I wanted to take you on a quick tour of the warehouse that needs to be emptied in the next few years. Hopefully, all the parts will be turned into greenhouses, tiny houses, and domiciles of every sort—dog houses, cat houses, and communities for the intentionally minded folks who want to raise their kids to be healthy and organically oriented to live long and happy lives.
Salvaging the best of the houses and barns has been my life for a decade, saving the parts it takes to create incredible houses again. What stops most people from using the past parts is finding them in excellent condition; one of the reasons for so much warehouse space is that the stuff takes up enormous space. My decades of storing and saving it must come to an end, though, as I am nearing 70 as of this year, and I do not think I will be building out three hundred more houses, so I need to sell much of it off.
So, how many others in the world want to start a business building tiny houses out of organic-minded building techniques that create fun and functional houses without cutting down trees, making plastic parts, adding vinyl to the house with other modern building materials full of chemicals that we know cause cancer and other health issues. Why not build naturally, with wood, glass, and hardware created a century ago and still in excellent condition? Why not make houses with sustainable materials, using ingenuity and creativity to form houses that are all a bit different instead of the same models repeated repeatedly down the streets of subdivisions? In this modern age, new dwellings inevitably decay faster than in the past due to the built-in obsolescence in contemporary housing construction. What are you to do if you do not want a shitrock, plastic, and vinyl-laden house that outgasses formaldehyde, Endocrine disruptive compounds, carpet fibers that stick in the lungs like asbestos, and other contaminants that few are aware exist in the paints that cure with that new house smell, and other invisible foes.
When you use a salvaged sink, tub, or wood, you save the world from making more, creating the ovens to smelt the ore and cast the tubs, hardware, and glass. All are massive carbon consumers who produce, transport and sit in air-conditioned big box stores for people to buy. Why not consider saving the energy it takes to throw away our older building materials in the landfill and incorporate it into your new home where it will, in effect, save the energy it took to mine the materials, cut the trees down, and form the plastic parts for a new disposable tiny house on wheels or a subdivision house that is mainly made of parts that are not worth trying to salvage. A new home has very little worth salvaging from the start. Ideally, the best homes to salvage are pre-1960s houses built much better than the later subdivision houses after the 1950s.
Please consider the possibilities as you rebuild after storms, floods, and the many hazards like landslides that are destroying the houses built in the past, but not to the point that they can not be salvaged for the parts to be built anew. Do not waste what may not be able to be easily replaced or affordably, given the rise in the cost of the parts to build a house once the storms have driven up the prices on all things that must be brought in by trucks from far away. There is a need, and salvaged materials could go a long way to providing housing faster than waiting for the stores to be rebuilt and restocked, at great expense in time and money that the locals do not have to spare.
I want to see many people starting Pure Salvage Outposts as places to gather, store, and build tiny houses as a co-op. This will help to replace the big homes that are destroyed so that the families have some shelter for the winter ahead. It will be a bad cold period that will lead to death and sadness. Stop the madness of the codes and rules that might stop people from rebuilding tiny houses and shelters as fast as possible. Let's get it done soon, for winter is coming early, and many will suffer if the rest of the world looking on does not chip in to help. They can not recover from what happened to them without help. For many people, this tiny house would be a mansion, a safe place to raise a big family. This little house has three sleeping areas, a full kitchen, a bath, and relaxing porches. Why not consider Tiny to restart your life with a simpler lifestyle, less stress and debt, and a home you can love lifelong?
Trust your abilities to learn, grow, and know that God has a plan for your life and you have a purpose to fulfill. Be it a mother, father, or child, our roles in life are important to play out with the enthusiasm and creativity that will allow you to thrive and prosper without having to conform to the norm, the subdivisions full of toxic boxes and deed restrictions, HOA Nazis watching, and the threat of taking your home away if you do not comply with the subdivision restrictions. Live life free to grow your food, build your home, and share a healthy future with the ones you love. Make it a beautiful life by salvaging the best there is of the world and creating a better version before our turn in the Matrix is over.
So much stashed away that needs to become houses one day. Do you want or need to create a dream come true?