Sleeping/living in your car

I've done it a few times at weekend shows when I couldn't be fussed to put up a tent. Very uncomfortable & when I eventually did get some sleep I always woke up cramped. Never will I make fun of caravans again!

Just make sure you don't go as far as this woman. 

I've only done it once or twice.
It's not comfy unless you're in an estate and can fold the seats down and shove in a mattress.
(despite all the 70s 'bed' proclamations like this Maxi pic)



Also - you wake up cold.
Also - condensation everywhere, dripping and messing up the interior.

Not recommended really, given a pop-up tent is less than £50.

slept in a Maxi afew times. As said you wake up cold, if you touch the windows you get wet, and everything is awkward so getting dressed involves getting out of the car or something end up on back to front or inside out because you cant work out what your trying to do, no real height and your still half asleep. I never worked out how to explain to dad how his dash got cracked when i borrowed his car once.

FOUR MONTHS?!!! You sir have just been elevated to Hero status! Crikey four months, i did it a lot, but not every night, probably ony three or four times a year in my early twenties and that was bad enough.

done it a few times in an e34 touring, airbed and a warm sleeping bag, made sure the car was warm before going to sleep.

never had much issue with condensation, plenty of room.

if it was a lengthy planned occurance I would get a cheap van.

Slept on a mattress in the back of my XC Falcon wagon a few times. Good in warmish weather but wouldn't be keen in winter.

Last resort really as tents etc are cheap . You wont die but you will not get any sleep .

If your in the wibblepoo do not be to proud t ask friends for help if this is what its about , everyone needs help or fuks up every now and again .

If its really bad see the council .

slept a couple of times 1/2 in the boot 1/2 in the back of a Astra saloon...like others have said - it gets cold..
24 hour supermarket car park - handy if you need to get any supplies

I'm not proud to admit this but... last year my flat mates got married to each other and decided to create a baby. They also said they wanted to buy a house shortly after the baby was born, to do this they wanted to move out of the flat we all shared and back home with their parents to save as much as possible, they announced it in April which was just short of a month before our contract renewal and there was no way I could afford to pay for it all by myself at the time and my family live too far away for me to be able to move back in with them without me quitting my job and leaving my life behind. "Luckily" if you could say that, I had been renting a council garage for a few years which is where I kept all my car bits, bike etc. It wasn't in a secluded area but just quiet enough. One week in May I made a kind of tall table which stood over the top of my car like a loft within the garage which I could put all my furniture on once they were broken down giving me enough space to stand beside the car to get dressed, bear in mind what council garages are like, with a car, a vespa, an engine crane, three sets of wheels, loads of tools and half a flat worth of furniture flat packed, it was still tight!

Some might ask why I didn't rent a room, truth be told I didn't have all that much money saved at the time and my flat mates had done a proper bodge job of decorating the flat so I didn't expect to see any of our deposit back, I was pretty much stuck with nothing else to do, luckily my work has a fully functioning kitchen area and showers and I work mostly alone at night so it didn't affect that at all.

Once I had completely moved out of the flat, I slept in my car in the council garage, returning back just after 6am every morning and hoping no-one saw me getting in and closing the door behind me, I slept in my car very uncomfortably because it's only a golf and the seats don't go completely flat. I'd sleep for about 7 hours a day ish and spend a lot of time at tesco where I'd go to the loo if needed or generally just browsing, taking a mag off the rack and sitting up in the cafe reading it before putting it back and going to work. I lived that way for three months before I had saved enough to rent a house of my own with my other half.

To this day, my friends, family and even my other half do not know I lived like that and I'm lucky enough to know they aren't interested in cars so they will never find this thread.

I do not recommend it. Not one bit. As the days were getting warmer so was the garage with a south facing door, I'm sure it must have been pushing 35 degrees in there some days which puts a stop to sleeping I can tell you.

Honestly, Id rather get on facebay and find a wibblepoo £300 caravan and use that, there's someone at work doing it right now sleeping on the road outside every night.