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Is Tiny House Living For You?

Is Tiny House living For You?

There are many factors in knowing whether tiny house living is for you.

These are two personal lists of pros and cons after almost 3 years of tiny house living.

Pros:
Extra money each week.
No stressing over paying bills.
Flexibility of starting new business ventures.
Flexibility of traveling with my husband while he works away.
Flexibility of choosing new scenery as often as we want.
Bringing animals with you on trips.
The ability to leave with everything in the case of a hurricane.
The cool factor.

Cons:
Clutters very easily.
Constantly gets dusty.
Constantly cleaning.
Limited space for extra junk. ( actually may be a good thing)
Have to rearrange things before travel.
Not as much privacy.
In the case of having a Skoolie… if the engine breaks that will be a real issue of not having the money to fix it.

My experience comes from living in a 20 foot camper to now living in a 37 foot Skoolie.

Having financial freedom is worth it for me.
Having the freedom for me and my husband to leave the mundane 9-5 is a blessing. I have my own business as of now gabbysnaturalcreations.com . Even though it is slow we still can easily live off of my husband’s $600 to $1200 weekly pay check. But we have no credit cards and own everything that we have out right. Hopefully within the next year my husband can have his own business venture.

Our Skoolie The Ark.

Skoolie with Chickens

My husband and I travel with his work in a Skoolie. We have two dogs, a pig, and 16 chickens. No the chickens do not live inside of the bus. They only travel inside in cages while moving which is on average every 2 to 3 months. We love our animals like children. We enjoy having them, but it doesn’t come without a cost.

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Having animals means alot of taking up space in an already small home. There are cages for travel. The T Post fences rolled up in the back. Totes of food and medicines and even a chicken coop which we have to go back to get as of now everytime we move.

THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER

A trailer hitched behind a bus is necessary in smooth travel with chickens. It would be used to store a chicken coop, fence, t posts, nesting boxes, hay and all other pet supplies. This way travel will be alot more smooth and clutter free. This is what we are wanting to purchase next to make our lives easier.

PLACES TO STAY

There can be challenges when it comes to finding places to stay while having chickens but my husband and I have been traveling with chickens for about 10 months now. We aren’t able to just pull up to an RV park to stay because of our chickens, pig and pitbull. Our main resource is Facebook for sale pages in the areas that we are looking to move. We just put some pictures of our bus and animals. We explain the situation, and what we are doing in the area and our need of a place to stay with hookups for a couple months. It may take posting to a few cities around the area but eventually someone reaches out to help for an affordable price. The pictures will look something like this.

Chickens are possible while living the Skoolie life it just takes alot more effort and time in planning your traveling around them. For us its worth it. Happy traveling❤