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Hey friends, our move date is fast approaching! Richard & I are looking for a place to park our TH in NC. We are hoping near Asheville, Boone, Durham or Raleigh. We need some help finding a new home! If you know anyone in NC with a big backyard, an organic farm or homestead please let me know!
What I want for Christmas. A girl can dream, right?
The latest tour of our house! Four months in & we couldn't be happier!! <3 Living life rent/mortgage free in OUR HOUSE is very freeing!
TINY HOUSE LIFE ; operation clothesline 🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃 ✔️ checked another item off my TH to do list today 👍 I installed & began using my clothesline. The rope Richards mom found at a garage sale for $.50 & she gave us the clothes-pins her father gave her. 🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃 I did some research on clothes dryers, from what I read it typically costs $.34 per load of laundry, the typical family drys 400 loads of laundry averaging $136 per year. This usage amounts to 900 lbs of coal to be burned each year. To offset the carbon emissions it's take 46 trees. 🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃👖🍃👚🍃 Between Richard & I we do 2 loads of laundry per week (washing with soap nuts only!!) so line drying will save us $35 dollars a year & 225 lbs. of coal usage. I'm happy to do anything I can to live a little closer to the earth.
This is a 15 minute slideshow of all of the pictures of our Tiny house build & life since we moved in!
One of the best movies I've seen recently! Let's take back our POWER! This movie discusses taking responsibility for yourself/community by generating your own electricity! It also touches on Bread Funds which are such a great idea! Please watch this movie if you want to learn how to regain your power! smile emoticon
This is the handout I created for classes we do on our TH. This includes our budget to date, the building timeline, & our trailer/house specs.
This will be a great resource for anyone considering building a tinyhouse! Let me know if you have any questions. I can also be reached by email [email protected] <3 Keep it tiny!
TINY HOUSE LIFE ; TRASH Plastic is one of the downfalls of our generation in my opinion. Our landfills are grotesque places. I decided to be the change & start reducing the amount of stuff I send to landfills a few years ago. I've gotten much better over the past year. Here are some of my tips to help you produce less waste: 1. COMPOST YOUR FOOD SCRAPS!! This is one of the most important things you can do! If you don't have a yard you can: keep a vermicomposting bin inside your home & compost a portion of your food scraps, find a neighbor/community garden who can take your compost, find a local composting program in your community, or work with your neighbors to start a shared compost pile on your block. 2. GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!! Start small if you don't have much space. Grow herbs or greens in a container. Sprout seeds in your kitchen or grow microgreens. 3. Bring your own reusable bags to the store. Also bring small canvas bags for produce items or reuse plastic bags that you already have. 4. Buy in bulk! We buy our grains, nuts, legumes, herbs & spices, teas, medicinal herbs, vinegar, dish soap & dr bronners all in bulk at our local food co-op! We are able to use our own jars/bags so there's no waste! Request the tare (weight) of the jar/bag before you fill it so the store doesn't overcharge you!! 5. Stop using single use items!!! Use cloth towels to clean up messes, buy a set of bamboo silverware + a glass/stainless steel straw to carry with you, bring your own reusable cup to coffee places, bring containers with you when you go out to eat to put your leftovers in, beeswrap replaces aluminum foil & saran wrap. 6. Buy whole foods, try to buy produce that doesn't come wrapped in plastic!! Farmers markets & food co-ops are a great place to do this. Other great resources are buying clubs & CSA's. 7. Opt for items that come in recyclable packaging. While this isn't the perfect solution, it is temporarily the next best choice. 8. Processed foods = more packaging. Avoid single serving processed foods, buy in larger volumes to reduce waste. 9. Buy used vs. new items whenever possible. Check thrift stores, craigslist, pawn shops, or garage sales when possible. 10. When downsizing your possesions: donate them, have clothing swaps with friends, sell items online, give them away on freecycle.org or repurpose them. 11. Cleaning your home: use soap nuts for laundry (they are biodegradable & can be used 5 times). Use vinegar water, lemon, essential oils (eucalyptus, tea tree, lavender, lemon), dr bronners, & baking soda to clean. Avoid ALL cleaning chemicals opting for biodegradable ones when necessary, they will be safest for your family & our planet (though they come in plastic packaging). 12. Cat litter conundrum: This is still something we've yet to master. We use wheat scoop cat litter (which is much more environmentally friendly than clay-based cat litter). We scoop often & throw the feces away in the trash (sad face), but compost the remaining litter when we dump the cat box. Cat feces CAN be composted but SHOULD NOT be used on edible plants. You can also build a special system for composting cat feces using a sunken trash can in the ground to prevent possible contamination (this is what we will do when we have our own land).
