it may seem that way but what I think she is trying to relate to is that more and more people are facing financial earthquakes with companies reducing jobs, benefits, hours; established nest eggs (savings, retirement, emergency funds) almost not worth the paper they are printed on; mortgages being upside down compared to it's value; rents being close to house mortgages; etc. in other words, too many are one check away from total disaster. her message, not necessarily saying we all need to homestead but to acknowledge where we are at and to assess the what we can and need to do to still be happy and functional with ourselves if and when that rug gets pulled out from under us.
What a great video! We downsized from a 2400 sq ft house that took many hours a week to maintain. Now our home is 1100 sq ft, two bedrooms, one bath and we love it. It is super easy to keep clean and we have found that we enjoy it so much more. Will you consider doing another home tour? I would love to see what you have done with your charming little home!!
i am just happy in my 1000 sf home. Becky is so right, easy to clean, easy to watch the family and kids and nice for company. i can only thank God my our home, and my husband for working his ass off. thank u. i should mentioned that my single mother and i were homeless for 6 years when i was a child.
Let's not forget the thousands of dollars you spend each time you move and buy a new house. All those inflated realtor and bank fees, flushed right down the drain that could of been spent on paying off your mortgage. This is the ONE thing I did, growing up, that I wish I learned about earlier. Do not buy a home in your 20s if you plan on moving multiple times. Rent until you are sure you will be settled in one area for a long time, otherwise the moving and real estate fees are not worth it.
I "LOVE" my 3200 SQ FT home! When you can afford to own a big home and can afford to pay the bills, there is no stress in owning a large home..........that only happens to people that try to live outside of their means.
+Svein Arne Grønnevik whose to say what is "needed" or not. to each their own....just not a fair statement that it brings unhapiness, happiness is totally subjective.
+F3liz «F3lizevee» Evee That is perfectly right. Some want to live happy and some just want to show of ... ;-) But we are a lot of people that want ti live and travel or do other things in life alone or with family rather than pay a huge mortgage for a huge home. For us, Becky's statement is right.
I totally agree, sometime especially in large families, the small amount of time that you spend away from each other make the time that you have with each other even more special! Love you chicken videos becky!
+crazy808ish I think that she is correct to some extent about family should be together but to call it 'ruining' your life is over dramatic. I think that a smaller house can be even more stressful than a large house.
I always wanted a big house since that's all I've ever seen. "Bigger is better" I always thought. But when I started watching Becky's videos it made me realize how pointless and stressing life would be if you had the biggest of everything.
+Adriana Lynch my wife thought as you did and she purchased a big home. So much rooms to clean and its so time consuming. Now we wish we could downsize but we have to put so much money into fixing this big house first.
Hi Becky! I enjoyed your video and totally agree that a large home is not a necessity. We enjoy our small homestead with its small brick farmhouse. We are happier with what we can do with our money and time, not what we have. For us, it's all about the life, not possessions. We really enjoy your channel.
I don't know. When my family of five, including three young children lived in a small 1200 sq. foot has me, it caused me immense stress. Now we live in 2200 sq. feet and my life is a lot easier. To each their own.
Bravo Becky!!! Out here where I live, people are being swallowed up by debt, trying to live in bigger, and more expensive houses. It's taking a toll on their health, both physically and emotionally.
We have a fairly large house now and I do love this old house but with 2 of the kids grown and married now we just have 2 kids left at home so we'd like to down size a little to a smaller house. There is also something to be said for less material things, as I get older I find myself donating things/clothes that we don't really need. Nice video Becky, thanks for sharing.
I have a huge 5br house right now... I had to have one with all the kids.. Now all but one are gone and I often wonder why I still have this big house. NY sucks, the taxes are horrible, the politicians and policies are worse.... Then I remember that growing up we were moving every couple of years. I have no home to go back to and share my memories with my kids... Even though I think Becky's points are spot on and I'd love to simplify my life, I want my kids to come back here with their kids... Show them the bedroom they had when they were growing up, posters still on the wall, tree house still in the back yard... Share those home memories... I want to sell and downsize, I just cant bring myself to do it!
+Leaving Communitst NY Take pictures of the rooms. Box some of the real nice stuff up to show your grandkids. Then leave. They'll appreciate seeing those things just as much as they will being in that room(which, if we're being honest here, they'd lose interest in after the first couple of visits.) And you'll be free from the stresses of living in NY.
Leaving Communitst NY i can see how giving them that experience is important to you, but sorry to say, unless they've gone through the same moving every couple of years experience that you have, they won't value it anywhere near as much.
