It's 9AM
90 Days.
I found a kid making/documenting his cross country travels on Youtube and he’s killing it.
There is a whole subculture of #vanlife #homestead #tinyhome folks who are just sort of tired of the nonesense and doing things their own way.
Something you know I try to do too.
Because it is a lot of nonsense.
The picture above is an expandable container home that is delivered to your lot by a trailer, dropped by a crane and set up on a pad or pier and beam in four hours.
The cost? $15k.
Let’s call it $20 because you would need to hook up electric, sewer and water, IF you were in the city.
Or set up systems for solar, rainwater and compost if you were not.
One of my plans was to plop one of these behind a burned out house in Pine Bluff, and rent it out while I demo’d the debris from the crack house conundrum.
The City Council said no.
No “trailers” in the city, no container homes without special permits, and no ADU’s.
My rabbit hole on the Google machine showed me a lot of cities are thinking the same way.
They only want traditional built homes, which have slow builds and high costs, but don’t "affect” property value.
I get it.
I mean sure, there are solutions to the”housing” crisis (which is a made up problem) but stuff like regulation gets in the way.
Plop this bad boy on the side of a mountain, plant a garden with potatos, tomatos, onions and herbs, get some chickens and solar panels and a good dog and man o’ man, you are really talking about living.
The car camp kid has a plan.
Live in his car while he camps across the country. Make money on Youtube and other social media channels to save up and buy some land and a tiny home in Florida.
Turn it into an Airbnb, car camp some new content again to buy mountain land he can build a cabin on and do it all again.
It is a good plan.
Close to some of my own.
I don’t like to think of a world where it is EITHER/OR.
I prefer to think of AND as a power word.
Write books about zombies AND cowboys.
Make audiobooks on Youtube AND Spotify.
Now it’s making content AND stories.
Making music AND videos.
Something I was told to do in 2019.
Something I tried to do with a few videos that went no where and I got ripped apart doing them.
Which knocked my give a fuck off kilter for awhile.
Now I’m back at it and the cheerleaders are cheering and the critics are critiquing.
Haters are doing what haters like to do.
Because if you solve problems with simple solutions like sticking ADU’s in backyards or empty mall parking lots, or writing books in seven genres so folks can find something they might like.
Haters would just find something else to bitch about.
They always do.
The secret to any solution is to ignore them AND keep Getting After It.
PS. I made a cooking channel on Youtube. I have a meeting with a mentor to talk about bringing it back under the Main Channel for “branding” but I have to do some research on why the algorthym works the way it does.
Learning never stops. I also found some videos called OVER 40 Youtube, and OVER 50 content.
And I want to tell you right now that a lot of you need to be making your own YOUTUBE channel. Some of the life stories you share with me are incredible and I bet you that others would love them too.
All you need is a phone. Use the selfie feature. Press record. Start talking.
Post a new video every single day for 100 Days.
Don’t worry about length. Don’t worry about being awkward or nervous.
Do use a lot of light.
And try it. What’s the single worst thing that could happen?
The person you love tells you it’s stupid, you’re stupid and they are tired of you being in their life because they’ve found someone else?
Hell, been there. Done that. Writing songs about it.
AND posting them on Youtube.
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