Simplicity.....but I would have to have eight foot walls.......

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/photo/what-choosing-poverty-looks-n75796

Why not build a small log cabin? I might suppose he has found his redemption in this hole. To each his own.

Fez.

Hundreds live like that.

I would never call a mans home a hole.

There are different kinds of poverty and often the most impoverished are quite weLthy.

The more money I made and the bigger the houses.....the poorer I became. Simplicity and just enough make a rich man and more stuff a poorer man. Wisdom is a journey often never completed.

othershoe1030 wrote:Basically cut down on overhead, then you don't need so much to keep afloat. I've seen more habitable caves. His is a bit too tight for me. Like Mr. Oats I need a higher ceiling and a window wouldn't hurt either...toilet and water??

Perhaps he has a good post hole digger . . .   

No refrigerator.Get real!

Mr Ichi wrote:I find it somewhat amusing that the wealthy and financially stable people preach the value of simplicity as they drive off in the Lexus to Gamble at the casino ... LOL...   It is a nice concept but few live it , except in their minds.

     

yeah, we have some people like that on this forum.   These same people preach charity but not with their own money. lol

4 thousand square feet to a little over 1 thousand feet. Never been happier, and I actually use 100% of the house when in the old house I would not visit some portions of the house for YEARS......yet the bigger the better......more was always better, but then you get wisdom......less is best. Also, getting older it is very hard to maintain what you have, but as this guy gets old and has health issues......I do not see this as a viable option. It is a great option for young and healthy.

I was thinking the same thing,Seaoat about when this guy gets older this living arrangement is not going to work. also he's making $5000 a yr.? What does he think he's going to get from ss when he's old and can't worK?

Don't worry by the time Obama's through my FEMA trailer will be considered a middle class mansion.

It is tough work when a simple tiny home with water, gas, and electric hook ups, and modern plumbing is not much more expensive.......I have told the story of a kid whose mother died when he was 15 and he went literally feral. He lived in the woods around town moving from one site to another living in lean to structures. He had a felony by the time he was 18 and he bullied people by scaring them. He would shoot his shotgun(yes felony) over boats which got too near his encampment, and he would swim to people's riverfront homes with a blackened face and just stare. People were terrorized of him, and stuff would be stolen from their boats and property, but he struck such fear that he became the town bully. He finally got a license and an old truck and did odd jobs between his thefts. He would fish and hunt for his food, and his filth was disgusting, as he drove around town with his bow and arrow mounted in the rack.

I found that he was seriously mentally ill, and he would argue that everybody envied him because of his FREEDOM. He was a sick puppy. He trapped a dog for three days in the waters edge on my property(he ran trap lines and ate what he trapped).....and I announced in town that I would tie the sob who left that dog in the water for three days and I took his trap. It is against the law to take a man's trap. I got the dog to the rightful owner, and I told them that I was not giving the trap back until he paid the vet bill for the paw damage. The people in town called him Rambo because they feared him and he lived a feral lifestyle. Well Rambo comes on my property and gets in my face about me going to jail.....he shortly found out that scare stuff works with some and it is a very different thing with others. After he had his come to God moment, I actually began to help him. Gave him some work, and pretty soon everybody in town was standing up to him, and he moved into a small house and actually started working and got a girlfriend.......he told me later that girls and his personal cleanliness was always a problem. My point being that at some point you begin to wonder about mental health when somebody lives like this man has lived, and I am thankful somebody got him a job, but so many people let out of the mental institutions thirty years ago have and continue to live on the streets.

Teo, the man himself calls it a "hobbit hole."

The guy is a photojournalist. Here's his own piece about his abode.

http://www.surfersjournal.com/journal_entry/dan-price-and-his-hobbit-hole