Yurt and Tiny Living Tips From Experts

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[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.

[JoeFromSidney]

Lets be practical here. Go rent an RV for a month. Live in it for just 30 days.

My wife and I lived in our RV for several weeks a couple of years ago, while visiting her family in California. We managed, but you're right. It's not something for the long term.