A single mum-of-two has made the smart decision to slice her bills by hundreds of pounds and rid herself of "intense" pressure financially by making one £1,800 purchase on Facebook.
As reported by Yorkshire Live, self-employed and divorced write Lindsay Banks decided to buy a caravan off of Facebook and life free from the clutches of a mortgage, cutting her bills from £1,000 s month to £250 in rent of land instead.
Lindsay, who is 41 and lives off Universal Credit as well as her writings, lives semi-off the grid and still enjoys all the modern amenities of a normal home like her former three-bedroom semi-detached home in Newcastle.
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Newcastle-born mum Lindsay, and her two kids aged seven and ten, pitched the caravan in York last June and hasn't looked back since.
She said: “The houses I was looking at cost £800 a month plus bills. I was paying about £140 a month to heat my three-bed semi… the financial pressure was intense.
“There were some landlords that just said no because I am self-employed. I felt discriminated against and thought, ‘Why am I working so hard to pay into a system that feels broken anyway?’”
She added: “Since I’ve moved on site I’ve gone through one Calor gas bottle that cost £60.
“We have mains electric that goes straight into the caravan and I have a lovely electric heater that is 2,000 watts at its max. The cost of electric is included in the rent of £60 a week.
“I don’t have the money to buy my own site right now, but I’m working towards that.”
