Life Lessons from Living a Decade in 84 Square Feet

Another suggestion of hers is to set a schedule for paring down your possessions. Her sister-in-law, for example, donated a grocery bag full of things like clothes and toys every day during Lent — 40 days, 40 grocery bags. “Practice going through stuff and try letting it go and getting it back into circulation for people who need it,” Williams says. Most of her friends and family know now that if they give her something like a coffee mug for Christmas, it’s likely to get regifted.“I’m happy only 85 percent of the time, roughly three hundred days out of the year,” Williams writes in her memoir. “The other days, I wish I had running water or that the house was warmer … or a seventy-inch plasma screen television and enough space to invite all my friends over to watch the Oscars … a flushing toilet and an endless supply of cheap beer. … I might want a lot of things … but that doesn’t mean I need them.”Info: The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir, by Dee Williams, is available beginning April 22, 2014, from Penguin Group imprint Blue Rider Press.More: Could you live in a tiny house?

“So she sold her house and set out to build a tiny house that would give her the life she wanted.” — Mitchell ParkerDee Williams pared down her possessions (the current number is 305) and ditched her mortgage in order to simplify her life and reduce expenses, so she could pursue the things that were most meaningful to her. For anyone considering tiny house living, her new book is a must-read.Full story: Life Lessons From 10 Years of Living in 84 Square Feet

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I'd like to read this book about the authors experiences living in an 84 ft2 house for the past ten years.

I like the idea of building better and smaller home for people on my Aboriginal Community.