PHOTO: FIONA TOMLINSON – The Heerings, meanwhile, are not giving up on the lifestyle – they are just going to do it all again with an extra room and separate toilet on a new block of land.
Friday was a great day for the Heeringa family of Hastings, and another family from the Waikato – one sold, one bought.
After floods of enquiries and around 50,000 Trade Me hits, Ilse and Matt Heeringa accepted an offer on their tiny container house where they are raising their three children.
But it wasn’t a case of the highest offer gets the house. Ilse Heeringa says they wanted it to go to someone who is as passionate as they are about living simply and off the grid.
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