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The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

Dee Williams

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Jan 10, 2023 Linda Martin rated it really liked it

Shelves: geo-oregon, nonfiction, memoirs, productivity, audiobook, friends, clean, inspiration, 2023

I liked this memoir. The memoir isn't just about building a tiny home. It is more about a young woman who found a way to downsize into a tiny home to save on expenditures and create something uniquely hers.

I'm very impressed with a woman who learns to build and creates her own home. I know there are some who think this book didn't have enough information on the actual building methods she used on the home, but that wasn't what I expected. I wanted to know about Dee's emotions and mentality that ...more

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Jun 11, 2014 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it liked it

Shelves: problems-ideas, simplicity

“Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets, when in the end, all any of us will have is our simple beating heart….I hate to put it in such dramatic terms, but it’s kinda true.”

Oh so true. Williams thought about this for a long time. One day she discovered she had a heart that wasn’t so reliable and she decided to make the ju ...more

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