Student couple avoid accommodation fees by living in van together
Updated | By Lifestyle Reporter
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home on wheels all furnished and comfortable? Why not?!
Madison Wood and her fiancé, Pepijn Grijpink, are a savvy student couple who saw it unnecessary to pay a ton of money for accommodation.
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Turns out before they thought of an alternative they used to stay in a converted one bedroom garage where they paid around R17,300 a month for. Now their costs have been cut down to R7,800 including diesel, food, and water.
The young couple worked together on converting the van into a home to get them through their studies and their decision has saved them a lot of money.
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The two shared that they are even using their van to travel the world and have travelled through Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Holland, France, and Spain in the last ten months.
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