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Just a quick lesson in pallet quality. Julia spotted four pallets today while we were running errands. We swung around, asked if we could have them, tossed them in the back of the truck, and were off. When I unloaded them I noticed one of them wasn’t so good. The 2×4s were a bit too [...]
Julia kept a close eye on craigslist today and we got a mini fridge for the tiny free house kitchen and a resellable file cabinet. I think we’ll need to have a garage sale soon, it’s getting kind of cramped in there. Julia also spotted some pallets while we were driving along. She also spotted [...]
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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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
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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. 
