twinsmomfla99
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Apr 16, 2016 22:42:19 GMT
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Post by joblackford on Apr 16, 2016 23:06:34 GMT
hahaha! I've never watched the show (although I would, if I had the channel) and honestly, it only sounds as silly as the other HH shows... I'm always screaming at the TV - "why are you looking at that house that meets none of your needs!" I actually had no idea there WAS a Tiny HH show! Last I heard most people built their own tiny house because you can seriously build a home for 20k or so. My fav line was "Are hallways anything but just the middleman of architecture?" though because my house, which is an 800 square feet, 1920 bungalow, tiny to some but not to others, doesn't have a single hallway... not a one in the whole house! It's extremely efficient use of space, as long as you're cool with walking through a bedroom to get to the bathroom, and as long as you don't have Jack & Jill bathroom anxiety. And also, as long as you didn't need a broom closet or anything like that... When are they going to make the NY apartments HH? Because I would totally watch that, with or without rats
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 16, 2016 23:30:11 GMT
He forgot to mention that they all say they are living debt free and don't want a mortgage. Yet, most of them mooch off of their parents or friends and live on their land for free.
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Post by Leone on Apr 17, 2016 0:04:07 GMT
It cracks me up...the divas expect a walkin closet and a bathtub in 200 sq ft. One insisted she had to be able to run a beauty shop out of her bathroom, Couples have a couple of kids and several big dogs. I'd like to see followup shows a year later to see if they all killed each other.
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twinsmomfla99
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Apr 17, 2016 0:25:54 GMT
I love the discussion of the composting toilet LOL.
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Post by fotos4u2 on Apr 17, 2016 0:35:03 GMT
How about the couple that insisted they had to have an home office? Or the guy with the bad knees who said going up and down a ladder would be hard on him. So what does he do? Buy a tiny house where the master bedroom is in a loft with a ladder and the bathroom is on the main floor! Oh, but at least he got a composting toilet!
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Post by cyndijane on Apr 17, 2016 1:22:23 GMT
Oh my! I laughed so hard I nearly cried! My DH talks nonstop about living in a tiny house someday. This is perfect!
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Post by MsChiff on Apr 17, 2016 2:26:57 GMT
I enjoy the show but those tiny houses ARE a lot of money for what you get. The article is great!
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Post by scrapaddie on Apr 17, 2016 2:33:50 GMT
The part of me that always wanted a play house and never had one likes tiny houses .... But my scrap room is bigger than most of these houses..... And it is not big enough!!
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 17, 2016 2:41:02 GMT
Oh my! I laughed so hard I nearly cried! My DH talks nonstop about living in a tiny house someday. This is perfect! My husband said something about ONE DAY downsizing our current home of 28 years. I almost went postal on him. Why? I need my space. I need levels in a house so we all get some quiet space. No way I could live in one of the homes. The 400 sf ones look cute, but the 200 sf homes make me claustrophobic and I can sleep in a coffin.
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Post by bc2ca on Apr 17, 2016 2:58:13 GMT
My DH is always threatening to move us into a tiny house. The funny thing is he is the family packrat. The rest of us are really good about purging stuff, but not DH and I always wonder where he thinks his tools, bikes, golf clubs and boxes of cables, remotes and other electronic bits & pieces will go. I'm picturing a detached 3 car garage and workshop next to the tiny house. ETA thanks for linking the post twinsmomfla99 - it was laugh out loud funny!
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Post by sbartist on Apr 18, 2016 3:54:47 GMT
The part of me that always wanted a play house and never had one likes tiny houses .... But my scrap room is bigger than most of these houses..... And it is not big enough!! I envy you Ü after all, we live in a tiny condo.
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The Great Carpezio
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Apr 18, 2016 4:09:28 GMT
That is funny.
I think they are cute and a neat idea on the surface, but they really are pretty pretentious when you think about it.
I could go to my local camper place and buy a 24ft RV for the price of one of those tiny homes or a 30ft plus trailer camper for 25k or less---and they can have that full-sized kitchen, office space, art space, no ladders and headroom they all seem to want.
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Post by angieh1996 on Apr 18, 2016 4:28:10 GMT
That was laugh out loud funny. My DH and I always laugh and make fun of the tiny house hunters. I would love a follow up a year later. I know I'd have probably killed my DH by then. Hahaha.
