The facts about tree houses.
September 15, 2011 \pm\30 3:48 pm
FACT: You like trees.
FACT: Houses are glorified apartments.
FACT: Except when they’re in trees.
FACT: Sleeping 10-20 feet above the ground increases IQ scores 10-20%.
FACT: Tree houses were invented in France or Fiji or something.
FACT: Turkey sandwiches taste better in tree houses.
FACT: Burglars hate climbing and will bypass a tree house.
FACT: Few, if any, American laws apply within the confines of tree houses. Especially the ones about drugs.
FACT: Nine out of ten families from Switzerland named Robinson prefer such domiciles.
FACT: We want to build a tree house.
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Those tree houses are fucking crazy. A tree house when I was a kid was a packing pallet dragged up the tree. We would tie it on with so crappy old string. Nearly died a dozen times falling from oaks.
Great article.
I hear you, man. My dad built us a tree house, only to have it collapse after a wind storm. It wasn’t much better than a pallet, apparently.
I’m going to build one! Probably more than one.
I’m jealous!
Even turkey sandwiches taste better?! This is greater and greater with each fact I read!
It’s true. I get all my information from the National Tree Domicile Builders of America website. They’re thorough.
you missed one: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/swedish-mirrored-treehouse.php
ok ok it doesn’t really go with the post, awesome post p.s.
we had a treehouse when i was a kid too. we lived next to a golfcourse so the golfcourse was our backyard and in the middle of the golfcourse at different ends were two things: a tree so big and spread out it made its own ‘house’ at its center and was good for weedsmoking and hiding from stepfathers, and a canal we used to swingdive into from a branch between our thighs, tied to a rope tied to another tree that hung spread wide over the canal like breezy tentacles. bonus golfcourse story: once we commandeered a security guard’s golfcart and made him run after us in circles for five-ten minutes before giving it back
do your kids a favor, live next to a golfcourse
[you bring back memories all the time]
What? That house looks like something out of Predator.
Golf course livin’ sounds all right. I’ll have to talk to Daniel, see if I can’t get a WWAATD raise. And make that happen!
feel overwhelming need to explain we lived in a rental shack at the back of the golfcourse where golfballs went to die
It’s still a mansion in my imagination, Ani.
ok for having imagination i shall put in a good word re: your promotion
(wait ’til seth abramson hears about this)