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Title: living in a dumpster
Post by: solon on October 21, 2014, 03:11:11 PM
The tiny house movement taken to the extreme. This guy lives in a dumpster - literally.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/the-simple-life-in-a-dumpster/379947/
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: nereo on October 21, 2014, 03:15:07 PM
The tiny house movement taken to the extreme. This guy lives in a dumpster - literally.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/the-simple-life-in-a-dumpster/379947/
makes all those people who've converted 40' shipping containers look like space-hungry pansies.  Interesting experiment.
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: Ferrisbueller on October 21, 2014, 03:37:38 PM
'Cept it's not a home if there's no toilet or kitchen
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: nereo on October 21, 2014, 03:41:34 PM
'Cept it's not a home if there's no toilet or kitchen

... don't know if I'd agree.  I've lived for weeks at a time in a tent that had no toilet and only a camping stove.  Plenty of people make tents their year-round, permanent home.
EDIT:  add to that... dorm rooms (my home for 4 years!) and all sorts of other living arrangements where you rely on communal bathrooms.
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: solon on October 21, 2014, 04:17:06 PM
'Cept it's not a home if there's no toilet or kitchen

The toilet and kitchen are coming in phase 2.
Phase 3 brings a second story!
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: GuitarStv on October 22, 2014, 08:09:31 AM
Was anybody else as wildly disappointed as me that his name wasn't "Oscar"?
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: senecando on October 22, 2014, 08:10:19 AM
Was anybody else as wildly disappointed as me that his name wasn't "Oscar"?

He does have an Oscar mug in one of the shots.
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: shotgunwilly on October 22, 2014, 08:23:04 AM
And he's the college dean! Wow, that's really interesting.
Title: Re: living in a dumpster
Post by: Dyk on October 22, 2014, 08:31:16 AM
The Oscar mug is awesome, just awesome.