Good perspective, Becky. Unfortunately, the government has guidelines of how many bedrooms are needed for family size, especially when one is trying to bring home a special needs child. Larger homes mean more maintenance and taxes.
I agree with pretty much everything you said except when you mentioned about not needing a garage. I think a garage-workshop space, especially for a homestead or rural area home is important... or any home for that matter, come to think of it. You don't want that being part of your living space. Have you ever tried doing basic maintenance or more extensive work on a vehicle outdoors in the dirt with the sun beating down on you, or got rained out? IT SUCKS...
How refreshing to visit your video's -- your so happy . Love your house , chicken's , dog , nature setting . Thanks for sharing your life . Please keep it coming :-)
We are moving from a 600 sf house to a 200 sf cabin plus lofts. Now that's small! But, I can go all solar and add to the tiny cabin later on if I need to. Thanks for this!
I totally agree with you! My husband and I are in the process of buying a house with 2 acres of land and the house only has 1100 square feet. That is more than enough for him and I and our two daughters. Most of these people that live in these huge houses are stressed out and in debt up to their eyeballs, and ultimately in the end getting foreclosed on.
From personal experience smaller houses are MORE stressful with a family. Siblings will ring each-others necks at the end of a week in a cabin. It's nice for everyone to have their own space to retreat to when they're sick of the company.
We love our 832sqft home! We downsized from 3,600sqft over 4 years ago. It was the best decision. Currently we are selling all of our belongings and our house to full-time RV. We will WWOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) as a family while living on the road.
Hey Becky! We love your videos! We're so lucky to have randomly stumbled upon your channel! In just a week you're already saving us money, and inspiring us to live more frugally and doing things ourselves! We can't wait to move out of the city one day and live more like you do! :)
I could not agree with you more! The constant drive to have more, bigger, better costs us so much. This I know from my own personal experience. I grew up in a 3 bedroom house with one bathroom. My mother and father spent time together and with me, my two sisters and my brother. We actually ate dinner at the kitchen table instead of in front of the television. My happiest memories are of that life. My mother went to her grave (as the bible describes it) old and satisfied with days. I know it is because they put the more important things first. The more you have, the more it takes to maintain it. You have to sacrifice that time from somewhere, from someone. And as my mother said to me many times, "Cassandra, there is no sacrifice without a sacrifice!"
We have our small property and now we are thinking about building small. Just wondering if perhaps you could make a video of what your house looks like on the inside. I would love some ideas. Thanks.
The perfect house would be the one with a big kitchen, small bedrooms and lots of closet space. When you have kids, you need lots of closets. We use our garage as laundry and tool storage area. I also keep the extra toilet paper when I stock up on a super sale, so I would never pay too much for it. My husband also keeps his work supplies there, he is self employed.
I now live in a 672 sq ft house, one bed, one bath. Full kitchen, sleep sofa opens to a queen bed for guests, lots of closets, full laundry room with 6' freezer. Out in the country. The house we raised our 2 daughters in wasn't much bigger, just 2 bedrooms. It's not just the cost of the house, but taxes, insurance, utilities, heat, A/C, it all adds up!
I love the video. It would be nice if you could make a video about where you do your projects, cooking, and other activities in the house and how you make it work with the room you have. I'm always trying to find a place to do my sewing, spinning, painting etc.
I had a 4 story 4800 sq foot house that was absolutely gorgeous. I built a 1600 sq ft house for my wife and son and couldn't be happier with it... I did also build a 6 car garage but.... I couldn't help it... Didn't cost me that much because I built it myself.
I'm with you Becky. Some people think it's great to own a 4,000 SF house on 1/2 an acre of land, NOT ME! I want as much land as I can afford and I will live in my car for a while if I have to LOL
There's really only a few scenarios in which a 4000 sqft house makes sense. One is if multiple people are to live in the house, something like six people. Another is if you regularly have multiple guests staying overnight. Third reason is if you have a business or hobby that takes up a massive amount of room.
+W gaming and more Wright The railway doesn't have anything to do with whether you can have chickens or not. It's your city codes. You can probably look them up online.
Hi Becky, I love your videos and I just got your year long series off of Amazon and I love I!. Will you be having more seasons out soon to buy (previous years and future videos??)
