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Forget ‘Dumpster Diving’ — This Is Dumpster Living!
- Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:37am by
Mike Opelka
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Gregory Kloehn lives in Berkeley, CA…for the moment. Since his home is on wheels, Gregory can move it fairly easily and live almost anywhere. His rolling residence did not start out as a “mobile home” or any kind of home. It was originally a dumpster!
Is it a dumpster or a house? It’s BOTH! Watch this clip from video blogger Kim Aronson, it shows all of the upgrades to the dumpster and explains some of Mr. Kloehn’s thinking.
(h/t The Daily Good)
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Comments (102)
buckster6.0
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:36pmThat‘s setting your sight’s real high.dip****.
Report Post »corbecket
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:33pmHey! Go easy on this guy!
I’ve done my share of dumpster diving, and my children and I have enjoyed it immensely. Now we’ll have to knock first. Lest you sneer at such activities, there are a LOT of financially secure, and dare I say socially prominent folks, that view this activity as a calling. They don’t need it to survive, but it is a pleasant family outing, albeit in Ninja attire at 3:00 AM on trash morning.
I have a 20 ft. CONEX container that is awaiting modification before it’s moved to the mountain property for our second home. With a renovated dumpster(s), one could span the world and start with one as a THIRD residence (at the least). Does anyone suppose that these would meet code in Belize, Thailand, Australia or Sri Lanka?
In some countries, this guy’s place would be high-class housing. With what is heading our way financially, he is obviously a visionary.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:28pmOnce a week you get a free ride to Hell! The Garbage Dump of Society.
Report Post »mils
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:49pmI think this is what Obama has in mind for American citizens and the type of growth he is after for our future, or a hole in the ground
Report Post »Fightin *******
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 4:14pmAwesome quote!
Report Post »savagemonger
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 4:33pmHey he is just being resourceful
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:15pmHave you checked into the site for Tiny Houses? Houses (some mobile) that are less than 500 square feet. Some only something like 78 sq feet. They’ve been pushing this, so it makes me wonder if it’s what Agenda 21 has in mind. Everybody in tiny houses so we can fit more people into cities and leave the country for the “indiginous” life forms, i.e. nature.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 12:25amI agree…..Agenda 21 stuff. I can just see little 10 X10 buildings packed so tight only a tiny electric car can get between them as far as one can see. I feel so bad for my grand children, not yet born.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 3:55pmQuestion, where did the guy get the dumpster in the first place. Dumpsters aren’t the usual thing people discard in the, well, dumpster. It wouldn’t be a very good idea for the very dry and hot Texas climate. It would be more of an OVEN than a home on wheels.
Report Post »freestaterev
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:35pmHopefully it has a good ventilation system… because after a few of those Berkeley veggie burritos I’ll bet there is some incredibly “vibrant” creations on that little built-in toilet.
My question: If you have someone over to watch a movie do you:
Report Post »a) take dump in full view
b) kick out friend for the night
c) send friend on a beer/food run
Elena2010
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:32pmBizarre!
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:24pmfurther homes if stupid Americans re-elect their king obama
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:40pmSounds right … .. maybe cash for dumpsters?
TEA!
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:08pmThings to come if Obammy gets re-elected.
Report Post »Haaryscary
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:05pmLol!!! Talk about taking a dump that reeks up the whole house haha.
Report Post »Got me some new diggs some foodstamps, I am shitten in high cotten!
TomFerrari
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:03pmAh, berserk-ley, california – home of the wackiest of californians – stiff competition for san francisco.
Hippies with money live in berkeley, and in marin county. hippies with jobs live in san francisco. Hippies with neither, live in both locations, and rely on the guilt of other hippies to see them through, in exchange for votes and for trolling on theblaze.com.
LOL
Report Post »Pattondog
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:47pmconditioning for agenda 21! everyone please move to a more centralized location so that we can better monitor…..eh..hmm ensure safety is readily available. think of the children, quick look at this cute little puppy and think of the polar bears. topic what agenda topic, what are you a hate mongur, quick look at the puppy again. america you distracted enough yet….good.
Report Post »bankerpapaw
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:45pmLet’s empty out the White House in Nov., 2012 and let the Man-Child live in one of these.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:04pmToo good for him.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:42pm.
Report Post »If Obama “invests” any more of my tax dollars,
we’ll all be living in one of these.
