r/nextfuckinglevel 16h ago

The Transformation of a Van

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u/Bojangles8853 16h ago

Man I wish I had a trust fund

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u/Jdm783R29U3Cwp3d76R9 11h ago

You can also go to work as they do and just start renovating trucks and converting vans.

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u/fssman 15h ago

Work in finance and hace blue eyes... /s

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u/NorthTempleStreet 13h ago

Shoot, that's what it required?

I've got blue eyes and I'm broke.

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u/JeeFour 9h ago

Get a job in finance.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 6h ago

Yeah they skipped the important part.

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u/epelle9 15h ago

You definitely don’t need a trust fund for this..

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/Rocky-Jockey 7h ago

Yo man I think you should be sending this shit to your therapist not Reddit.

This is their job - they build vans then sell them for I assume a good profit.

Personally I’d have killed to have that as a road trip vehicle with my family when I was a kid. Looks awesome.

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u/mojizus 8h ago

>This is how you create childhood trauma.

Brother give it a rest.

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u/Head_of_Lettuce 6h ago

Could you possibly be more dramatic lol

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u/Swan_Parade 6h ago

#1 Redditor award

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u/-Danksouls- 15h ago

It's their job. Obnoxious ass people on this website

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u/resurrectedbear 3h ago

So this is an ad?

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u/Scratch_Careful 12h ago

Anyone spending money on anything other than videogames or warhammer is generationally wealthy according to this website.

Ironically with the skills the man has he is almost certainly spent a significant amount of his adult life working a blue collar job, managing to turn those skills into a successful business means he's the devil for enjoying it and he has a family!? The horror.

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u/LegallyAFlamingo 8h ago

Who the fuck is spending money on warhammer that isn't generationally wealthy? That shit's expensive!

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u/PhonyUsername 8h ago

People pretend they are pro working class but they just actually hate success in any form.

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u/Sgtfullmetal 5h ago

Small caveat: pro proletarian class; yes. Pro Noveau-Riche, no.

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u/PhonyUsername 1h ago

So you are against upwards mobility? Work hard but be slave forever.

u/ahoi_polloi 21m ago

Upward mobility is what they call class traitor in capitalist hellhole?

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u/Common_Repeat 6h ago

Reddit is literally full of neck beard, d&d, video game dweebs. Basement dwellers.

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u/MaybeMidgets 3h ago

Everything he installed was brand new and designed for the exact purpose he used it for. Calling him skilled is like calling a kid who can put legos together skilled. Any adult with the money to buy the right materials could do what this man did.

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u/Lieutenant_Corndogs 14h ago

It’s ridiculous. Anyone who has money is automatically a trust fund baby. It’s impossible that anyone with money actually earned it.

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u/GrandSquanchRum 12h ago

It's generally the trend when it comes to these kind of camper van conversions so people being curmudgeons about it doesn't come from nowhere.

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u/Lieutenant_Corndogs 12h ago

That sounds very made-up. Got anything to support it other than a couple anecdotes?

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u/Hefty_Buddy2948 7h ago

Calm down champ, the level of socio-economic mobility is at an all time low in the US. If they are in the US, then it’s a better bet to assume they come from money, rather than a couple that looks like they’re 25, with multiple kids, being able to pull this off by having very high paying jobs. Not impossible, but my bet is they come from money

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u/ExampleOpening8033 8h ago

It's a fairly well known content creator trend, things people who already have a financial cushion do in their free time and also generate more money through content views.

Honestly shocked you wouldn't have guessed that

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u/Kingkai9335 6h ago

Idk maybe look around? Maybe the wealth gap being the largest its ever been globally? Pretty safe to assume the people living adventurous lives like this had money stacked away first

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u/GrandSquanchRum 12h ago

Bro, I'm not talking about a scientific survey I'm talking from just being a frequent visitor to vandwellers.

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u/Technical-Sink6380 7h ago

Ha that’s absurd. The entire American west is rolling around in expensive ass camping vehicles these days. I don’t like it for myself but they don’t all have trust funds

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u/AdjunctFunktopus 5h ago

Just got back from camping my way across the West and these were everywhere. Couldn’t pass by a scenic turnout along the Pacific coast without seeing at least one.

Plenty of $70k+ trucks pulling $100k campers too.

But it’s the vans that get the hate.

If I bundled my vacation budget for the 10 years vs the cost of one of these vans for 10 years, it’s probably a wash.

Plane tickets for a whole family, hotel rooms, dinners out, rental cars, etc all adds up quick. Meanwhile, this is one up front cost, and then I’m ready to go aside from fuel and maintenance.

But then I’d be locked in to using the van.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 6h ago

I met a lot of people on the road when I lived in an RV. Very few of them were rich or had nice vans like this, most were DIY with used scrap, people trying to be travel bums and seeing how long they can go. I think your only exposure to this type of lifestyle is youtube, from the comfort of your couch.

