Living on the Van Plan

home, sweet $1,500 home                                                                Ken Ilgunas

After graduating from college with a mountain of debt and realizing that the jobs he was getting weren't going to help him out from under, Ken Ilgunas got himself a van and lived in it while going to grad school. And then he wrote about it (story with lots of photos): http://www.businessinsider.com/ken-ilgunas-lived-in-his-van-to-pay-for-college-2013-6?op=1
   You can read Ilgunas's columns at http://www.salon.com/writer/ken_ilgunas/