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I see a sawdust toilet

Posted February 12th, 2009 by Michael Janzen and filed in Free Stuff

Tags: craigslist, free toilet, sawdust toilet

My wife sent me a link to this bedside commode with a note telling me she’d found the perfect toilet for the tiny free house. She was kidding of course. But when I saw it all I could see was a lot sawdust toilet potential energy. What do you see?

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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...

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