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I found this amazing website last night. It's the site of a company that makes tiny houses. When they say tiny, they mean it too! The smallest (the xs house) is only 65 square feet!

At first the whole thing seemed quite ridiculous to me, but then I got to thinking and realized how much simpler life would be if you only had the stuff that you absolutely needed to go through your days and didn't have to worry so much about always expanding upwards and outwards. In the confines of a tiny house, you would be forced to be ordlery and organized as well as clutter-free. In the light of my incredibly messy room and my boxes of belongings that are spread over two separate rooms, it seems like a really great lifestyle.

But then, I got to thinking that it would get tiresome after a while because if you wanted to have friends over for dinner or celebrate an occassion, it would be difficult to manage, which is when I came up with the grand plan.

You get a big group of people together and buy a good chunk o' land somewhere outside town. You build a clubhouse type deal with internet access, a huge TV, a bunch of comfy couches and bean bag chairs and other entertainmenty stuff and spread your tiny houses out on the property. That way, when you want to be around a bunch of people, you can, but then at the end of the night, you get to go to your eighty square feet or whatever that is yours and yours only. And of course, the group would have a giant garden to grow delicious-type produce. And maybe a couple chickens. And absolutely, a big floppy, friendly dog that could sleep in a differnt tiny house each night of the week. Plus, the land could be somewhere totally awesome, like right at the base of the Tetons or even up on the ridge in the Gunx.

How fun would that be?