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hi, i'm ash!
Creator of the New Travel & Design Series, 'OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES.'
Travel writer & host, cultural explorer, and architecture & interiors freak.
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Every week, we're exploring global culture through the lens of the home. From floorplans to fixtures, we examine how houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world (with a side of sass, of course!)
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The only podcast where we pass on the pyramids and poke around in the plumbing. I’m Ash, and I'm, exploring the strange, smart, and wonderful ways houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world.
The Books
A new series of OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES books designed to help you try on a new life in different places around the world—by getting to "go behind closed doors" inside local homes to discover what it's really like to live there.
This post is GOLD. So many brilliant nuggets. And I hope you at least climbed in that big ol’ tractor (aka RUSSIAN ROCKET SHIP) and drove it just a little. 🙂
Shoot, I want to buy one of these bad boys! LOL
I laughed especially hard at the bank wire piece… Lord, why do banks make doing business SO HARD! My biggest fear is getting a paper check for a sum >$10,000… because that means I have to actually GO TO THE BANK to deposit it – and that means I have to drive from Nashville, TN to Philadelphia because I still bank at a local credit union – and I refuse to go through the hassle of changing banks. Which, BTW – can we just talk about that shit show? Why would I rather have all of my teeth pulled out by a serial killer than change banks?
I recently just drove 3 hours to a branch for this same reason! Needed to get a cashier’s check for the closing of the farmhouse. Could not believe it was as hard as it was. Been checking out this new online business bank: https://relayfi.com/
This sounds pretty much like the rural county I live in – where I’m fairly certain you cannot cross the road carrying two live chickens without first proving you can walk a straight line for 75 feet while carrying two live, squawking avians of some type and having a sworn affidavit, in your grandmother’s blood, that the chickens to be transported do in fact belong to you. At the same time, you can bring your wrecked four wheel drive dually pickup into any of the fifty auto repair places in our town of 1500 souls, and they will fix it, no questions asked. Cash or credit card, or two live chickens accepted.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!! “That the chickens to be transported do, in fact, belong to you.” This is ironic, because just last night I literally was asked by a friend to go over to her chicken coop and close the doors so the chickens can rest peacefully at night without predators because her and her husband are away. Hahahahahahah!!!!!
Very important to have rested chickens. Can you imagine how stressful it is just to pass an egg without worrying about a predator watching you?
OMG! I wield a chainsaw or a snowblower and I feel like such a superb badass. You’ve got an excavator delivered to your door! I officially have a girl-crush on you.
I LOVE CHAINSAWS!!!!!!!! <—Officially never thought I would type *that* 🤣
I also keep an axe in my trunk “just in case.” One never knows when one will need to chop down a tree or hack up a body!
Ash, this post just elevated us from women who met online in your workshop through a mutual contact to soul sistahs. Just sayin’
I read your message last week: “I’ve rented an excavator”… and being German, I misunderstood the word and thought you’d hired an EXTERMINATOR. I was a bit surprised why you wrote “rented” instead of “hired”, but here goes… — I fully expected you to tell us this week: You were playing Terminator and had already wiped out an entire population of ants behind the drywall of your new old house. Now THAT has taken a turn!