Single mom builds a house from the ground up using YouTube tutorials Which goes to show firstly that YouTube is an excellent educational resource and not just for learning to play a guitar. Secondly another important lesson here is if you really want to achieve something (whether it is building a house or getting an education) and you put your mind and energy into it, you can achieve it. So many people blame their circumstances and opportunities that others had which they did not have, whilst others just set their minds to it, and make a plan to achieve it. I really admire people that do this, and especially where they have to persevere over time to achieve it. Worse is probably those you had the opportunities and squandered it. It really all just boils down to ourselves... 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 enough 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. A 3,500-square-foot, 5-bedroom, 3-car garage dream house worthy of replication on the Sims. Brookins couldn't afford to pay for labor or construction crews, so with the sage wisdom of some resident Home Depot employees and a lot of YouTube videos, she and her kids learned how to build a house brick by brick. See http://ift.tt/2isDQnj
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