See this house looks like it would be perfect, the attic room could be the older girls room and once oldest moves out then younger daughter can move up there too.
If they were poor instead of just ridiculous, CPS would be knocking on their doors for this kind of shit.
Let me guess: all these idiots were white?
This is exactly what I was going to say. White, hipsters do it, it's an experience or adventure. Black or brown poor people do it, it's child abuse.
Eta: I don't think every kid needs a bedroom but a one bedroom for 6 people is crazy. I know people who have had to do this and it was hell. There is a way to downsize without forcing your kids to live in cramped spaces for fun.
I like tiny houses in theory, but not when dragging your 4 kids along. For a single person or a vacation house, hell yes. And I'm all about not having more house than you need. I live in 1400 sq ft and it's honestly more than I need, but not as much as I could have.
Anyway, HUD and programs that work with HUD, like Habitat for Humanity, use the following formula: 2 children of the same gender and not more than 6 years apart can share a room. Otherwise, 1 room per sibling. This means no dormitory-style lofts for the whole family. No sticking 4 boys together in 2 sets of bunk beds. No making your 13 year old son share a room with his 5 year old sister. I think you should reasonably be able to provide that in your full-time, permanent accommodations.
At 14, I would have moved in with other family or friends before I went along with mom and dad's crazy on this.
It's definitely future therapy fodder. Or the kids (especially the 14 year old) will have a "difficult relationship" with her parents later in life, and I bet the parents will have no idea why she's so mean to them.
Yeah, that episode bothered me. I don't care about the single people or couples who want to live in a tiny house, but to subject your four kids to such crowded conditions, especially when you can afford better just sucks. It's not about sharing rooms, that's perfectly fine imho, but forcing teens to live with younger siblings of the opposite gender is cruel. Don't even get me started on thinking an outhouse is okay. No. Unless you're so far off the grid that running water and septic isn't available, no, not okay.
At 14, I would have moved in with other family or friends before I went along with mom and dad's crazy on this.
It's definitely future therapy fodder. Or the kids (especially the 14 year old) will have a "difficult relationship" with her parents later in life, and I bet the parents will have no idea why she's so mean to them.
They are not going to end up in a nice nursing home.
Did anyone tell this family that there are, you know, a lot of houses out there between 600 and 2500 sq ft?
And the cost of living difference between Corning, NY and LA is insane?! You can have the same exact house in Corning that will cost 20% of what it cost in LA!
This show helped me realize what a horrible person I truly am. I love watching these shows because the family always sounds like they are trying so hard to justify their decision and be happy about it when they do the interview a month later. They say that they love it, and they are smiling, but you can see the panic and quiet desperation in their eyes as what they've done finally sinks in. It usually only happens with the people who try "Tiny Living" with kids, so watching DINKS on the show ends up being kind of boring.
I also find it ridiculous that on the Tiny House Builders episodes the couple is always surprised that there is not a lot of privacy between their bedroom and the rest of the house, and that the bathroom does not contain a normal toilet. The phrase "Oh I didn't think about that" gets used a lot. I really hope that the producers put them up to saying those things, I just can't believe that someone is spending $100,000 on a super tiny house, and they haven't thought about two of the most basic things a person does?!
Post by penguingrrl on Jul 7, 2015 16:49:47 GMT -5
Yeah, that's nuts. We have 1400 square feet for five of us and I worry that it will get right when all three kids are teens. I can't imagine 6 people with 1 bedroom.
Technically our basement is my Mom Cave, but I can still hear everyone running around & im too close at hand so there's lots of "honey, do we have anymore chicken stock?" & "mom, where's my other shoe???" Ya know, bc I'm the only one with eyes in the family!
We need to watch this because I spent years listening to H bitch about HH and broke-ass people affording monster houses. I can't wait to hear his drama queen reaction to this.
What about all the times when someone would say, "My budget is $X." And then the realtor would say, "Well, look at this house. It's $X plus $50,000! You aren't thinking of that $50,000 from a monthly payment over 30 years standpoint. It's nothing!" Yeah! It's only another $100,000 over the course of 30 years! You don't need that! No biggie, right?
I love the tiny houses and would do one as a vacation home. I could also see them as a retirement home for a single person but I'd still want one of the larger ones.
I like tiny houses in theory, but not when dragging your 4 kids along. For a single person or a vacation house, hell yes. And I'm all about not having more house than you need. I live in 1400 sq ft and it's honestly more than I need, but not as much as I could have.
Anyway, HUD and programs that work with HUD, like Habitat for Humanity, use the following formula: 2 children of the same gender and not more than 6 years apart can share a room. Otherwise, 1 room per sibling. This means no dormitory-style lofts for the whole family. No sticking 4 boys together in 2 sets of bunk beds. No making your 13 year old son share a room with his 5 year old sister. I think you should reasonably be able to provide that in your full-time, permanent accommodations.
My sister and I are six years apart and the couple of years we had to spend sharing a room were HELL.
Just reading this thread title, I totally thought this was going to be a show about little people looking for houses. Kind of surprised TLC hasn't done that yet.
Was that the one where they were targeting something like 100SF per person? Like where the mom freaked out after taking the kids on a cross-country road trip (alone, while the husband stayed and worked and enjoyed their normal sized house to himself) and when they got home the kids went to their own rooms for 7 seconds of privacy and mom freaked out because they were all spread out amongst their 2000ish SF home?
Because yeah. Batshit crazy. And that sounds like the best possible way to ruin any positive family bonding for down the road, especially when you're doing that kind of shit to teenagers who are all angsty and bitter.
Also, I'm just gonna say screw space saving stairs and ladders because it just came up again in tonight's episode (some lady with a dog in Hawaii). I'd hate having a ladder or staircase that made me go up it a certain way. Like always left foot first instead of right or vice versa.
My home does not get to choose and take away my right to decide which foot goes first after I've done Memorial Day Murph and am convinced every stair on the planet should die in a fire.
They've shown episodes where they go back to visit people about 6 months or so after buying a tiny house - actually it is the show where people work with a tiny house builder to design and have their house built. The one couple, you could tell were not happy. The wife was especially unhappy and it was very visible. Several, but not all, had changes made to their tiny house after living in them a short time.