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A WEEK!!? A WEEK!!? Hahahahahahaha! You don't even get your shoes stolen until the third week! Try 5 years. No, try 2 months. That's when the property owners start thinking it's okay to throw bottles at you.
Things I hope they did to prepare for street life:
1. Get a P.O. Box (I was lucky to get one in a 24-hour post office).
2. Have driver's license address changed to the P.O. Box. (More important than you'd think!)
3. Rent a 5 x 10 storage room at a 24-hour storage place and stock it with toiletries and changes of clothes. (the cleaner you stay, the more places will let you use their toilet at 3 in the morning...wouldn't hurt to chum up with the graveyard shift folks before you hit the street)
4. Make a map of all the local food banks, church missions, soup kitchens and free clinics.
5. Some community or city colleges have free or near-free gym classes. Sign up (for the use of the showers).
6. If you're going to live in your car, make sure the lighter works as it is an electric power source for laptops, camera equipment and such. Get blankets and curtains for the car windows. You'll need to be invisible at night. Crowded supermarket parking lots are good, especially at the 24-hour stores.
Problems you'll encounter: lack of shade and dehydration in the daytime, security from property owners at night. There are plenty of working homeless out there so a graveyard shift job at a gas station or place that does business through a security window would solve your nighttime security and toiletry problems.
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