Kacie Erickson did a recent interview with Tammy and Logan of Rowdy Kittens and Smalltopia that she’s allowed me to share with you. Here is what Kacie had to say:
“I thought I’d share with you the interview I just had with Logan & Tammy, it was so fun getting to pick their brains…they BOTH have such a way of inspiring with words.”
Kacie though that it might inspire some of you too! Click Here to read her interview.
Great interview.
People who read it and want to follow in their footsteps should consider that happiness is a choice whether you live in a big house or a tiny house, whether you have lots of stuff or are a minimalist. Not everyone who lives in a tiny house has ended up loving the minimal amount of space after a few months or a couple of years. Even though a person may become dept free by living in a tiny home you may just switch out one type of stress for another. Stress can develop living in a 8′ x 24′ space, give or take a few feet. Many tiny house dwellers are in the process of, or have already up sized. I believe that attitude is what is key in going tiny or living large.
Their tiny home is darling and it works well for them. It would not work well for others.
Tiny living is not the end all answer to living dept free or being happy. I think it is important to consider this before you go tiny and then realize that you are still not happy. Happiness is a choice no matter what is going on in your life or where you live.
That is very well expressed.
I agree with your thoughts that some are exchanging one type of worries for another type.
The tiny house is just a smaller footprint and may or may not become a true home.
Debt not dept. Dept is an abbreviation for department.
go away and don’t be interrupting the adults
“dept” or “debt” – Tonita is right.
Wow, my eyes must be going, I didn’t even catch dep tX 7?? My argument here is that if we all quit our jobs to go do what we wanted, who the heck is going to work? This seems to be a very intelligent talented couple with a lot of serious skill and knowledge to improve the world for everyone, but aren’t . If you’re stressed out and on the wrong path, take a break, but use some sense. There’s a reason none of the hippie communities from the 60s lasted.
I’m not so sure about that Sally.Here in my small rural VA. town we have several communes and guess who some of the folks living in them are? Yes your “back to nature folks” from the 60’s. They garden and sell their crops, they make jewelry and are very artistically talented in other crafts as well.So they indeed are supporting themselves in doing what THEY want to do.Live and let live, if it works for them don’t knock it!
I am not “knocking” the young couple’s choice, altho I do think the world could use SOME of their PHD skills, and the world does not need one more blog that “empowers” people. (Why hasn’t that feel-good word gone out of style yet? 🙂 )
As for the communes in your area, do these date back to the 60s or are they a new collection of like-minded artsy individuals?
The earlier communes did NOT make it because no one had real jobs, no one paid into Social Security or pensions, no one planned for their old age (which was 30), and once the commune kids hit their teen years,they were embarrassed by their homegrown and thrift store clothes, and wanted out. No one had health insurance, and herbs can only do so much.
When the mechanic left, no one could fix the trucks,and the mechanics in town wanted cash, not bartered okra.
I’ve been there, with the same idyllic naive dreams of self-sustainment, and found out the hard way that “going back to the land” is hard work at 20. These days, you’d better be over 50 with a pension if you want to join one. Selling beadwork on Etsy rarely pays the property taxes. Medical emergencies and the weather can wipe out everything you thought you had in a month. I’ve been there, so I’d rather rain on someone else’s parade and make them think twice about the Little House on the Prarie before they try it and lose everything. It can be done, but it ain’t for sissies. 🙂
You might be surprised. Check out thefarm.org.
I agree with you.
Where is it written people owe the world to use their PHD skills for that world in some particular way the world, rather than they, gets to determine? That is just ridiculous. Besides, if everyone believed that, The Farm wouldn’t still exist. The people who formed it and kept it going for over 45 years now were NEVER doing what the world in general thought well-educated people like they have generally been should do with their PHD skills. It does still exist because they followed their visions instead of the world’s, all 1750 acres of it, an irreplaceable community. And many other communities do exist, as well, as shown by all the people in this Tiny House Movement and the Voluntary Simplicity movements. And so much else that has a chance to improve the world.