Visitor Message from NewellHopeful

[fulltiming]

I received this visitor message from NewellHopeful so I thought I would make a formal thread out of it:
Hello all. I'm new to this site. My wife and I are considering full-timing in a approx 10 year old Newell and figure on doing 10-12K miles per year. As we have no experience at this I was wondering if some of you fine Newell owners could share some cost/budget information regarding the upkeep. I am a handy person and do not mind doing whatever I can myself. Thank you in advance.

[Newell Tank]

This is a great subject. I believe budgets will vary depending on year, tag or no tag, how handy you are, types of places you plan on staying and how long of periods, if you want to include food, how many miles on a monthly basis and so on. I can look at my averages with our travel patterns and see and post it here. I believe there are some variable's for depending on habits and entertainment etc...