Comments on: Our Tiny House Experiment

By: Derek Markham

Derek Markham — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:37:28 +0000

Best of luck to you on your transition! And you’re right, I think. We don’t ever have anything come our way that we can’t handle (and get stronger as we do handle it). Cheers!

By: aarontfan

aarontfan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:36:51 +0000

We are moving back into our travel trailer next weekend. We have two kids and two dogs. We did it for six months previously because we moved to a new place and wanted to save some money but this time it is out of financial necessity. It is going to take a while to adjust but we were so much stronger when we did it last time. I keep telling myself that God never gives us anything we can’t handle. I have to believe that to keep myself going!

By: Nexyoo

Nexyoo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:48:08 +0000

I love the last picture of the kids. It looks cozy, and like it was a lot of fun (at least some of the time ).

By: Serge

Serge — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:00:13 +0000

waw! 6 years, that’s a lot… but while I was reading this story I was actually thinking that probably most people on our planet don’t get even that utilities…

By: Gene Beaty

Gene Beaty — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:53:24 +0000

Envy you all! When we bought the house we have now there was a little 10 x 10 rusty metal shed out back. I picked up a privacy fence someone was throwing away and took it apart and screwed the boards to the metal shed. I put a new roof on it. Looks pretty good! I’m playing with the idea of making it into a ‘tinyhouse’ just for my own enjoyment. A guy gave me 15 sheets of 4×8 osb and I just picked up a little cabinet sink by the side of the road. I’ll come up with some insulation somewhere. It’s fun and keeps me busy. A place for me to ‘hide out’. So far its cost me nothing. not to bad huh. Gene

By: Derek Markham

Derek Markham — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:23:26 +0000

Well, we see that our kids are much stronger than we think, and they suffered no hardship because of it. Besides, 2/3 of the world lives in what we would consider to be substandard conditions. We’ve also taken them on extended camping trips (5 weeks) and they lived in a tent with us, again with no suffering on their part.

By: me

me — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:58:25 +0000

Thats pretty interesting and if there werent kids in the situation I’d think its totally cool, but since there are..I dont know if a crammed trailer is the best place for a kid to live, specially considering that it was by choice. Suffering such harsh winters without heat and with those paper thin walls sounds too much. I support experimental off-the-grid living by yourself or with other adults, but when there are kids involved, you gotta think whats best for them first, IMHO.

By: Faith

Faith — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:51:44 +0000

Interesting story. I spent a lot of my childhood years growing up in a travel trailer due to lack of money. As a child I didn’t mind it too much, but as an adult it isn’t really something that I would choose to do.

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:01:43 +0000

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By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:06:33 +0000

Canadians build Straw Bale houses, Solar heated even at -40C Winters, and garden, pressure canning food and meat for long cold winters. They have abundant clean unpolluted water and some wood to burn for extra comfort, they compost, humanure, like Swedes, and survive! Some have “Stack wood” houses – same great insulating factors, and cheap and easy to build too! Yankee Doodle so propagandized as to miss some of the better ideas! Look at every day Norwegian country life! Check out home steading in the states on web, look at the off-gridders stuff, get away from the crummy cramped factory built corporatist notions of what is good for the proletariat, and break away from the cubed-in thinking! Folks living in rammed earth homes, very comfortably, yet harassed by civil codes of the corporate monster’s design! Folks in India bio-gas communal sewage collections for free cooking and heating gasses, not like Americans, owe nothing to OPEC, keep Sons and Daughters off the corporatists battle fields, pay no flesh-bribes to the OPEC corporatist monopolists of the world! You are on the right track, used the wrong tool, a corporatist , made for highest ROI (for him!) product and suffered! Don’t get sucked in next time! Folks are living more comfortably in caves, off grid, and in secret, in America today! Read between the lines on some of the sites on web! Discover the “Network” a new reality in America! Good On You! Shanty Towns be damned, off -grid, way to go! Fvck the corporatists, every way you can!