Things Rich People Like

31 Replies to “Things Rich People Like”

1. Lipstick on a pig … or how to dramatize and glorify failure.

2. I can’t help but think that maybe she shouldn’t have gotten divorced then.

3. Or married.

4. But its all dubyas fault.

5. Hey, that’s an idea that regular folks could use too! Hope it catches on somewhere.

6. It’s not really news. Look up Tinyhomes. It’s my dreamhome, but in my dream it’s parked next to a very large garage/workshop/warehouse.

7. I’d take a single wide over this POS in a heartbeat. Ree-inventing the wheel or what?

8. If only she could find some engineer to invent some kind of wheeled and powered machine that could be used to mobilize this genius contraption.

9. I too have a dream to become trailer park trash. Sadly, I am nowhere near fulfilling that dream.

10. All well and good, but where do you park it? Squatter?

11. Not sure what to think. One the one hand I admire her adaptability and initiative; on the other hand I think I’d have to step outside to change my mind.
    Still, be it ever so humble . . .

12. It is obvious from the pics that this critter is actually a 5th wheeler……the motive power is any dually with a 5th wheel.

13. I hope she applied for CSA certification!
    I call BS on the whole article. It’s all marketing. She will get her single wide featured in a few law office/Starbucks coffee table books and suddenly she’s hailed as an architectural genius? Give me a break. Single wide is spot on. What a bunch of pretentious claptrap.

14. Won’t tow like an Airstream and won’t be as efficient with space either. A fail 70 years later

15. I have one of these in my driveway. Mine’s nicer, and has a garage.
    Thankfully, I only have to live in it on weekends in the summer at trials events, or camping. Because right about now in Ontario, with three feet of snow outside, it would suck. Your boots are always sitting in the middle of the living room, and the furnace is really loud when it comes on at 3am.
    I’ve seen a bunch of these articles the last few years. Somebody with a bunch of money has decided to propagandize the young generation just entering the house market that this tiny-home thing is a good idea.
    Kids, its a scam. Buy a real house.

16. Just so you know, that is how Al Gore wants all of us to live, except him and his liberal pals in Silicon Valley.
    Ditto for that ass of a man Suzuki.
    I kid you not.

17. Hey, I want one!
    Just has to be at least 10 feet underground, 160km from the nearest Liberal Ghetto with plenty of vents and steel reinforcments everywhere.

18. I like it. Who wants to be trailer trash? This way, you get to be an architect! Who ever heard of an architect being called trailer trash?

19. It took that idiot 2 years to do that?
    I managed to renovate my 2200 sq ft home in my spare time, while my wife and kids were living there, in less time.

20. I have one of these parked in my yard…the difference being that mine has a retractable slide that gives me about 340 square feet of total living space…just a little shy of twice this gals.
    What’s better for me is that mine is self propelled;(as long as you just add fuel)…its also road worthy and doesn’t dump nails on the highway.
    Yes this concept is nothing extraordinary or new. In fact wheeled homes have been around for over a hundred years,(not including the horse drawn variety).
    This smacks of just another scam to convince the working masses that less is better…hardly for the wealthy and the high priests?
    Probably only another couple of generations until the peasant class find themselves living in tarpaper shacks and thinking themselves fortunate.
    Simon

21. Kate, I had the exact same thought. Yay, it’s a mobile home. Talk about reinventing the wheel.

22. If women ruled the world we’d all be living in trailers, with very fancy curtains and lamps and toilets.

23. But forgot the wheels. Typical.

24. There have been many articles about people using old shipping containers to build affordable homes. Some of the designs are quite remarkable, especially if you stack or put two side by side. Heck, if you are young and starting out, why not spend $25k on one of these instead of $1,000/month for an apartment? Live in it for 2-3 years, sell it and get half back, bank the savings, and buy a real house.

25. about 10 km east of Rimbey is a building made out of at least a dozen shipping containers. if I remember right you can buy these for about 3500 . Anyway , I suspect its a Hells Angels bullet proof clubhouse to replace some of the poured concrete ones they make them break up.

26. Not impressed. 5th wheel trailers on any RV lot offers more with dirt cheap payments, better looks and more room inside. Architects have been designing them before she was born.

27. KevinB said: “…why not spend $25k on one of these…”
    Because you can get a very nice four-season fifth wheel trailer for around $15k or less. With pull-outs and everything, with more floor space than a shipping container, pre-furnished. With facilities, even. Then spend $5-$10k on a truck to pull it.
    pill and LASsie probably will graduate to a similar situation if/when Mum kicks them out of the basement. 🙂

28. I’ve got one just like it that I use for hunting trips, only mine is much bigger and is pulled around by a Dodge Cummins truck.

29. Did anyone else LOL at “During construction, she fell off of the roof and broke her back.”
    Our 1978 Chevrolet Vanguard converted G30 full size van we had in the 1980’s had more room and better use of space than that piece of crap. It had sleeping for three, seating for 6 passengers, a kitchen, bathroom, fridge, cupboards, closet and plenty of room for what ever crap we wanted to haul around and actually drove smooth on the highway aside from some buffeting in the crosswind.
    That single wide really is the perfect home for the pretentious single liberalized miserable feminist. A suffocating amount of space to fit a suffocating ideology. Who needs a home to store material things or amenities to accommodate having guests, family members or children.
    Yes for the feminist who will live out her days alone after ignoring the biological clock and who ruined any potential long lasting relationship and cut all ties with family to practice a failed ideology this is truly for you.

30. “She had always wanted a place of her own, but the thought of a mortgage sickened her after she lost her home to foreclosure after getting divorced.”
    hahahahahahaha

31. And now she lives in it down by the river!