My wife Julia spotted this today and I thought I’d post it to show you an example of the kind of free stuff that gets posted on craigslist. There’s no photo but it sounds like a 35′ single wide trailer. Want a free house? Near Auburn, California? Hurry, things like this go really fast.
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Julia spotted a post on craigslist for free stuff including free lumber. It just gave an address nearby and said come get it. So we did. We got a bunch of odd pieces of plywood, 3 new 2×4s, several 4×6 headers of varius lengths, a skylight, and a little ladder we’ll sell to help pay [...]
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I ran out today and scavenged some pallets with my father-in-law. He knew of a good spot near his old pre-retirement job that always had lots of pallets. There weren’t a ton of good ones but enough to fill the back of my truck again. Now that I’m learning where to look I’m starting to [...]
I’m embarking on a little experiment. I’m going to build 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 me nothing. Any money I spend 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 be made from the very things that carried the products to market. More...
Pallet Framing Plan
Floor Plan
Latest Construction Progress
In The New York Times
In the summer of 2007 I had one of those Ah-HA moments that inspired me to write a book, change jobs, build a tiny free house, rethink my values, my lifestyle, and my future. 
