Comments by "Kimberly C" (@kimberlyc84) on "A Tiny House for under $800!! Could you live in it?" video.

My dad bricked up the fireplace in the sweet 1938 Cape Cod he & mom bought in '75. He installed a three foot cast iron wood burning workhorse of a stove. Then he partnered w a small tree cutting family business after his shifts on the LIRR. Each summer, he'd build a small clubhouse for me out of branches, using thicker ones for the frame and overlay it with plastic then intertwine greener branches (like a little hut). He sloped the roof like a lean-to but it has four sides. He lined the bottom w heavy duty trash bag split open then covered it with a piece of outdoor rug. Each one was about 4x4. I'm 4'11" so I've always been "vertically challenged" but the size was perfect for me to have my little tea parties and read my Nancy Drew mysteries by flashlight. He let me have a lantern flashlight that took one of the huge square batteries and it lit it right up. He built them for me from 2nd through 6 the grade. That was the last year because there was an invasion of Gypsy moth caterpillars that found the perfect breeding ground in my little moist dark hut! It was a wrap for me after that! I'm 54 now & I simply love remembering the fun...before they came!🤣🥰
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 @diligentharvesters8363 She mentioned a composting toilet. Like off grid living I guess.
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My FIL built his LMH (lawn mower home🤣) by hand when they relocated to GA from NY in '93. Family members helped him get it up (like a barn raising 😊). It's about 10x10. My MIL made curtains for the window. It's survived 2 hurricanes and decades of 100° by 10am summer weather and freeze snaps as well. He decorates it to look like a gingerbread house during the holidays. All he'd need to do is insulate...and move the lawnmower out and voila! Tiny home!
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 @feraloperacompany My first thought was the Amish people. Plenty of their communities are still thriving.
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There's a story about a woman here in GA I saw on CNBC. She did this sort of: she built a tiny home for $35k in her backyard and AirB&Bs her main house (3br/2ba). I think she pulls over 5k/month. Close to the airport, Atl day & night life, quiet established neighborhood w no HOA.
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When my children were part of the church youth group (about pre-teen & up) the youth minister put together monthly events in the fall through winter where the teens would meet at the building on Friday nights. They'd prepare sandwiches and snacks as well as basic toiletry kits. Then they'd have games & go home. The next day/Saturday, they'd meet back @ the building at 5 a.m. & the church vans would drive to locations where a few big box stores were closed/relocated out. Behind a few (a very few) were 'Dumpster communities.' They were made up of about 10-20 dumpsters laid in their side (so the lid was used as a door). They had been sanitized out and people lived in them. Most people said they worked daily, but it wasn't enough to be able to make first and last month's rent and a security deposit anywhere. Somebody who was a welder had made a cutout window for a few. All had a cutout for a chain to loop through and they'd padlock themselves in at night. I remember most had a wreath of some sort. A few of the pictures showed just what you mentioned: a place for a sleeping bag, a toilet of some sort. One lady had a heavy duty extension cord running to a box in the parking lot(I guess as long as the abandoned store didn't know about it, she had a way to run a little heater.) I think most of them had been living there for well over a year and a half. The city removed them about a year in (to where, I have no idea). I think they got a new mayor or something. But here it is, 20 years later, and that store is still abandoned. It hasn't been renovated. Nothing has been done to it. I think it's a stop for the mass transit line where people just park their cars in the front of the lot and get the transit bus. Not the most comfortable solution, but putting people back out into the elements still mystifies me.
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I'd like to book my weekend, now, please! 😊
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@gloriouslifeonwheels3621 Hubs and I thought about something like this for years. There's an abandoned Sports Authority, closed down WM, and an Ingles and Cub foods supermarket. We moved here in '94. Those locations/stores closed within 15 yrs. I've looked at the tax assessor's website over the years but there's nothing indicating what's planned. Meanwhile more green space is being destroyed for 'affordable' townhomes starting in the mid $400k.🙄 Seems a bit backward...
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There's a wooden cabin on the backside of an antebellum mansion turned bed & breakfast near me here in Stone Mtn., GA. It's made of railroad ties and pitched with something that looks like this lovely GA clay and mixed with grass. The roof is a very old tin one. I drive on the street behind it coming home sometimes and pull over for a look. It's clearly an antebellum structure. I think they use it to store maintenance equipment now. The prices to rent the b&b are out of my range, but I often think of the people/person who resided in the cabin during the era.
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@gloriouslifeonwheels3621 Can't catch a break! 😔
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@nightskylights4501 🤣
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@suec2117 Ok...🤷‍♀️
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