The virus pandemic’s economic hit has been particularly severe for millennials, considering many of them decided to get useless English degrees and rack up insurmountable student debt while choosing after college to become bartenders. As the story goes, in a post-pandemic world, the downturn has crushed the restaurant industry. Many youngsters are either collecting government checks or finding other jobs or attempting to retrain for a new career. As home prices soar (no thanks to Fed. Chair Powell), housing affordability has become out of reach for many. That’s why Ikea, yes, the affordable furniture store that sells Swedish meatballs, is now marketing tiny homes for broke millennials.
The tiny home crazy has been gaining momentum in the last decade as wealth inequality, driven mainly by the Federal Reserve, leaving most of the wealth concentrated in just a few hands, has resulted in the middle class’s decimation. People are downsizing left and right and opting for tiny homes.
Ikea launched the Tiny Home Project to capitalize on this trend. The 187-square-foot structure, or what could be viewed as a trailer, but commonly known as a “tiny home” to hipsters, is equipped with renewable, reusable, and recycled materials for inside furnishings, solar panels on the roof, running water, kitchen, and a ductless heat pump and air conditioner unit.
Under the guise of eco-conscious minimalists, millennials who gravitate towards tiny homes don’t realize that their living standard has collapsed. Say goodbye to the McMansion of the late 90s and early 2000s, and hello, to the double-wide trailer.
Unlike assemble-it-yourself furniture that the Swedish company is known for, these tiny homes are preassembled in a factory in partnership with media firm Vox Creative and Wisconsin-based tiny home ESCAPE.
During the pandemic, internet searches for “tiny homes” hit a five-year high.
With Amazon already selling tiny homes, how long until Walmart joins the party?
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You just can’t put them anywhere. Other than that…
Jeezus, are Millennials really that stooopid??? There are HUGE disadvantages to TINY homes.
And there are many hidden costs. Here …
https://www.moneyunder30.com/small-spaces-large-savings-do-tiny-houses-really-save-you-money
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Also ….
“10 downsides to living and traveling in a tiny house, according to a woman who has lived in one since 2013”
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https://www.insider.com/downsides-to-tiny-house-living-2020-8
I prefer a yurt.
Holy shit, Steph. You might be onto something!
Inside a yurt.
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above pics from
You can get a very nicely appointed yurt such as above for about $50,000 – $60,000.
Of course, there are many variables involved ….
https://rainieroutdoor.com/blog/yurt-living/true-cost-yurt-introduction/
Get the Yurt II. It comes with a Mongolian girl.
Is she a throat gobbler …. err, throat singer?
If so, I’ll take this babe in a heartbeat.
https://youtu.be/qNFSB4PnVPI
There was a book titled “Home’s Where Yurt” in The Last Whole Earth catalog. Internet Archive has the catalog’s full issue for download . I might search the issue once I download it. The page for the book had a lot of pics and text IIRC.
https://archive.org/details/B-001-013-719
And they laughed at boomers in their RVs which are much bigger (for most of them) and most likely better built. Ikea’s crap is not even good for firewood, it’s made of papier mache
Don’t knock papier mache. Aside from arms manufacturing, papier mache is all America has left….
Tiny House Living Sucks Ass
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Lastly ….
“Are Tiny Homes Worth It? 21 Reasons Why They’re a Huge Mistake”
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiny-homes-worth-21-reasons-100400803.html
Where do you even keep your empty aquariums, telescopes that are missing parts, mini trampolines your wife bought and those plastic pumpkins the kids used 16 years ago that you’re saving in case you ever have grandkids?
fwiw, my telescope missing a lens is sitting on my front porch pointed toward the skies, as if I use it. It has become a prop.
I wish I hadn’t broken that lens.
That was a good video. She actually gave information that was useful to someone looking into a tiny house. Not that I would. I think you’d be better off in an R.V. actually.
I’m 6’7″. I would rather kill myself than live in a Tiny House!!
I’m big into yurts at the present moment.
Those yurts look a tadbit like domeciles or dome homes. A friend of mine built a dome home down in West Texas. He calls it the Domestead.
https://www.treehugger.com/diy-dome-homes-made-aircrete-affordable-ecofriendly-option-4858759
At 6’7 I’m pretty sure living in a tiny house would kill you.
The double wide trailer I used to have had a bathroom as big as these tiny homes.
A headline from the piece of crap newspaper the Boston Globe:
Nearly 40% of all high school Juniors and Seniors are chronically absent from school
Upon further reading, the vast majority of them are Black, Latino, and other POC.
This is supposed to be shocking?
Once again, the shit bag teacher’s unions have shown themselves to be totally racist morons. All the while they screech about how they are being made to choose between a paycheck and their health (welcome to the real world, idiots) because Tall Deval is making them go back and teach in person starting April 1. No longer will remote learning count towards the hours required for the year.
The days of sitting in their jammies clicking a mouse and then consuming boxed wine beginning at 11 am are OVAH.
The days of bitching about masks, ventilation, and how dangerous it will be to go back into the classroom, while they hypocritically get on a plane to Puerto Rico or the Superbowl to party, are OVAH.
Merrie Najimy, the head of the union, got caught getting her second dose of the “vaccine” while not qualifying under any of the current guidelines as to who should be getting doses.
These are the same people who pandered to BLM and Antifa all summer long, voted for the Two Minute Egg, and basically made giant assholes out of themselves every chance they got.
