Kitty
Wants a Tiny Home
This
is not quite what she had in mind, but this is turning into a
beautiful tiny home. I started this project a couple of days ago
during the height of our little Alaska snow shower. We ended up with
somewhere between 12-15 inches and only lost one tree.
We
never lost electricity and I needed to start another big project.
This is what we ended up with. A year or so ago, we saw this kit on
one of our local buy, sell, and trade sites. It was only 20 bucks
and Kitty really liked it so phone calls were made and off I went. I
came home with this rather heavy box full of balsa wood sheets that
had parts and pieces stamped everywhere in them. The kit was made
in 1983 and had been passed around and around over the years. It
looked like lots of people had opened the box up over the years, but
nobody had the time, interest, or desire to try and put it together.
I understand why...I was very intimidated with it for a long time
also.
After
a slow start just trying to figure out a method to assembling this
kit, I found my groove. Kitty had wanted us to put about an hour per
day into building it, but I soon found that I couldn't stop. This is
fun. It's not nearly as hard as I thought it would be and we can see
progress every time I go near it now.
It
is labor and thought intensive and requires full concentration to
keep the construction on course. With all of the stresses of life
that we have now with Kitty still sick and myself still out of work,
this project has been a Godsend. I don't notice it but was just told
by her that when she watches me putting this together all signs of my
autism and tourette's disappear. I'm smiling. I'm focused. I'm not
twitching. This project is turning out to be very good for me!
This
is going to be a very nice hand assembled doll house and it is
tiny...a much smaller scale than the large mansion it replicates. A
real tiny house is her true desire. Kitty started showing me tiny
house links several years ago but as always, I just didn't understand
why she would want something like that. A small house on a trailer
that you barely have room to live, much less store all of your stuff.
As
time goes on since our lives together changed so drastically almost
three years ago, I have started to understand more and more why she
wants a small portable tiny house, and it all has to do with the old
saying 'Waste Not Want Not.' We as a society and as a species, don't
need all of the stuff we have been programmed and conditioned to
believe we need. We, as a species have been bombarded for
generations now with advertisement after advertisement telling us how
this will make our life better and we need that because the family
down the street has it. Advertising and marketing equals the most
personal debt our country has ever seen, and it gets worse every day.
With a tiny house you are less apt to buy stuff made overseas by
American multi-national corporations and shipped back to the US to be
sold to us at inflated prices for things that are more or less junk.
A small space is less apt to collect all of the gadgets and trinkets
we bombarded with every day now.
You
save money with a tiny house as you don't have that $200,000 mortgage
that your McMansion requires. No flood insurance. No homeowners
insurance (there are much more reasonable policies for homes such as
these). Utility expenses are much less as is home upkeep, grounds
maintenance and on and on.
You
have more time for rest and relaxation and doing things that you
really like as you don't have to work ninety hours a week just to
make the bills. Best of all, a tiny home is portable. If you get
tired of where you are at and want to move to a new and exciting
location, just back up, hook up the hitch, get out the map (throw
away your GPS) and start driving. The world is your limit.
As
I said before, I didn't understand (or want to understand) the
concept of a tiny home when Kitty first started showing them to me.
Now, as time goes on, it looks like one of the better ways to live
life in an age and time when there are no financial certainties
anymore.
Before
I close, I have a question for you that Kitty has posed to me many,
many times over the years that I am only now beginning to fully grasp
the answer to.
What
do you really need to live?
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