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Read the TV guide, you don't need a TV
Posted on 07/20/2010 2:32:08 PM PDT by roostercogburn
Ten years ago, Jay Shafer downsized to an 89-square-foot house and reinvented both his lifestyle and career in the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at vitality.yahoo.com ...
I have a 20’ 1973 Winnebago. I want to take out the air conditioner and put in a hatch and ladder to the roof like the new Airstream. It costs $60 a year to tag, and about $500 a year to insure (which I think is too much).
Eight or nine years ago we threw away our tv, and don’t feel deprived at all.
Can somewhat see how he feels. There are times when the demands of large home maintenance leaves me feeling that my house & related stuff owns me and not the other way around.
when your idea of a meal means a high colonic i’m sure it would now wouldn’t it? what’s wrong with these people trying to live like mice in cupboard? oh yeah, they’re all greenies & want a little house on wheels so they can park it anywhere they want to this homeless shite has to stop. dammit! this is AMERICA get yourself a real house a real roof over your head instead of this commie play-acting waiting for your babushka to show up with a basket of cherries ‘cause ya’ ain’t got nooooooo ‘letricity
gawd i wanna’ smack these red doper diaper babies into yesterday where’s Sam Kinnison?(rip) he’ll tell them
Add a wife and kids though, forget about it. I have three floors of living space and sometimes that isn't even enough to gain proper separation!
Great link... thanks
I would have been snooty in the past, but no more.
I know someone who did well in a white collar job and quit so she could spend more time with her family. She works at Target now but loves it because the hours are better.
Especially in this economy, you can take what you can get.
Neat video of furniture for living small. Not for living in 89’ ft but very cool concepts pieces
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2vZKVT/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DtDpqHrAMKCk
We don't miss it.
Read the TV guide, you don't need a TV
cute house,
I’m wondering does he need to pay property tax on his cute house ?, how much i am wondering :-?
"I'd call it 'cozy'."
Better not fart in there.
My garden shed is bigger.
Trathen Hefman? Well bless his wholesome vegetarian mother.
Tell you what, I lived in an apartment that totaled about 400 square feet - with another person. I’ve cooked in a kitchen that had a sliver of counter space and nowhere to store pots and pans except the top of the stove, and I’ve experienced living, dining, office and bedroom all in one room. No way, ever, ever, ever again.
That was my first thought, too. We're staying in a RV Park in Oregon and I'm amazed at the amount of people that live here in a small trailer year round!
LOL-nice one
That's the future right there.
The days of a family of three living in a 3500-4000 square foot home are rapidly coming to an end, if not all but over already. Fifty years from now most of these "McMansions" will have been torn down, replaced by much smaller homes built in subdivisions re-designed to accommodate pedestrian travel. The current model of ostentatious houses paid for by giveaway loans and powered, heated and cooled by dirt-cheap fuel will be nothing more than symbols of a bygone era and I don't see this model returning in my lifetime.
I was going to consider it, but the resident critters say NO WAY.
If the global warming freaks have their way, we’ll ALL be living in (government mandated) 89 sq. ft. homes some day.
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