Aldo Lavaggi said extreme downsizing was “an experiment in voluntary simplicity,” for him. He built his 105-square-foot timber house on a friend’s farmland in New York’s Hudson Valley and has lived in it since August 2012.
Source: bloomberg.com
Most of what you’ll read online about the Small House Movement has to do with the architecture of small homes.
Yet, what’s more important than the architecture are the choices we make that get us to a point of simple living. To do so, one really needs to assess their priorities, passions, and goals.
Living small is made possible by living a focused life. Choosing those things and activities you enjoy most, and discarding everything else.
Start simplifying today. It’s easy, It feels good, and many of the benefits associated with tiny houses can be achieved by simplifying.
Dan Louche | tinyhousecollab
For adults, it’s harder to change this mentality because materialism can be ingrained over years or even decades. No, you don’t need to sell all your worldly possessions and move to the top of a mountain, but Kasser says one thing that can help is taking yourself out of environments or reevaluating your relationships with people that focus on the materialistic.
Martha C. White in Time (hat tip April Anson)
The Lorences reside in a small dwelling in the California mountains. For years they have lived mostly in retreat from the world in order to free themselves to pursue a life of simplicity and inquiry.
This is both a joyful and very difficult path, as all true paths are.
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Sweet deal. Looking forward to this!
An article with the real story and real data by Andrew Odom of Tiny Revolution http://www.sustainablebabysteps.com/tiny-house-transition.html
Once we idealize social climbing, domination of others, status symbols, power, prestige, and possessions, we are part of a never-ending game that is almost impossible to escape.
—Richard Rohr
pictured above "The Duck Chalet" ( 1 & 2 ) via Tiny House Listings
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.
George Carlin (via takingthehardwayhome)
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519, Italian)