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Buck
04-07-2009, 09:54 AM
Now here's a way to save REAL money. Oh yes!!!! :o

I'm sure that early American settlers would know all about houses that were
this small.

Story.....
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3367

Video.....
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3080
Nightshade
04-07-2009, 10:06 AM
WOW!! A saving of hundreds of thousands in housing cost.

Is that neat or what. 8)
michiganmom
04-07-2009, 10:09 AM
That is cool, but i would have to get rid of my kids first LOL.
Anon001
04-07-2009, 01:49 PM
Not something you wanna do? ;D
flatwater
04-07-2009, 05:50 PM
If I was single I could do that and like it. But where do you put company ? or store extra food and I have to many hobby's to work on.
Nice workmanship though
Saoirse
04-10-2009, 07:09 PM
No running water...She takes a shower elsewhere?
It's not a home, it's a playhouse.
Captain_Sternn
04-11-2009, 05:34 AM
No running water, she takes a shower elsewhere?

People who do that take sponge baths to save water. They will use at most a gallon and a half of water to clean up. I know a couple that live in a small space like that.
austin
04-13-2009, 01:32 PM
I have seen her story before and think it is great....
Here is where it really all started:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

and there are some that have running water and showers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRvsWuWNUM
DavidOH
06-09-2009, 10:22 AM
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/touring-the-us/coast-to-coast-tour/

I'm heading out to the big town.
DavidOH
06-09-2009, 07:06 PM
I posted pictures in my thread:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/forum/yabb/forum.pl?board=han-building-tools;action=display;num=1233515383 8)
ryanmercer
06-10-2009, 02:21 AM
That is cool.
ryanmercer
06-10-2009, 02:22 AM
She should buy one of those camp showers, and she could set up a little cloth wall like on M*A*S*H to shower in.
Tuckahoe
09-06-2009, 10:46 AM
For the money she spent she could be living better in a used camper.living in someone else's backyard on their water is not being on your own.
backlash
09-06-2009, 03:38 PM
$10,000 is a lot for what she has.
Could have gotten a good RV for less and had much better living conditions.
To each their own I guess.

backlash
marnee
09-10-2009, 06:03 AM
I think it's interesting that she feels she's leaving a smaller "ecological footprint" by mooching off of someone else for land and water. It would be much more impressive if she had paid for a lot of her own and had her own well or rain buckets or river or something. It reminds me a bit of the cave man in Utah who lives free, but dumpster dives and essentially lives off of what others throw out. Find a piece of land that you pay for and deal with your self, get your own source of water, and grow your own food. What's the point of being "eco friendly" if you don't do anything for yourself?

And an RV wouldn't have been as friendly to the environment since it is made with all of that man made material and stuff. No knotty pine and recycled wood in those things! Of course, she probably pays little thought to what kind of "ecological footprint" is created by all of those people at the food co-op she relies on to feed her.