Here's how much this van lifer has saved since moving into her Taylor Swift-inspired mobile home

After surviving successful her car during a cross-country roadworthy travel successful 2019, Tory Delury, 25, decided she loved the travel truthful overmuch that she wanted to marque mobile surviving a imperishable thing.

In 2020, Delury purchased a 2015 van with 24,000 miles for $31,000.

She paid a $10,000 down outgo connected the van utilizing wealth she'd saved from selling customized jackets that went viral aft the Jonas Brothers shared them connected societal media.

For the remaining $21,000, Delury is connected a outgo plan. She pays $300 a month.

The remainder of her expenses include: $75 a period for insurance, $10 a period for Planet Fitness, which she uses for showering and going to the bathroom, an mean of $150-300 connected gas, and astir $175 successful groceries.

To screen her monthly expenses, Delury takes connected unusual jobs successful the places she's surviving astatine the time.

In Pennsylvania, she learned however to manufacture guitars. And successful Vermont, she made crystal pick astatine the archetypal Ben and Jerry's factory.

Delury told CNBC Make It that according to her calculations she's saved $10,000 since moving into her van 2 years ago.

"The mode I spot it, it's amended than having to wage rent each period due to the fact that I enactment that wealth into myself and into thing that I love," she said.

After purchasing the van, Delury parked it astatine her parents' location successful Pennsylvania and watched hundreds of YouTube videos to larn however to renovate the conveyance herself.

"I would accidental determination were plentifulness of times erstwhile I thought I was ne'er going to beryllium capable to bash it and wanted to conscionable wage idiosyncratic instead," she said. "Now I ne'er deliberation I can't bash thing due to the fact that I built a house. It's a immense assurance builder."

Delury says she decided to overgarment the wrong of the van pinkish arsenic a connection against the sexist and antagonistic comments she started receiving aft sharing that she was going to DIY the van herself connected societal media.

"People doubted that I could bash it due to the fact that I'm a girl, truthful I wanted to bash it successful the girliest mode possible. I wanted to archer them that I'm not a tomboy but tin physique anyway," she said.

Delury added that she felt personally inspired by Taylor Swift aft attending a performance during Swift's "Reputation" tour, which was astir the archetypal day of the singer's tribunal lawsuit against David Mueller.

The erstwhile DJ was ordered to wage Swift a symbolic $1 aft the assemblage ruled successful her favor successful a suit she brought against him for artillery and intersexual assault.

Three years ago, Delury was sexually assaulted extracurricular her Florida flat building.

At Swift's concert, Delury heard the vocalist speech astir her ain acquisition and decided she would study her assault. It changed her outlook connected life.

"I started reasoning of myself the mode I would privation Taylor Swift to deliberation of herself. It was a infinitesimal for maine erstwhile it wasn't conscionable astir her euphony anymore; it was astir a pistillate who genuinely inspired and changed my life," Delury said.

"She taught maine that it was good to let myself to determination connected from what happened to maine and that the champion revenge is conscionable going connected being blessed and uncovering things that you love."

In an further homage to Swift, Delury painted lyrics of the opus "Daylight" from Swift's "Lover" medium astir the van and has respective of the singer's albums hanging successful a country too.

"It's a reminder that I'm not going to beryllium defined by the things that radical person done to maine before; I'm going to unrecorded by the things that I emotion and that marque maine happy," she said.

In September, Delury's van was featured successful a viral YouTube video. At the time, she was surviving successful New York City but has since near the authorities due to the fact that of information concerns aft she started receiving decease threats successful the comments.