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The Lure Of Retro Teardrop Campers

August 26, 2015 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

“Tiny home” and sustainable living fans are likely to also be fans of a phenomenon I’ve been following — the rise of the retro teardrop camper. These little RVs are lighter, more compact and they often pack big surprises in their seemingly small interiors. The latest one I’ve come across (h/t SF Globe) is from…

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Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Design Tagged With: campers, teardrop campers

More Area “Tiny House” Companies: Arched Cabins

January 19, 2015 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

They call it the “Tiny House Revolution” — the apparently growing movement to downsize your living space to maximize financial security, independence, simplicity and freedom. I don’t have stats to prove this movement is growing, only a sense of how often I’m seeing this kind of thing in the news and a gauge of my own web…

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Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Design, No Waste

Austin Family of Four in a Micro-House

May 15, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

The cost of living in Austin keeps rising, and this family of four has a creative way of dealing with it — living in a 260 square foot home. Really interesting story I found on the local news.

Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Austin Tagged With: Austin, cost-of-living, micro-house, tiny houses

Living Simply: Being Happy With Less

April 13, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

Behind all this back-to-nature, recycling, renovated-school-bus, simple living philosophizing that I do on this blog is a simple desire: to focus on the right things, to be happy. And, of course, to teach (by whatever means) my kids that way of looking at the world. You may or may not be familiar with the concept of…

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Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Current Affairs, Family, No Waste, NYC, Surprises Tagged With: gratitude, happiness, positive psychology, simple living

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