I believe you in theory but how do you let go if you have already collected too much stuff? For twenty years I haunted thrift shops. When we got new carpet a couple of years ago I was forced to move everything I own to get the carpet in. It was a big eye opener for me. Haven't been to a thrift shop since. So I have successfully stopped the behavior, but what about all the stuff that I collected in the meantime? I have rationalized all these years that I am not a hoarder because we don't owe a cent on credit cards, my house is neat and clean, everything has it's place, there's nothing on the floor, they wouldn't put me on the hoarder show, , etc. Well there is nothing on the floor because there are 14 bookshelves in the house! I have only one kid left at home so it is time to downsize We may even be moving in a few months for my husband's job. All the vintage knick knacks, yes I can see let going of them. Because they have no use.. The seven vintage sewing machines, yea, I don't need them. I have hundreds of books, but I have a kindle, so I guess I could get rid of a least the fiction books, but what if the grid goes down? I am set for life with reading material! What people give me the most grief about is 5 bookshelves full of quilting fabric. The problem here is that I like my fabric better than the fabric that is designed today. That fabric was bought with love and it is my history. And I have already pared it down two or three times already. Yes, there is enough fabric here to make probably a 100 quilts and even the average quilter out there would think it is ridiculous. What people don't understand that don't quilt, is that in painting you can mix another color, but you can't do that with fabric! So I don't know what to do. I would rather my husband get rid of that canoe and that fly fishing equipment and that motorcycle that has been clogging up the garage. I can't win an argument about this, no one in their right mind I KNOW has this much fabric but it is just hard to let go. Fabric is so useful! I know I should be free of this stuff but it is so darn hard.
+Denise Bourgoyne You start one room at a time. Don't focus on the whole house worth of bookshelves, start with whatever easiest/least overwhelming. Even if it's just clearing excess knick-knacks from a bathroom. And keep focusing on the selected area until you're sure it's at a reasonable size. Really, the amount of stuff always increases to fill the space provided. I think what you really need to do is box some of that stuff up, and see how attached you really are to it after not seeing it for a while. Bookshelves are probably the worst format for fixing this problem, because it's in your sight every day. Also you could maybe consider posting about this in some other fabric-related forum or community. I know collections like that are often a problem in yarn/fiber areas, so you may be able to get much better advice there.
If you can easily afford a large house there is no reason you shouldn't have one. Living in a small house would make me unhappy, They can be very confining.
I feel kind of sad that you went to explain all of the benefits but then didn't show us your house set-up for said benefits, like how to manage space and ect.? :c
Never wanted to to do so much housework...I think only the Banksters make out on larger homes...so many are being foreclosed on in my area and everyone wants a small house now with lots of property....hum..
+Michael O'Rourke eventually you may downsize down the road. living big now and regret it later----wait til retirement hits, you'll be downsizing fast!
+Michael O'Rourke The thing is, many people don't have that "lots of money." Even if they do, they also often accumulate debt alongside., spend time maintaining the house instead of being with family, have unnecessarily large huge heating and light bills, lose the chances at doing other things with it etc...
My dad is a business manager and owner and he works hard so we have a huge house and he owns multiple properties and cars. People tell me this angrily and I figure they are just jealous. My mom doesn’t work either.
I live in a five bedroom, two bathrooms, kitchen and dining room and a huge living room with tall ceiling on 3 acres of land and couldn't be happier! I absolutely LOVE my big house and land with a pond! So I much disagree with you on this one 😜
I agree and disagree, people need their own space to retreat and have alone time, however people today do tend to just stay to themselves. We seem to have lost the ability to balance social and alone time. Perhaps it's all the messed up things messing up our hormones in our food. Who knows. People seem more depressive these days and there is lots of nasties in our store bought food such as antidepressants. I know those are meant to fix depressant problems but on a normal brain what does it do? For example some people might drink a beer and seem relaxed maybe even might pass out.. Some people (like me) can drink a beer and get more energy and want to do stuff. People react differently to different chemicals because we aren't all the same. So antidepressants might help some people who have perhaps like manic hormone issues but to those who don't may have the opposite affect. It's why it's so important to be able to take matters into our own hands and take control of what we eat and where it comes from. People don't do well in a tiny space for too long like rats trapped in a tiny cage. Rats are intelligent it's why I use them for example. With enough space and resources they typically get along fine. If there is a snit between them they can retreat to their own spaces. You don't need giant houses though. Just enough space everyone can get their own space when it's needed. Also it would help if we try to end the consume everything and buy buy buy mentality we have been teaching them so they can be satisfied. Now kids are crying when their ipods aren't the right color or something... tsk tsk. No gratitude and too much greed.
