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emordnilap · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 4315 Location: way out west

Could You Live in a 12' x 12' Cabin With No Water or Electricity?

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hardworkinghippy · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 341 Location: Bergerac France

No way man !

I lived in one double that size for four years and was very happy to move to where I am now.
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JohnB · Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject:

12' x 12', with a sleeping loft! That's a mansion! My entire home is only 12' x 6'. I tried sleeping in the house for a few nights when my home was in the garage, but was back in the van ASAP.

I'd move out of my van if I had this though Very Happy

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jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 797 Location: weston super mare

I lived for three years in a two man ridge tent Shocked

so to me a 12x12 cabin would be like a mansion .
Before that I used to go camping with just a plastic sheet and sometimes a sleeping bag sometimes not, a tents pretty fancy really
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RuncornBridge · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 72 Location: Runcorn

Delightful story, I could definately have some of that. Camping is about the nearest we get.
As to living in that size of home, how about the old traditional narrow boats, their cabins were 7ft by about 10ft ish with hot stove and loads of kids! come to think of it I know I couldn't cope, far too untidy. Rolling Eyes

RogueMale · Joined: 03 Jan 2010 Posts: 117 Location: London

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biffvernon · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 6479 Location: Lincolnshire

My grandfather, Major W. F. Vernon, lived for several years in a smaller wooden hut in a field at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in the 1930s. He was a senior aircraft designer.
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MrG · Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 200 Location: Cardiff

Jonny where did you put this tent? Or did you walk round for three years with a tent on your back?

I lived in a tent for a while as well.. only about 6 months but it was actually really nice at the time (not through winter though)

Biggest problem I can see with living in a tent or whatever is where to put it without someone eventually turfing you out of it.. I'd quite happily live in a shed if there was somewhere I could knock one up without anyone kicking up a fuss. I do have quite low standards though!

hardworkinghippy · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 341 Location: Bergerac France

We lived in a tent (well a plastic tarp) for 4 months while we built our cabin.

It was bloody awful - far too hot during the day and humid at night. We had to keep our candelabra outside in the shade during the day because the candles bent over in the heat ! Laughing

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jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 797 Location: weston super mare

I saw this programme about a boy scout who was doing some sort of boy scout how long can you live in a tent thing, and at the time I used to like camping so I used to travel about with a tent doing various things when I came home Id put the tent up in the garden and just avoided being in a house .

Anyway this worked fine and people were used to the fact I liked living in a tent, I slept in it in summer and winter snow and rain, then one November these cats played between the flysheet and the inner and I didn't notice they had made these little holes, a storm started it rained hard and I woke up in a sewn in ground sheet full of ice water.

Shocked

I got really ill and gave up, since then Ive spent lots of time traveling about living in a tent but now I'm far more cat aware
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RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 6211 Location: York

Don't get me started about cats.
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Eternal Sunshine · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 1:16 am Post subject:

My new neighbour has a cat that took a liking to the finely tilled soil in my raised beds. Evil or Very Mad

I have a jack russell on cat duty now tho - I doubt it will dare come back in the garden.
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