A Tiny Home for Thomas & Rebecca
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Hello Everyone,
Our names are Thomas Finnegen and Rebecca Elizabeth Webber. We have big dreams for our tiny home!
Our wedding was on August 1, 2015 and this funding campaign was originally set up in lieu of a traditional registry or honeymoon. We are now continuing to rally our friends, students, and active supporters to invest in our future and to help us take this big step!
Our Story:
We first met in February if 2013 while attending Western Washington University and things picked up quick! The first documentary we watched together - No Impact Man - set the tone for the life we have built as a couple. Neither of us expected this path, but we couldn’t be happier to be on it.
For over a year, we spent all of our free time rigorously preparing for our (some might say) radical new lifestyle. After a few garage sales, several enlightening arguments, and many peace offerings of food, we successfully paired down our belongings and moved into a tiny apartment in September of 2014. In March 2016 we moved everything we own into our 1998 Ford Taurus and began traveling. Through all of this we maintain a holistic sustainability project called How to Human. In this project we experiment with modern activism, develop personal and home sustainability methods as well as plan for future undertakings. After many successes and twice and many failures, we have decided to write a book about it. Some of our topics include sustainable eating, all-natural living, mindful buying practices, events, celebrations, healthy relationships and getting more out of “less”.
The Next Step:
Our research has shown us a wide range of price tags for tiny house construction. The cheapest we found was a $4,000 home built using all salvaged materials, minimal amenities, as well as a lot of help and creativity. The costliest home was a $135,000 model which used all new materials, incorporated modern technology, and state of the art amenities. Because our design is so compact, we are hoping to build ours for under $10,000. We plan on minimizing cost by hitting up local construction projects for extra supplies, bargaining on buy/sell/trade sites, and utilizing other local resources. Lucky for us, we have a lot of friends willing to donate the human energy we need to build our new home quickly. We will also be benifiting from an ever growing and extremely knowledgeable online community that continuously reasures us that we are never alone. We are so very grateful to the pioneers of the Tiny House Movement!
Our tiny house will be on an 8’ x 12’ trailer and will include all systems needed for two people to live quite comfortably! We call the home itself a Sustainable Human Operating Trailer (S.H.O.T.) which will contain a Sustainable Operating System (S.O.S.). We hope to explore the extensive possibilities of these models espeshally as it may apply to disaster prevention and relief.
After Construction:
We plan to take How to Human and our completed tiny house on the road! We will be meeting with a wide range of people who are already living tiny and advocating for environmental and social change. We will be taking what we learn and incorporating it into our life as we go, continuously changing and experimenting until we feel that we are living the life most authentic to us. We call this dedication to positivity Solution Based Problem Solving and we will be able to show others how they can live their best life by first finding ours. Solution Based Problem Solving is one of 8 Principles of Modern Activism we teach to our students.
After our tour, we plan to settle on a plot of land and go off-the-grid. To us this means producing our own food, electricity, and many other daily needs that often get outsourced to underappreciated people and misunderstood corporations. Once we own land and feel that we can sustain ourselves from it, we will build a house out of renewable resources (cob, compressed earth, hemp)! We also plan to make our humane farm a teaching space for others to learn how to live sustainably (without going absolutely mad).
We thank you for taking the time and energy to learn a little about our life and we hope we have inspired you to donate to our tiny house campaign. We are looking forward to any and all collaborations that may come out of this adventure and we would love to hear from you!
Love & Light
Our names are Thomas Finnegen and Rebecca Elizabeth Webber. We have big dreams for our tiny home!
Our wedding was on August 1, 2015 and this funding campaign was originally set up in lieu of a traditional registry or honeymoon. We are now continuing to rally our friends, students, and active supporters to invest in our future and to help us take this big step!
Our Story:
We first met in February if 2013 while attending Western Washington University and things picked up quick! The first documentary we watched together - No Impact Man - set the tone for the life we have built as a couple. Neither of us expected this path, but we couldn’t be happier to be on it.
For over a year, we spent all of our free time rigorously preparing for our (some might say) radical new lifestyle. After a few garage sales, several enlightening arguments, and many peace offerings of food, we successfully paired down our belongings and moved into a tiny apartment in September of 2014. In March 2016 we moved everything we own into our 1998 Ford Taurus and began traveling. Through all of this we maintain a holistic sustainability project called How to Human. In this project we experiment with modern activism, develop personal and home sustainability methods as well as plan for future undertakings. After many successes and twice and many failures, we have decided to write a book about it. Some of our topics include sustainable eating, all-natural living, mindful buying practices, events, celebrations, healthy relationships and getting more out of “less”.
The Next Step:
Our research has shown us a wide range of price tags for tiny house construction. The cheapest we found was a $4,000 home built using all salvaged materials, minimal amenities, as well as a lot of help and creativity. The costliest home was a $135,000 model which used all new materials, incorporated modern technology, and state of the art amenities. Because our design is so compact, we are hoping to build ours for under $10,000. We plan on minimizing cost by hitting up local construction projects for extra supplies, bargaining on buy/sell/trade sites, and utilizing other local resources. Lucky for us, we have a lot of friends willing to donate the human energy we need to build our new home quickly. We will also be benifiting from an ever growing and extremely knowledgeable online community that continuously reasures us that we are never alone. We are so very grateful to the pioneers of the Tiny House Movement!
Our tiny house will be on an 8’ x 12’ trailer and will include all systems needed for two people to live quite comfortably! We call the home itself a Sustainable Human Operating Trailer (S.H.O.T.) which will contain a Sustainable Operating System (S.O.S.). We hope to explore the extensive possibilities of these models espeshally as it may apply to disaster prevention and relief.
After Construction:
We plan to take How to Human and our completed tiny house on the road! We will be meeting with a wide range of people who are already living tiny and advocating for environmental and social change. We will be taking what we learn and incorporating it into our life as we go, continuously changing and experimenting until we feel that we are living the life most authentic to us. We call this dedication to positivity Solution Based Problem Solving and we will be able to show others how they can live their best life by first finding ours. Solution Based Problem Solving is one of 8 Principles of Modern Activism we teach to our students.
After our tour, we plan to settle on a plot of land and go off-the-grid. To us this means producing our own food, electricity, and many other daily needs that often get outsourced to underappreciated people and misunderstood corporations. Once we own land and feel that we can sustain ourselves from it, we will build a house out of renewable resources (cob, compressed earth, hemp)! We also plan to make our humane farm a teaching space for others to learn how to live sustainably (without going absolutely mad).
We thank you for taking the time and energy to learn a little about our life and we hope we have inspired you to donate to our tiny house campaign. We are looking forward to any and all collaborations that may come out of this adventure and we would love to hear from you!
Love & Light
Organizer
Rebecca E. Webber
Organizer
Bellingham, WA
