Anyone live in a camper during winter?

We spent the winter in a camper in the oil fields in North Dakota. It wasn't so bad. There's no reason to winterized it and live without running water. We were dealing with temps of 30&40 below and we're able to keep running water in a 30 year old camp trailer. Skirt the trailer well and leave a spot easily accessible by the water lines, if we were ever worried about freezing up we just stuck a small electric heater under there for a bit to warm it up underneath and then closed it back up. We did use some heat tape and pipe wrap on anything exposed. We're about to actually move back into a trailer again up in northern idaho this time and I'm just not to concerned about it at all.

Winter can be a challenge in an rv. If you need to stop using your shower water due to freezing temps you can get a camping style shower bag 5 gallons, warm water and fill then hang and shower like that. I like the antifreeze for the toilet idea. For drinking and hand rinsing you can use one of those refrigerator water containers with a spigot at the bottom and fill that. Water and condensation are problems but not insurmountable problems. Skirting hay bales, or some sort of physical barrier is great for wind. Snow itself is like insulation again wind.
Replace weather stripping in doors, very reasonable to do.
Good luck.

I have been in a "house" made from bales of straw. Just stacked up with poles from the woods cut and laid across the top. Old pallets on top of the poles then a layer of straw bales and a tarp over the top.
In the middle of the "house" the ceiling was a piece of steel cut from an old fuel oil tank. It had a stove pipe up through the center of it and at the bottom of that pipe was a two barrel stove made from 55 gallon barrels.
It was toasty warm in the for the married couple and their new baby.
That was when I was there to buy the old New Moon trailer I mentioned in another topic.

Use a dehumidifier to lessen the condensation build up...It will get into your walls, under your carpeting and you can have some big problems. We stayed in our camper until December last year and this was a BIG problem.

Most campers are not built to live in year around. Things will go wrong because like I said they are more for weekend or a month or two. Things like the furnace and appliances are not built to last with everyday use. You will see many fires because of this especially in extreme conditions. In the north country they just aren't made to live in through hard winter. It can be done but may take a lot of maintenance and a fear of fire is always high.

Ive stayed in a number of dwellings in the winter.

Was a tent!

Still here no heat but body heat and the daily out door fire...

A wind break helps a good bit,

the other was my house in the city, I had a good neighbors blessing to use their plumbing. means mine was shut off!

Other wise heat was temp well I moved about then provided same as the tent, me under cover. In the smallest room.

electricity was via inverter, fed by battery's charged as I did my rent routine.

could watch a few shows on a small tv and power the lights till bed.

a laptop though would allow a lot more usage I think. shows,music what have ya.

Heats a luxury, how do you explain wild animals in the cold northern expanse?

Its called calories and cover.

When I was 4 we moved to a farm in SW Wisconsin. The house was not habitable, so we lived in a 20 foot camping trailer. We were a family of 5. We used an outhouse and hauled water from the barn. That's about all I remember. Oh, sitting in the privy when it was -20 or lower, get in, get done, get out.