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Renting for one month - ideas?

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  • reheat
    reheat Posts: 2,302 Forumite
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    Buy yourself a cheap caravan and put it on a site for a month. Or see if someone you know has one they would let you use for a short while.
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  • sams247
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    Yes we considered a caravan but the site fees were between 20 and 30 a night and some higher than that. For that I could get some hotel deals.

    Last night De Vere £19 room in their Autumn sale. And free wi fi - Yay!

    Had a Toby Carvery for tea and breakfast was cereal at work.
      To those who are given much, much is expected

        £2025 in 2025 = £680.60
          Food Budget £180/9.30.
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          1. krlyr
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            Bit late but I would have said try sparerooms.co.uk. Smallest bedroom in a shared house often isn't so favoured - I was in a share and the spare room went through its fair share of lodgers since we were near a Uni and had adult students just wanting to stay for a term or so. Basically the rent was covered by the double rooms so having the box room occupied for a week/fortnight/month was all a bonus. Lodger had access to bathroom, kitchen and other communal areas just like the rest of us.
          2. JimmyTheWig
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            sams247 wrote: »
            Yes we considered a caravan but the site fees were between 20 and 30 a night and some higher than that. For that I could get some hotel deals.

            Last night De Vere £19 room in their Autumn sale. And free wi fi - Yay!

            Had a Toby Carvery for tea and breakfast was cereal at work.
            I think the advantage of a caravan would have been that you could have dinner and breakfast at "home".
            So £19 plus dinner at a Toby Carvery is a fair bit more than £20-£30 plus dinner from Tesco.

            But this way you get the fun factor!
          3. terrierlady
            terrierlady Posts: 1,742 Forumite
            most holiday lets around midlands are about £30 night ,home from home ideal for 210 a week to include heating etc,
            my bark is worse than my bite!!!!!!!!
          4. sams247
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            Thats true JimmyTheWig, and I may have been persuaded but my OH failed to see the wonder of a caravan in November/December......

            To save money tonight on food we plan to eat at Costco :) We have to drop by anyhow to pick up supplies for work so we are going to indulge in the £1.25 jacket potatoes.
              To those who are given much, much is expected

                £2025 in 2025 = £680.60
                  Food Budget £180/9.30.
                    Fiver Friday #13 £35
                  1. sniggings
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                    maybe a soup kitchen tomorrow! you are homeless at all ;)
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