Downsizing

Scale Down! Filming a Video for Yahoo! Finance

Posted by on Jun 3, 2012 in Downsizing, Recent Posts | 10 comments

Scale Down! Filming a Video for Yahoo! Finance

We welcomed a lovely crew from Yahoo! Finance to our tiny house this week. Here’s the video and my thoughts on the experience. Thanks for watching/reading and enjoy! I enjoyed filming today. The sixteen year old me who wanted to be famous was jumping up and down. They were at my house to film my family. What I kept wondering was why? I asked Farnoosh what she thought about it. “Why are we interesting to the media?” She said “You are normal people. This is something people can relate to.” It’s funny last time we were outrageous, or at least what we are doing was outrageous. Now, we are being filmed because we are normal people living in a tiny house and...

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Tiny House Reforms a Messy Housekeeper

Posted by on Mar 3, 2012 in Benefits of Living Tiny, Downsizing, Recent Posts, The Backstory | 16 comments

Tiny House Reforms a Messy Housekeeper

With spring right around the corner, I am thinking about entertaining friends on our deck. I am remembering the last deck gathering I hosted and am celebrating how much I’ve grown. If you are overwhelmed by your current situation, I want to give you encouragement. Sometimes, letting it all go is the only way to go (grow)! Blessings. . . At the end of August, 2011, I had a group of women over for breakfast on the tiny house deck. We had just moved in a few months earlier, and I was passionate about giving my in-depth tiny house tour. As I was lifting one side of the couch to say “This is where we keep our dirty clothes.” I remembered our 1500 sq. ft....

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Shower Curtain Dilemma

Posted by on Sep 17, 2011 in Downsizing, Recent Posts | 17 comments

Shower Curtain Dilemma

I bought a shower curtain this week. It occurred to me one day while I was having a moment to myself and looking at our old white shower curtain. “I want a new shower curtain,” I said to myself. “I deserve a new shower curtain. A new shower curtain would make our home feel so much cozier. This white one is dingy and has clay stains and we only have so many opportunities to decorate—the shower curtain could make a better statement.” In our small town, there aren’t many choices for shower curtain shopping, which I like. But, I made my way into Dollar General one morning before school to check out the shower curtain stock. When I told Papa I was going to buy a...

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