A couple of months ago, we were outside watching our daughter play with our neighbor’s kids. “Why did you decide to live in a tiny house?” they asked. We get this question a lot, but in that moment, the question kind of surprised us. My wife and I are determined to live intentionally, and we usually have an answer or reason for every little odd thing we choose to do, but in that moment, we didn’t have the answer!
But I’ll tell you what–I didn’t decide to live in a tiny house to be trapped inside like a prisoner and forced to wear a mask anytime we go outside or into a store. Especially not for a virus that the data has clearly shown is not very deadly for most of the population, regardless of the fear campaign broadcast by the media.
The main reason we chose to live in a tiny house was to have more freedom. But what difference does any of it make at this point to be debt free if you can’t enjoy your life? What difference does it make if the government has the power to shut down your business, force you to cover yourself with mask, and limit the number of people you can gather with? What difference does it make if you can’t travel on on airplane without having a “Vaccine Passport” or having something shoved up your nose to test if you have that invisible enemy of a virus? That’s not freedom, it’s tyranny, and if you haven’t figured that out by now, you probably never will. Our government was created not to control the people, but serve the people, and I hope to one day see it return to that role.
We live in a tiny house because we’re anti-debt people. By anti-debt, I mean I don’t want to owe anyone anything. Not a dime. One of the best things we’ve ever done is pay off our credit cards and get rid of them. I don’t want to play the game everyone else is playing because the little guy (you) always loses and the banks always win. I don’t like playing games where the outcome is rigged and unjust, so I choose not to participate. So, in a sense, our tiny house is a peaceful protest. (Taking notes Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc.?)
We didn’t even use a traditional bank to get our land loan, we used a company called CircleBack Lending, which worked out great for us since we likely wouldn’t have gotten approved for a large loan from a bank. We are on the verge of paying off that loan in April, which will make us nearly debt free!
Living in a tiny house mortgage free, without being tied to a bank is freedom. I will take my freedom any way I can. This is not by any means taking a shot at anyone who has a mortgage, because that is just how things have always been done and there’s nothing wrong with that. I just couldn’t justify paying a loan for 15 or 30 years. I know it’s an investment and you can build equity in your home and leverage that to take out more loans and that’s great. I want no part of it.
If I have the money to buy something, I’ll buy it with cash. If I don’t, I’ll wait until I’ve saved enough to buy it. I don’t want the magical credit card money that is created out of thin air to buy things with money I don’t have or haven’t earned yet. We have normalized the idea of spending money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need. It’s normal to go into debt, in fact, it’s what we’re taught to do. They don’t teach you that getting a bachelor’s degree isn’t a guarantee to get a job or that you’ll spend the next 15 years paying off essentially a mortgage before you even get your life started. It seems so backwards and I decided I no longer wanted any part of it.
Debt has enslaved us for a very long time and many are too blind to see it. Slavery never ended, it was simply re-invented in the form of a debt based monetary system by the big banks and governments around the world, which we can clearly see now is failing globally. Central banks keep printing money and messing around with interest rates and no one can pay their existing debts. This is why The World Economic Forum is calling for a “Great Reset” under the guise of social justice, income inequality and climate change. The powers that be have been taking advantage of this Covid crisis for an entire year now (remember 15 days to stop the spread?), one they likely created themselves, to bring more tyranny and control over humankind. People you’ve never even met (like Bond Villain Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum) want you to bow down to them and pledge allegiance not to the flag, but to the New World Order.
That might sound like a bit of a conspiracy, but then again, you never thought we’d be living essentially under house arrest for an entire year, did you? You never thought the government would tell you not to visit you family on Thanksgiving and Christmas, or close your small business, or call you “non-essential”, or limit the sale of seeds or gardening supplies did you? What’s next? Is there going to be rationing for how much food we can buy at the grocery store? Can you only enter the store if you’ve gotten the new mRNA vaccine that’s never been approved for use until this year when it was suddenly rushed into emergency development and suddenly is safe for the entire population without knowing the long term effects?
I don’t have all the answers, I don’t know what’s going to happen in the years to come, but I do know that I enjoy having freedom, and I want no part of anyone, particularly the government, trying to control my life. That’s why I choose to live in a tiny house with my family.
What I do know is the more control you have over your finances, the food you eat, and your health–the more freedom you will have. The more control you have over the little things in life we often overlook, the less dependent you’ll be on this grotesque system that keeps us all enslaved, and the better chances you’ll have for you and your loved ones to live a life with some semblance of freedom.
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