We've Moved!

Due to either a lack of functionality with Blogger, or my inability to figure it out (I prefer it's their fault) I hitched her up & moved on down to Live Journal. You can now visit me at:

Living In Tin

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Trailer Decor & Accessories

I-Reckon Mainstore
Contact: Inbred Texan
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/I%2DReckon%20Main%20Store%2C%20RP%20items%2C%20Prefabs%2C%20Furnishings%2C%20Rezz%20Tools/47/42/27
Sells hillbilly lifestyle items, very grungy look: gas station & garage; furnished tree house with several rezzable features & animations; dirty toilets & tubs; scripted rocking chairs; other grungy, rundown buildings & items

Trailer & Lot Listings for Rental & Sales

Trailer Parks with Rental Units

Palace Mobile Home & Trailer Park in Devils Pocket
thecrackden.com
Contact: Nadir Taov
Rent: $1600/mo or $375/wk (must pay 1mo upfront to move in)
Prim Limit: 75
Prims limited to inside the home; 512sqm lot you have land access to (so you can set up your own media streams, ban ppl, etc); almost 24/7 security to help prevent griefers; full-control doors; on-site laundry; located in the Crack Den RP sim

Shady Oak Trailer Park
Contact: D0lly Constantine
Group: Shady Oak Estates
Rent: $250 (standard, but varies)
Prim Limit: 100 (standard, but varies)
made to meet your dirty trailer park needs; on-site management; expansion in the works; active waiting list
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lippert/201/35/173/?title=Shady%20Oak%20Trailer%20Park


UPCOMING
Nadir Taov informed me that he is working on a 50's themed community which will definitely include a retro trailer park with rentals. I'll update here as soon as I know it is ready:~D



Fancy rich people who own everything & the lucky sons of bitches who bought a few old trailers with their tax returns & beer can recycling money: leave your information in a comment below if you'd like to be added to this list. Alternatively you can also send me a NC in-world.

If anything's changed with any of the above listings, please let me know in a comment here or by NC in world, so I can keep the information up to date. Thanks!

General LIT Info

If you are interested in having your Trailer Park, Trailer sales, lot rental, store, service, group, etc listed on LIT please drop me a NC in-world, leave a comment on the blog, or send an email me. Include your name, or another contact name; the name of your business or group; slurls; the nature of your service or group; any relevant information like costs, prim allowances, etc; &, any thing else you'd like people to know. If you like one small pic may be included with your link. You can either send me a link to your photo online, or contact me in world & I will take my own photo.

If you would like your article, story, trailer tour, assorted pics, etc related to trailer life in SL posted to the blog, please send me an email with your idea or story. DO NOT send me any attachments. I will delete all attachments. If you have pics you want included please upload them to a website & send me the link. Regular contributors may be be given posting permissions. Unless an author has posting rights, I will be reviewing all submissions prior to their inclusion on the site. My intention is not to edit your vision, but to make sure it is suited to the site's stated purpose. Bad spelling & bad grammar are just part of the spice of trailer park life. Though at your request, I will gladly clean up your work prior to posting.

This site is for residents of the ADULT SL grid only. It is listed on Blogger as containing mature content. If you have some mature themed content you would like to contribute that is fine. However, keep in mind this is not Penthouse & I'm a woman. No gratuitous porn & I need a plot to maintain my interest:~p The key word for anything being considered for inclusion is "relevant". Unless he invaded your trailer park, your turn with the tentacle monster does not warrant inclusion. M'kay? All mature content will be behind a cut & clearly labeled as to what you are gonna find inside.

Right now I can't think of anything else, but I'm sure I will later. If this page changes you will be notified via the blog.

Bianca, I wanna live in a trailer too!

Well, you have two options: rent or own. To own you'll need some land to put it on, you can either buy it outright or find one of the many people renting land parcels. We're gonna focus on trailers, since there are many places you can find land sales/rentals and information about that. I may consider lot rentals listings if enough people bug me about it.

Things to consider: cost upfront (if you are buying a trailer & buying or renting land) & prim allowance. Generally, the more you pay the more prims your are allowed, but there are exceptions if you look around.

