Ryan Mitchell > Quotes

“Time to spend as you see fit is also very important. If you could do anything, what would it be? It’s a question that is fun to ponder, much like, “If I were to win the lottery, I would …” but the difference is with tiny houses, you have already won.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building & Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet

“When you live intentionally, you realize you have choices—and that those choices empower you to be where you want to be, do what you want to do, and live the life you always wanted.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building & Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet

“Many assume that you are lower income, less educated, unemployed, and a host of other negative things. In fact, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Tiny-house people on average make more money than the average American; they are twice as likely to hold a master’s degree as the rest of the United States, and are 90 percent more likely to have no debt. So it is interesting that a stigma exists. Macy wonders, “Does it take an educated person to live within their means, to be able to provide what they want for their life and at the same time not want that debt?”
― Ryan Mitchell, Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building & Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet

“As the old computer-science joke goes: “Let’s say you have a problem, and you decide to solve it with regular expressions. Well, now you have two problems.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Web Scraping with Python: Collecting Data from the Modern Web

“Looking back, Macy said if she had to do it all over again she wouldn’t buy a used trailer. After all the time and effort that went into the trailer, plus the additional $600 she put into adding an axle and replacing the old ones, it cost her more in time and money than a new trailer might have.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building & Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet

“Outsourcing and community connections are key elements to the tiny life, and it means that you must become a more active participant in your community.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building & Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet

“I generally don’t recommend getting a loan from friends or family. When a loan is made between you and friends or family, it changes the dynamic of that relationship.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building & Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet

“children are always exactly one tag below a parent, whereas descendants can be at any level in the tree below a parent.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Web Scraping with Python: Collecting Data from the Modern Web

“When you live in a tiny house, you live in such a small space that you have to get out in the world to do your living in places other than your home. When you live in a house the size of a large parking space, you don’t have room for absolutely everything. This leads you to find creative ways to meet those needs outside the home. In the tiny house world this is called outsourcing. In the context of tiny houses, outsourcing means you are seeking the support and services of the space around you.”
― Ryan Mitchell, Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building & Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet