Posted on 04/04/2016 3:18:03 PM PDT by BackpackDaly
Smaller House, Larger Life
Making the choice to live small in a yurt or tiny house is no quick decision. However, if you want to be reduce your carbon footprint, connect closely with the people you live with, be one with nature, cut down on material possessions, or want to live a more green and sustainable existence, the lifestyle might be perfect for you. Intrigued? These experienced tiny dwellers have a lot of useful insight into the experience of inhabiting tiny structures like yurts and tipis to make the most out of living in them.
Kenton Whitman (http://www.rewildu.com)
Living in a yurt brought our family closer together through sharing space more intimately. It also got us outdoors more! We found that yurt living helps us to live more deliberately as well, with more awareness of the resources we were using in our everyday lives.
We heard that living in a yurt was quiet, but it wasn’t. Because we weren’t living in solid walls, we could hear the owls and coyotes at night, the geese landing on the nearby river, and the deer that would wander through the woods. This became one of our favorite things about living in a yurt — although we were inside, we could hear the outside. It was an incredible way to connect more deeply with nature.
If you live where temps drop below freezing in the winter, you can easily create a no-energy refrigerator by insulating a box (or removing the top from an old cooler) and setting it directly against the wall of your yurt with the opening facing out. Enough cold air comes through the wall to keep the food cool, while the insulation keeps the warm air from inside your yurt from thawing things out.
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I Bernie wins, everyone will be equal . . . whether they live in a Yurt or in a shipping-container home. This may be like the Obamacare sales pitch that it would free some people from having to work. They are preparing us for the consequences of socialism and trying to explain that poverty is good.
We too can have less space, fewer possessions, and be closer to the outdoors in all seasons, if we just let Bernie follow Barack the First.
Sort of like the Unibomber’s green tiny house! He was a luddite, too.
Howdy BpD.
A yurt is basically a large circular tent with solid walls and a floor. Some can be quite nice. Don’t know that I’d want to live in one, especially during storms, but it’s not bad at all if well furnished and in a scenic location.
Or as I call it a bear/coyote/raccoon feeder.
I’d love to live in a yacht! Out on the water, fresh air, fishing anytime I wanted to, fresh fish for dinner............. Oh, you said yurt......no thanks!
Same here. i could live on a yacht. Yurt? Not so much.
These tiny house people are nutz.
How many of them have actually spent any time in 200-400 square feet on a permanent basis?
Lets be practical here. Go rent an RV for a month. Live in it for just 30 days. IF you can stand it - then yeah - make the plunge and go for it full time.
Many apartments and condos are in the 200-400 sq ft range. There are probably many in the US who have experienced it.
“Living in a yurt brought our family closer together through sharing space more intimately. It also got us outdoors more! We found that yurt living helps us to live more deliberately as well, with more awareness of the resources we were using in our everyday lives.”
Should have pitched a tent.
That was my thought as well. But if they’re living in a yurt, they might be vegetarians, and I doubt even the coyotes would go after their tofu.
Which is why we want to live in a real house now.
“Should have pitched a tent.”
Cabela’s has some pretty nice tents on their website.I really enjoy sleeping in a tent during the summer,fresh air and the sounds of nature is very restful.
I am told the circular shape helps. You don’t feel quite so boxed in if the 90 degree angles aren’t there. There are octagonal homes, and I’ve been in one house that had twelve sides.
But under 400sf? I could never.
Yep. Used to go for extended trips up to Bar Harbor and sleep like a noisy log. Wouldn’t want to try winter camping anymore though.
Bernie hell, you haven’t read Cruz’s TPP and North American Union. We will all be reduced to third-world living conditions when immigrants, admitted freely with no visa require and with no limit on number, take all the jobs that remain in the USA (those that remain after most are moved to other countries.)
M4L Yurt
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