tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968422166354177600.post8369288935451225380..comments2024-03-28T05:00:31.376-07:00Comments on Another Tiny House Story: Coming Soon- 5 Day Water ChallengeJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06813996944930712618noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968422166354177600.post-78788068579395687462013-04-11T06:35:15.175-07:002013-04-11T06:35:15.175-07:00Thanks for sharing your experiences! It sounds lik...Thanks for sharing your experiences! It sounds like it was a lot of fun just taking the road less traveled. After reading your post, I feel more at ease. Just knowing someone else out there who has actually done it and still encourages others to try is a great feeling! I'm really looking forward to all the changes that will be coming along with the tiny house. Now it seems that just finding a place to park when it's all said and done is going to be our biggest challenge. But there's much to do before we get to that!<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support and comments! It means a lot to us!!Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06813996944930712618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968422166354177600.post-89111827368892092242013-04-10T08:19:43.736-07:002013-04-10T08:19:43.736-07:00This is FANTASTIC! You'll be surprised at how...This is FANTASTIC! You'll be surprised at how an experiment like this will change your water usage habits. <br /><br />When my partner, Kai, and I lived in our Tiny House for three months while finishing the build we had to haul water from the main house and use our neighbors bathroom. While it was all very close by, just not being able to turn on a faucet with seemingly infinite supply of rushing water coming out, at our temperature preference no less, was transformative.<br /><br />We used a 10 liter camping water bag, black, for showers. Would put it out during the day and by the early evening it would be warm enough for a quick outdoor shower at the end of the day (we hung it from a fence behind our tiny house and out of the way of prying neighborly eyes, plus we did a dusk-dash in and out of the house to prevent anyone from seeing us hanging out in our backyard buck naked. It was pretty fun, actually, in that clandestine way.<br /><br />We would fill it again for washing dishes and using around the house to clean up the countertops, wash hands, etc.. I used an Ortlieb wash bowl to do dishes in. I would heat up about two cups of the water in a Pyrex measuring cup in the microwave (we were hooked up temporarily to the main house electrical for lighting and use of a mw)and then use it sparingly to wash dishes. Once you do it this way, you realize you really don't need much water to wash dishes. Then, rinsed them over the wash bowl by opening the spout of the water bag. In the end, I was using very little water for the whole process and then, like you, watered the lawn or shubery with it so it was a 'closed loop' use of the water anyway.<br /><br />It felt really good to make these realizations and it helped me drastically change my habits. Like you, I am concerned about our water. Population growth, unsustainable development and usage of water, among many other things, is rapidly depleting our water sources. Water wars are already occurring across the world, even in the U.S. This is important stuff.<br /><br />So, I'm supporting you from afar. You're doing really great things here!<br /><br />~Sheila (of 2cycle2gether.com)Sheila Poettgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705392385896523838noreply@blogger.com