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Keep a shed, porch, or truck bone-dry through wet snow.
Every method inside works from a chair, not a ladder — no kneeling, no climbing, no lifting.
All 16 chapters of the complete system
Harold Van Life
I spent eleven winters living between a converted cargo van and a string of unheated rental rooms, and I learned the hard way that the tricks people post online rarely survive a real 3 a.m. freeze. What's in these books is what actually held up — pulled from conversations with old-timers at truck stops in Montana, a retired hospital orderly in Duluth who taught me the hot-water-bottle rotation, and years of my own trial and error with a bad back that ruled out anything requiring a ladder or a crouch. I wrote it down because I got tired of watching people my age choose between eating and staying warm when neither one had to be true.
I didn't write this as a book first — I wrote it as notes to myself, so I wouldn't forget what worked the next time the temperature dropped. After enough winters of watching people around me choose between the heating bill and groceries, I realized the notes were worth more shared than kept. Volume I and II cover what to do the night the cold hits and how to keep water off your back through the season. Volume III, the one I almost didn't include, is the almanac I wish someone had handed me my first year — what to do each month before the problem starts, not after. None of it requires new gear or a strong back. It requires knowing what to do, in what order, before you're too cold to think straight.
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