Living small makes CNN
Bill and Sharon Kastrinos move to a small space is featured on Friday’s CNN, along with a link to accompanying “iReports” from citizen journalists about their move to smaller living. The CNN story also makes the connection to Jay Shafer of the Tumbleweed Tiny House. Shafer has recently been on a road show with his design.
The story does capture one essence of smaller living:
By sizing down, he says he’s living on a total of $15,000 a year. He doesn’t have to worry about not making a mortgage payment and gets to work a job that he enjoys.
“Living in a small house has allowed me to do what I love doing, which is designing more small houses,” he says.
He, too, has purged junk and other items, donating most of it to the Salvation Army and to friends. “It does feel good,” he says. “I don’t miss the extra books, the extra clothes I never wore.”
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Not for nothing, but I live on about $15,000 / year in the middle of one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. I guess I’m living the small house in my small room in NE DC.