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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 [...]
Before work I was able to get a load of good pallets. I even got a few over-sized pallets. It will be handy having a few long 2×4s. I discovered that car lots, of all places, are good place to get free pallets. I guess they order auto parts in bulk and they come on [...]
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)
Reply to: sale-7164XXXXX@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-06-11, 2:14PM PDTI have approximately 75 to 100 oversized pallets that I need [...]
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. 
