What are we doing?

Okay, this blog post is less of tiny house and more of like ranting/wondering aloud. So please bear with me, or just skip this post and go to the next post if you just want to read about our tiny house journey. :)

Basically, I just want to know why all of us are so dependent on having a job and having money. I mean, whatever happened to a self sustaining farm? My gramma says I am an old soul, so that may just be it. I mean, doesn't anyone else want to live a life where the work they do is meaningful to them and they aren't working to make someone else rich?

I guess I just think this because my ideal life would be my husband and I buying a farm and a bit of farm land, some cows and horses and chickens and pigs, maybe even some sheep. Have a big garden and grow our own food, can it, maybe some apple and peach trees as well. Farm the land and make our own flour and livestock food and sell the excess to get money to buy fabric for clothes and to buy shoes, gas, etc. I just think that would be a great life. Always at home with your family, doing productive things. Kind of like what the Amish do, I guess. Maybe I am just someone who was reincarnated from like the 19th century or something, LOL. I don't know. But that plan will probably never happen, because land is just so gosh darn expensive and farm land is so hard to come by here (and I don't want to move away, I'd like to stick close to my family). It seems like all of the farm land has been handed down from generation to generation here and no one wants to part with it. Oh and farm equipment is really expensive as well.

Okay, rant over I guess.

But still, I wish more people thought like me. And it's also hard because we are so young.

Oh, and people are really starting to make me mad. Like, my dad is like, "why are you building this tiny house just live at my house until you can use cash to buy a regular sized house." First of all, I love my Dad to death, but I don't want to live with him! And, it's not 1980 anymore, it will take 10 years in this economy to get the amount of money together to buy a fixer upper where we live. It's just not realistic. What is realistic is building the tiny house, then save money to buy some land, then save money to build the well, then save money to install the septic (even if we have a composting toilet I'm pretty sure you HAVE to have a septic dug where I live), then save money to build the strawbale house. And what's crazy to me is that having the septic dug and well drilled will cost like $10,000 more than the actual house. What's up with that? I mean, I guess if I built a big house it wouldn't but I want to just build an 800 s.f. house (that's the minimum in this county).

Ahhh, so frustrating! And even the people that are like, "How much is that going to cost? Just put a down payment on a house." First, no. I don't want that much debt hanging over my head. Second, no. It's the principal of living small! We don't need all that space! Even 800 sf. is huge to me! The house I grew up in is 800 s.f. and it has a big living room, and giant eat-in kitchen, a bathroom, and 6 bedrooms! 500 sf is perfect for my husband and I and a couple of our (future) children. Zoning laws make me so mad.

Okay, now, rant over. I promise. :)

Regards,
Mollie

Got the trailer!

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while, things got pretty hectic here for a while. We cleaned out my dad's garage, built a chicken coop, got more chicks, our ducks got hurt, and I am in the middle of finals this week.

So, first things first, what's up at our house right now. Well we planted the garden (will upload pics when everything comes up), and built the chicken coop (see last entry). But that was when we had 6 chickens and 2 ducks. Since then, the dogs got into the run and killed 4, we got 16 bantams on sale, we rescued a gosling, and I ordered 16 more layers from a hatchery. I ordered 16 instead of 4 because it was cheaper to get more. So I found a place to get free pallets and will be adding onto the coop and making a fence for a run with pallets.

We also adopted a puppy! We already had a shepherd mix, and we got a little miniature pinscher.

And last but not least,  we have our trailer for our tiny house! Finally! Actually, it's a camper right now but it will be just a trailer when we get done with it. We decided to get a camper because it is on a 26' gooseneck trailer, and a trailer that size is REALLY expensive. But the camper was only $800 so we got a steal.

But that isn't even the best part. When we showed up to get the trailer, the couple that was selling it were building a tiny house in their backyard! In their city they can have a tiny house on a foundation not a trailer, and we got to go inside and check it out. It had two full floors and a real staircase. They do remodels for a living, so when we told them what we were doing they gave us a bunch of carpet, linoleum, and wood floor that were leftover from their remodels for free!! We have enough flooring to put tile in the bathroom, carpet in the bedroom, and wood floor everywhere else. They also told me about a place to get lumber for really cheap. I am so glad to have found someone near me that is also building a tiny house!

This is the trailer as it is right now (with the camper on it)

Now that we have the trailer I will be posting a LOT more because we will *FINALLY* be starting on our build! Yay!

Regards, 
Mollie