Single mom builds a house from the ground up using YouTube tutorials
Your dream home is apparently only a year's worth of physical labor, cost of supplies, and a work crew of children away— if you want it badly e**ugh.
In 2008, single mother of four Cara Brookins felt trapped: she was simultaneously living with a violent and abusive husband and being stalked by a mentally ill ex. She knew that even if she left, she couldn't afford to buy a house big e**ugh for her family.*
It was a classic "life gives you lemons" situation if your definition of lemons is like, really horrifying. As Brookins explains on her website, she took her lemons, her kids, a bank loan for an acre of land and construction supplies, and she built a house. * Read more...