+Mistress Phoenix Over 250 million prescriptions are written for antidepressants each year. With all those chemicals moving through the environment, it's only to be expected that others are affected unfortunately. That's on top of all the other hormone-changing chemicals, and the stresses, especially financial, people have to deal with now. I think Becky's case is somewhat subjective though. She's speaking from the viewpoint of someone who's children are already grown, and she lives in the middle of the country. It seems like a lot of people who want big houses out there originally come from the city and are fed up with small places. And I can understand that. But there's a big difference between that and a small place in the country where you're not all crowded in.
I like your videos but I have to disagree. Im sure some people love the little house movement but I do not. When my husband and myself got married almost 25 years ago we bought a 950 sq ft home. We eventually ended up having 3 children. We had 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. We continued to live there until our oldest was 18. I love to have family and friends over for get togethers. Our home was entirely too small. We couldnt have many people over at one time because of lack of room let alone have out of town family stay with us. We have been in about a 1600 sq ft home for almost 4 years and it has been wonderful!! I totally agree with the earlier comment, if you can afford to live in a bigger house and you want one why not. People get stressed when they live above their means. And believe me it was stressful to not have enough room for anything. We still have 5 people in our home as the 2 oldest are in college (oldest is about to graduate). It is much nicer to have more room.
after watching this video... i still say NAH. i like big houses better, i get more space to do stuff and i get more play space for vr headsets. and especially more space to play with rc toys and things that require big spaces, but thats my opinion so you can do what you want with your life.
Really, it's an American idea that we "need" a big home to be happy and I think a lot of the time it has to do with showing off or keeping up with the Joneses. My dad and step mom have a big home for just the two of them. When I visit them it's so big there is very little contact made between the people there, I wouldn't be surprised if this contributed to their unhappy marriage...they are so consumed by the rat race they don't even eat meals together! Since living in Europe I realize you don't need all that space! It just costs more in the end and is more work. The key to happiness is learning how to be content with simple things
it may seem that way but what I think she is trying to relate to is that more and more people are facing financial earthquakes with companies reducing jobs, benefits, hours; established nest eggs (savings, retirement, emergency funds) almost not worth the paper they are printed on; mortgages being upside down compared to it's value; rents being close to house mortgages; etc. in other words, too many are one check away from total disaster. her message, not necessarily saying we all need to homestead but to acknowledge where we are at and to assess the what we can and need to do to still be happy and functional with ourselves if and when that rug gets pulled out from under us.
The older I get the more I realize this is very true.
What a great video! We downsized from a 2400 sq ft house that took many hours a week to maintain. Now our home is 1100 sq ft, two bedrooms, one bath and we love it. It is super easy to keep clean and we have found that we enjoy it so much more. Will you consider doing another home tour? I would love to see what you have done with your charming little home!!
i am just happy in my 1000 sf home. Becky is so right, easy to clean, easy to watch the family and kids and nice for company. i can only thank God my our home, and my husband for working his ass off. thank u.
i should mentioned that my single mother and i were homeless for 6 years when i was a child.
Let's not forget the thousands of dollars you spend each time you move and buy a new house. All those inflated realtor and bank fees, flushed right down the drain that could of been spent on paying off your mortgage. This is the ONE thing I did, growing up, that I wish I learned about earlier. Do not buy a home in your 20s if you plan on moving multiple times. Rent until you are sure you will be settled in one area for a long time, otherwise the moving and real estate fees are not worth it.
I "LOVE" my 3200 SQ FT home! When you can afford to own a big home and can afford to pay the bills, there is no stress in owning a large home..........that only happens to people that try to live outside of their means.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, a generalization that a "big house" is ruining your life is unjust.....
+F3liz “F3lizevee” Evee the point is you don't need all that. You might want it, you might like it, but you don't need it.
+Becky's Homestead Spot on, Becky! :-)
+Svein Arne Grønnevik whose to say what is "needed" or not. to each their own....just not a fair statement that it brings unhapiness, happiness is totally subjective.
+F3liz «F3lizevee» Evee That is perfectly right. Some want to live happy and some just want to show of ... ;-)
But we are a lot of people that want ti live and travel or do other things in life alone or with family rather than pay a huge mortgage for a huge home. For us, Becky's statement is right.
No One Needs Big House, But It's Nice To Have Nice Things, And The Option Of Privacy Every Now And Then
I totally agree, sometime especially in large families, the small amount of time that you spend away from each other make the time that you have with each other even more special! Love you chicken videos becky!
+LiLMusicBunny Every situation is different. No matter how good the advice is, of course there are often exceptions.