Locked
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:09pmGranite counter-tops, hardwood floors, and flat-screen TVs for all, then?
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:40pmi cant wait till the trash truck tries to dump it after he slept in too late one morning
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:05pmLoL
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:57pmThat’s hilarious !
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:40pmWHAT A DUMP >ster !
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:32pmUmmmmmmmmmmmm haven’t the homless been doing this for years.. minus all the doo dads?? Does it have locks on the door? Just joshing!!
Report Post »WhiteHorse
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:27pmLeave it to a whack job from liberal central, Berkeley, to think up such a stupid idea. I wonder what drug he was on when this revelation came to him?
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:13pmThere was a story about Japanese bargain hotels a few years ago. They were very inexpensive for all you got was a coffin size drawer to sleep in. This Dumpster thing has that beat in sq feet by a mile.
Report Post »I’m still looking in the Northern Rockies for a great cave to build in. I figure having a couple of miles of stone at my back and a whole lot of cement to the front would make I nice place to hang out while waiting for Yellowstone to erupt. Then who cares.
Nigel2
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:23pmNo such thing as a dan wesson 455
Report Post »Carl McPherson
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:32pmYep, they’re called Coffin Motels.
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:12pmLooks kind of like the urdan hut that the U.N. has planned for the “new downsized middle class ”. Will the Obamas get to live in a dumpster painted white?
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:07pmOnly half white.
Report Post »carlitamonique
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:07pmOscar is that you??
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:00pmMini houses, living in less than 100 sq feet…I don’t like this trend of thinking..if someone likes to live in a shanty, I won’t stop them, but I see this as another attempt to want the USA citizen to lower living standards and do with less…soon people will be living in hogan’s (hut)….Life like it was in 1875.. progressing backwards…
Report Post »lorgrom
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:08pmIt’s the standard of living all progressives want for everyone on the planet. We Americans just need to learn our place and accept that we are no better then everyone else. (now time for me to wash my mouth out with soap, sorry for spouting such garbage)
Report Post »another_mormon_4_Ron_Paul
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:06pmI have too much space and I fill it with junk. I need to downsize. I think a lot of people do.
Report Post »jayrosen
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:59amYeah ok it has a toilet, running water, stove, A/C…wait what? No A/C? Well thought out douche…your home just turned into an oven between May and September and a refrigerator between November and March.
Report Post »WhiteHorse
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:25pmSame thing I was thinking. Inside that thing sitting in the sun it would 150 degrees, and in the winter it would be a deep freeze.
What a dumb idea. Like turning a bicycle into a boat. Just go buy a boat for crying out loud.
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:58amAny property taxes? :)
Report Post »santramir
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:54amit can be named a humrat hive!!
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:51amTHIS is the american future, I think.
Report Post »Actually, we could probably benefit from a decrease in housing regulation so we could go back to simpler housing, we need a cheaper solution. but a dumpster is probably too far.
Hefsmaster
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:47amSweet. Nice setup for the coming “urban renewal” program. Just don’t park it near a cliff or set the wheels up to retract… Camera and mini gun set up would be a nice touch also.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:43amReminds me of the Chinese egg house that was circulating a while ago. Although honestly I liked the egg house more; at least you could lie down, and it was likely less expensive (although it didn’t have electricity, a toilet, or a place to cook)!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:50amThis is one of those stories that gets just a little less funny everytime you read it. When you consider that our so called “leaders” are driving us all to the point financially to where everyone will be living in one of these contrived mobile homes soon….I guess the people living in dumpsters will soon be the new “middle class”, while the rest of us in a slightly lower economic category will be forced to live in those plastic recycling bins, or perhaps a paper sack…..try to keep laughing folks, so you won’t end up crying.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 12:07pmNot to knock on you TX, but this dumpster home was a project created by a guy who does still stuff for a living (refurbishing and repairing). He’s done similar things with shipping containers in the past. And the dumpster he‘s in isn’t cheap: it’ll have (or has) hardwood floors, granite countertops, and a flat-screen TV. It’s junkyard chic, part of an artistic movement known as the “small house movement” which rejects traditional housing concepts for the sake of the small and artistic.
The actual articles about it are more interesting than the video, in my opinion:
Report Post »http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/gregory-kloehn/
AlansTigg
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 11:43amummm…..wow
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