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I Built an Airbnb out of Cardboard - YouTube
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i'm going to build a house entirely out
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of cardboard and list it on airbnb but
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here's the thing if i'm going to
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successfully get a cardboard house to be
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accepted on airbnb it's gotta be legit
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now i don't really have the resources to
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hire an architect or a construction team
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so i got to make do with what i got and
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with that being said here's what i got a
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ton of cardboard that i spent the last
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three weeks gathering from various
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friends houses and dumpsters because
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cardboard is really expensive and i also
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have a ton of duct tape to hold it all
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together now i had a spot to build the
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house but it needed a foundation and i
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have all these wooden pallets that
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should work just fine i gathered up all
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the pallets and started laying them out
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until i had a decent shape down for the
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foundation and then i realized if i
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wanted to make this house a decent size
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i was going to need more pallets alexa
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add pallets to my shopping list
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stock so i started working on the walls
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by using adhesive spray duct tape and
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some basic brain power i was starting to
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get somewhere okay so the first corner
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of the house is done
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kinda the next day i brought my wall out
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to work on it just to find out rained
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pretty bad last night and the humidity
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is making the cardboard super flimsy my
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tape is coming off of the cardboard it's
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just a total mess right now i spent the
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first hour of my day just patching up
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the damage and trying to reinforce the
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walls but then i got a pretty good idea
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by cutting a bunch of small cardboard
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strips and folding them into little beam
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type things i could use them as supports
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on the inside of the walls so i folded
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up a bunch and tried straightening out
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one of the walls once i had the whole
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wall done i stood it back up to test it
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out and well it's definitely better and
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since it worked so well i decided to
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make a bunch of those beam things but
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every time i pick these walls up they
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bend over me they're super flimsy
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they're not gonna hold but i think i
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figured out a way to fix this i'm gonna
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take more of these support beams and lay
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them across between these beams giving
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me more support this way not just this
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way after putting all the horizontal
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support in the wall it was time to glue
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down some sheets for the interior walls
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after all if i want airbnb to take me
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seriously i'm gonna have to make these
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walls super thick and sturdy okay this
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first wall is done i think let's stand
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this thing up yo this is super sturdy
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what
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now that's a wall i just gotta do that
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three more times and build a roof now
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i'm sure you're wondering how i'm able
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to build such beautiful creations well
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i've been building houses since i was
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like six years old up on ladders and
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scaffolds down in the trenches inside
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houses outside houses on top of houses i
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was always working and i loved it i mean
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look at me this looks straight out of a
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history book under child labor laws okay
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so now that i had a folding technique
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nailed down and a basic blueprint for
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these walls i had some serious gas i
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mean i was cooking with it the gas i was
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cooking with gas now i was moving pretty
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fast for a while and the progress was
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looking beautiful one side of the front
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wall is done and the best part is i can
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carry it by myself but i started to get
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kind of tired at this point i feel like
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it's easier to build like an actual
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house my hands are very swollen so i did
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my best for as long as i could but i
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slowed all the way down
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the next day i came in with one last
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wall to make i had a can of adhesive
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spray in my trusty roll of duct tape i
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wasn't messing around with a little
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sweat few tears and minimal messing
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around i completed the last wall all
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right so all four walls are done and
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it's time to set it up i don't really
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want to set it up outside because we
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might get some rain today what else is
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new so i'm gonna try to set it up in
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here but there is one problem i'm
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completely by myself and i can't lift
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these things alone so to set these walls
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up i was gonna need an extra body so in
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the meantime i decided to build some
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trusses trusses are those big wooden
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triangle things that hold the roof up
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but since i can't use wood i had to
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build literally hundreds of cardboard
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two by fours tape them all together so
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they'd be long enough to make these
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trusses so it'll look something like
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this now this might not seem like a lot
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but it took me two days of working late
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into the night just to make enough beans
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it's starting to look like a lumber yard
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in here and i'm probably down to like
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three brain cells since i've been
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breathing in adhesive rail week so me
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and my last few brain cells were doing
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our very best to build these trusses
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which was going quick and smooth until
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the worst thing ever happened
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i'm out of tape okay that might have
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been a bit dramatic but at this point i
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had gone through over 27 rolls of duct
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tape and 14 cans of adhesive spray which
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put me about
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439 dollars in the hole and that hole
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was about to get a lot deeper as this
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project went on but i wasn't stopping
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until i built the most luxurious
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cardboard house and rented it to someone
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on airbnb so after yet another hard
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day's work and many more rolls of duct
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tape i had all the trusses i needed for
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the roof and at this point i did my best
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to put the walls together just to see if
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this was structurally sound and i almost
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broke my camera in the process oh
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i just saved your life this is huge i
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got my front door back wall here and
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then other big wall this is huge these
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ceilings are mega high they're seven
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feet tall which raised the question how
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was i a five foot seven real-life mario
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going to set these trusses on top of the
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walls i wasn't having any luck at all so
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there's no way to set these trusses one
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by one on top of the wall so i'm gonna
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build the roof on the floor connecting
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the trusses to the beams one every 18
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inches now this part was pretty
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challenging because i had to keep each
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truss straight in parallel with each
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other as i taped them together but with
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a little hard work patience and a ton of
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stubbornness i successfully built the
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world's first up to code cardboard roof
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it kind of works how do you plan on
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getting this thing out the garage oh my
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god what did i do like an idiot i made
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the roof too big to fit out the garage
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doors how could i have been so foolish
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but i wasn't about to let this be my
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demise so i quickly disassembled part of
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the trusses and with the help of my
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friends and neighbors i was able to
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maneuver them out the door once we got
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the roof to the foundation it was time
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to finish this once and for all first
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was the porch roof spray tape spray tape
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complete then it was the main roof spray
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tape spray tape complete so there's only
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one last thing to do
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put it all together assembling this
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house was not a task for the faint of
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heart me and my team of cardboard
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athletes put our all into the
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preparation of this build knowing that
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this roof was way too big for us to lift
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alone it was time to bring out the big
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guns the tractor now this was a risky
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move because one small mistake with this
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tractor in over a month of progress
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would be destroyed so we had to be
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nimble and on our toes at all times and
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with careful planning execution and a
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few finishing touches the airbnb was
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done
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it's looking pretty good in here but you
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know what this place needs a couch that
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is also made of only cardboard beautiful
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countertops with everything you need to
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cook an awesome meal equipped with all
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the best appliances a refrigerator to
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keep your cold seltzers a nice table and
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chair to eat your meals you can't forget
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the bed what's an airbnb without the
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beat and if you're cold you can warm up
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by the fireplace now i know what you're
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thinking cardboard house fired probably
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not a good idea but i'm a risk taker so
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here we are and to top it all off we've
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got some cardboard art made by yours
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truly so this place is looking pretty
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good it's standing pretty dang solid i
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don't think it's going anywhere unless
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of course it rains but i've got my
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pictures
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it's time to put this thing on airbnb so
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i made the most legendary cardboard
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house and airbnb accepted it yes and
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after only two days last night somebody
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booked the airbnb and they are checking
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in today which means i need to get this
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place ready to go i couldn't believe it
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687 in and i built the world's first
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cardboard airbnb
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dude this wall is totally blown out the
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beam is being crushed right now there's
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holes in my ceiling i can't have
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somebody stay in this thing and on top
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of that there was no way this was going
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to survive the thunderstorm heading my
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way so i decided it was time to have
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some fun
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not to mention i saw a spider in there
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so why
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that's all i got
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