Our Off-Grid Mansion is Finally Here!!!
Three and a Half Weeks Left 'till Full-time Homesteading!
Money obviously is an issue, as most people know. But when it comes to living an alternate lifestyle, mostly off-grid and searching for self reliance, we make sacrifices or eliminate what some people may believe are necessities. I am switching my full time job to a very part time one (I will be there for 2 months every 6 months) to have the time to build our new homestead.
Less money, but a hell of a lot more TIME!
We have plenty of Capital to build with! You can see what I mean here: Prepping to Build a Homestead: 8 Forms of Capital.
We had been shopping for a bigger place to call home than our 1984 Toyota Dolphin...
And this Saturday we had a bigger place delivered right where we had cleared a spot (and found a treasure)!!!! Along with that I picked up a 10 x 12 metal shed to store our furniture, so we built a platform for it out of Palettes (that's a pretty col post to check out).
The beast of a new home cost us very little because we decided to take advantage of my good credit (I can't stand owing money to any sort of bank, but this was the wiser thing to do). We need the little bit of hard cash we have left to last us 4 and a half months and wisely choose where it need to be spent... Water, food, solar system, building materials (when we need more than what the land offers as material capital), a farm vehicle.
All three of us are very excited, we spent the weekend in the new caravan and it was fabulous! It's almost as big as the apartment we've been living in, in Brooklyn. There is more storage than in the apartment, that's for sure and we have a 20 acre back yard!
I still can't believe we have such a thing but we do and it will make our life so much easier than the Dolphin, though we aren't saying goodbye... Not now, not Never! She will provide different forms of capital for us. Once we give her a good cleaning and perhaps a bit of a face-lift, she will be beautiful cottage for an artist retreat, or a temporary home for a writer wanting some peace and quiet. With services like Airbnb and through word of mouth, a pretty little vintage cabin on wheels, in the Catskills region should make us a handful or two of useful coins!
And we will still take her out to festivals... Even though we want to settle down, live off the land and create a life outside of the Concrete Jungle, we are after all still festival people!
Would anyone want a walk through of the place, in the near future?
Proof of breakfast by our beloved Dolphin.
Proof of the Mansion!
In the End, it Always works out
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So exciting for you and your family! Happy for you, now you can have your garden and live off of the homestead! Congrats!
Yeah, thank you so much! I know right... we can have a garden that's finally bigger than our window sill. And chickens!!!
Walk through!! yes please!!
amazing to see how spacious this unit is...and yeah for 100 times more a stamp in nyc says it all.. super exciting all of this!
Heehee thank you @karinxxl, we are so excited too. This dream is finally looking like it's getting real!
Next weekend I can take a little video and walk through the camper. The land too but at a later date!
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I'm not too sure if I can get that thing through the streets of Orgiva!!!
Nice, that is plenty for what you need. I am glad to see you make positive headway, my friend.
Thank you so much @notconvinced! We are so happy with that giant home in the woods... it's a ready home we can live in for a long time, therefore we can take our time building what we want exactly!!!
Acquired this basically for free but it requires extreme refurbishing. I even considered breaking it down and using it as a trailer to scrap metal. I'm willing to bet I can turn scrap into enough $ to buy something I don't have to refurbish. Gonna cost me a good $ to refurbish it so we'll see if I can get it done before summer is up
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Nice, we got one just like it last year for close to nothing also! It doesn't fold down, the mechanism is broken or somethong so we have ot braced open with a wooden frame. But everything inside works great! Good for the property... it's the brother in law suite!
hahaha nice. The brother in law suite! Can't make it the mother in law suite eh? :P It's good for when you don't have to move it.
It's too "vintage" for the mother in law!
I bet you could make good money real quick scrapping!
It's pretty time consuming lol
Yep and it can be a pretty dirty job sometimes!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
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Ah yes!
Thank you @goldendawne, it's nice to feel my posts are sometimes appreciated!!!
There will be tons of off-grid posts coming. 3 and a half more weeks until we live there full time!
Cheers
AWESOME! I've been following you for so many months and have been looking forward to this page in your life!
Oh my god, me too... Started really thinking about it for 8 years or so! Thank you for that, it made me smile! Ok... going back to work.