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The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir / Dee Williams.
"A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780399166174 (hardback) :
- Physical Description: 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Happy Enough -- Southeast State Park -- The Drive -- Torsades -- A Moment of Genius While Waiting -- Tiny House Man -- Fear and Logic -- Anthropology 101 -- Dream Big, Build Small -- Blondie on the Roof -- Who Cares If I Appear Foolish? -- Hobo-A-Go-Go -- There Goes the Neighborhood -- Modern Conveniences -- Slack Line -- A Six-Inch Drop Hitch -- Keeping the Peace -- Broke Butt Mountain -- One More Thing. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"-- - Baker & Taylor
The sustainability advocate author ofGo House Go describes the heart condition and hectic lifestyle that compelled her to scale back and simplify while spending more time with family and friends in her self-built, 84-square-foot home. - Baker & Taylor
The sustainability advocate author describes the heart condition and hectic lifestyle that compelled her to scale back and simplify by building a portable, off-the-grid, eighty-four-square-foot home. - Penguin Putnam
Dee Williamsâs life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restoredâbut, increasingly, it did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general time-suck of home ownership. A new sense of clarity began to take hold: Just what was all this stuff for? Multiple extra rooms, a kitchen stocked with rarely used appliances, were things that couldnât compare with the financial freedom and the ultimate luxuryâtimeâthat would come with downsizing.
Deciding to build an eighty-four-square-foot houseâon her own, from the ground upâwas just the beginning of building a new life. Williams can now list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her approximately ten minutes to clean the entire house. Itâs left her with more time to spend with family and friends, and given her freedom to head out for adventure at a momentâs notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch.
The lessons Williams learned from her âahaâ moment post-trauma apply to all of us, every day, regardless of whether or not we decide to discard all our worldly belongings. Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life.