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Post by oaksong on Apr 18, 2016 5:45:26 GMT
So funny, and so true!
Every time I watch, I try to picture how much space one of those tiny houses actually is. I end up wondering if all of my stuff could fit into my living room– toilet, bedroom, kitchen and all. Uh, no. I would use one as an art studio, though.
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Post by zella on Apr 18, 2016 10:06:45 GMT
This article was so funny and so TRUE!
I've watched a couple of episodes, but I'm not sure I want to watch anymore after the one about the parents of FOUR children who decided that moving into a 400 square foot hovel, I mean house, was a good idea because it would give them more family time. Yeah. I'm sure the two older kids are THRILLED at the thought of all that togetherness with the two year old twins. And mom and dad.
And because I'm a hypochondriac with, uh, gastrointestinal problems (on a bad day I'd estimate I spend a couple of hours on the toilet), I always wonder: what happens when they get, um, sick? And there's only one toilet? Hell, even if they aren't sick but someone needs the toidy like YESTERDAY and someone's in there already. Sheesh!
Yeah, I want to downsize. I really do. We actually have 3 rooms that see little to no use. But a minimum of 2 toilets, and preferably 3, is non-negotiable for me.
I too would LOVE to see an update on some of these families/couples after a year in a tiny house.
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Post by mallie on Apr 18, 2016 10:44:14 GMT
That is funny. I think they are cute and a neat idea on the surface, but they really are pretty pretentious when you think about it. I could go to my local camper place and buy a 24ft RV for the price of one of those tiny homes or a 30ft plus trailer camper for 25k or less---and they can have that full-sized kitchen, office space, art space, no ladders and headroom they all seem to want. Exactly. It's not about downsizing or living debt free, etc. It's all about status, trendiness and being "cool." You could buy a great RV (which you don't have to pay to have someone tow to the location) or a mobile/trailer home for those prices and get a lot more usable space. But that wouldn't be "cool."
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Post by AmandaA on Apr 18, 2016 13:25:53 GMT
Thank you for that! I needed a good laugh to start my Monday One of my favorite episodes was a family with 2-3 small kids that wanted to simplify because keeping a "normal" sized house was too anxiety provoking for her. Since they were going to park it at her parents house ... On a farm.... They didn't "need" all of that indoor space since they would spend so much time outdoors. Oh yeah, that farm was somewhere in the Dakotas.. Good luck with that come January!! I also loves the ones where they have cat(s)... Don't they all just share one litter box to save space? My husband I and are in the "just buy a camper" cheering section every time we watch that show. He was just shaking his head the night we saw them building one on a flat trailer that was the same size as the one we use to haul our lawn mower back and forth from our house to the farm.
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Post by sasha on Apr 18, 2016 13:35:24 GMT
He forgot to mention that they all say they are living debt free and don't want a mortgage. Yet, most of them mooch off of their parents or friends and live on their land for free. Ha! Exactly! There are a lot of zoning issues with these tiny houses. I love to look at them. I think they are cool. But the people with families I actually want to slug. I feel bad for the kid who probably is at the age that wants to jerk off but can't because there's no real privacy in those things! Not to mention, some of them cost nearly as muchy as a condo!
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Post by mallie on Apr 18, 2016 14:49:05 GMT
He forgot to mention that they all say they are living debt free and don't want a mortgage. Yet, most of them mooch off of their parents or friends and live on their land for free. Ha! Exactly! There are a lot of zoning issues with these tiny houses. I love to look at them. I think they are cool. But the people with families I actually want to slug. I feel bad for the kid who probably is at the age that wants to jerk off but can't because there's no real privacy in those things! Not to mention, some of them cost nearly as muchy as a condo! The one episode that made my head hurt was the one with two kids -- boy and girl - who were going to sleep in one twin lofted bed (with the parents on a trundle below. The boy was about 8 or so. It's not so many years before he's going to have morning wood or wet dreams. How's that sleeping arrangement going to work then? And...just when and where are the parents going to have sex?
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Post by kristi on Apr 18, 2016 15:31:45 GMT
That was awesome!
