us.
Diogenes said 'he has the most who is most content with the least'.
At 62 now, wish I'd know then what I know now. I wouldn't have stayed 'safe' in the same job/career taking shit off the bosses. Wouldn't have got married to the soul sucking ex and wouldn't have had kids... I'd have gone to some country where you could buy some forrest land, built a cabin and gone all Grissly Adams lifestyle... Totally off grid and out the Matrix... Now that would have been the finest...
Bravo 👏
Signed Paul , Free Tommy Now 👌🙏❤️
?
I think we adapt to our situation, and if we have more we are ok with wanting more. Have less, crave less. If you have less you realize what is actually necessary to live happily.
Agreed mark. I live in a 7 bedroom house got the flash cars etc. I’ve never been more unhappy since moving in here. I’m tied because of the kids /schools etc. I watch your videos & look at your life with envy. Material things mean nothing!!
❤️❤️
Thanks for sharing
Joined the British Army at 16, finish my working life as a Prison officer.... 3years to go and then retirement... Sell the house .. Van life! Und fuck the corrupten system! Love your video Mark!
Brilliant 🤩
Hi Mark, I couldn't agree more with you. I'm 57 now. 3 months ago I made the decision to get rid of everything and buy a van. I gave myself 6 months until the end of March 2025 to move out and have a van to travel in. 3 months to go and I'm well on the way, sold/gave things away. Sold my 2015 Ford Tourneo micro camper which I spent the last 3 years or so travelling around Scotland in (part time). Now looking for a van and getting ready for the next adventure over the coming months. I need to do this while I can. I enjoy your inspirational videos. Cheers! 🙂👍☠
Well said thank you 🙏
Strangely enough,, 40 years ago if I could go back,, instead of making my mark on the black market,, I would go back and made a business of building,,, I was caravannlifing back then.. collecting washing machines and lead pipes for scrap.. But I could have made a lot of money in hindsight,, so that what I would have done ifni could,, make as much money as possible being self employed and when you've got enough fk off out the uk ASAP... Then buy a van and a bit of land... or boat...
The advice I would give is that they have to question their schooling and education early on. We are indoctinated and brainwashed from there. The teenage years are so fragile and precious. if it goes wrong there, you're always playing catch up. Two days into my first job selling print to businesses on the knocker and I wept as I walked over a bridge in my suit and tie. Failed my exams and ended up doing work that I had no passion for. You are a kid at 10 and an adult at 20! How can you be expected to decide on your future in those ten years?
Brilliantly said 👌
Fine when you live alone. Not when you have wife and family.
Well my friend there’s family’s living in vans now home schooling there children I interviewed a family of 7 living nomadic with there pick up truck and caravan it is doable 👍
being 45 this year think the youth of today dont have the work ethic and the drive because of society and gaming and to them easy life wanting to be full time gamers and lay abouts
Yep 👍 agree 👍
Want advice for the youth to today , take a lesson from the Spartans
You know what Mark, I never ever wanted to get a mortgage and i knew that from a very young age, i never wanted to spend all my days working etc... i just didn't want it. I spemt a lot of time on the dole and you know what it was alright, me and my mates would get our giros and go off to London or wherever... we just didn't care,. I did have depression since childhood maybe that had something to do with it, but thats how it was anyway, i just wanted to enjoy my life rather than chase the $$$$
Yep 👍 I get that
How much of any good thing is too much?? There’s a number right? Now tell me how much money is too much…
It’s down to your own personal emotional wellbeing as everyone is different only you can answer your own question 👌
Consider the teaspoon 🥄 You can't take it with you when dead 💀
Nice 👌
Nice Thoughts Bruv - I’ve tried givin the Youths advice and they don’t listen, so I guess they have to do what I did and work it out for themselves -it’s 50 years ago sinceI was a Youth but a totally different world where Common Sense Died in 2020 R.I.P. 🪦
Yep 👍