The Tiny House Has a Name

Tiny House has a name!
“Tomato Box”

 

Tiny House - Tomato Box

Here’s the story behind it:
When I was a kid, the four of us — mom and 3 kids — spent a good bit of time traveling by car back and forth between two states. (Moving doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d like.)
Since we needed to pack for a couple of weeks at a time, it’s easy to imagine the space constraints we ran into with three kids, three kid’s clothes, three kid’s toys, three kid’s educational materials (like Calvin & Hobbes books!), and three kid’s entertainment devices (walkman, anyone?).

Ever the solution-seekers, we devised a plan. Mom gave each of us a suitcase for our clothes and a tomato box for everything else. You know, the cardboard boxes that little crates of tomatoes would come in? One of those. We could bring anything we wanted, as long as it fit into our tomato box. It was brilliant.

No more harassing mom about things we wanted to bring, fighting about who was taking up more space than everyone else, or (the dreaded) their stuff touching your stuff. But it also did something really beautiful: it forced us to make trade-offs for ourselves and decide what was valuable enough or useful enough to warrant taking up precious space in our tomato box.

This is life.
This is amplified by Tiny Living.
My tomato box has gotten a little bigger, but the goal is still the same.

 


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  1. Pat Dunham says:

    Hi Andrea, Loved spending time with you at the resent events. Froze my butt in Louisiana and still recovering from a bad cold. I want to make sure to invite you to attend and speak at the upcoming event in St. Petersburg, Fl. on March 23-24. You may have already replied to things that Ester sent out. But if not here is the web site. tinyhomestpete.com And I can be reached at TinyHouseAdvisor.com web site, I mean pat@tinyhouseadvisor.com

  2. Pat Dunham says:

    Shows how bad I am, on line. Trying again. My previous message will probably show up on line. But re-writing the message here.
    Hi Ajdrea, loved spending time with at the resent events. Froze my butt in Louisiana and still recovering from a bad cold. I want to make sure to invite you to attend and speak at the upcoming event in St. Petersburg, Fl. on March 23-24th. Sold out last year and bigger this year. You may have alread replied to things Ester sent out. But if not, here is the website to go to and register,
    tinyhomestpete.com

  3. Pat Dunham says:

    Andrea, How is your project going? I knew last time we spoke, you were dedicating your time to finish off your tiny house. I can’t wait to see your progress. I see you are a guest speaker at the upcoming event in Tenn. I will be there also. Does this mean you are back in the game, because there is an event on June 22nd, pretty much in your back yard, in Vero Beach, that I would love you to attend. Send me an email at pat@tinyhouseadvisor.com, and let me know if you are interested.

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