Become homeless to save money - how viable this idea

Being homeless - it's not cheap

If you look at it rationally and soberly, it may turn out that homelessness costs very cheap. That's why:

1. This is a great damage to your health. If you are homeless, even for a while, it can negatively affect your physical and perhaps mental health. Most of the homeless living in unsanitary conditions, do not seek medical help, do not eat. You will not be able to receive free medical care in the clinic at his residence, which means that you have a new line costs.
2. You may have problems with the police. People without a certain residence of many causes of suspicion and sometimes hostility, especially in law enforcement. Keep this in mind as well that the common courtesy when answering questions can save you from many problems.
3. You do not have the address and residence. And along with that there are difficulties: you can not receive postal mail and in most cases will not be able to take the credit, and get a normal job.
4. You often have to move from place to place.
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   As we have seen, people do not like vagrants and feel that they pose a threat. In order not to incur the general indignation, you will have a lot and often roam from place to place.

I believe that to become homeless in order to save money - it's a bad idea, which is also expensive will cost you. Create your own folder "very bad idea" and zapryachte this idea there.

Fairy tale, and not real life

No, I believe that the refusal of the house will not help you save no money, no time. You have to take care and think about many things in the presence of the house you would not be disturbed. For example, you have to think about where to store their belongings, not to carry them with you; how and where it is cheaper to eat as the kitchen, you now do not have to prepare themselves and you can not; where to find a bed and a shower.

All this, and the like can cost you a tidy sum. In addition, the time that you spend on the solution of these questions, you could spend more usefully, for example, to dedicate it to my family or a business of their own.

If you really want to save, then hand over the apartment, and Me, remove the small little room. Well, or at least go back to the family home for a while.

Leave home place and go in search of adventure - this is a very romantic idea, but in real life, the rules regarding the beautiful fairy tales.

Life on the Street: the experience of Canadian students

I think that's a great idea that will really help you to save money and learn many new things that will be useful to you in life. I was not homeless because of the circumstances, but by their own choice. I became homeless, because I was a student who did not want to give yourself an debt. I would also like to engage in writing and read a lotTherefore, I had as little time to spend on a variety of part-time work.

I've never slept in homeless shelters and do not intend to do so. Always I thought and still think now, that such places attract exceptionally deviant personalities. In my opinion, you can lead a healthy life and without a roof over your head.

I slept on the street for 14 months, including winter. I live in Canada, so I had to be prepared for temperatures -30 ° C. Comfort my sleep depended on the weather. This way of life is worth certain money (for example, a sleeping bag and tent I had to spend much). But this is nothing compared with the money that I had paid for removable apartment. I was able to cover these and other costs at the expense of student scholarships.

My daily routine is as follows: in the morning I wake up, I go to the university, where I keep my food (sometimes I leave there and sleeping bag, too). For breakfast I eat oatmeal, which usually goes with nuts or fruit pieces. The university canteen has a coffee maker and even an electric stove, so you can prepare a full meal if you wish.

After breakfast, I go to the university library, where I keep my books (in the winter I also keep your laptop there, otherwise he would have refused to work because of the cold). After that, I go to class, do a little more in the library, and then go to the place where I will spend the night today.

I want to continue to maintain this way of life, and after graduate from university, as I have a dream to write novels and works on philosophy, so I need as much free time as possible and as little money costs.

Although after the end of a student's life it will be much harder. For example, I would not be able to attend a university gym after I take a shower. My university friends will scatter all over the world, and I will not be able to come to visit them.

Recently, I began to sleep on the roofs of houses and I want to note that there has fantastic views of the city. I slept in all sorts of places: in parks, in the nooks near busy streets, and so on. I often hide their belongings in the street. For example, now I have left the mattress and a blanket on the roof.

I believe that in a society there are many unjust prejudices about the homeless. People believe that the homeless - a priori unscrupulous, avoiding society, most likely, a drug addict, constantly sleeping in dirty alleys and has suicidal tendencies. Yes, of course, there are such persons, but to attribute all the homeless people in this group is unreasonable.

You can be homeless and have a pretty good job. You may be prescribed with friends, wake up, go to the gym, take a shower, put on a suit and go to work.

Of course, it's hard. This is not life in the flat: you wash in one place, eat in another, sleeping in the third, and work or study in the fourth. But it teaches you to be flexible and to rationally allocate their time.

I'm homeless by choice and not by coincidence. But sometimes I think about how to get back to normal "housing" of life. Hugging girlfriend when both of you are sleeping in sleeping bags, somehow not cool.

Car instead of the house

Double car replaced my apartment: the first time in three months in 2006, when I was still a student, and the second time - two and a half months in 2012, it was a necessary decision to complete the project.

These two periods are different in emotions and sensations, but the problems that I encountered were very similar: the lack of hot meals, a warm shower, the inability to shave, put on clean clothes and normal sleep. All this we consider commonplace before, until that will lose. Due to the time that I have lived without it, I realized how much luxury we take for granted. However, I do not think that kind of lifestyle, you can reduce costs.

It all depends on on what you are willing to give

I have never been homeless in the truest sense of the word: never slept on the street and did not live in the car. But a few months I'm living without an apartment, staying with friends (my family lives in another city).

I believe that it depends primarily on whether you are a man, what country you live and what kind of deprivation are willing to tolerate.

Life without a home = life without shelter

Yes, you can save money, becoming homeless, but spend a lot of time and will inflict damage to your health (both emotional and physical).

Life in a shelter for the homeless is like life in a persistent queue. Standing in line to eat. Stand in line waiting to be washed. And so every day.

If you live in a car, you will have to work very hard to find a place where you will not disturb the police or deviant personality. Being homeless, you are likely going to eat junk food.

And most importantly, you will have no refuge - a place where you could feel safe. You will not have the house in which you would be able to leave things. You will have no home in which you could invite a friend or loved one. You will not have family nest.

Is it worth it?

the prerogative of the young

Perhaps this is true for young people who have no obligations to others. But for older people, which may at any time require adequate health care, and couples this is unacceptable.

What do you think about this?