Questions? Anyone?

Lately we have had a couple of questions, in regards to our new way of living.
It got me thinking that some other people may have questions too.
So I thought I would write about the ones that have been asked so far, and a couple of others that I can think of.
Please if you have any questions, I would love to hear from you.

These are a couple of questions we have been asked :)

1) How do you deal with living in such close confinement, especially during the crappy weather of winter?
I found this questions interesting and a bit hard to answer.
I guess it is the first thing you think about when you go from a 2/3/4 bedroom house to a bus.
When we chose our bus, we really wanted one with a bit of personal space, so that if we all just wanted to chill out on our own, we could.
There are not a lot of campervan, motor homes, fifth wheelers, house buses, that cater for families.
Which is a bit sad in my opinion.
It would put off a lot of families from giving this kind of thing a go, even if it was just for a holiday.
Any way, at the back of the bus is mum & dad's bedroom, we have a proper wooden door, with a lock on it, if needed.

That's our area behind the door.
We have a hanging organiser for putting anything and everything into.
Then where those pink curtains are, that is actually bunks with 2 beds on each side.
Since we only need to really use 2 beds (lower ones where the curtains are), the top 2 are used for storage.
I put curtains on the lower 2, so that the kids could have their own private space to retreat to when they want too.
Miss Personality loves snuggling into her bed and watching a dvd on the portable dvd player when she just wants to veg out.
Miss Blondini (14), loves hiding out in her little private space as well, so she can do what ever it is she does on her cellphone at night.

Then there is another door, that can be shut to seperate the bedrooms from the living part of the bus (kitchen/ dining/ lounge area).

2) Why would you pay the same amount as what you would to rent a house, but chose to live in a bus?
We didn't have the cash to buy our bus outright, so we found an opportunity to rent to own.
So at present it works out the same (roughly) as what we would pay to rent a fully furnished house.
But to us, we will own this at the end of 2 years.
If we rented a house we wouldn't own it at the end of renting it.
We look forward to the day when we do own our bus and have less money to pay out each week.
That is our goal, well one of many goals for what we want to achieve in the next 10 years.
But it's not just that, we have embraced the opportunity to live a simplistic life.
Does not mean we go with out, all though sometimes having restrictions on internet can feel that way.
But there is more to life than endless supply of internet, power, and water that you don't have worry about how much you have, when you need to full up, or how you will empty toilet tank if the pump doesn't work,lol (been there, done that).
We are learning so much about ourselves and that we don't need a lot to be happy :)

Some questions I thought you might like answered :)
1) What do you use to cook?

Our kitchen looks like any body else s, just smaller :)
Gas stove to cook in, which is run by a gas bottle that we fill up every 2 weeks.
Everything that we need to eat off or cook with fits into the drawers in our kitchen :)

2) Do you have a television?
We haven't watched regular television, since everything went digital in New Zealand.
When we lived in a house, we just paid for extra internet and watched everything online.
Now we have a television, but we chose to use it just for watching dvd's.
The local library has become very useful for this, as you can rent a dvd for a week for fairly cheap.

3) What do you use for internet?
At present mobile internet is pretty expensive in New Zealand.
So we chose to pay for a little bit extra on our mobile phones and use them as hot spots.
Telecom also has this awesome deal, that if you are near one of there 700 hotspots in New Zealand, you can access 1GB of free data every day. So we certainly make the most of this option when we can.

Any way that's all I can think off for now.
But if you have any other questions of curiosity about our bus life, I would really love to hear from you :)