Call me a peasant any day cause overnight oats are delicious. Here’s my recipe you are now asking yourselves for: 1/4 cup steel cut oats, 1 Tbsp chia seeds, a glob of honey, 1/8 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, 3/4 cup of milk, then in the morning add 1/4 cup crushed walnuts and a ton of blueberries.
Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s gruel o’clock for this peasant.
pro tip: try frozen berries and add them the night before to infuse the oats with berry juice. which is also practical because you can mix all together the night before in a to go jar and in the morning you don‘t waste any time and can get right to slaving away for our feudal overlords
And the quick and dirty recipe:
Maple and Brown Sugar Oats
Doing this to Farina also makes Malt O' Meal - Brown Sugar version
Sorry, but this one is just oats with sugar while the one above actually has fruit and nuts for that healthy boost.
You need a pinch of salt, trust me on this
Ah how could I forget!
I actually don't mind people who want to live in tiny homes. After all, it's our societal fixation on mcmansions and suburban sprawl for all that has caused us to pass restrictive zoning laws and parking minimums and setback requirements and everything, which have created an artificial scarcity of housing. And it's this artificial scarcity of housing that investors, speculators, landlords, and old homeowners use to extract ungodly amounts of wealth from the younger and working class. If we abolished those laws, built more housing, and solved the housing crisis, we wouldn't be feeling nearly so much like peasants, working paycheck to paycheck and under mountains of debt.
If there's no housing scarcity, your landlord can't extract nigh-unlimited amounts of money from you.
I'm a bit of a minimalist and dream of a well designed ~~tiny~~ small home. You can cram all of the bells and whistles of modern living in 800-1100 square feet easily and be comfortable while you're at it. It only gets tricky when kids come into the picture, id imagine. But I'm dreaming of a ~~tiny~~ small home so I don't think kids are a reasonable decision financially lol
That's not really a tiny home, that's just a slightly smaller house. They have a tiny home show where I live, and the biggest ones are 350-ish sq ft. Most are under 200. I'd love to get really crazy and build one that's like 400sq ft - when they're really well designed, that feels massive, but it's still small enough to clean in like, an hour.
Yeah 1000/1100 is in the "small but normal" territory. 800/900 is fairly small if your household has more than one person though. But well designed I could see 400-500 being pretty cozy. Tbh, with 800 sq ft I'd have like 300 living and sleeping space and the rest for my kitchen and bathroom lol. I don't have a dream house, I have a dream shower and kitchen
I currently live in a 550 sq ft 1-br apartment, and it's actually quite comfortable. Adequately sized kitchen wirh a kitchen island (since I like to cook), bedroom big enough for a queen bed, a not-cramped bathroom, and a living room. Plus pretty decent closet space and in-unit laundry. Tbh, my only wish is that the living room were a bit bigger so I could have a proper sofa and a proper desk for days I work from home. Currently just rocking a desk and an armchair and a TV stand. For a family, I'd definitely want closer to 1000 sq ft.
I have a family of four in a 1000sq ft house and it's honestly perfect. Any bigger would be too much work for me.
I finally got, if not the dream shower, then a more reasonable version of it, and it really is awesome. That's a worthwhile goal for sure. My only wish for a kitchen in a smaller space would be to make it open. None of that claustrophobic galley kitchen stuff that's always in smaller apartments. I don't love to cook, but I'd at least want somewhere I could without it being miserable.
Kudos on the shower! I envy you lol. And hard agree on the kitchen. How hard is it to design a kitchen with a reasonable amount of counter space and elbow room??? For fucks sake! I don't need a huge kitchen either, just room for two people to comfortably work. My current kitchen is "acceptable" but barely. If the revolution doesn't include reasonable housing built around humans instead of cramming as many people into as little space as possible for profitability I will revolt again
designed back in 1926 – the Frankfurt Kitchen – the original source of the “kitchen triangle”, modular storage, and a place to sit down while you chop veggies
Ours is basically around 420sqft. It started as a 12x30 amish shed that we insulated and put in power/woodstove/12v water pump(from the creek). But then I added a 10x12 bath and washing room.
It is pretty comfy for two people.
i don't want a tiny home, i want to live in a god damn cooperatively owned commune.
If everyone is there because of some shared interest in the project then sure, it might work. But if you ever lived in a building owned by the very people that live there, like it happens all the time in Europe, you know people often act very much against the shared interest.
I started with my tiny home. And hope to gather some like-minded folks to turn it into a commune once I have basic infra to support more than just myself and my wife.
