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AFTER building a dream tiny home for $25,000, a person who wanted to live off the grid found out they had nowhere to park it.
But thanks to a clever letter, they now live for $350 a month and zero mortgage on a Christmas tree farm.
L. Gilbert (@_l_gilbert_), who uses they/them pronouns, is an artist living in California who became sick of living with roommates in the nation’s most expensive state.
As a way to make their own affordable home, they built a DIY tiny home using salvaged lumber and new materials like a trailer and solar panels.
In a recent video for Kirsten Dirksen’s YouTube channel, Gilbert gave a tour of their unique tiny...
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I really try to understand this whole “living small” thing but frankly it just seems awful to me. If I had to live in the home shown in these photos, I would be extremely depressed. When I was at Stanford there was this professor that lived in a closet in the engineering department and lived on nothing but ramen. Students thought that was the coolest idea ever but it seemed to me like a really low quality of life. At some point being a miser becomes a sickness and not a virtue.