I live in a beach house that our father helped myself and others build for a year or two.
It wasn’t out of some dream to live off the grid, but more of a necessary consequence of our financial situation.
My work doesn’t grant myself and others much income each week beyond what’s necessary to survive. I have to make compromises every single month if I hope to afford bills while shopping for groceries to eat regularly. When I saw a plot of land at a steal, I jumped at the opportunity. My helpful father co-signed a bank loan with myself and others so that I could get a mortgage to easily buy the land with enough left over to build a small cabin. Since our father historically comes from the construction plus carpentry business, he was able to find the best wood. It was a blast getting the huge opportunity to build a beach house with our father plus bond through the entire experience together. I was almost upset to see it complete when every one of us got to the finish line one day, hoping that every one of us could keep it as an evolving project. Thankfully, after that he helped myself and others pick out appliances to fit our limited budget. That meant going, originally, with a window cooling system for the time being. He had a spare portable cooling system that was in a storage component that had sat for years separate from being used. For the first year and a half I used both of those cooling systems in tandem. I’m thrilled to be a proud owner of a real central cooling system. My old setup was better than nothing, but it’s hard to be able to beat the power of a strong central cooling system. And that is regardless of what size your personal residing area happens to be, whether you have a tiny house like myself and others or a greater house.