Fulltiming Cost

[Steven@147]

I'm sure a lot of folks wonder if they can make it fulltiming and what the costs might be. Well I created an excel spread sheet to track our cost of living since we went fulltime last July. Just to be clear we live well, are not living on a shoestring budget but we like to know where our money is going. Maybe some would get a kick out of our Q4 Q1 cost of living data.

Our spread sheet is broken down by category then sub category costs per month and then by Quarter average three month total divided by 3.
RV Expenses - Loan, Repair & Maint, Insur, Propane, License Plates & Road Service
Camp Expenses - Site and Electric
Club Expenses - Good Sam, GD Forum, Trip Wizard, Escapee's, Mail Forwarding, Harvest Hosts, KOA
Truck Expenses - Diesel Fuel, Insur, License Plates, Repair & Maint (No Loan)
Health Care Expenses - Premiums and Co Pays
Communications & Internet - Cell Phones, Visable Internet, Netflix, Amazon Prime
Food & Entertainment - Groceries, Entertainment, Tourist, Amusement, Dining Out,
Misc - Laundry and anything that doesn't fit anywhere else.

---------------2020 Q4 - 2021 Q1
RV Expenses $992--------$1056------------(still have a loan and had some RV repairs Q1)
Camp ---------$649--------$691 (or avg 21-23 per night. (mostly private grounds staying by month, but some state parks and short stays or over nights)
Clubs ----------$36---------$18 (Escapee's mail forwarding service USPS deposits in Q4 and club yearly fees prorated)
Truck ----------$467------$545 (includes 3500 mile trip in Q4)(truck windshield replacement in Q1)
Health Care---$1317-------$16 (we had a Cobra policy in Q4 to get us to the end of the year and then went to the health exchange in Q1 BCBS HMO Policy)
Comm Internet $196------$196
Food Enterta---$828------$1217 (We eat well, went to Moody Gardens, bought new Roku)
MiscLaundry---$428-------$165 (we bought a generator in Q4)

You have to be diligent about inputting the data from your receipts but its nice to know where your moneys going. If you have excel you can you see our spreadsheet and break down. On the summary page I can input fixed cost in the white cells. There is a data page for varying expenses that are transferred to the summary (yellow cells)and totaled red cells.