I'm not sure this is really a housing thread, but I'm not sure where else to put it. If a mod wants to move it I'm totally cool with that.
Youtube recommended this video for me. Totally makes sense why. I love kirsten dirksen and have watched plenty of tiny house type vids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE8WMINfSNQ
After watching the video my initial thoughts were:
-dude overcooks his eggs
-dude undercooks his bacon
-dude definitely knows how to use an axe
-spending so much time chopping wood would get old real quick, at least for me
-spending all my time alone would not be for me
After watching that video I clicked to the rest of his channel and found this video that he did as a response to the countless comments on the first video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-86NFf2VcE
So much logic in the second video. (and an explanation. He actually has a wife and kids. And works in construction. And isn't extremely remote. Just 20 miles outside Fairbanks Alaska... Etc. So he doesn't just spend years and years chopping wood and making fires and living alone while pushing his cholesterol numbers into the stratosphere every morning at breakfast.) The biggest takeaway from the second video is that he (presumably with support/agreement from his wife) has/have chosen what technologies he/they think help them live the life they want to live, and what technologies they think don't. And only use the ones that work for them.
A lot of what he mentions in the video all works back to prioritizing spending your time doing things you want to do. And to whether you want to spend your life energy at a job you don't particularly like earning money to pay for stuff like propane (or natural gas) heat for your home or would you rather spend your time chopping wood to make heat for your home. It was very YMOYL in a big picture meta kind of way.
He's not encouraging everyone to live the same life he and his family live. He's just encouraging people to figure out what matters to them and plan their life accordingly.