cartbeforethehorse newsletter #248

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Hello, all!
Here's our website, home of our art. . .

http://thecartbeforethehorse.com/for_sale/

. . and here's etsy, where we rent a room with a view.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/cartbeforethehorse

Apart from continuing to work on art for the upcoming Halloween and
Vine show (52 pieces in the works), Jo and I have been editing. I
think editing is the right word for it. We're editing our wants,
editing our possessions, and redefining our needs. We got rid of cable
TV a while back, and we don't miss it at all. . .not the programming
or the bills. We got rid of one of our cars immediately after dropping
our daughter off at college. She's using a bike to get around campus,
and I'm using a bike to get around town, so why do we need two cars
sitting in the driveway? The next thing to go is. . .just about
everything, but we'll wait until our son goes off to college in a few
years for that. Jo and I have been talking about building a tiny house
on a trailer, which has some big advantages. First is that we could
build our house in just a few weeks, and it won't take 30 years to pay
off. If we use recycled building materials, which are plentiful and
free around here, we can build it for almost nothing. The second
advantage is that we can take it anywhere, following the good weather,
art festivals, or our kids. "That's right, we're parked in your
driveway. Deal with it."
Yes, there may be a few disadvantages, like having to get rid of just
about everything we own. But we find ourselves using such a small
percentage of it each day, maybe it won't be so bad. If you can't
picture what I'm taking about, here's an example.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/paperhand/houseonwheels.jpg

We toyed with the idea of building this thing now in our backyard,
like some homemade boat that we tinker on for the next three years
before launching it, but we've decided to wait. We'll just keep
editing for now.

-Dylan



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