http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tiny_houses

140 square feet? My bedroom's just a little bit larger than that.

I don't know, could you live in a house like that?

Minimalism seems to be becoming a growing mentality amongst Americans...I guess it's a good trend, especially when over-spending is what landed us in the economic turmoil that we are now in, but there is such a thing as taking it too far.

If you think you need to throwaway everything to keep yourself from becoming greedy, I think that's a result of a more direct, underlying problem...

I would agree that over-consumption is a problem, and it's disgusting when people throw out perfectly good stuff...but consumption also fuels the economy and our livelihoods.

I'd have a small house (not as small as those aforementioned, but) maybe...780 square feet, essentially, four rooms the size of my current bedroom: 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 kitchen, and 1 bathroom, maybe even a basement. That's if I wanted to buy/build a house, and I was going to live there by myself, or with a spouse. Kids? Maybe. Maybe not. Probably have a bigger house if I had kids, but still not by much...maybe just add another bedroom.

Well, I guess there's always apartments, too.

Thoughts?

There was a point around four years ago when I needed to drastically downsize my collection of utterly useless shit just to live comfortably. This was when my toy and game collection far exceeded the limits of good taste. Much of it I either sold or passed on to my little brother, and I've been a lot better for it since. Now my problem is more about running out of shelf space instead of, you know, house space.

running a huge online store from a 1200' condo is absolutely suffocating. we now have our eyes set on a 4000'-5,000' when we move to AZ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTIIefRTXio

Wow! What do you sell?
Also, welcome! I'm out in Arizona myself.