I imagine there’s a lot of variance among individual units of both types. And this is a personal pet issue here, but if there were more true starter houses available, people probably wouldn’t be so hot on tiny houses. I’d far prefer a 2 BDR/1 bath house to a condo but they’re not building those. I can neither afford…

I just Googled “tiny house versus mobile home” to see if there are practical advantages to a tiny house over a double wide or manufactured home. The only one I saw is the claim that tiny houses are more energy efficient and better weather-proofed. Which, if true, sounds legit. But I mostly read a lot about…

The first time my mom saw a tiny house feature on the news, her exact words were “why didn’t they just get a mobile home?”

I live in eastern WA now and we’re having an unusually bad winter. I was worried I was going to have to do that when it finally started to thaw, thank goodness.

I don’t want to scrape ice/sweep snow and a car that’s behind a garage door is a car that’s less likely to get broken into/stolen. When I lived in North Dakota I was blown away by how many people preferred digging their car out of snow to getting rid of enough stuff to put their car in their garage.

Yeah. I’ve pursued a variety of “diets” in my quest to live with an auto-immune disorder* and one thing I’ve noticed is that every group (vegans, paleo people, raw foodists, etc.) has a subgroup of complete fucking nutbags. The “bald men who claim to be vegan are liars because cholesterol causes hair loss,’ “I don’t…

Conversely, I missed Twin Peaks when it originally aired (I was in high school) because my parents are beatniks and we didn’t have a TV. I watched it for the first time in my late 20s and liked it but wasn’t all “HOLY SHITBALLS.” I watched it again in my late 30s and was all “HOLY SHITBALLS!” I literally squeed when I…

I’m a proponent of not having excess stuff so I don’t even know why the tiny house love bothers me. But people gushing over tiny houses just annoys me. It’s like I’m a self-hating minimalist or something.

I try not to be, because then I’m just like every other smug-ass minimalist that everyone hates. But I’m super smug over using my garage to house my car, not store my excess crap. It’s a family thing - we’re all “car goes in garage, not on driveway or street” people.

LOL my same friends who gush over this show are the one who lost their shit over The Gilmore Girls reboot. I’ve put them all on notice that as we get closer to the Twin Peaks revival, I’m going to take the opportunity to annoy them as much as they do me.

When I first read about this show I said “sounds like Thirtysomething for millennials.”

I don’t mind the show but my friends sobbing all over Facebook about it is nauseating.

It’s an admittedly small microculture, but I know of one group of people who live to one-up another with how minimalist they are.

When I try that I get mocked for not “getting” their shitty joke.

Flan and marzipan. I swear I’m the only person on the planet who likes either. Whatevs, more for me.

If you don’t already know this, you don’t eat much candy. :D

Love them. The chocolate Necco wafers were my favorite ones, along with pink. I’m a huge, huge fan of pink and red flavored foods.

LOL you just listed my three favorite candies.

I manage to spend enough money without a gadget that makes it even easier to impulse shop.

This was nearly 20 years ago in cheap college housing.