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Getting Used to Our Home

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When we first decided to go Tiny, we were extremely excited by the idea of financial freedom, being able to move our home wherever we wanted to live, and simplifying our belongings.  However, it was not until our completion date was quickly approaching that we started going through our stuff that the stress of getting rid of so much truly set in.  In this post, we will tell you all the ins and outs of how our space (or lack thereof) has actually worked out. I previously wrote about how great it was to reduce our possessions to the stuff we use and love most, but with full transparency, that was not an easy process.  In your twenty-somethings, it is really difficult to know what you will need down the road, and what is worth keeping for some unknown future purpose.  In order to convince ourselves that the fourth and fifth rounds of purging were completely necessary, we put an image in our own heads that we were crazy people that were moving into an oversized shoebox.  We also felt tha

First Day of Living Tiny: Chaos

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Although we have been living in our incredible Tiny House for almost two weeks now, we honestly have not had a moment until now to breathe and keep everyone updated with our progress.  Over several blog posts, I will reveal many of the struggles and learning lessons we encountered, but the amount of drama in our first day with our home is arguably too long for this post alone anyway. We spent the morning of March 1st scrambling to get supplies to be ready for the delivery of our house.  We ran back and forth between Walmart and a local RV Parts supplier, trying to find a power cord, heated water hose, and sewage hose that would meet our needs.  We had no idea what we really needed, so we were learning on the fly, pestering the builders at Mustard Seed Tiny Homes for information.  Eventually, we ended up with what we thought were the right supplies. Just as our house was pulling up... Our hauler finally pulled into our new neighborhood, Crown Villa RV Resort, with the ice-cove