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 18, 2016 15:48:25 GMT
He forgot to mention that they all say they are living debt free and don't want a mortgage. Yet, most of them mooch off of their parents or friends and live on their land for free. Ha! Exactly! There are a lot of zoning issues with these tiny houses. I love to look at them. I think they are cool. But the people with families I actually want to slug. I feel bad for the kid who probably is at the age that wants to jerk off but can't because there's no real privacy in those things! Not to mention, some of them cost nearly as muchy as a condo! Every time I see these shows, I think seriously, just buy a travel trailer.
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Post by whopea on Apr 18, 2016 17:12:44 GMT
That was funny! Thanks for the laugh!
I heard a new term in house hunting this weekend -- 'get away space'. As in a tiny house has none. I can't fathom how more than one person occupies a tiny house. I would think it produces a fair amount of disagreements.
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Post by raindancer on Apr 18, 2016 17:36:01 GMT
I watched one episode. The guy kept talking about his studio space he had to build. Why wouldn't you just buy a slightly larger home and then use a room to have a studio? They wanted to squish 4 kids and 2 dogs into a 600 sqft space, but dad gets his own space in the yard with a studio? That made zero sense.
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Post by perumbula on Apr 18, 2016 19:02:03 GMT
we watched one episode on Netflix last night. They rarely have running water or sewer. The gray water isn't a big deal, but the no septic system for the toilet? Deal breaker right there. Not even kidding.
There are quite a few traditional homes under 1000 square feet that cost way less than some of those tiny homes and they come with sewer hook ups and running water.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2016 19:08:52 GMT
That is funny.
My favorite line : Two people who think they can co-habitate in a space roughly the size of the Keebler Elf Tree.
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Post by jassy on Apr 18, 2016 19:13:23 GMT
I think there are plenty of families who have one bathroom. We live in a community of century homes - nearly all have 1 bathroom, and families were much bigger then. We are a family of 4 who live in a one bathroom home, and honestly I don't recall it ever being a big problem in the 20 years we've been here. I mean maybe someone has to hold their pee for an extra minute or two, but no big deal.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 18, 2016 19:26:00 GMT
"You look terrified, like an otter trapped in a cardboard tube."
^^^ hahahaha!!!
I've never actually seen anyone look terrified when I watch the show, though-- everyone seems so gung-ho about the whole thing. I would LOVE to see a 'tiny houses follow-up' show to find out how many people are still there, still loving their teeny tiny shrink-ray living experience.
this bit also got me: "Because sure, kids and animals like nothing more than being crammed together in a piano crate, forced to share their limited oxygen while Mommy and Daddy make clumsy, grunting love in the casket-sized open-air loft above everybody’s heads, and the dogs are barking, and the kids are fighting, and Mommy and Daddy are rutting like wild boars and yay, family."
haha!! thanks for sharing the link!
I would love a stand-alone house as my art studio, but to my taste, most of those 'tiny' houses are way too small for that, even!
ETA: the writer has a point at the very end, when he says that living in that small of a space is something people have to do, not want to do-- I'm thinking about newly-immigrated families who have multiple people living in a very small one-bedroom apartment, or something similar. In light of that, this 'tiny house' phenomenon seems VERY much like a first-world / hipster issue and something only us wacky Americans would aspire to.
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Post by casii on Apr 18, 2016 19:40:05 GMT
I think it would be cool to have one in the backyard maybe as a guest house, but to live in one, um, no.
I have a friends who dreams of one day living in one of these tiny homes. Waxes eloquent about it whenever she can. She just can't reconcile the fact that she's too much of a packrat/horrible housekeeper to actually be able to live in one with her daughter. We've helped her move twice and both times, it's been a struggle. She won't trash/donate/sell anything and yet she thinks she's going to live simply in a 150 sq ft closet?
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Post by papersilly on Apr 18, 2016 22:01:33 GMT
dh and I constant heckle the tiny house hunters. anyone who ever wants to do it should live in their bathroom exclusively for a few weeks to see how the restrictive space feels to them before they actually blow the money on the real thing. I, for one, could never do it. the thought of a composting toilet makes me gag. and to share that tiny space with DH and 2 dogs. believe me when i say, I will be the first to file for divorce or run away from home in the middle of the night.
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