Homesteaders

[Beekissed]

The whole 'tiny house' thing just cracks me up!

Love a big house, need a big barn, have a big coop, don't want less square ft than my chickens Lol!
DW and I watch the tiny house show on TV, crazy people out there, spending more on a bedroom with a stove than we spent on a house with land.
The whole concept not new though, since the 70's a group of hunters have came up to my FIL's and stayed in a big school bus, nice camp actually, first time I went into it, DW screamed at me for touching a transmission funnel up front, how was I to know it was their urinal?!! Lol!!
They have everything in that place, heat, cook stove, shower, bunk beds...A couple of them still stay there, come up every yr, they are in their late 70's now.
Northern Tool has some nice 'cheap' solar and wind generators. Myself, if I was to look into them, the water turbines, we have spring run water everywhere.

Me too! Around these parts those are called "shacks" and are nothing new....folks can drive down any road in WV and see plenty of "tiny" houses, particularly along the rivers.

 

[Beer can]

Looked up bone broth, didn't realize I was already doing it. Pressure cook our older tougher birds, remove the meat and then re-pressure cook the carcass. Broth I set in fridge till next day, skim off the fat on top, rest is like gelatinous jelly till you heat it up. Re-add the meat, makes for the best soup ever.
Look up bone broth and the health benefits, amazing!
I just saved the bones of a deer, with the intent of making bone broth and have just looked it up for the first time myself, didn't realize I'd already been making it in the pressure cooker with chicken bones.

 

[abigalerose]

The whole 'tiny house' thing just cracks me up!
Love a big house, need a big barn, have a big coop, don't want less square ft than my chickens Lol!
DW and I watch the tiny house show on TV, crazy people out there, spending more on a bedroom with a stove than we spent on a house with land.
The whole concept not new though, since the 70's a group of hunters have came up to my FIL's and stayed in a big school bus, nice camp actually, first time I went into it, DW screamed at me for touching a transmission funnel up front, how was I to know it was their urinal?!! Lol!!
They have everything in that place, heat, cook stove, shower, bunk beds...A couple of them still stay there, come up every yr, they are in their late 70's now.
Northern Tool has some nice 'cheap' solar and wind generators. Myself, if I was to look into them, the water turbines, we have spring run water everywhere.

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the show. Some of the houses on there are really cute but all the people on there say they're going tiny so they can live mortgage and debt free and then they spend $70,000 on a tiny house and I'm like what? I could buy a small farm for that. If I had 70k to blow I wouldn't spend it all on 200 square feet. With my "tiny house" or "shack" or "redneck live in trailer", which ever you prefer, it's looking like I'll be staying under $8,000 total. I budgeted myself a little extra on a few things so hopefully I get lucky and come in even less than that, if not that's fine, but my main goal is not to exceed $10,000. Not even by a penny.
And I like small, less to heat, less to clean, less to decorate, and whatever else.
But I'm all for having a big horse barn and I wish I could afford to build one.

 

[CLSranch]

Back to the generator or electric. I have a horse trailer with a a/c and a mini fridge. It takes 5+ gallons a day running just part time to keep my food cold and cool the "cabin" down before bed. I'd go electric. It's a big trailer but my 8' short wall is still smaller than the tiny house. My thoughts.

 

[CLSranch]

I also think you will be happier with the bigger trailer. I built a 12x30 building to live in temporarily. 12' wide because it is still legally transportable. It's now my shed, but I lived in it for several years. The ENTIRE time I wish I'd have went 14x40. At least 14' wide. Wood stove, path, coffee table, not room to put your legs in front of the couch. With company you had to shove the coffee table up to the wood stove.

 

[lazy gardener]

Somehow, I miss the whole tiny house concept if you are building separate tiny buildings to house this and that. Um... extra building materials required to build those separate "boxes". Not to mention, the thrill of going out in the middle of the night, in your jammies and slippers, in the middle of a rain storm to go to the bathroom. Not a fun way to pass those days when you have the stomach flu.

 

[abigalerose]

Unfortunately the trailer is very skinny, but with the length I can have a niced size bedroom with a closet, a somewhat small but not too bad living room, a nice kitchen, and a full size bathroom with tub, toilet, sink, and enough room for towels and such.
And that's a lot of gas! I'll just pay the bill to cool it in that summer, I'll also have to find an effective way to cover the top in the summer because it's translucent

 

[Talithahorse]

I personally like the idea of "right sized". I don't think I could cram myself into a tiny house (okay I really could cram me..... not into stuff anyway.) but the family.... different story. We live in a small house with 2 teenagers and I have noticed that we really don't NEED that much space. Living with tiny type attitude makes our small space live large. I am still slowly talking my family our of the "junk" that is not used but takes up space. That being said I have/love my big kitchen as I can, cook, bake, etc. I have friends that have 3000 SF and more and do not know how they can stand that much space and junk and cost to heat and cool it but it is their choice, not mine. I wish that they would show more "reasonable" right size for families (600-1000 SF) and not so much 250 SF. Most people cannot live that way permanently and I wonder how many leave it after a period of time.

Tiny living to me is more about attitude than space. Get/ use only what you need, tread lightly on the world, recycle/ upcycle/ etc. and enjoy life, not things.

 

[Talithahorse]

Oh and having to do with bone broth, I love my bone broth but I have one question. I have never been able to cook it down enough that the bones crumble. I typically will cook it in the crock on low for about 24 hours. What am I doing wrong?

 

[1cock2hens]

My tiny house is almost the same size of house my mom and her 6 siblings grew up in so I figure It has more than enough room for 2 people/ I stay out there for days at a time and it's more room then I need personally/ and has cost less than 10k almost completely done/ kitchen building I'm estimating at 2k, bathroom building even less/ it is cheaper if you do it all yourself. /// My grannies house in WV didn't have running water inside, I'm very used to midnight outhouse trips in the rain, I'm going to have a composting toilet and would prefer that out of my main structure//also having a separate kitchen building will cut down on the heat in my main house, reduce cooling costs and gives me a big place to have family / holiday meals