Single mom built shipping container home

Yea, that all looks so good in theory. Who wouldn't want a free house in the country, communing with nature, watching the stars and clouds float by, living off the land?

How creative, how ingenious. She's just so enterprising.

I think it's complete bullshit.

First, the number one goal of those in power right now is to amass as much land as they possibly can. They need to convince everyone that home ownership is not the way to go.
And, they need to kill off as many as they can. And if they can convince people to get student loans for useless degrees, and not to marry, that fits in with their long range plan to drastically reduce the population, and reduce their status to serfs.

Second, what single woman with children would be safe in a set up like this? It's a woman, by herself, living in a box. If she were discovered by a large percent of the preditor population (and that IS a large percent) she would be brutalized and run off or killed, and her shit taken over. If it were real, it would be naivety taken to the level of idiocy. It would be suicidal. That is why it isn't real.

It serves many purposes for the man to publicize this kind of crap though.

See, even with nothing, you can do fine. You don't need a job, you don't need an income, you just need a college education and loads of loan debt, then you reproduce without a husband, and raise your kids in a box !!! All the cool kids are doin' it.

It's kinda like your on a cruise at sea, only it's a box, in a field, and you ain't goin' nowhere but down.

Only because most of the crown's assets are in non-liquid assets - like huge tracts of land.

Yeah, you're right. Animals displaced and resources wasted. I know you're articulate and intelligent and I think you would have liked what we had. There was a lot of animals. It was something we all had to "put up with". Raccoons, scorpions, black widows just walking in the houses.

If I could make enough, I'd try to build something similar. Everything was recycled and unique and natural. But even the wealthy neighbors don't like what the guy from Greece built. It doesn't fit in with the natural environment. But like you said, he likes it. And he had the cash. Sad so many had to lose such a great place. It was affordable living and one girl died alone in a motel room while trying to find a place to live in the area.

Sorry about the typos. Dad passed and I'm spending the holidays with Mom and the games on and the dogs are playing.


Im sorry about your Dad...Im still working over my grief, My Dad passed away years ago.

I have no easy answers for you, seems like the higher the population goes, everything gets more complicated. If I could choose one time period and place to live it would be Beverly Hills in the 1950s

I feel like Im born wrong time, wrong generation.

I have no easy answers...

No one should settle for shanty town and no one needs a Mc Mansion either, There used to be the middle ground, called Middle class, but thats disappearing rapidly

I dont know what to say

God Bless..


Thanks. And Happy New Year to you and yours, too.

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These are at a place I stayed at in Mombasa, Kenya (everything there was made with concrete & palm fronds even the beds were concrete!). It was so nice & cool inside & I would love to build something similar somewhere near the beach one day (ah to dream lol)

Awesome, a PRACTICAL woman, and she's not bad looking either, the world, and especially the United States could use about one hundred million more women like her.

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The new "American Dream." Pretty sad if you ask me that she's reduced to living in a storage container. Yes, she's made it homey and attractive but its still a storage container and her kid will get picked on in school for it.

but who will have the last laugh

Yup, the Super Hero of today, A single woman with student debt, living like a Kentucky backwoods hermit in a tin can

Ingenious.

Its humanity at its degradation.

Its called MEXICO, HAITI , AFRICA, SLUMS OF INDIA

Maybe she's gonna homeschool?

Reminds me of the children's story, The Three Little Pigs:

"And I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in".

If you fucknuts would watch the video, she's from Argentina.

They had a complete financial fucking-over. So that's why she's frugal. You fucking worthless GLP turdsquish hatin prune.

So it's a survival mentality, and it's a good state to be in. Yes she could use some guns and dogs.

Oh is it now??????






Survival mentality.... yea, let's all go there. Maybe we can wrastle us up some guns and some dogs, and gather up all our little bastard kids, and sail our little square boat to that state.... oh wait, we're in a box in a field, and we aren't going anywere but down.

Let's just hang out here till a gang of homeless men comes and rapes and kills us and our kids and then we'll REALLY be back to the land.

Nothing like a snaggle toothed hottie livin' in a box to get all the men folk fired up.

If you weren't a fucking retard

You'd have read ferfal and know what Argentina (and total financial collapse of your country) is like, yes women do get raped when rule of law fails, shit for brains, but it's no thanks to scum eating better-off-dead haters like yourself. Ferfal discusses this.

