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Tiny Living WITH Big Things
Part 1
TYBEE BEACHCOMBER | MARCH 2018 11
By Amy Callaghan
Have you ever looked around at all the crap you’ve accumulated over the years and thought about just getting rid of it all and starting fresh? My husband,
Robyn, and I (Batman) came to that conclusion in June 2017. The most exciting part is we decided on downsizing and building us a tiny home of our own.
Our gears were spinning - we wanted a shipping container home on a piece of land somewhere in Ellabell, Ga with drop down decks, lofts for bedrooms,
two bathrooms (in 5 years of marriage haven’t had) you know, the basics. We also liked the idea of being as green as possible (as I drink my beer out of the
bottle Tybee won’t recycle), so we wanted solar panels, compost toilets, blah blah blah. Another factor was deciding to rent for two more years and build
our tiny home during that time.
It took a few weeks of drawing out floor plans and agreeing on one. We came up with a rough
estimate of all said/unsaid material plus labor for some things we couldn’t do or just didn’t want to
do. SPINNING GEARS FULL STOP! The month of August will always be buzzkill month for so many
reasons but this took the cake. $100,000 to build our tiny home, and that price did not include two
years’ worth rent plus the piece of land!
Feeling defeated, we opened a lovely bottle of scotch and enjoyed a few cigars and cigarettes
on the back patio of our now CRAP filled 3 bedroom home neither of us wanted anymore. Later,
after the medicinal scotch kicked in, the real questions were asked - could we live within 40ft of
one another with two pit bulls AND get rid of our most worldly materialistic possessions? YES,
absolutely we could still make this happen! There were still a few stipulations i.e. Grandparent’s
antiques, vinyls I acquired in my teens from my hippie parents when they were teens, ALL THE
BOOKS were going no matter what, and the plants I haven’t killed yet. Then BAM another idea pops up out of scotchville!
(Conversation not verbatim):
Batman: Do you want to spend that much money to find out I might kill my sidekick living in such tiny quarters?
Robyn: I suppose not.
Batman: Let’s buy an RV or camper and test out if we can do a tiny home for a year!
Robyn: Looks at me stoically like he could throw me across the Atlantic or kiss me passionately on the beach during sunset.
To be continued...
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