Life in a shipping container
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We were driving home from Aitkin last Friday afternoon and spotted a "home" on Mille Lacs -- I think it was in the Garrison area -- made of a shipping container. Maybe they're at the front of a parade.
Today, for example, Fair Companies reports on a single mother in California who didn't want to add a mortgage to her student loan debt. She was offered a shipping container for free, and made a home out of it.
Good luck trying the idea in most communities in Minnesota, though. It'd be against many local zoning laws.
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