We are getting there! Maybe next year we will be able to invite one more family/couple/group.
I would actually love that. They're building something that's sort of in that vein where I live, where each family/individual has their own house of sorts, but there's a big communal building with a giant kitchen and dining space, library, living room, gardens, etc, instead of trying to pack all of that in each house. Everyone has to commit to contributing somehow, whether it's lawn maintenance or helping cook communal meals or whatever. Unfortunately, it would make my commute about an hour, so that's a no go, but it sounds nice.
I'd quite happily live in a tiny home as long as it's surrounded by a couple of acres.
Basically true, but consider the alternative. Given how expensive things are now, if you don't live a very minimal lifestyle you are going to be much more trapped in your career than someone who does. You won't be able to retire early, you won't be able to switch to something lower paid but more enjoyable/laid back, you won't have the means to take some time off to pursue your own business ideas or just dealing with life stuff.
If you're dead set on living the "American Dream" or something and refuse to hold back on treating yourself with luxuries, you are going to end up being even more of a tool of your technofeudalist masters. Acknowledging that doesn't mean turning a blind eye to what is happening, it's just basic self preservation of your freedom.
The problem is that more and more the tiny house and so forth is no longer a choice, but a neccessity to survive. In places like Silicon Valley a normal job basicly forces you to either communte for hours every day or live in a tiny house just to survive. Looking at the rent increases and high home prices combined with high intrest rates, the cost of housing looks like it will grow in the coming years. That is not just a US problem, but the case in many parts of the developed world. In poorer countries it is a reality for even longer and for even more people.
That being said, if you have the choice, building up some wealth is certainly a good idea. With a bit of it and some good ideas, it becomes much easier to drop out a bit out of the capitalist hellscape and avoid the worst problems.
The thing is, the need for large expansive homes have substantially evaporated in younger generations as technology advances.
The desire for a massive home as a well off (not wealthy, but above peasant) person was due to:
Needing somewhere to store all your necessary shit, your tools of your trade, etc etc.
Needing somewhere for your servant(s) to live, because they took care of the house for you
Somewhere to store all your books and other pleasantries
However, our servants are now tiny little robots that dont need to eat or sleep, they dont need an entire bedroom and seat at the table.
The entire knowledge of all of humanity no longer requires a library of alexandria, but instead can fit in your pocket.
Many folks have all the tools of their trade able to fit in a small laptop bag at most.
When you can largely fit all your requirements of modern life in a single cardboard box, as opposed to needing several rooms, the desire for a mansion dwindles. Entire kitchens have been replaced with a single microwave and a hotplate.
Meals that used to take an entire day and a whole kitchen staff to prepare, now take a single person hitting an on button.
We have VR, laptops, netflix, the entire internet, etc etc all at our fingertips.
And most importantly, we have cars and whatnot. A trip to the store is no longer a "wake up at 6 in the morning to get the horses saddled and hitched, then three hour ride into town, get back home just before sunset" affair.
It's now "hop in the car and drive over to the store in 10 minutes"
And unlike horses, a car doesnt need a whole ass stable and stablehand. It can just... sit there lol
So yeah, its perfectly reasonable for us to slowly revert back to small life, everything we could possibly need to live life can fit in an extremely small square footage now, theres literally no need to have a giant mansion, it's largely pointless.
In most towns and cities, grocery store should be within walkable distance to allow people to get what they need for the next day or two, removing the necessity for large pantries or food storage rooms. Also getting benefits of eating healthier and fresher.
Is this astroturfing?
Of course I want more space! small rooms with a small number of rooms is claustrophobic and cluttered. I need space for me and all my shit!
Just do make sure that, if you live in a small home, you spend some time out in the town, because living in too little space can harm your feels.
I wish houses weren't required by law to have a lawn. I could save so much space if I didn't have one and all the junk to take care of it.
This thread blows my mind.
You'd prefer to just be boxed in with people all around you and concrete everywhere? That's what developers would do if they weren't required by law to give you space. Pack them into smaller spaces and get more money!
Serfs had The Commons. We don’t even have that
If you call it “oat milk”, you can sell gruel at a steep markup.
Isn't dairy subsidized to make it so cheap?
Capitalism is just an extension of feudalism already. There was no transition
I won't stand for slandering overnight oats like that!
edit: how tf did I mess up my comment so badly.
overnight oats are delicious
Technofeudalism is just endgame capitalism
But I like tiny homes...
There's no point renaming capitalism
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