+crazy808ish Well Actually It Depends How You Prioritize Your Wants And Needs, And If You Even Have To Compromise To Begin With
+crazy808ish I think that she is correct to some extent about family should be together but to call it 'ruining' your life is over dramatic. I think that a smaller house can be even more stressful than a large house.
a place for everything, everything in its place I just need to find mine
+Susan Sibborn That's an old one, my grandma used to say that. ❤️🐝🐔☀️🐷
+Becky's Homestead can you make a farm or if you have one will you give tips?
I always wanted a big house since that's all I've ever seen. "Bigger is better" I always thought. But when I started watching Becky's videos it made me realize how pointless and stressing life would be if you had the biggest of everything.
+Adriana Lynch my wife thought as you did and she purchased a big home. So much rooms to clean and its so time consuming. Now we wish we could downsize but we have to put so much money into fixing this big house first.
CLEANING each room is not fun 1 bed room and livin room is goood
Bigger is only better if multiple people are to live there.
Hi Becky! I enjoyed your video and totally agree that a large home is not a necessity. We enjoy our small homestead with its small brick farmhouse. We are happier with what we can do with our money and time, not what we have. For us, it's all about the life, not possessions. We really enjoy your channel.
I don't know. When my family of five, including three young children lived in a small 1200 sq. foot has me, it caused me immense stress. Now we live in 2200 sq. feet and my life is a lot easier. To each their own.
Bravo Becky!!! Out here where I live, people are being swallowed up by debt, trying to live in bigger, and more expensive houses. It's taking a toll on their health, both physically and emotionally.
+Nola oneil It's so true, who can keep up with all that. Simple is better. ❤️🐝🐔☀️🐷
What you said It’s like a therapy for me. You are so right. Thanks for the advices.
We have a fairly large house now and I do love this old house but with 2 of the kids grown and married now we just have 2 kids left at home so we'd like to down size a little to a smaller house. There is also something to be said for less material things, as I get older I find myself donating things/clothes that we don't really need. Nice video Becky, thanks for sharing.
Hello Becky. thanks for all yur Vids... btw... yur slimming down.... i see it pays off.
I have a huge 5br house right now... I had to have one with all the kids.. Now all but one are gone and I often wonder why I still have this big house. NY sucks, the taxes are horrible, the politicians and policies are worse.... Then I remember that growing up we were moving every couple of years. I have no home to go back to and share my memories with my kids... Even though I think Becky's points are spot on and I'd love to simplify my life, I want my kids to come back here with their kids... Show them the bedroom they had when they were growing up, posters still on the wall, tree house still in the back yard... Share those home memories... I want to sell and downsize, I just cant bring myself to do it!
thats very understandable
+Leaving Communitst NY Take pictures of the rooms. Box some of the real nice stuff up to show your grandkids. Then leave. They'll appreciate seeing those things just as much as they will being in that room(which, if we're being honest here, they'd lose interest in after the first couple of visits.) And you'll be free from the stresses of living in NY.
If only it were that easy... You cant climb a tree in a photo... You cant smell the garden from a photo. It's all about the experience and atmosphere.
Leaving Communitst NY i can see how giving them that experience is important to you, but sorry to say, unless they've gone through the same moving every couple of years experience that you have, they won't value it anywhere near as much.
+Leaving Communitst NY you are forgetting the new memories the family will get in the new small house
moved from big house to small house so much more time to spend time with my critters and garden just love it
I agree. It's how you utilize the space, not necessarily the size. Thank you for sharing these wise advices.
Good perspective, Becky. Unfortunately, the government has guidelines of how many bedrooms are needed for family size, especially when one is trying to bring home a special needs child. Larger homes mean more maintenance and taxes.
I agree with pretty much everything you said except when you mentioned about not needing a garage. I think a garage-workshop space, especially for a homestead or rural area home is important... or any home for that matter, come to think of it. You don't want that being part of your living space. Have you ever tried doing basic maintenance or more extensive work on a vehicle outdoors in the dirt with the sun beating down on you, or got rained out? IT SUCKS...
How refreshing to visit your video's -- your so happy . Love your house , chicken's , dog , nature setting . Thanks for sharing your life . Please keep it coming :-)
Thanks again Becky for your soothing informative voice...much lov from So.Cal
We are moving from a 600 sf house to a 200 sf cabin plus lofts. Now that's small! But, I can go all solar and add to the tiny cabin later on if I need to. Thanks for this!
I'm on my second house and agree with you completely. Simplify and do not over buy. You will destroy your happiness if you burden yourself with debt.
I totally agree with you! My husband and I are in the process of buying a house with 2 acres of land and the house only has 1100 square feet. That is more than enough for him and I and our two daughters. Most of these people that live in these huge houses are stressed out and in debt up to their eyeballs, and ultimately in the end getting foreclosed on.
