The benefits of doing chores
There are many benefits of doing chores. I wrote in an earlier article that convenience and ease are a disease. Our society continually produces …
Home and housing
The KISS Principle
“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple.” – E.F. Schumacher Keep it Simple, Stupid KISS stands for …
Unaffordable housing
We wrote in this article about the factors that make housing affordable. Now we will look at some of the factors that make unaffordable …
A machine for living in, not
A critique of the mechanistic world view I wrote recently about the idea of a house being considered a home or an asset, now …
Learning Home Economics
In recent decades the practical study of Home Economics at school has slowly been sidelined. We live in a society which encourages people to …
A house is a home, not an asset
With house prices sky-rocketing in many countries questions are being asked why. One of the fundamental questions is: is a house a home or …
House building alternatives
With the continual rise of housing prices coupled with human impact on the environment, we need to look at housing alternatives that are both …
Nomad life
A housing alternative, a lifestyle alternative Another alternative to the housing crisis is nomad life. This is a lifestyle that is being increasingly pursued …
Tiny Houses
There are many alternatives to the standard ways of building houses. One solution that has become increasingly common are tiny houses. There is no …
Housing affordability – land cost
We have looked at housing affordability in terms of building costs. However, whereas building costs have increased slowly but surely over the years, land …