(fyi: prims = primitives, the basic shapes everything in SL is made of, to see how many prims something is made of you'll need to rez it or wear it, right click it & chose Edit, then under the General tab you'll see an area that tells you how many prims are in it. Size really doesn't matter here. You can have a tiny ring made of dozens of prims & large furniture made of only a few or even one.)

It can be hard to find a vacancy at many of the parks, so if you find one you're interested in with no vacancies, send the owner/manager a NC. Some of them have waiting lists.

Bianca, I've gotta a trailer, but I don't know what to put in it.

Ok, now this is the fun part! First, do you know what style you want for your trailer? Trashy? Classy? Eclectic? Dirty hippy? Redneck? What? Second, how many prims do you have to play with? Third, What areas are you outfitting? Do you need to set up a bathroom or kitchen?

There is anything & everything available to decorate your new home, including many 1 prim items that give a lot of realistic detail using photo texture. If you know how to build you can even make your own stuff. My home is done in a mix of 1prim & low prim items, including a 1 prim kitchen. Some of it I even made myself.

There is no need to spend a lot on everything. You can get a lot of stuff free. I kept it pretty simple & added a few key pieces. My biggest purchases were a bed & a rug for the living room. Both of these are simple, low prim designs (in fact the rug is only 1 prim), but have lots of animations. (you know what I mean *winkwinknudgenudge*)

I do a lot of shopping on XStreet to avoid lag & idiots & crazy blinging shit. You can search for what you're looking for & sort by price or prims. Very handy if you are on a budget & easy than tp'ing from shop to shop & having to find the prims of everything.

Since most trailers I've seen for rent are fairly low prim, & because if you aren't concerned about prim count you can go anywhere:~p, I'm focusing here on merchants who offer low prim home items, & the ones who specialize in trailer related accessories.


**Future home of linkage!**

Bianca, Where can I meet other trailer folk?

Well, hanging around trailers is one way. But if you're looking for an approach that's more go-get-em than creepy, here are some groups, events, liquor stores, & gas stations that allow loitering by your type.

I've added a calendar to the side bar for listing events, but I currently have no idea of it's functional or just pretty. I'll be working on that!

**Future home of linkage!**

To get your open group, site, or event listed here please leave the info in the comments section. Please don't include private groups, such as land groups for renters, or events. If I ain't welcome, I ain't interested:~p

Tour d'Trailer

Since I told you what I did with my trailer, I thought I'd show you around. The trailer started out as a 2 room blank canvas for furnishings, which is one of the reasons I chose Sho Nuff. No redneck decor or nasty toilets to deal with. Ewww.

This is the bed area of my bedroom. The bed itself is 6p, the bedside table is 1, the photo is 1, the lamp (you can't really see since it's blue) is 1, the photo viewer is 2, & the curtains are 3. (fyi: I made the curtains myself & they open & close with just a touch.) The walls & floor came preset. The rabbit sketch is a detail of a pre-painting sketch a RL friend of mine did:~D The photo on the bedside table is my mom. Maybe it's my southern roots, but a picture of momma is a must!

Here you can see the rest of my lovely pine dresser set that matches the bedside table, the tall dresser has 1p & the dresser with the mirror has 3. Witness the marvelous 3p television, retro style with rabbit ears, that true to trailer fashion does not work, lol. It may need aluminum foil on the antennae. (note: if you do not own the land media streaming devices will not work in your home, unless they are deeded to the group.) To add real trailer flair I have a picture of my daddy (1p) which I'm currently standing in front of, & a 1p collage I made of various photos of friends & family, along with Jesus, a sexy actor, funny cats, & an ad for baby wigs (because even babies look better with big hair). Sadly the image didn't come out very crisp. I may work on it some more one day & see if I can fix that.