It is blatantly obvious they give not one shit about children in Roxbury, or Mattapan, or Dorchester, or Brockton, or any other place where a large majority of the children are not white.
The hypocrisy is wafting everywhere, for the whole world to smell.
The other headline today was:
‘Charlie, you’re making a big mistake.’ Experts criticize state’s Monday reopening
Oh shut the fuck up. Experts. Tired of that god damn label too.
The jig is pretty much up, and all the academic mental defectives that were handed too much power, didn’t go to prom, and never got laid, are now losing their grip on the spot light.
I think Mr. Baker probably has been told by other “constituents” that enough is enough. There is still quite a bit of power in the North End and Southie, Whitey Bulger or no, and these folks want their festivals back. They want their illegal gambling during the church dinners. They are tired of the casino not pumping out the cheese on a regular basis. They are sick of their kids being home all the time. They are willing to become very problematic when it comes to certain things. The new Woo Sox stadium is getting close to completion, and a lot of people put a lot of money into it, and they are not going to sit quietly because card board cut-outs cannot purchase overpriced beer and nachos at the concession stand. Certain people’s nephews who are completely unqualified to do anything, need the parking lot money. Sure would be a shame if something happened to that nice stadium yuse got there.
Regular folks that don’t live in or near cities are fed up and have had enough. To be cancelling things months down the road when “cases” are plunging is not a good look.
Yesterday, as I stood on the side of route 146 and saw dozens of used masks blowing down the road, caught up in bushes and road signs, I realized that others are seeing this too. Masks will soon be the new plastic straws if we are lucky. I wonder if we can speed this along by bitching about masks going into local water ways and endangering some turtle or fish? Do those blue surgical masks contain some hormone-disrupting chemical that will give 5 year old boys tits? Anyone know?
Tiny houses are a symptom of a huge disease and it’s time to cut the cancer and spray the remainder with the strongest chemo we have.
Keep going Pup
Outstanding REP. Best rant I’ve heard in a long time. Spot on. Thanks for making my day.
Tall Deval/ Charlie Parker. I detect a fellow Howie fan…
As to tiny houses, might want to price out a well and septic also – ain’t cheap, especially with all the onerous environmental regulations.
The only thing going to be sped up is the enforcement of getting the hoax non-vaccine.
Also, are you conflating tiny housing to the fakedemic?
Hells yeah. I mean, we have already been warned we will “own nothing and like it” which sounds more like a threat than a promise.
So herds of people will become nomadic, drifting across the country like dysfunctional tumbleweeds in their “tiny houses”.
We are much, much close to Mad Max and Thunderdome that we ever imagined.
“drifting across the country like dysfunctional tumbleweeds”
That was such a good description. You definitely have a way with words.
needs more commas
Excellent. I like the way you tied it back to the tiny houses at the end.
Giving 5 year old boys tits is now Rachael Levine’s health policy. Worked for him….Er, her!
Based on quick research it seems you can buy a really small, really sparse, really shitty tiny house for as low as $8,000.
They can go as high as $150,000. WTF?????
The average range is $30,000 – $60,000. What a deal!!
Or, you could buy something functional like a used RV, — like this beauty for $31,000. At least your jizz won’t hit the ceiling after burping the worm.
Please link to this RV for $31k.
Craiglist.
JAFO, You never know, it might have the worst baked in stink you ever smelled. Books, covers, judgement etc.
Hell, you’d be better off buying a large storage shed that looks like a house, some even with windows, and adding insulation. Much, much cheaper. I don’t think tiny houses have a big future.
With fuel prices going up and digital travel passes (to prove you’re fit to go anywhere), you may not get very far in that if you want to travel, Stucky.
Tiny Home translated into common English I was taught growing up equals mobile home, as in trailer, as in trailer trash, as in trailer park boys. It’s like …living in a van down by the river.
Ok … now I want to address the idea of IKEA selling tiny homes.
ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE????
I have some Ikea shit. Shelves and a couple chairs. Assembly is usually a fucking nightmare cuz ….. MISSING PARTS. For my puny shelves they can’t even put the required 24 fucking screws in the package!! And you think they’ll have all the thousands of parts for a tiny house??? Bwahahahaha!!
Plus, Ikea is run by fucken Nazis. (NTTAWWT).
Any links available?
Sears used to sell real homes, a whole kit you could build yourself, not too expensive, and worthy of living in. A lot of those houses still exist.
Sears homes put these tiny houses to shame.
Admin, perhaps you could run this story , it’s down your alley:
https://tennesseestar.com/2021/01/15/tennessee-principal-on-administrative-leave-for-warning-students-about-social-media-censorship/
I told ya’ll that the public school system no longer tolerates Conservatives; the man talking First Amendment Freedom of Speech “treason” had to go; can’t tolerate that in the United Socialist Democratic Peoples Republic. Please support Vouchers.
It is the same worldwide. EU is really becoming the new fourth reich
I hope he does post it… I would love to see this principal get some support.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/02/oil-and-debt-why-our-financial-system.html
You better expect to losing EVERYTHING!
Those look quite nice.
They have the equivalent to a root cellar under the floor.
In 5 years the Yurt will look like a McMansion.
I saw that article and went to their website to see what they’re charging for what is basically a mobile home. Couldn’t find any prices anywhere. I think it’s going to end up being a ripoff, making money off of the idiot hipsters.
I thought this was Babylon Bee at first glance.
Anyone here ever made or seen a Mike Oehler house? The $50/$500 underground house book.