hi everybody and welcome to my home come on in and I'm gonna share with you a
Christmas tour welcome everyone welcome to my 1963 double-wide Ridgway mobile
home and today I'm gonna share with you all of the things about my mobile home
and why I love it so much today is a Christmas tour I'm finally
finished with all of my Christmas decorations and I thought you would
enjoy seeing what all I've done but first let me show you a little bit about
my mobile home as you see my kitchen all of my cupboards are original these are
original 1963 cupboards everything in my kitchen is original except for the
refrigerator and the stove but all the parts of my mobile home are original
even the windows most of my windows are original except for two so here you go
everyone is my home I've been here nine years then when we first bought this
place it was almost condemned no one had lived in it for quite a while let me
tell you it was a mess but we saw potential in this place and I'm so happy
that we bought it because I found my home here
we cook on a propane stove and yes we do have electricity but I choose not to use
that much of it to save on our electric bill
this little bar area this is also original I cannot believe it lasted this
long the walls in our home are original as well it's the original paneling and
it is made with real wood nowadays they don't use the real wood but this
paneling is real wood so let's walk into my little living room I'm not sure what
you want to call it but this is where we have our kitchen table you're gonna find
that 99% of everything in my home was other people's castaways or family
heirlooms table here is an heirloom it's been in my husband's family for many
generations the chairs were given to me by a neighbor but the table is beautiful
it can seat up to 40 people and have lots of the eaves that can be put into
this table this table was homemade at one time by an Amish man but it's been
in our family for so long now i'ma show what else I had as if you watch my
videos and listen to grandma Fanny's diary this was grandma Fanny's rocking
chair and many many days I sat in this rocking chair when I was pregnant with
my children I would sit in this rocking chair while Fanny would read me stories
and tell me about her life as a young mother I loved Fanny's cookbooks and I
would sit for days on end and I would read her cookbooks like a novel while
she told me stories about her life this rocking chair will stay in our family
forever because I grew up with family that was
very plain I didn't have a whole lot from my side of the family as you know
I'm adopted but my adopted side of the family there really wasn't a whole lot
as far as the generations before me but as you looking right here on this chest
it was my grandpa's and that was my adopted mom's father this was at an
estate sale and I was so happy to be able to get it
the story of this little chest is something quite unique
for you see I was so looking forward to going to the family estate
but that was the day I went into labor with my middle child I couldn't go money
was tight and so I told my mama if she could find me something that was
relatively cheap to get it for me my grandma Brubaker cell went really
high priced everything was so expensive but at the very end of the sale
there was this chest and it only brought ten dollars and I knew that this little
chest was made just for me one thing I love about mobile home living it's it's
a very cheap way of living a very frugal way of living and did my videos I want
to share with you how you can have a home that's really old a home that's not
have much worth in value but yet you can turn it into something that you can just
find so much joy and happiness and contentment with I love my home my home
reflects me no matter if it's a mobile home or a home make your home reflect
you
and here's our family room this is where we spend our evenings we have a
cathedral ceiling in our double-wide and so this one big room and what you see is
half of it the other half is this the other half is where I have my computer
desk and my husband has his and then we have an old sofa in the center I'm not
working at my computer desk and when I'm not working on homestead chores this is
where you'll find me this is my little sofa and this is where I like to do all
of my reading and I like to do all of my commenting on my videos I spent a lot of
my time sitting here because this is where it's most comfortable and
commenting all of you back sometimes it takes me three hours to comment
everybody and I just enjoy it so much because I get to look into your life
while you look into mine and I just am so thankful for it so this is our family
room when we don't need a lot of heat in our house we don't run or pellet stove
so we just run this little heater here and I just love it it does look like a
real flame but behind us is our pellet stove and that can make our house really
nice and warm and so we run that in the dead of winter when it's just so cold
out it is my china closet and this is where I hold all of my family heirlooms
everything inside it is a family heirloom from my family from my
husband's family these are things that I cherish everything is in there
everything that you could think of as to my adoption records and all kinds of
things that really are sentimental to me in my home is sentimental value to me
everything you see I can tell you the story about it all of the pictures that
you find on the walls they were actually puzzles that my mom and my dad put
together for many years and they have given it to me everything you see has a
memory poem is one big memory and I enjoy it because I'm a very sentimental
person and so as you look around everything that I have is a story is a
memory of my life
you
all right so this is pantry number one a lot of people ask me why is it so dark
well it's supposed to be dark it's a pantry pantries aren't supposed to be
kept dark that is some homemade soap which you're going to see this week this
is an unheated pantry but it does not freeze because we do have a very old oil
furnace and the oil furnace heats our bath water or bathroom but the rest of
the water we heat on the stove the dry cupboard that you're seeing right there
is also a family heirloom that's been in my husband's family for generations
the baskets are all given to me or I found free or I got in for like 25 cents
or 30 cents nothing in my home is expensive everything was given to me or
things that I found it so there is my cupboard so there is pantry number one
pantry number two is my main pantry this is where all of the food that I home can
are year around and so this is a rotating grocery store for us this is
what we live off of
all of the comforts that you see were given to me converted this old bedroom
into this pantry I have lots of dried goods and also canned goods in there a
little bit of everything as you can see I also like to keep a stock of all kinds
of herbs and all kinds of essential oils and things that can be used for medicine
and here is our bedroom and let me tell you a little bit about a bed and
furniture our bedroom furniture is also airing from the family and this was the
furniture of grandma Fanny's parents so I treasure this furniture the clock and
everything came from Grandma Fanny's parents I'm sure I cherish so much
this was grandma Fanny's husband's parents this was their wedding gift and
it was from 1892 this is authentic there is nothing changed with it there
is it hasn't even been resurfaced or anything this is their furniture that
was given to them with that came these two chairs and the end table in the
center was my mother-in-law's but I cherish this bedroom furniture as you
can tell what the furniture came the Bible and this Bible is also from the
1800s and there that's me that's a picture of me I'll Pan the camera back
and show you the last piece of furniture in this set so there it is
and here's your tiny little bathroom it's just perfect for two people and
like always it is the original in 1963 little modular bathroom thank you guys
so much for watching this video I hope I brought a little happiness into your
home and I also hope that you enjoyed seeing a little more about me and a
little more about my home and why I love it so much all the inside of my house
but what about the outside now I'm going to share with you a tour of the
outside of my property