Aibu to sell all my stuff, build a hut and live it it.

[Aubrianna]

That's it really. I am sick of spending my whole life paying rent to our landlord .

I want to buy some cheap land (plenty where we are) and build a hut and live in it like a medieval peasant.

I would probably have some sort of wood burner I don't know - I need to iron out the details

Oh I have 5 children so would social services frown upon mud hut living.

Seriously though I would loveeeee to live some sort of alternative lifestyle. Our business is entirely online so we would need either a mud hut with good internet or an office nearby.

Aibu to actually want to give up on modern life?

How about something like this OP Build a home without spending a penny

Sorry to rain on your parade, but to buy land with planning permission to build a hut that you could live in would cost almost as much as to buy a house.

This is the reason why more people don't do it

I want to build a strawbale house. I have an in principle decision from my planning authority that it is OK - I had to provide loads of evidence that straw wasn't a fire risk. My MIL has said she will put over her fields to wheat, oats or rye and have them baled at a high tension. I have a friend who is an architect who is wanting to do the designs. There is a strawbale house community who help build each others houses.

I just need the lady next door to move out or pop her clogs so we can buy the other half of our semi so we have somewhere to put it.

How will you wash, cook or crap?

Unfortunately medieval peasants also paid rent to their landlords. :-(

I totally understand how you feel! For years I've had a fantasy about hollowing out a giant tree and living in it!

You don't need planning permission to live in a yurt!

I think most of us feel like this.
As others have said though land is expensive, we also need connection to infrastructure.

Buying a house is the simpler option unfortunately.

My happy place is a narrow boat. Unfortunately real life has provided a house a long way from water with far too much stuff and two small children who are utterly water confident and totally unreliable when it comes to not jumping in.

B&Q does sheds... Having a field with tiny shed in the middle would be allowed... You could maybe fit bunk bed in there.

A narrow boat sound very...narrow.
I have spent the last 10 years living in a tiny house saving like mad to to buy a bigger place. I hated the cramped conditions. No place to store stuff, not even a dining table. We have now moved to a huge house. Bliss.

Seriously why not do it then. My aunt lives in rural sweden in an unrenovated wooden house, with enough land to keep animals and grow her own hay, potatoes, veg and some fruit. She has a wood stove for heat, outside loo (the hole in the ground type), and a well with a bucket for water. She has splashed out on having mains electric installed though.

She is in her 80's now so doesn't keep animals or grow much veg anymore but has def lived what you are discribing as an alternative lifestyle.
She dosn't have internet but you can get it in the area.

We live similarly but have mains water, and renovated our house about 10yrs ago so have much better insulation and its newly decorated.

Getting land with planning is the problem but you said was not a problem where you are, is planning ? Kit houses are cheaper especially if you can do some of the work yourself

Have you seen tiny house nation its american where planning does not seem to be a problem. Seems motivation is similar to yours mortgage free and cheap to run.

If near electric and water supply (within 10_15metres) and you have the land and planning and some day skills you could probably build a well equipped 400 sq ft house for quite little but in uk land and planning are a problem

Have you read about minimalist lifestyles? Some of them live in simple places with very little stuff and lead simple lives. The zen habits blogger Leo has lots of kids too.

Erm teacup planning is very much a problem in the us as well. The TiHouse Movement gets around this by building things on flatbed chassis, so they're technically "recreational vehicles" and don't fall under planning conditions.

So sweet,
www.simondale.net/hobbit.htm

I read a newspaper article about a couple with a baby living in a tent (in the UK!)

thanks for info cyclechic on the programme it looks easy

YANBU

This is a BRILLIANT idea. There could be loads of little homesteads popping up everywhere; if 3 or 4 people clubbed together the land would be more affordable. Like little communes, with allotments and chickens! It's the only way I'll ever get a roof of my own...I'm in!

There are a lot of neglected, disused barns/rural buildings in our area. I've often (only partially joking) pointed them out to my husband and said "We could live in that".

Yanbu

www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk

I used to live in a teepee I built myself in one of these communities.
It's the happiest I've ever been.

I've lived in a bender (canvas igloo type structure) with various others in similar dwellings on land owned by all living there; despite them being temporary dwellings with little impact on the land, it took 7 years of hard slog and going to European courts to be allowed to stay there. There is no right to live on your own land how you want in the UK, the smallest temp dwelling needs pp and is rarely given

I met a woman who, with her husband, sold everything she owned once her children left home and then went to live on a narrowboat. She was in her fifties, working part time and seemed happy. However, I don't know how that would pan out in very old age...

Maybe some de-cluttering threads would be a place to start?