Ryanne and I are working on an interview to post this week while we’re in LA. In the meantime, check out this video of our friend Luke and his girlfriend Heather who built a “container home” in Oakland, CA. I’m going to go out on a limb here to assume many of you would never want to live this way, but it’s a great example of approaching life as a scavenger. Let’s appreciate the problems he’s trying to solve vs. the details you find hard to take.
We’re always looking at our monthly bills and thinking of how to spend less. There could be bills/expenses that we just assume are permanent. But by changing our lifestyle, we’ve learned to live on less. If we spend less, we have to work less. If we work less, we own our time and get closer to the freedom that all the advertisements on TV promise you if you just buy more. “Never mind what’s been selling, it’s what you’re buying…”
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