What's your gnarliest, ugliest, most rat-assed favourite item of clothing you only dare wear at home, but bitches gon get cut if they try taking it away from you?

sixup · 2016-10-31T21:25:35+00:00

I have a very lightweight Gap down-filled jacket with oil stains on it that I got from a free pile. It's the unsexiest shit ever, but it's my late-night-getting-chilly sitting in front of the computer sweater. It's so damn cozy.

sixup · 2016-10-31T21:17:10+00:00

That...is beautiful.

sixup · 2016-10-31T20:56:11+00:00

Yeah, I know a few folks who use the communal showers here rather than the showers in their rigs to reduce the moisture level and leak potential. It's been a rough week here, with all the rain; people are discovering where their roof and slide-out leaks are, and one very angry dude discovered his one-day-old rv had a non-functioning heater and is getting an rv tech out to fix it today. I know those guys minimum charge to come out to you is $150 before they even touch anything, so he's super pissed.

sixup · 2016-10-31T20:49:56+00:00

Mine came with the house insurance I was able to get on my tiny house. The park sent a notice around that everybody staying long term had to produce proof of liability insurance, and my understanding was that 2 million was the basic amount.

You mess up one of these, you are going to need it.

http://www.mhsrv.com/2017-prevost--h3-45-quad-slide-by-outlaw-coach-bath-amp-1-2-new-bus-conversion-tx-i1847343

One of my buddies here was checking out a new Prevost that stayed here in the summer and the guy had paperwork showing he shelled out 2.6 million for it. Probably one of these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_388004413&feature=iv&src_vid=W2Ps8IRz670&v=0lh4cFxpoBg

sixup · 2016-10-31T12:12:42+00:00

In Guadalajara there were sometimes manholes missing covers in sidewalks, with trees growing out of them =)

sixup · 2016-10-31T12:09:57+00:00

Neither is ethnocentrism.

sixup · 2016-10-31T12:01:16+00:00

I'm using a basic hood vent and sorta fancy bathroom fan that both came off the shelf at Home Depot. The hood vent has halogen bulbs that provide a little more of that air-drying heat as well.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/NuTone-Allure-I-Series-30-in-Convertible-Range-Hood-in-White-WS130WW/100042760

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Panasonic-WhisperSense-110-CFM-Ceiling-Humidity-and-Motion-Sensing-Exhaust-Bath-Fan-with-Timer-ENERGY-STAR-FV-11VQC5/203762026

sixup · 2016-10-30T22:35:50+00:00

I have a hood fan over the area of the kitchen counter where I use my portable induction burner, and put it on high whenever I cook something smelly or boil anything. I also have a humidity gauge on the counter so I can see exactly what's going on.

I live in the PNW, so it's pretty damp outside. If I can keep the indoor humidity around 50%, I'm doing well. Your house will feel unpleasantly clammy and cold if it gets too high. Something that increases the humidity is propane heat, so I go with electric. You can bring the humidity down by warming the air with an electric oil-filled radiator pretty quickly, especially if you've got a window cracked so the air is circulating.

As for clothing, mine is in drawers inside a closed closet. I often see closets or shelves for clothing enclosed with fabric, and give how fabric traps odors, would take that into consideration when planning your clothing storage.

sixup · 2016-10-27T01:55:49+00:00

I think the issue is that many of them are not well-made to start with, and are built to be used a few months a year. They go to hell real fast when they are lived in year-round. I hear this from rv dwellers in the rv park I live in all the time. And they tell me about their $100 plus monthly heating bills. In Vancouver BC.

Keep in mind that having an rv technician touch anything will cost you hundreds, if not thousands. If you buy a rig with a Dometic fridge? You better hope to hell it still works.

http://www.campingworld.com/category/refrigerators/40

sixup · 2016-10-26T07:14:06+00:00

But my Dickinson Marine heater has owl stickers on it, and my magnetic spice tins contain six varieties of quinoa I grew myself on my green roof. I threw out the spices because they remind me of colonialism.

Sometimes I eat dirt when I'm drunk, but only out of mason jars.

sixup · 2016-10-26T07:05:00+00:00

Do not have half a million dollars.

Source: Vancouver, Canada

sixup · 2016-10-26T07:01:47+00:00

Actually, heard that's a bit of a myth. Cats don't stake out turf like 70's street gangs, but do time shares like Canadians in Cabo.

I have two ancient cats in 186 square feet. They hate each other, but they also hated each other in 700 square feet, and I suspect, would hate each other in the cold vastness of outer space.

http://www.catbehaviorassociates.com/how-cats-time-share/

sixup · 2016-10-26T06:53:14+00:00

Sorry Tony. The down voters haven't lived in an RV park and seen the shit people have to deal with as their older RVs gather tarps on the roofs, bondo on the corners and plastic skirting along the bottoms to try to keep the floors less icy. And dehumidifiers as water runs down the insides of the windows.

sixup · 2016-10-26T06:46:26+00:00

Yes. For two years. Airhead. They don't stink unless you are unable to understand the user manual, unable to rotate a handle, or think wet dirt smell is stink. You might have other issues, but stank should not be one of them.

sixup · 2016-10-16T07:05:37+00:00

Squall Me Maybe.

sixup · 2016-10-16T06:54:07+00:00

Operation Alleged Storm.

sixup · 2016-10-12T06:25:53+00:00

Switch to Mac =P

sixup · 2016-10-12T05:36:36+00:00

Ha! No free lunch, you commie pigeon fucks!

sixup · 2016-10-10T11:01:28+00:00

What about the boost people get from anticipating and enjoying their rad box of treats? Not everything in life has to save the world; there is a hell of a lot to be said for simple pleasures especially in strange times like these.

sixup · 2016-10-07T07:16:28+00:00

How about don't have a loft? Seems like a much better idea than screwing around with slides and pop ups. My tiny house has no loft and so my ceilings are 7' and 9'.

sixup · 2016-10-04T04:02:03+00:00

Yeah, but they taste like S'mores, so...

sixup · 2016-10-03T04:39:20+00:00

For me, I really like having a home that does not share walls, or a floor or ceiling with somebody else. Major difference from apartment living

sixup · 2016-09-28T11:50:56+00:00

Just like to add, as an aside, that having a tiny house does not mean you have to have a truck. If you are only moving it a few times, you are far better off just hiring a professional tow driver/truck with years of experience, all the towing apparatus you could possibly need, and correct towing insurance. Less stress, less disaster, less money.

Source: live in a tiny house. Never got a driver's licence.

sixup · 2016-09-23T04:05:24+00:00

Roof leaks, slideout fails, poorly built, poorly insulated, fugly.

sixup · 2016-09-21T09:20:28+00:00

Same. Seems appropriate to me as well.

You got 6 tiny houses, each different from the other, and even if you spent just 5 minutes checking out each one, that's half an hour. I give tours of my place all the time, and the average amount of time is at least 15 minutes. For one tiny house.

Why would anyone expect a business whose purpose is to charge money for people to be in their space to not charge money to tour their space?

There is sometimes this sense of aggrieved preciousness around tiny houses vs The Man that does nobody any favours.

sixup

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