Anyway lawlessness trickles down so you're a fucking idiot to think your culdesac or panic box is gonna keep you safe, so fuck off and eat shit.

Anyone who says people shouldn't go to Earth and prepare to live on less is a worthless bag of shit who enjoys laughing at others. You have nothing worth sayin. The absolute bottom ass end of the Internet. That's you.

Yes, absolutely, Instead of having higher expectations, these hippy people want lower expectations,

People. We have to evolutionize ! Not de evolutionize !

Dont expect anything less than the best !

We dont deserve living like animals in a dangerous society

Dont let us think that living like animals is acceptable !

Humans are a much higher lifeform than that.

haha, I think the old wolf would get pretty red in the face trying to blow them down, though he would take the roof off pretty easily

fAIL.. in Cali you cannot collect rain water without a permit

First of all, the woman spoke perfect, standard, American English, as a native American would speak, without any hint of an accent, and so did her children.

There was no mention whatsoever of her having been a refugee from some horrible Argentinian holocaust.

What she did STATE, in her perfectly unaccented American Standard English, and what they reported about her, was that she had college loan debts, and this box-life was a freely chosen response to those debts. She stated she could opt to live in a house, but she preferred a box in order to more quickly pay her college loans. She also stated that her box construction cost her $4,000. She was hardly an indigent refugee from some third world country. I believe Agentina has the highest rate of cosmetic surgery per capita of any nation in the world.

So let's cut the crap on Argentina entirely, it has absolutely no merit whatsoever according to the FACTS presented in the bullshit little propaganda fable presented here.

Second, let's talk about lawlessness. You will notice that I, not being a sociopath, do not have to resort to a continual barrage of personal insults and vicious invective in order to make my point. It is apparent to any but the most naive or deluded that a woman "squatting" in a flimsy, easily accessed, container in an isolated area, all by herself, is in a far more dangerous situation than a woman living in a location with police and fire protection and neighbors only minutes away, substantial walls, doors, and ceilings surrounding her, and the degree of anonymity that exists in urban areas.

Now in the event of a complete breakdown of society and total anarchy, this woman may be in a slightly better position than the urban dweller, but maybe not. In either case, that is NOT the situation we are discussing. We are talking about reality, not armaggedon.

Perhaps you believe that only those who cuss and swear and hysterically rail against anyone who disagrees with them have "something worthwhile to say on the internet."
Just because yours is the most popular message board style of discourse, it doesn't follow that it has merit.

In fact, I would guess that you are one of the very predator types that this woman should be protecting herself and her children from, if this were a real story, instead of the propaganda piece that it is.

That is why you are raving about what a great idea this is. Yea, maybe we should all put our asses out on the street. It would make your life so much easier.

Please note that the person above actually said, after you extract all the foul language:

Yes women do get raped, but it's no thanks to you.

Meaning, me, the person he/she was responding to.

And for that witness to my upstanding character, I thank them.

And wouldn't lawlessness be trickling UP if went from a box in a field to a cul de sac or a panic room?

I think it would. I think most would agree.

And isn't ferfal that dog that sells Nestle's chocolate?

Is ferfal a name or a state of being? Why does it never have a capital F?

Is it like the state of survival mentality?

See Hooverviles
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Shantytowns grew up on the fringes of regular cities and towns as homelessness dramatically increased during the Great Depression. Realize that we have 1.5 million homes in foreclosure, and when those finally happen, a flood of homeless will join the present homeless.

Historically people built the Hooverviles out of whatever they could find. Personally I think a lot of people will die especially in harsh weather as we're not as tough buggers as they were. We don't know how to gather food or grow it or raise it. Many of them were sharecroppers and did know. Many of the impoverished city dwellers during the Depression lived on one meal a day, and severe malnourishment deeply affected the nations.

It started in 1929, but by 1941 40% of the men who volunteered to fight in WW2 were 4F (not allowed to fight) mostly due to malnourishment. I'd encourage you to read about the Depression to get a realistic example of how that went. It might parallel our present circumstances and preparing supplies and learning skills might enable you to save your family and loved ones.

