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The Resource The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir, Dee Williams, (electronic resource)
The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir, Dee Williams, (electronic resource)
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The item The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir, Dee Williams, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir, Dee Williams, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Dee Williams's life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restored'but, increasingly, it did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general time-suck of home ownership. A new sense of clarity began to take hold: Just what was all this stuff for' Multiple extra rooms, a kitchen stocked with rarely used appliances, were things that couldn't compare with the financial freedom and the ultimate luxury'time'that would come with downsizing. Deciding to build an eighty-four-square-foot house'on her own, from the ground up'was just the beginning of building a new life. Williams can now list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her approximately ten minutes to clean the entire house. It's left her with more time to spend with family and friends, and given her freedom to head out for adventure at a moment's notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch. The lessons Williams learned from her 'aha' moment post-trauma apply to all of us, every day, regardless of whether or not we decide to discard all our worldly belongings. Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
- Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 19, 2014)
- Contents
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- Happy Enough
- Southeast State Park
- The Drive
- Torsades
- A Moment of Genius While Waiting
- Tiny House Man
- Fear and Logic
- Anthropology 101
- Dream Big, Build Small
- Blondie on the Roof
- Who Cares If I Appear Foolish?
- Hobo-A-Go-Go
- There Goes the Neighborhood
- Modern Conveniences
- Slack Line
- A Six-Inch Drop Hitch
- Keeping the Peace
- Broke Butt Mountain
- One More Thing
- Isbn
- 9781101634714
- Label
- The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir
- Title
- The big tiny
- Title remainder
- a built-it-myself memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Dee Williams
- Subject
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- Architects and builders -- United States -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Do-it-yourself work -- Social aspects -- United States
- Ecological houses -- United States -- Design and construction
- Electronic books
- Olympia (Wash.) -- Biography
- Alternative lifestyles -- United States
- Small houses -- United States -- Design and construction
- Sustainable living -- United States
- Williams, Dee, (Builder) -- Homes and haunts -- United States
- Portland (Or.) -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Dee Williams's life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restored'but, increasingly, it did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general time-suck of home ownership. A new sense of clarity began to take hold: Just what was all this stuff for' Multiple extra rooms, a kitchen stocked with rarely used appliances, were things that couldn't compare with the financial freedom and the ultimate luxury'time'that would come with downsizing. Deciding to build an eighty-four-square-foot house'on her own, from the ground up'was just the beginning of building a new life. Williams can now list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her approximately ten minutes to clean the entire house. It's left her with more time to spend with family and friends, and given her freedom to head out for adventure at a moment's notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch. The lessons Williams learned from her 'aha' moment post-trauma apply to all of us, every day, regardless of whether or not we decide to discard all our worldly belongings. Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life
- Cataloging source
- RECBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Dee
- Dewey number
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- 640.92
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- TH4860
- Literary form
- unknown
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Williams, Dee
- Ecological houses
- Small houses
- Architects and builders
- Do-it-yourself work
- Alternative lifestyles
- Sustainable living
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Olympia (Wash.)
- Portland (Or.)
- Label
- The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir, Dee Williams, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
- Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 19, 2014)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Happy Enough -- Southeast State Park -- The Drive -- Torsades -- A Moment of Genius While Waiting -- Tiny House Man -- Fear and Logic -- Anthropology 101 -- Dream Big, Build Small -- Blondie on the Roof -- Who Cares If I Appear Foolish? -- Hobo-A-Go-Go -- There Goes the Neighborhood -- Modern Conveniences -- Slack Line -- A Six-Inch Drop Hitch -- Keeping the Peace -- Broke Butt Mountain -- One More Thing
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781101634714
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 63aef2a6-17a2-41f8-8ecf-bf63c421397c
- Publisher number
- EB00395408
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)883370570
- Label
- The big tiny : a built-it-myself memoir, Dee Williams, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
- Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 19, 2014)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Happy Enough -- Southeast State Park -- The Drive -- Torsades -- A Moment of Genius While Waiting -- Tiny House Man -- Fear and Logic -- Anthropology 101 -- Dream Big, Build Small -- Blondie on the Roof -- Who Cares If I Appear Foolish? -- Hobo-A-Go-Go -- There Goes the Neighborhood -- Modern Conveniences -- Slack Line -- A Six-Inch Drop Hitch -- Keeping the Peace -- Broke Butt Mountain -- One More Thing
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781101634714
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 63aef2a6-17a2-41f8-8ecf-bf63c421397c
- Publisher number
- EB00395408
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)883370570
Subject
- Architects and builders -- United States -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Do-it-yourself work -- Social aspects -- United States
- Ecological houses -- United States -- Design and construction
- Electronic books
- Olympia (Wash.) -- Biography
- Alternative lifestyles -- United States
- Small houses -- United States -- Design and construction
- Sustainable living -- United States
- Williams, Dee, (Builder) -- Homes and haunts -- United States
- Portland (Or.) -- Biography
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