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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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 [...]
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. 
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