Tiny House Hoarders

 [Note:  the following blog post may not be for all readers, if you are a minimalist you may find this post shocking and disturbing, read at your own risk.]

Ashlee and I are both taken with the tiny house movement.  I would love a tiny (400-600 square feet) vacation cabin in the woods with no neighbors in view.  I am not sure what Ashlee's dream tiny house is but we like to watch several different tv shows focused on tiny houses and then discuss them.  There is one wee problem with it, we love stuff!  We are descended from clothes horses (people who have crammed closets full of clothes).  We also love hobbies of all kinds!  You need lots of stuff for most hobbies.  We tend to buy all the stuff for projects and then make them in our mind instead of actually making  them and then we move on to a new hobby.  I know it's a sickness of sorts.  If Ashlee and I were on a tiny house show it would be called Tiny House Hoarders.

Once a month our local thrift store does a bag sale.  Fill a trash size bag full of stuff (shoes, clothes, toys, linens) and it is only $10.00 dollars.  Our love of stuff combined with our love of a good bargain is detrimental to our tiny house dreams.  We each bought two trash bags full of clothes.  I was focused on buying clothes for Zany who is about to move up into the next size and church clothes for Quinton who is also about to grown into a larger size of clothes.  There is a fine frenzy in the atmosphere at the thrift store like unto black friday at Walmart.  It kinda freaks Ashlee out a bit and sometimes she wants to leave but I made her stick it out and before you know she happily spent two hours there.  We had to drag her out of the thrift store.

As you can see below our bags our packed pretty tightly.  Zany was thrilled with the new clothes and happily got out each of the items that were hers and faux tried them on.  She was quite sad when her pile came to an end (clothes horse in the making).  It is so trendy right now to be a minimalist but it is just not in our blood and whenever Ashlee and I dabbled in minimalism we always regret it.

"How does this look?" asks Zany

I think pink is my color!

One rare find was a mint in the package swim cap.  Nona felt like Zany would need it in the summer since we go swimming so much. Zany tried it on but she didn't like it at all and it squished her eyebrows and made her look a prizefighter which made all of us laugh so hard.

Swim capped gal

Another prize was this nice blazer I found for Eddy who decided to try out the swim cap too.

Eddy looks like he is ready for a date!