Doubters Take Note - The Huge Tiny House Is Mortgage Free So Were These Windows!

O MY GOSH I have never ever thought I would ever have to listen to someones negative lip service over our proving a point by building this little Huge Tiny House by gleaning used materials for free. So what!!!

There is nothing demeaning about hunting down all the materials for free.

It is not exactly free you know.

First we have to find it, then we have to arrange to go and get it.

Fill the gas tank, drive to the site of the free materials.

Then there is the time involved, no one is paying us to drive, sort, clean...

So, sort, and pick out the good stuff. Or take it all and sort out the good stuff and pay to throw out the useless stuff. Sometimes it takes hours to reclaim the used wood.

Nails are great to hold things together but when you have to pull twenty or so out of a 2' by 4'...it's a ton of work. A few hours  in fact. Still, time is less expensive than spending dollars.

Plus we have to then drive the 26 miles to the property to get the materials on the site.

Then there are the surprise finds like below:

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These have a Pella sticker on them. Certainly they are older but they are still a cut above your standard old windows. They average $268.00 to $299.00 for the big double ones, new. These have the screens and the storm windows that go along with them. It cost about an eighth of a tank of gas and and hours worth of work to pick them up.  Oh and my husband got a cut. Poor baby.

You can call me names, you can call me offensive, you can look down your nose at me, you can call me a beggar, but so far we have just about enough materials for a half a house. Yes, it will be about 300 square feet on the inside. Com[pact and easy to clean. When we are done it may not be huge but it will be worth at least $30,000.00 additional value to our property, and that is not including the land that we own outright that will be under it, that is free and clear already. So far we have spent $167.00. I imagine we will spend around $1000.00 in actual cost. We were challenged to both build it green and build it by gleaning. This is what we are doing.

When it is done, we will not have a mortgage. We will be rent free, comfortable, and living out in the woods where the air is not filled with noise, no pollution, limited fear of crime. I will be able to run naked through the woods scaring the crap out of the wild animals.

 Don't expect an invitation if you think its going to be so awful. Everyone else will be invited though.

I have a strong feeling that what we are doing is not stupid. We just look that way to some people. This Huge Tiny House is going to be great, a veritable castle.


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