Hi andrew cauthen here. This is my hahahouse where i live. It's "paid" for. I made it in about a month-ish. I love it. I don't need more space. If i want more I go outside. It's insulated. Super cheap to heat/ cool (windows open in the shade for summer, passive solar heat sun for winter). It has a loft and lots of windows. I especially like the skylights (thanks kramer!). i have solar powered christmas lights that come on at night automatically. I salvaged most of the materials from trash at construction sites or wood I found around. I built this in an alley behind my friends house 98% by myself. I used mostly just a rechargeable drill/ circle saw. borrowed power to use them. I'm trying to graduate to just sleeping outside but this is good for now.
thanks to habitat for humanity "restore" for all the bargains and lowes/ home depot for helping me with the rest. I spent a little under $3000 I think. If I built another one it would be smaller, no loft, less well built (i work too hard, not good, this thing is a beast!). Srsly this thing could roll over many times n still be good. all screws. uhm well some of it was nail gun. super cross braced with metal. 19/32 plywood on outside under metal. tar papered and tyvek'd. corrugated metal w 100 year lifetime. screws siliconed. window bases are recycled signs, aluminum, and sloped. 13feet tall 6feet wide 10feet long. got the trailer for $850.
i live behind my friends house for free (kind of). He asked me. Everyone yelled at me. Everyone hated it just like everything i've done my whole life. But as i've seen with everything else i do, Im just way ahead of my time and soon you will be doing the same, in ur own way of course. We are living in the dark ages so hey what can u do? i do my best with what I've got like us all.
Thanks to my grandma for dying so i'd have a reason to do this since i really enjoyed coming back to you. thanks to my girlfriend for leaving me so i'd have a good reason. uhmm, thanks to the current lamestream death cult-ure for sucking so hard and not doing any of the work so I'd have no escape into vices and would just do it myself. thanks to the universe for giving me a place to put this monster.
The only way i get money is selling my food stamps to my mom (about $200 a month). I don't "work" anymore cause I stopped trying to conform, since i wasn't able to (im not good at lying and being lazy). I give everything away for free that i do/ volunteer cause i feel it's the most productive and fun. even tho everyone else want's "$" or sufferage. I feel everyone is already good enough just being alive. I also feel that if more people get into quality of life for all, especially themselves, they will venture down this same road of getting out of self destructive death cult-ure. therefore i am here showing you one avenue, tho it's not an easy one! we have to do the work and there is no way out of that! the only way to make it easy for you is to know that it is all perfect and to trust and enjoy urself as much as u can remember. also to spend as much quality silent alone time with yourself as possible getting "stoked".
enthusiasm, joy, honesty, awareness, integrity.
I want to thank also Jay Shafer at Tumbleweed House Company for all the pretty pictures. And tom for telling me about these tiny play houses that rule. thanks crimethinc and skateboarding and bikes and the color black for not showing the dirt and looking awesum and food stamps and waterproof bike bags and apple computers (even tho i can't wait to turn u into service for all instead of just the "rich", at least ur doing it the best u can for now).
thanks mom and george for being wage slave terrorists and never spending time with me so as to give me the time to develop myself. thanks all the artists, musicians, creative types in the world for accepting and assimilating the worlds insanity for them cause they're too scared / insecure.. showing them a brighter way to the awesum even though nobody gives u all any respect or money most of the time. they put u creative ppl in jail, call u crazy, make u feel bad allllll the time. thank you so much for being so strong! I feel you!! thanks to all the sell outs (probably you) for ruining everything and living off everyone else so that we could do it all for you time and time again. more than that i just want to be done cause i'm sick of explaining/ defending myself.. "forgive them for they know not what they do". i can't wait for the drugs to stop working for us all. free and happy for all. win win begin within. thanks pro awesum people doing the work, following ur joy, doing what you love and nothing else, sharing everything cause you love everyone and ur intentions are planet awesum. thanks bashar. can't wait to see more of you in the soon now!!! YESSS!!! :)
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btw i've been living in this thing on and off for about two years now but i mostly travel since i don't have to waste my money on rent. Oh i wrote inspirational quotes and pictures on the walls cause why not its fun?! that's a boom box/ guitar keyboard amp hanging from the wall that blasts out the window for when im skating my ramp. uhmm i love you... hurry up and build yourself one so we can play more, making your career your normal everyday life instead of some bs. invest in yourself.
takepills 3 months ago
Hipster mustache... nice...
vaidotas86 10 months ago
@vaidotas86 I have a lot of time on my hands lol. by design of course.
takepills 3 months ago
cool pad, How many square feet, do you have bedroom/loft upstairs. I like the sky light in. That is free heat. Good luck..
TheSummerdreams3000 1 year ago
@TheSummerdreams3000 thank you! it's 10 by 6 1/2. 6'2" tall on bottom and 4ft tall on top on the loft. So glad i did the skylights cause i love staring out them and it adds more space upstairs to sit upright. yeah it gets pretty warm up there when the sun is out. I sleep up there in the winter. downstairs in the summer. I have a little electric heater now that keeps the place super cozy. and a fan that keeps it cool. oh and i finally got screens! i ripped them out of a screen door.
takepills 3 months ago
WTF Cauthen
jwh238 1 year ago
@jwh238 Yup! WTF?!! Why isn't everyone making one? It only took me two months by myself and about 6 months rent! I'm set for life. but i like sleeping outside and in my car too :-)
takepills 3 months ago