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The Big Tiny : A Built-It-Myself Memoir by Dee Williams is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Big Tiny : A Built-It-Myself Memoir about?

Dee Williams’s life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restored—but, increasingly, it did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general time-suck of home ownership. A new sense of clarity began to take hold: Just what was all this stuff for? Multiple extra rooms, a kitchen stocked with rarely used appliances, were things that couldn’t compare with the financial freedom and the ultimate luxury— time— that would come with downsizing. Deciding to build an eighty-four-square-foot house—on her own, from the ground up—was just the beginning of building a new life. Williams can now list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her approximately ten minutes to clean the entire house. It’s left her with more time to spend with family and friends, and

Who reads The Big Tiny : A Built-It-Myself Memoir?

Author

Dee Williams

Publisher

Plume

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780142181799

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (2,112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13