Some people could build on existing family homes with crude structures and make it long enough for the next Depression to pass. Those would be far safer if they're in very rural areas with meadows to till and raise simple livestock like milk goats and rabbits for occasional protein supplements.

This really doesn't have anything to do with the topic, which is the credibility of this story, and the desirability of following this woman's example (which is being spun in a positive way in the film).

I will repeat that the choice to build a home out of a packing crate was an option, not a necessity, for this woman.

She spent $4,000 in order to construct her "home." They stated she did not HAVE to do this. It was a personal choice.

If there are 1.5 million homes in foreclosure, all of those homes are going to be empty and presumably available for squatting. I know that there are countless, I'm talking thousands, of empty homes in my part of the country.

I see no need for anyone to live in a box, and it would be difficult to survive in a packing crate in a Northern climate.

The idea that 40% of the men of fighting age in 1941 were so malnourished that the armed forces rejected them is absolutely, ludicrously false. Hoovervilles were eliminated in 1940.

One more propaganda point of this film AND this thread is to portray homelessness as a personal failure, because after all, if you were as smart and creative as this woman, and her a poor foreigner, YOU could have a really cool box to live in just like her.

As more and more become homeless, it becomes imperative to convince the indigent underclass that it was all their own doing, and really, their situation isn't all that bad after all. They should seek out creative ways of finding shelter just like this enterprising woman, and not cause any further trouble to anyone.

It has everything to do with the article. People will use creative ways to cheaply house themselves given our current circumstances. I challenge you to do some real history and not just assume that we had healthy folks in the aftermath of the Great Depression. That just is not supported by the evidence. Those who were 4F worked in industry along with women to produce the armaments for WW2 and ancillary industries to support critical infrastructure.

People will build all kinds of houses as they become homeless. We can mock the woman for being creative and it will mean little as the homeless use whatever means are necessary to make their homes too.

Permaculture folks have already created many inexpensive ways like the wolfati to make livable places, and anyone who studies their principles will have at least basic ideas on how to make something work. Otherwise we're talking about sod houses instead.

Filthy skank. Everyone one of her kids looks like it's from a different father. Whore. And the last thing we need are thousands of people like her trashing the land, defecating everywhere, and reducing property values for everyone else. She's also making her kids live in substandard housing which is illegal. She should be arrested.

lol

ok i shouldnt laugh, please tell us more

Good for her. The kids are probably in a better living environment than if she were raising them in the projects somewhere. It's like living in a small vacation cabin at a state park. And, I bet she's not spending all weekend trying to clean the thing. Less is more.

I've seen your type of response countless times in virtually every forum online. Your job is to spin any meaningful discussion into some nonsense dead end and kill anything insightful or intelligent that anyone has to say.

I want to repeat that YOU MADE THE ABSOLUTELY ABSURD CLAIM THAT 40% of US males of fighting age were declaired unfit for service, 4F, because of malnutrition.

That is what you said. That is YOUR version of "REAL HISTORY." That is your version of a meaningful discussion on the actual topic being discussed here. And, your challenge to me is to "DO SOME REAL HISTORY," like you?

Well, I challenge you to come up with a single statistic anywhere that supports that absurd claim.

Then you say I'm "mocking the woman for being homeless."

I have repeatedly reported the facts stated in this film, which obviously you have not even viewed.

Repeatedly I have stated that the woman was NOT HOMELESS.
She had a choice of where to live. She had $4,000 with which to build this box-home. She made a choice to live there to pay off student loans. Period.

My point was that this is pure propaganda. I don't believe a single word of this stroy. Its intent is to pacify homeless people by making them feel ashamed for not coming up with some ridiculously dangerous and inadequate shelter of their own, like this brilliant woman.

And hey, if it's good enough for this brilliant college graduate, it should be good enough for me.

After all, she CHOSE to do this, so it really can't be all that bad to be homeless. It's a LIFESTYLE, it isn't poverty.

They're selling homelessness. That is the intent of this film.

They're also selling the acceptability of single parenting, and college degrees and loans that lead to living in a box. They're selling this because they want to drastically reduce the population by any means, and they want to own ALL OF THE LAND.


Your intent is obfuscation. You don't want anyone to realize what is really being sold in this bullshit film.

You're a sad angry person. I feel sorry for you. You have my sympathy.