Re: [GBlist] monster houses (swelling/shrinking)

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh Aimee Houser:

>I'd like to know how many people on this list have lived in 200 sq ft units.

     My family of four (two adults and two wee ones) lives in about 
600 square feet, plus a sleeping loft.  It doesn't use space very 
efficiently yet, but we're improving it gradually.  It works much 
better than I thought it would.  For one thing, we spend more time 
together as a family than we used to, and that's all to the good.

>If we are talking trying to effect change, than Susanka's way works 
>much, much better than this discussion.

     Each dialogue is helpful and a step in the right direction.  No 
need to figure out which is best.  I'm enjoying reading this one!

-Speireag.
-- 
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree 
which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the 
valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt 

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