{"id":98154,"date":"2023-09-22T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/?p=98154"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:04:22","slug":"i-was-sick-of-paying-expensive-rent-so-moved-into-a-boat-i-love-my-tiny-home-except-when-the-toilet-or-gas-breaks-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/fashion\/i-was-sick-of-paying-expensive-rent-so-moved-into-a-boat-i-love-my-tiny-home-except-when-the-toilet-or-gas-breaks-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I was sick of paying expensive rent so moved into a boat – I love my tiny home, except when the toilet or gas breaks | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
A WOMAN who was fed up with paying expensive rent has revealed how she decided to move into a narrowboat to save cash.<\/p>\n
Now, Laura Woodley, 35, regularly shares updates from life onboard her tiny floating home, which she\u2019s named May Moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Speaking to Insider, she said: \u201cI've always been a bit of an unconventional person. The standard, cookie-cutter life pattern has never appealed to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, when I could no longer live alone in London due to rent increases, I decided to start looking at alternatives. Lots of people in London live on canals around the city in \u2018narrowboats,\u2019 which are usually 6 feet 10 inches wide.\u201d<\/p>\n
After seeing the fun community narrowboats can provide, she decided to take the plunge and get a loan to buy her own boat.<\/p>\n
At the time she was 31 and living with housemates, but decided this would be the perfect way to live by herself and have a new adventure.<\/p>\n
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She picked up her boat in Northampton and had hoped to cruise it back to London, which was about 60 miles away.<\/p>\n
However, a week after living on the boat, the UK went into lockdown, which meant she was forced to isolate on the boat.<\/p>\n
While it was \u201cvery stressful\u201d, Laura said it was \u201cgood experience\u201d as she had to handle all the boat\u2019s machinery by herself, and it built her confidence.<\/p>\n
Laura, who works in social media, started sharing pictures and videos of her life aboard her 48ft narrowboat and has now racked up 174,000 TikTok followers on her @canalcore account.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Apart from doing boat tours, she also answers questions about how she showers – usually at a friend\u2019s home – and how much she pays.<\/p>\n Due to her boat loan, she pays around \u00a3650 in monthly repayments, and hopes to have fully paid for May Moon by 2025.<\/p>\n She also needs to pay a \u00a360 a month boat licence to use the canals and rivers.<\/p>\n Laura added: \u201cI don't have access to utilities, but other bills<\/span>, such as laundry (when I don't have access to friends' houses), coal and wood for heating, and the cost of pumping out the toilet waste, come to about \u00a3190 a month.\u201d<\/p>\n Laura\u2019s only water access in her home is by continually filling up a water tank, so she has to monitor how much she uses.<\/p>\n And her biggest hassles are when her toilet breaks, she runs out of gas<\/span>, or if she has to walk up to two miles to dispose of rubbish.<\/p>\n However, she admitted: \u201cI love living on a boat, but I want to make it clear that the lifestyle is not for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/picture>MYSTIC MEG <\/span><\/p>\n
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