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u/GrandSquanchRum 6h ago

Very few of them were rich or had nice vans like this

Hence.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 6h ago

Hence your life of sitting inside watching youtube doesn't really count as "experience".

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u/GrandSquanchRum 5h ago edited 5h ago

I've lived out of a car I converted to be a decent sleeping space before I'm familiar with other people that are forced to live out of their vehicles sleeping in walmart parking lots. That's why I didn't say all camper van conversions I said these kind of camper van conversions and you agreed just said it with a disagreeing tone because you don't want to be the curmudgeon.

I can see you've converted a camper before because you're definitely camping long term in that holier than thou space.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 5h ago

Uh huh. Remember to like and subscribe!

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u/billabong049 7h ago

I think the issue is that it seems implausible that these people support their 4 person family by just converting these vans.  Gotta agree.

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u/SpoiledTwinkies 8h ago

There is also nothing wrong with having a trust fund. Most parents would love to leave their kids with enough money for them to never work again.

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u/sn0m0ns 2h ago

The problem is a lot of people are struggling so it's perfectly understandable to feel bitter. It has nothing to do with whether someone earned their money or not.

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u/Informal_Athlete_724 9h ago

Bitter and jealous Reddit as usual

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u/sarcasticorange 8h ago

If it is possible to earn it, then perhaps they might be at least partially responsible for their own lot in life. Can't have that.

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u/sm753 3h ago

Yeah you can tell by the garage. This isn't some dude DIYing it at home. This is a company that builds out vans.

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u/siccoblue 6h ago

Seriously, Jesus fucking Christ. Does everyone have to be constantly miserable on this website these days? It's a fun video with a cool project. Why does they definitely ruin the day of half of you?

This isn't even an insane level of wealth to be able to achieve. You're not gonna get it working at Walmart or whatever but it's absolutely possible with some initiative and a lot of hard work.

Why not go and be pissy at the people owning mega yatchs and flying constantly on private jets as opposed to someone who tricked out a van

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u/Sgtfullmetal 5h ago

Bc I'm jealous homie. Simple as. It doesn't need to be outrageously luxurious.

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u/Free_Woke 9h ago

For real, they're obviously very good at it. Buy empty van, make it very nice with a shitload of knowhow and hard work, make video for social media monies, sell van to rich person, profit

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u/mfechter02 8h ago

Just because your highest aspiration was to putz around working as a barista while you “figure things out” does not mean everyone doing better than you is a trust fund baby.

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u/whooptheretis 10h ago

FFS this comment thread is toxic. Everyone's just foaming at the mouth because they can't afford it.

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u/Hutwe 7h ago

To be fair, they’re going to spend an absurd amount of time fixing everything when it breaks because that’s what RVs and custom jobs like that do best if they do anything more than sit still.

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u/Delcap 15h ago

The fact that you think this takes a trust fund to build is why you’ll be a broke loser forever.

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u/Sgtfullmetal 4h ago

Don't think the average schmuck is able to drop 6 figures on some holiday toy.

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u/No-Blacksmith3397 3h ago

They're not average shmucks. They're both engineers apparently and this is also apparently their job. They sell these.

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u/solerex 7h ago

Being able to drop $100,000+ on a van while using 50,000 in tools, in your multi hundreds of thousands of dollar house, while probably not even being 40? Maybe not trust fund, but daddy has money surely

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u/burblemedaddy 3h ago

Yeah. Couldn't possibly be that they worked hard and built a successful business...

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u/solerex 2h ago

Could be, but I have better things to do than fawn over how someone else spends their wealth. It's a pretty big issue nowadays that people have to constantly see their lives in comparison to the upper classes

u/nightonfir3 49m ago

Better things like ... criticizing how someone else spends their wealth. Its a pretty big issue nowadays that people have to constantly see their lives in comparison to the upper classes.

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u/Delcap 14h ago

You think no normal, above-average wealthy person can do this? You might be a kid with no concept of money or just really fucking stupid and jealous.

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u/Eighthday 15h ago

Yeah I wish I did too, that’d be sick. That’s got nothing to do with this video tho. I could also use some wings and fries right now tbh, I’m kinda hungry.

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u/rybres123 13h ago

Could probably build this for $100-130k

Not an unreasonable sum of money at all for a couple of that age

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u/elchucknorris300 13h ago

Maybe they have jobs and saved money

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u/LeCarrr 7h ago

Man I wish I had a skill !

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u/Kalo17 7h ago

I hope you stay poor you miserable fuck

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u/VirtualPercentage737 9h ago

They have pictures of their house on instagram. They aren't exactly living large.