Tiny house

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Just room to swing a cat, by the looks of it.

[The Medway Handyman]

Thats a shed, not a house.

[GB]

>>>> Thats a shed, not a house.

I have some sympathy with her. We are rather untidy, and I thought that by moving to a larger house the mess would be more under control. It isn't. A version of Parkinson's Law applies, and mess expands to fill the space available. We now have so much crud that it will be a major task to decrudify, and it's really rather daunting. If/when we move somewhere smaller, it will be a great opportunity to just get shot of the lot.

[Muddymike]

Mike

[jgharston]

The garden looks huge, she's just replaced most of her indoor space with outdoor space. Makes sense if you can arrange it, reducing the actual shelter to the minimum for sleeping and storage.

JGH

[Bob Eager]

It's not her garden.

[jgharston]

It's not her garden, but it's space she occupies as an adjunct to the physical structure she occupies. What she's got is vary different from the equally-sized Japanese rabbit hutches which are just the exact physical indoor space and nothing else.

JGH

[Dom Ostrowski]

There seems to be several exponents of this grass-roots movement in the US:

it would seem even more appropriate to the UK, where many people struggle to get started with their first home.

If there was a planning dispensation for a primary-home, self-built and below a certain square-footage - that could be potential lifeline for a niche of people trying to get a first home of any kind.

[Lobster]

Oh, tell me about it...

I'm also aware that I'm becoming even worse of a hoarder as I get older and more eccentric; really I ought to do something about that while i still have the awareness that it's a failing.

My mother (80s) stills lives in the large house in which she brought up

4 kids, so after 55+ years you can only imagine the stuff she's accumulated. My mind boggles at the thought of having to sort out that lot one day, presumably in the not-too-distant future :(

David

[Sn!pe]

Superb, brilliant, I could live like trhat if I was on my own.

[Dave Liquorice]

The text says it's has a earth closet but she has to find somewhere else to shower.

[polygonum]

Is there a tiny stream nearby?

Is the sea far away?

Is it in Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea?

[Dave Liquorice]

• + + + + ++ +++++ +++++ + + + + + + +++

You'll still not get rid of a lot of crud though you can make a big dent in it when "downsizing". When we moved my late father from the family home to a smaller place nearer we got shut of a lot of stuff but I still had to make half a dozen trips to the dump with the car (Discovery) packed to the roof and the seats down...

Likewise. I have lot's of stuff that "might be useful" one day and occasionally an item will be and normally alter things from a major inconvience to not a problem. Knowing which "thing" will be that useful thing is the tricky part...

You have my sympathies, it won't be easy. If your parents are anything like mine you will find things from your very early days that you had forgotten about and even if you hadn't would have expected to have been chucked out decades ago. Discovered again now they will be impossible to part with. Stupid little things like your favourite bath toy from when you were three...

[GB]

You need to sort it:

1. Stuff with a definite *immediate* use
2. Stuff that might well be useful one day
3. Junk

Then throw away 2 and 3. 2 might go to the charity shop.

[Nick Spalding]

Lobster wrote, in on Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:44:17 +0000:

I am like your mother. I've lived here 48 years and brought up five kids, now aged 42 to 52. I have no intention of moving so they will have to deal with it one day.

[John Williamson]

Ditto. Last year, I moved from a one bedroom flat to a two bedroom house, which now seems fuller than the flat was.

That's easy. It's the thing that you threw away last week.

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

Throw away 3, agonise over 2 - and keep it. Every time I've thrown out something that might cumminhandi and has lurked for years I've needed it within a dozen fortnights, and spent *hours* looking for it because I knew I had one/some.

[Huge]

When we moved my mother out of a 3 bed semi into a 1 bed flat, we threw away ~100 bin bags of stuff. Plus a lot of furniture.

Then we came home and threw away a lot of stuff from our house.

[harry]

by the looks of it.

Dog Kennel you mean.

[harry]

Depends on the climate.