Its been now one full year since I found "The Cabin"..
I like to live since 9 years for free. I quit the life of slavery - the paying to live bullsh*t. Since then I have lived in many places without paying any rent, from caravans to caves and this week at the beginning of August, is our one year of squatting a cabin in Oslo, Norway. We have never met the owner, and I don't think they even know that we are here. The place was empty for many years and has no water or full time electric plus it had quiet a bit of damage and so nobody wanted to live here. Myself and a South-African guy (
I did a post about occupying a property found Here if you haven't ever heard of people doing it before. There is also a Website for squatting information and locations!
One year on and much has changed, if the owners ever came back they would not even recognize the place one bit, if we ever got evicted im sure we can charge for the building materials of 8000 euro and another 8000 euro At least for the work done on it :)
This is how it looked upon my arrival..
Feel very free to see the renovation that we decided to do (without the use of electric, or a car to use) and with just the minimum tools. Here are the 4 stages of the renovation - First part. - Second Part - Third Part. - And The Finaleeeey!
So it went from this Above to how it looks Now... Here's a tour for you lot!
The Lounge
The Lounge. We still need a futon or mattress for the raised sofa area, we found the white stiropor\polisyrene sheets but they are too warm to sit on, will be nice in the winter time though.
The Kitchen
My Bedroom
The outside!
The outside has changed a lot since 
I have created several accounts for other people but actually none of them have started to use it yet! Around five I believe already. I'm very happy to get anyone an instant account if they are interested. We must promote Steemit ourselves, you tell one person, they will tell 2 (hopefully!) I had a very pleasant surprise message on my very un-active fakebook account from 
This guy is a Legend, only met him for a day or two when I also met 
I got a bow saw finally to cut trees with, and it was long over due that this overgrown stretching tree had to be cut down.
The Subject.. (the one bending over)
The whole tree from the other side, down the slope..
The Tools.. (Couldn't find my hammer so the crow bar sufficed and a skinning axe came in handy!)
Luckily I found some Elbow Grease or it would have been hard work!
Disclaimer - I have no training for this..
First cut..
She was really stubborn even after cutting through much more than half way, it seemed the tree had grown in complete upright balance, even though it was bending. I needed it to fall away from the cabin so to the opposite direction of its stretching attempts to get more light. It happens like that sometimes, strange but true!
Its raining LOTS! Now its the evening and these photos were all taken earlier in the day..
Trees! still more to take down. And more that are already fallen, or even worse, one that has had a washing line tied around it many years ago and has now been killed..
These ones were topped by a friend who is a profi tree surgeon before the winter..
Heres the stream that was dry but in the morning it will be flowing again. It was really close to completely running out today, which would mean having to go get water from the near empty well!
The pot was found with mouldy burnt food inside and I guess theres so much money here its easier to buy a new one than to clean it, I just left it out over winter and it cleaned itself!
Finally an official Compost! I found this old bin in the foresty land around here, very good dog proof compost!
Oh yes, the next is to do a new compost toilet!
Here is one wall, I have enough wood for the other side wall and the rest ill have to use something else.
it will be a spacious toilet!
I have an electric toilet that don't use much energy, that was also found and it works!
Well, I hope you enjoyed the anniversary tour of a squat in Norway! If your intrigued at this way of living then I thought to leave you links to older posts, explaining more why I do it. For example two I wrote in my early days of Steemit..
Im shattered! I wonder when the squatting scene will catch on to steemit, then there will be a whole new steemian race created! That will get interesting for sure!!
Hoping to bump into your grow journals on the #cannabis-collective or #canna-curate tags!
