How to live little - Glenwood Springs Post Independent
CONTRIBUTE TO GO. We are accepting 150-word essays with photos and/or videos of favorite hiking, camping, rafting, biking or climbing spots in the valley. What favorite spots and experiences are you willing to share in our new show-and-tell Go. feature. You most likely spend a big chunk of your paycheck on rent or a mortgage. You have to clean your living space and fix the things that break. Also, unless you’re particularly well-established, you’ll probably move out after a few months or years. Then, when you’re trying to fit all your things into the trunk of your car, you’ll realize how extra much stuff you’ve accumulated. To me, that’s not fun — especially in a place like the Roaring Fork Valley where housing is expensive and hard to come by. On a whim last winter, my husband started looking at campers. He texted me a picture of a bright blue 1975 GMC Vandura with dark blue racing stripes. “Wanna buy a house. We drove to Denver and came back with the camper, which remained parked in our driveway for the rest of the winter. We spent the chilly months repainting, reorganizing and rebuilding the Shark’s interior, and we didn’t renew our lease when summer started. Only the essentials can fit in a 100 square-foot space. The “tiny house movement,” as it’s been called in the media, is a social movement of people moving out of big houses or apartments and opting for a smaller space, often 1,000 square feet or less. Source: www.postindependent.com