Ah, now my bathroom is a source of pride for me, & a hefty chunk of my prim budget considering it's size. The bath tub is 8p & you can fill & drain the water, plus it has a pose ball so you can relax in the tub (no worries - I'm dressed;~)) The towel bar is 2p, the toilet is 1p (it's a sculpted prim with flush sound, lol), the roll of toilet paper sitting on the back of the toilet (because who wants to bother with a roll holder?) is 1p, the rug is 1p, & the sink - oh the sink/mirror combo - is 7p. You can turn the water on & off with a touch, & it actually runs in the sink, & if you right click it gives you the option to wash your hands. You will actually stand there & wash your hands. Isn't that fabulous! (I don't care how trashy you are, frequent hand washing is a must, especially after using the potty, even in SL:~p) I thought I bought an old sign advertising a constipation treatment the other day, but can't find it. oh well.

Now the blue & black tile floor you see is a 1p addition of mine. To help divide the bedroom/bathroom & kitchen/living room areas I created 1p tile floors for the bathroom & the kitchen. To do this choose Build & create a cube. Stretch the cube along the length & width to fit your space, & for the height make it as deep as you need it for how high you want your floor. I went for height in the bathroom, but you'll see later I kept the kitchen pretty well even with the living room floor. You can add any texture you like, but the standard floor textures has some nice tile options, among others. Both of mine came from there. I recommend not stretching the texture with the size & play around with the number of repeats to get the tile size you like.

This is just another view of how I divided the bathroom & bedroom. In this one you can see the screen I made (with a little help from a friend for the transparency in the photos I used - gracias Eliot:~p). The screen is all one prim. I was tickled pink to find an online pic of a towel monogrammed with a B!

You could also create a separate room inside your home using a hollowed out cube to make a floor & walls with just one prim. Hollowing it out will give you two open ends, so you'll need to create a door too if you want one. I've seen some very cool 1p beaded curtains out there that would be sweet dividers/doors too.

Now here is one view of my very cool living room. The lamp, bean bag chair, table, rug, velvet Elvis, & that bum flipping birds in my window are all 1p each; the couch is 7p. It has 1 anim, a stretched out on your belly pose you'll see in a bit, but the rug has quite a few c&s anims. The bean bag has a few different sits in it & the lamp lights up with a touch.

Here is a second view of the living room. you can see the entertainment center - 1p, my fallen angel pic - 2p (in honor of my late mother), the washer & dryer - 1p, hamper - 1p, super awesome Stray Cats poster - 1p, & part of the kitchen - 1p. You can also see some of the kitchen floor. Oh & the couch pose I mentioned earlier.

You can see the EC, W/D, & kitchen are all examples of the 1p furniture using photo textures. You can't see I used this for the hamper by adding a picture of some jumbled clothes to the top & a basket weave texture to the other sides.

Here is another picture of me laying around on the couch, lol, but this shows you a full view of the kitchen & dining area. You can get low prim dining sets, but I made that one myself, including the lovely ashtray. The table & chairs are each made of 2p & the ashtray is 1p. It is super funky & I love it! (it's also for sale on xstreet, or if you visit my home *ahem*)

And this is just another view of the kitchen floor. You get more detail of the tile here. Ooh, & you can see my lovely turquoise ashtray. IMHO, it's the best 1p ashtray in SL:~D (please ignore the sitting pose, I still had my HUD off from when I was in the tub earlier & it's just the default sit:~/)

Also, out the window you can see the neighbor's with the coke machine on the front porch. Classic! There's broken furniture, pizza boxes, & wire spool tables out there too, yeehaw!

And one more for the road...

Bianca's window bum just couldn't let you leave without saying goodbye! lol (that is also how he says hello, it's his version of aloha) I was playing around with this for a logo. Can anyone tell those are supposed to be trailer wheels? (btw - to join the window bum revolution click here
- he is listed as mature content)

Well, if you are interested in seeing my home in-world click here. I leave my door unlocked (shhh - don't tell the robbers or the meth geeks next door....) so feel free to stop by anytime - just don't be surprised if I'm standing around naked. I am forever in there editing clothes & such. Now that I've put it out there, I should probably consider locking the door when I'm "entertaining".

Well, hope you enjoyed the tour! I'd love to see what you guys have done, so feel free to drop some slurls or links to pics below, & let me know if you'd like to do a tour d'your own trailer here:~) (ps, I know I plugged a few things, as they were relevant, but do try to keep the shameless self-promotion to a minimum, k? You can always drop me a link to your stuff & I'll post it in the right spot.)