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The Other Van Life (Welcome to DDU)If you're looking for tips on how to hang fairy lights in a Sprinter van or which linen sheets breathe best in the desert, you're in the wrong place.This is Ding Dong University, and I'm your host. I've been homeless since July 2024. Before that, I had a house, a husband, kids, and a Japanese maple tree in the front yard that I planted when my oldest son was born. Now I have an RV, no teeth (waiting on dentures is a bitch), and a dog named Sadie who watches my back.People look at you differently when you live like this. When you see garbage on the ground, you might just see garbage. I see value. I see what other people throw away—blankets, towels, toilet paper, laptops. There's a shame to it, yeah. The fear of being seen by someone you used to know while you're doing what you have to do to survive. But you do it anyway.I started this group because nobody talks about the reality of this life. The drug and alcohol side of it. The getting in trouble with the law side of it. The fact that I'll steal dog food before I let my dog go hungry. It's survival mode, day to day, and it is fucking hard.But it's real. So welcome. Pull up a seat.
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