At the beginning of this summer, I thought that living in this trailer would cure the SO of his tiny house love. But honestly? If it wasn't for the above comments, we could totally do it. It's been fine. The only problem has been the size of the bed. My 5'3" frame fills it, so you could imagine how the SO at 6'1" is doing. Right now we have too much consumer stuff to pull it off. I share Hecs Marxist tendencies, so I could pretty happily divest myself of a bunch of things, maybe I will over sabbatical.

However, we do not appear to be headed in that direction, as we just acquired an elliptical and are probably going to haul my folks king mattress back across country.

But I do like owning instead of renting.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake early Saturday struck offshore not far from Fukushima, Japan - [link]

A bunch of ~ma that it will not hurt areas recovering.

It sounds like the initial warnings have been pretty much dropped since I first saw it.

Honestly, having stuff is burdensome. Staying in consumerist cycle where you're shopping shopping shopping and for what?

This is what Jack Reacher thinks! Throwing your clothes away when they get ripped or dirty is expensive.... until you compare it to owning a house!

Oh, Jack Reacher.

I think I'd be OK living in a small house if it had really well-done storage spaces. Right now, I'm living in a fairly small apartment, but a whole lot of space is taken up with things to hold other things.

I went downtown and wandered Arts Fest a bit this afternoon. I'm thinking about going back tonight, because there's an act that I want to see, but I'm pretty tired, and getting there is a pain. (Options are either park on campus and then walk, but that would mean trudging up a huge hill to get back to the car afterwards; or parking at the stadium and taking the shuttle bus from there, but I don't know how long that will take.)

Good luck with closing, bonbon!!

My sister and I suffer from the idea that if we just hold on to X for 20 more years, it'll be valuable! We have to grab each other and say NO. But still... attic full of clocks.

See, whereas my sister and I have agreed that if our parents pass away without moving out of the house, we're renting a dumpster and going nuts. We feel a little bad because my dad collects shit, and probably has random valuable things in there...but it would take so long to sort out the CRAP from the "potentially worth something" that there's just no way. (Luckily most of my mom's stuff is things she got for $1 at a garage sale, which is much less likely to be worth anything, or furniture, which is more easily contemplated)

This is what Jack Reacher thinks! Throwing your clothes away when they get ripped or dirty is expensive.... until you compare it to owning a house!

Hahha! I always thought it was so weird--like, sure, be voluntarily homeless, but is a backpack with one change of clothes and a toothbrush really that big an issue??

The greatest thing that happened with my houseguests last weekend was when the 6 year old asked her mother why my house was so clean. (A) Because I live in it alone, and (B) because I moved from a third of the space. Everything has somewhere to go in my enormous apartment! It is remarkably easy to keep neat! It's kind of amazing.

like, sure, be voluntarily homeless, but is a backpack with one change of clothes and a toothbrush really that big an issue??

THAT'S HOW IT BEGINS! Then you're at the laundromat, and then you want your own washer and dryer, and suddenly -- POOF! -- you're living in a house in Westchester.

And you don't have kids, Jesse!