If you’re looking for the Closed-Loop Recycled Greywater System, it’s right over here!
The story behind the name…
When I was a kid, the four of us — mom and 3 kids — spent a good bit of time traveling by car back and forth between two states. (Dad was already working in one and we were still trying to sell our house in the other… moving doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d like.)
Since we needed to pack for a couple of weeks at a time, it’s easy to imagine the space constraints we ran into with three kids, three kid’s clothes, three kid’s toys, three kid’s educational materials (like Calvin & Hobbes books!), and three kid’s entertainment devices (walkman, anyone?).
Ever the solution-seekers, we devised a plan. Mom gave each of us a suitcase for our clothes and a tomato box for everything else. You know, the cardboard boxes that little crates of tomatoes would come in? One of those. We could bring anything we wanted, as long as it fit into our tomato box. It was brilliant.
No more harassing mom about things we wanted to bring, fighting about who was taking up more space than everyone else, or (the dreaded) their stuff touching your stuff. But it also did something really beautiful: it forced us to make trade-offs for ourselves and decide what was valuable enough or useful enough to warrant taking up precious space in our tomato box.
This is life.
This is amplified by Tiny Living.
My tomato box has gotten a little bigger, but the goal is still the same.
What’s the point of all this, anyway?
Ultimate Goal: live in a tiny house while building shelters for others & operating a mobile food kitchen.
The face of homelessness and the working-poor has changed drastically since the housing-bubble burst. I aim to be one part of the solution and building this Tiny House is the first step.
This will be my home, my mobile office, a testing ground where I learn what not to do, and the model home used as an example of what I’d like to build for others. This will be a life-changing endeavor, and not just for me.
Get on board and come along for the entire journey!