{"id":873,"date":"2008-10-29T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2008-10-29T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T21:53:31","slug":"value-of-smaller-and-more-compact-lifestyle-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/value-of-smaller-and-more-compact-lifestyle-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Value of Smaller And More Compact Lifestyle Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching an interview recently about people who build and live in these houses that are literally 100sqft to 300sqft.  The houses appeared to range from about $10,000 to $100,000.  The one statement that I did like was how these people opted to not be slaves of their homes by not purchasing a large home that they cannot afford.  As a result, many of them say that they can get by with as little as about $15,000 a year if they need to from what I heard.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose in many ways it makes sense.  For these types of lifestyle items, I am usually a bit more picky about the value that you get for your dollar in comparison.  I think those Smart Cars are a perfect example of it.  Basically, the vehicle is more compact, should be cheaper to operate and so it makes more sense to buy that as oppose to a more traditional vehicle if it worked for your lifestyle.  But when thinking about it, these vehicles are usually almost the same price as a traditional sized vehicle.  In that sense, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more like you are paying for the novelty of the item.<\/p>\n<p>Similar with these tiny houses, there is this one in Toronto that you can see at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehouse.ca\/page6.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.thelittlehouse.ca\/page6.aspx<\/a> which costs well into the six figure ranges and to me it just seems too much from a general value standpoint. Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that be interesting though if we start seeing a revelation of say city neighborhoods that consisted of nothing but compact vehicles and tiny houses like these considering people are looking for ways to save money during these times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching an interview recently about people who build and live in these houses that are literally 100sqft to 300sqft. The houses appeared to range from about $10,000 to $100,000. The one statement that I did like was how these people opted to not be slaves of their homes by not purchasing a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,21,44,1302,1301,821],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-lifestyle","tag-money","tag-saving-money","tag-smart-carts","tag-tiny-house","tag-value"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0768-1300x866.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-e5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}