The Tiny House Movement

[Jethro Bodine]

What do you think about this from a spiritual and practical point of view?

http://www.eriesense.com/the-tiny-h..._medium=cpc&utm_campaign=q3_2014#.VDlCg_ldUfY

 

[reba]

They are cute and the guys building them are very creative.... Personally i thank God for the wide open spaces... :yes

 

[jasonc]

They are cute and the guys building them are very creative.... Personally i thank God for the wide open spaces... :yes

California and z open spaces. be careful. there might be a need for your home to save some common critter. wink, wink, nod, nod.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

California and z open spaces. be careful. there might be a need for your home to save some common critter. wink, wink, nod, nod.

Critters are people too, you know! They just have more rights than us real people.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

They are cute and the guys building them... :yes

I had to reread that a couple of times, lol.

 

[jasonc]

They are cute and the guys building them are very creative.... Personally i thank God for the wide open spaces... :yes

if you all could see the old hotel that had some remnants that were torn down here. google earth has one image of building about that size.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house
my hometown has a few of those and some are still used. mostly in the community of Gifford.

 

[jasonc]

I had to reread that a couple of times, lol.

lol

 

[Jethro Bodine]

if you all could see the old hotel that had some remnants that were torn down here. google earth has one image of building about that size.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house
my hometown has a few of those and some are still used. mostly in the community of Gifford.

It's weird but you see some old houses in my part of the country where you pass through one room to get to another, including the parents bedroom. Weird times for us folk who are used to master bedroom suites with the kids way on the other side of the house.

 

[jasonc]

It's weird but you see some old houses in my part of the country where you pass through one room to get to another, including the parents bedroom. Weird times for us folk who are used to master bedroom suites with the kids way on the other side of the house.

not weird just that history repeats itself. I wouldn't want an old wooden home here. there great if they survive the canes and the termites here but that electric bill will be high. but if its a newer cbs per code then it will be pretty cheap. the article didn't say about what construction that a home would be in.

 

[reba]

many in our land have lost the closeness of family

 

[Jethro Bodine]

not weird just that history repeats itself. I wouldn't want an old wooden home here. there great if they survive the canes and the termites here but that electric bill will be high. but if its a newer cbs per code then it will be pretty cheap. the article didn't say about what construction that a home would be in.

It's funny that you mention this. One of the things I noticed when I lived in Florida was the lack of old homes. They simply don't survive the environment down there like they do farther north.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

many in our land have lost the closeness of family

Yeah, but Reba, trying to have sex with your spouse with no doors and hallways between rooms?

I think what used to happen was mama would go out to the shed to get something and papa would 'go out for a walk'. If you catch my drift. :wink

 

[reba]

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

What do you think about this from a spiritual and practical point of view?

http://www.eriesense.com/the-tiny-h..._medium=cpc&utm_campaign=q3_2014#.VDlCg_ldUfY

Are you an agent for the Erie Insurance Company?
Does the tiny house come with a 4000 sq. ft. garage/office/workshop?

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Exactly!

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Are you an agent for the Erie Insurance Company?
Does the tiny house come with a 4000 sq. ft. garage/office/workshop?

Yes, in my spare time. How else can I make the payment on my own 4000 square foot home in the Hamptons?

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Everything is motivated by dollars and cents. The insurance company knows that if you own a house worth 20 times less than the bigger one you had before, but your insurance premium is only reduced by 25% by living in the smaller one, their risk goes down, and the profit margin goes through the roof. Then they can buy the big house you used to live in.

This is how Walmart and similar stores work. They sell you things like vinyl laminated flake board furniture, which truly is cheaper to buy than other furniture, but the gross profit percentage on that junk furniture can be much higher than on better quality furniture. They make more profit dollars, and you get a piece of furniture you may not have been able to have before. Just don't let that lovely microwave oven stand on wheels get too wet, or it'll be damp saw dust by morning.

 

[jasonc]

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It's funny that you mention this. One of the things I noticed when I lived in Florida was the lack of old homes. They simply don't survive the environment down there like they do farther north.

lack? you haven't been in vero or ft.pierce. they are there. here. this pic is dated I believe tween the late 1890's to the latest 1925. the building in the background I think still stands and this rr passenger building was left to rot and was restored after being at the same location and use from the late 1890's to 1973. it hasn't been changed that much.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

It's funny that you mention this. One of the things I noticed when I lived in Florida was the lack of old homes. They simply don't survive the environment down there like they do farther north.

Lack of old homes?
They didn't even start building homes here until the 1960's.

 

[for_his_glory]

There's a show on TV about building tiny houses that my husband and I like to watch. They are pretty cool and I would love to live in one. When we bought our 32ft camper this summer we would love to permanently live in it, but have no running water or septic at our camp. I'm all in for downsizing.