{"id":164,"date":"2014-07-01T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shinytinymansion.wordpress.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:18:30","slug":"being-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/01\/being-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Teeny Tiny Life~Being Content in a Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"color: #4000ff; text-align: center;\">\u201cNOTHING WILL CONTENT HIM WHO IS NOT CONTENT WITH A LITTLE.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014Greek proverb<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tent Living Year Round: Getting Started\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ETYoIkdupB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>I thought it would be a good time to talk about living in a very small, portable, and affordable space~a tent. \u00a0Although Ron and I lived in a small camper when we first moved to our land and have never lived in a tent, I have been fascinated with this life-style since we met a man and a woman years ago who lived in a small camping tent year-round. We went to Maine one year on vacation and slept in the back of our capped pick-up on the edge of a lake in Bar Harbor. \u00a0It was a gorgeous view. \u00a0The typical East Coast rocky beach was bathed in a soft mist each morning as the young couple in the tent on the rocks above us drank their coffee heated on a Coleman camp stove. \u00a0 We were also young at the time, but I think they may have been in their early twenties; we were in our late twenties. \u00a0We asked them a lot of questions about what they did and how they lived this way. \u00a0As I recall, they were nomadic, living in Maine during the summer and moving to the south in the winter. \u00a0I can&#8217;t remember what they did for money. \u00a0This was pre-Internet, so I&#8217;m not sure if they had money saved up or did seasonal work. \u00a0They were very happy with this life-style and couldn&#8217;t see living any other way, but they were young. \u00a0I wonder where they are now&#8230;The couple in the video above were in their 60&#8217;s. \u00a0If you read the comments after the video, you will see that they lived this way for two years. During those years, they saved up money, sold their property, and were able to purchase a farm house. \u00a0Although they didn&#8217;t remain in their tent (they lived in Maine all year!), they made this a way to move on to the next step. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know this couple; they may live in a small farm house, but even if they live in a large house now, I&#8217;m sure they experienced the &#8220;Content with a Little&#8221; mindset that is encouraged in the proverb. There are other, more permanent, ways to live the &#8220;tent experience&#8221; such as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twogirlsfarm.org\/faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yurt<\/a>. \u00a0But that&#8217;s for another post.<br \/>\nSo, tell me&#8230;could you live in a tent? \u00a0What about a nomadic life? \u00a0Could you pack up only your essentials and move around the country or maybe even to other countries?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be content with a little!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[75,99,108,109,110],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-small","tag-nomadic-living","tag-small-living","tag-tent","tag-tent-living","tag-tents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shinytinymansion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/edward-paterson-YuR4iKgPOGA-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1919&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinytinymansion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}