From personal experience smaller houses are MORE stressful with a family. Siblings will ring each-others necks at the end of a week in a cabin. It's nice for everyone to have their own space to retreat to when they're sick of the company.
We love our 832sqft home! We downsized from 3,600sqft over 4 years ago. It was the best decision. Currently we are selling all of our belongings and our house to full-time RV. We will WWOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) as a family while living on the road.
I love hearing The Gospel According to Becky! I think you're right on, thanks for sharing your homestead and wisdom!
Hey Becky! We love your videos! We're so lucky to have randomly stumbled upon your channel! In just a week you're already saving us money, and inspiring us to live more frugally and doing things ourselves! We can't wait to move out of the city one day and live more like you do! :)
this is a great perspective we live in a 700 Sq ft tiny home with 7 people and we all fit comfortably.
Thank you for your great tips!
Amen. Thank you Becky.
Truer words have never been spoken! I fully agree.
I could not agree with you more! The constant drive to have more, bigger, better costs us so much. This I know from my own personal experience. I grew up in a 3 bedroom house with one bathroom. My mother and father spent time together and with me, my two sisters and my brother. We actually ate dinner at the kitchen table instead of in front of the television. My happiest memories are of that life. My mother went to her grave (as the bible describes it) old and satisfied with days. I know it is because they put the more important things first. The more you have, the more it takes to maintain it. You have to sacrifice that time from somewhere, from someone. And as my mother said to me many times, "Cassandra, there is no sacrifice without a sacrifice!"
We have our small property and now we are thinking about building small. Just wondering if perhaps you could make a video of what your house looks like on the inside. I would love some ideas. Thanks.
Omg you are so right, you’ve completely changed my mind and thoughts on this topic in just 30 seconds!
Actually, the whole video is true
The perfect house would be the one with a big kitchen, small bedrooms and lots of closet space. When you have kids, you need lots of closets. We use our garage as laundry and tool storage area. I also keep the extra toilet paper when I stock up on a super sale, so I would never pay too much for it. My husband also keeps his work supplies there, he is self employed.
So obvious yet so overlooked. Great video. Ma Larkin eat your heart out!
You are right again Becky. I had a 3600 square ft house and it was stressful when I was raised I ng the kids
@2:30. Is that egg & sausage tacos topped with cilantro & green salsa?That looks good!
you should do a house tour ... I love all your advice :)
Great video! You should post a homestead tour video! Maybe you already did one like that I'm not sure. Keep it up Becky
Any chance of a home tour and a video on how you make the most of your space through organization and such?
I now live in a 672 sq ft house, one bed, one bath. Full kitchen, sleep sofa opens to a queen bed for guests, lots of closets, full laundry room with 6' freezer. Out in the country. The house we raised our 2 daughters in wasn't much bigger, just 2 bedrooms. It's not just the cost of the house, but taxes, insurance, utilities, heat, A/C, it all adds up!
I love the video. It would be nice if you could make a video about where you do your projects, cooking, and other activities in the house and how you make it work with the room you have. I'm always trying to find a place to do my sewing, spinning, painting etc.
I would love to see a house tour...and perhaps you could introduce your family? That would be awesome!
Which are measurements of your house (in feets / wide and long/? It seems to be comfortable. Can you share the plans?
I love you and your little home💕🐷🐶🐟
I had a 4 story 4800 sq foot house that was absolutely gorgeous. I built a 1600 sq ft house for my wife and son and couldn't be happier with it... I did also build a 6 car garage but.... I couldn't help it... Didn't cost me that much because I built it myself.
A lot of people work to have their big homes yet are never home to enjoy them... I agree, smaller is better YET that is for me! :)
I would agree if it is an open space concept home. Some small homes have far too many rooms though and feel cramped.
Oh wow. The lack of end tag/ sign-up message at the end is so surprising here. What happened?
I'm with you Becky. Some people think it's great to own a 4,000 SF house on 1/2 an acre of land, NOT ME! I want as much land as I can afford and I will live in my car for a while if I have to LOL
There's really only a few scenarios in which a 4000 sqft house makes sense. One is if multiple people are to live in the house, something like six people. Another is if you regularly have multiple guests staying overnight. Third reason is if you have a business or hobby that takes up a massive amount of room.
Thank's for making.....these Videozzzzz
thanks for the video.
My family lives in a big house, but we have 7 people and its not ruining our life, u r right though
Hi Becky you are very inspirational I grow my own veg but can I keep hens in my backyard ? My house backs onto a railway.
+W gaming and more Wright The railway doesn't have anything to do with whether you can have chickens or not. It's your city codes. You can probably look them up online.
We love our little home.
thanks for the tip
any gardening updates coming soon!!!!:)
All that and no floor plans or examples I was hoping for examples of not needing a room for every activity
so your saying I should have my garage in my living room?
Hi Becky, I love your videos and I just got your year long series off of Amazon and I love I!. Will you be having more seasons out soon to buy (previous years and future videos??)
That's the truth. We looked at a 5300 sqft house and then moved in a 34foot RV! haha
This is so true!!
my mother always said Less is Best .. Like this video
Love your dog in the background, is that a Corgi mix?
+Dos Vasko's Farms pure bred Corgi Cardigan not Pembroke
I believe you in theory but how do you let go if you have already collected too much stuff? For twenty years I haunted thrift shops. When we got new carpet a couple of years ago I was forced to move everything I own to get the carpet in. It was a big eye opener for me. Haven't been to a thrift shop since. So I have successfully stopped the behavior, but what about all the stuff that I collected in the meantime? I have rationalized all these years that I am not a hoarder because we don't owe a cent on credit cards, my house is neat and clean, everything has it's place, there's nothing on the floor, they wouldn't put me on the hoarder show, , etc. Well there is nothing on the floor because there are 14 bookshelves in the house! I have only one kid left at home so it is time to downsize We may even be moving in a few months for my husband's job. All the vintage knick knacks, yes I can see let going of them. Because they have no use.. The seven vintage sewing machines, yea, I don't need them. I have hundreds of books, but I have a kindle, so I guess I could get rid of a least the fiction books, but what if the grid goes down? I am set for life with reading material!
What people give me the most grief about is 5 bookshelves full of quilting fabric. The problem here is that I like my fabric better than the fabric that is designed today. That fabric was bought with love and it is my history. And I have already pared it down two or three times already. Yes, there is enough fabric here to make probably a 100 quilts and even the average quilter out there would think it is ridiculous. What people don't understand that don't quilt, is that in painting you can mix another color, but you can't do that with fabric! So I don't know what to do. I would rather my husband get rid of that canoe and that fly fishing equipment and that motorcycle that has been clogging up the garage. I can't win an argument about this, no one in their right mind I KNOW has this much fabric but it is just hard to let go. Fabric is so useful! I know I should be free of this stuff but it is so darn hard.
+Denise Bourgoyne You start one room at a time. Don't focus on the whole house worth of bookshelves, start with whatever easiest/least overwhelming. Even if it's just clearing excess knick-knacks from a bathroom. And keep focusing on the selected area until you're sure it's at a reasonable size. Really, the amount of stuff always increases to fill the space provided. I think what you really need to do is box some of that stuff up, and see how attached you really are to it after not seeing it for a while. Bookshelves are probably the worst format for fixing this problem, because it's in your sight every day. Also you could maybe consider posting about this in some other fabric-related forum or community. I know collections like that are often a problem in yarn/fiber areas, so you may be able to get much better advice there.
Welp I have a 7000 sq house with 6 garages😐
Very well said. Being a slave to things , equal s,....... stress, divorce, diease.
If you can easily afford a large house there is no reason you shouldn't have one. Living in a small house would make me unhappy, They can be very confining.
I feel kind of sad that you went to explain all of the benefits but then didn't show us your house set-up for said benefits, like how to manage space and ect.? :c
+DarkRainbow Well then you should have looked at her other videos where she does show those things.
Never wanted to to do so much housework...I think only the Banksters make out on larger homes...so many are being foreclosed on in my area and everyone wants a small house now with lots of property....hum..
Yes! I love my little 1,000 sq ft house. It is too much space for just me though so I'd like my next house to be 800 sq ft or under. It'll be a dream!
When I buy my first house I'll get a small one not big one I won't be able to maintain the big house on my own
keep up the good work.
I love the chicken videos. This one I really love.
same!🐔
+Danielle Robertson me three....we love the chicken video's
Me too!
We are a family of 3 in 850 sq ft and it is plenty big - too big really.
The little dog near the car is stealing the scene.
Living in a large house doesn't ruin your life. If they work hard and earn lots of money, they might as well use it
+Michael O'Rourke eventually you may downsize down the road. living big now and regret it later----wait til retirement hits, you'll be downsizing fast!
+Michael O'Rourke The thing is, many people don't have that "lots of money." Even if they do, they also often accumulate debt alongside., spend time maintaining the house instead of being with family, have unnecessarily large huge heating and light bills, lose the chances at doing other things with it etc...
