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Free Pallets Example

Posted June 12th, 2008 by Michael Janzen and filed in Free Stuff

Too bad I don’t have enough room to store this many pallets… or a truck big enough to get them. I wonder how many tiny houses could be built with 75-100 oversized pallets? LOL

Free pallets 58″x40″ (El Dorado Hills)

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Date: 2008-06-11, 2:14PM PDTI have approximately 75 to 100 oversized pallets that I need to dispose of. I need somebody to take them all.

Location: El Dorado Hills

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There’s Something Poetic About Pallets

Shouldn't the true value of a home be measured by the happiness and security it brings instead of its size and cost?

-Michael Janzen

I’ve embarked on a little experiment. I’m building a tiny house that's cross between Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and a Tumbleweed-like Tiny House on wheels, the only difference is that it will cost nothing. Any money I spend on building materials will be recouped by selling discarded things I find and most of the wood will come from old shipping pallets. Why Pallets? It just seems like poetic justice for a house that questions consumerism to be made from the very things that carried so many products to market. More...