Pictures by Annette Essey
Pictures by Annette Essey!
Pictures by Annette Essey!
TINY HOUSE LIFE ; CLOTHES 👚👖👗👚👖👗👚👖👗👚👖👗👚👖 One huge part of moving into our tinyhouse was downsizing our possessions. For me, the most daunting challenge was getting rid of clothes. I started with a 8-ft closet, with over 150 items hanging on hangers. The purge was very hard for me & was a several year process. 👚👖👗 I found a couple strategies that helped me get through the process: (1) 50% percent rule: I'd sort all my clothes to where all my t-shirts, pants, sweaters etc were all together... THEN GET RID OF HALF! (2) Have I worn this in the past 12/6/3 months? If not I knew I didn't need it (3) Does this fit me perfectly RIGHT NOW? Does this make me happy? (4) This or that? When I was almost done purging I needed help making the super hard decisions, I'd pick two sweaters/shirts & ask Richard which one I should keep (he really loved this game... NOT! 😉) 👚👖👗 There are lots of good ways to get rid of clothes without throwing them in the trash! You can donate them to a thrift store, arrange a clothing swap with your friends, have a garage sale, sell them to a clothes resale store or online, give them away on freecycle.org, cut up old shirts to use as cleaning rags, you can compost some types of clothes, or sew them into a beautiful quilt! 👚👖👗This may seem trivial to some of you, but for me it was a struggle. I can proudly say I now own less than 50 tops, and less than 20 bottoms. I hope my journey of downsizing helps you!
7.6.15 The grand finale of our finished Tiny House!!!!
6.11.15 Made some progress
5/26/15 in this tour I show off our almost finished tiny house!
Bought our lights for the tiny house today!!
Our Electricity Footprint 2012-15
I recorded our electricity usage for the entire time we've lived in this apartment! This is for my boyfriend and I in a one-bedroom apartment in Chicago!! We've cut our electricity usage by 50%!!! Here’s how we accomplished this: we unplug EVERYTHING when we done with it, turn lights off when we leave the room, stopped using our A/C window unit, only have the ceiling fan on when we are home, switched to CFL light bulbs 900 lumens (replaces a 60w bulb, only uses 13w) & we only use one bulb per fixture (even if it’s designed for 4 bulbs), cancelled our cable & stopped using the tv (we now just stream stuff online on our laptop!) It’s cool to see how these simple changes really paid off! I can’t wait to see our electricity usage get even lower once we are using our energy efficient appliances in the tiny house! We want to be able to live on Solar/Wind in the future, and I feel like we are on the right path!
I just did some googling and learned the average home in usa uses 909 kwh per month!! Yikes, I hate it if we go over 100!! Now here’s the juicy stuff: the DATA!!
2012 August 46 kwh September 160 kwh October 158 kwh November 181 kwh December 185 kwh
2013 January 187 kwh February 140 kwh March 150 kwh April 114 kwh May 106 kwh June 115 kwh July143 kwh August 157 kwh September 166 kwh October 102 kwh November 97 kwh December 99 kwh
2014 January 114 kwh February 81 kwh March 101 kwh April 95 kwh May 84 kwh June 102 kwh July 106 kwh August 106 kwh September 101 kwh October 69 kwh November 67 kwh December 84 kwh
2015 January 93 kwh February 66 kwh March 77 kwh April 66 kwh