Exactly
My dad is a business manager and owner and he works hard so we have a huge house and he owns multiple properties and cars. People tell me this angrily and I figure they are just jealous. My mom doesn’t work either.
a your of your small house and the things you do and how you be organized it is in order now :)
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The 8 of us live in 1,500 sq. ft. with 1 bathroom. It's tight and too cozy ;)
cherish those memories, wish I could have encapsulated mine.
T. Ruth T How tho
How many bedrooms are there?
Homestead tour !
I want the burrito recipe please! It looks SO delicious!
no some of us don't want to hang out with out family
Love your videos
I deffenently want to homestead.
You talk about hand-me-down clothes. In my case, my kids are bigger than me, so I get hand-me-ups! lol
I ❤ your videos!
I live in a five bedroom, two bathrooms, kitchen and dining room and a huge living room with tall ceiling on 3 acres of land and couldn't be happier! I absolutely LOVE my big house and land with a pond! So I much disagree with you on this one 😜
I agree and disagree, people need their own space to retreat and have alone time, however people today do tend to just stay to themselves. We seem to have lost the ability to balance social and alone time. Perhaps it's all the messed up things messing up our hormones in our food. Who knows. People seem more depressive these days and there is lots of nasties in our store bought food such as antidepressants. I know those are meant to fix depressant problems but on a normal brain what does it do? For example some people might drink a beer and seem relaxed maybe even might pass out.. Some people (like me) can drink a beer and get more energy and want to do stuff. People react differently to different chemicals because we aren't all the same. So antidepressants might help some people who have perhaps like manic hormone issues but to those who don't may have the opposite affect. It's why it's so important to be able to take matters into our own hands and take control of what we eat and where it comes from. People don't do well in a tiny space for too long like rats trapped in a tiny cage. Rats are intelligent it's why I use them for example. With enough space and resources they typically get along fine. If there is a snit between them they can retreat to their own spaces. You don't need giant houses though. Just enough space everyone can get their own space when it's needed. Also it would help if we try to end the consume everything and buy buy buy mentality we have been teaching them so they can be satisfied. Now kids are crying when their ipods aren't the right color or something... tsk tsk. No gratitude and too much greed.
+Mistress Phoenix Over 250 million prescriptions are written for antidepressants each year. With all those chemicals moving through the environment, it's only to be expected that others are affected unfortunately. That's on top of all the other hormone-changing chemicals, and the stresses, especially financial, people have to deal with now. I think Becky's case is somewhat subjective though. She's speaking from the viewpoint of someone who's children are already grown, and she lives in the middle of the country. It seems like a lot of people who want big houses out there originally come from the city and are fed up with small places. And I can understand that. But there's a big difference between that and a small place in the country where you're not all crowded in.
Good video becky
I like your videos but I have to disagree. Im sure some people love the little house movement but I do not. When my husband and myself got married almost 25 years ago we bought a 950 sq ft home. We eventually ended up having 3 children. We had 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. We continued to live there until our oldest was 18. I love to have family and friends over for get togethers. Our home was entirely too small. We couldnt have many people over at one time because of lack of room let alone have out of town family stay with us. We have been in about a 1600 sq ft home for almost 4 years and it has been wonderful!! I totally agree with the earlier comment, if you can afford to live in a bigger house and you want one why not. People get stressed when they live above their means. And believe me it was stressful to not have enough room for anything. We still have 5 people in our home as the 2 oldest are in college (oldest is about to graduate). It is much nicer to have more room.
I have 5 homes and love the all I can't part with any of the I love my homes
Beckey the only trouble I would have with a smaller house is where would I put all my HUNTING and FISHING stuff. HA HA
Another thing ruining your life: SmartMeters.
I live In a very big house and my family and I are perfectly fine
My house is roughly 6,500 sq
bigger house, more cleaning, i like small nyc style cubicals but has 2 be modern
after watching this video... i still say NAH. i like big houses better, i get more space to do stuff and i get more play space for vr headsets. and especially more space to play with rc toys and things that require big spaces, but thats my opinion so you can do what you want with your life.
Really, it's an American idea that we "need" a big home to be happy and I think a lot of the time it has to do with showing off or keeping up with the Joneses. My dad and step mom have a big home for just the two of them. When I visit them it's so big there is very little contact made between the people there, I wouldn't be surprised if this contributed to their unhappy marriage...they are so consumed by the rat race they don't even eat meals together! Since living in Europe I realize you don't need all that space! It just costs more in the end and is more work. The key to happiness is learning how to be content with simple things