Living Large In Our Little House

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Now, for today's post:

I was inter­viewed this week­end for the nation­ally syn­di­cated Real Estate Today Radio Show (Go down the page and you can click on my 8 minute segment).

It seems every­one is talk­ing about the trend to down­siz­ing to smaller homes. As I dis­cussed in the arti­cle I wrote for Mother Earth News, Dale and I have never really been trend-setting types, and prob­a­bly no one was more sur­prised than us when we heard about this grow­ing inter­est in small homes.

But what sur­prised us first was the real­iza­tion that we could even live per­ma­nently in such a small space.

When we first moved here, I was in a big hurry to find a way to expand our lit­tle house or build a larger one. I wanted my space and I wanted my stuff. I had a hard time with the idea that instead of liv­ing that “American Dream” and grow­ing up from our “starter home,” we had actu­ally down­sized to some­thing much smaller.

I was the biggest naysayer in our lives about liv­ing in a lit­tle house.

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