Our names are Jarrett and Angie. We are Generation X’ers. Married with children. Long careers. Retirement plan. Not quite dog or white, picket fences but there is a cat and minivan parked outside. Years ago, we came up with an idea. An audacious idea. Together we had a wonderful, audacious, asinine idea to build a secret, teeny, tiny space in our house unbeknownst to our three mind flaying children. We call it 50 SQFT LIFE. 5 feet by 10 feet to be exact.
By any means necessary we stealthily slip away whilst the oblivious offspring have no idea. Inevitably parenting until death, it’s a place where we can be unapologetically us in pursuit of a destined creative calling. A place where we don’t share a KFC BUCKET, or drink Diet anything. We can watch Dave Chappelle with the volume past 3 and laugh, albeit maniacally quiet.
Unlikely and furtive experts in the arts, fitness, nutrition, relationships, parenting, and silly ideas, we have lived a million hours and are reimagining and sharing all of it.
It's been beautiful and amazing doing this with each other and sometimes it's been terrifying and the scariest thing we’ve ever done. Nobody we know at our age is doing something so silly and trying new, uncomfortable things… All we know is that this blessed life we live isn’t entirely who we are and who we want to be.
We believe through creating and living a more creative life, true happiness could be realized.
A recent Global Report reported 45% of People Have Not Felt True Happiness for More Than Two Years.
People are searching for happiness in new ways and are willing to pay a premium. It has been more than two years since many people last felt true happiness and they are searching for ways to be happy again, no matter the cost.
45 percent of people have not felt true happiness for more than two years and 25 percent don't know, or have forgotten, what it means to feel truly happy.
88 percent are looking for new experiences to make them smile and laugh. People are prioritizing health (80 percent), personal connections (79 percent), and experiences (53 percent) to gain happiness.
More than half (53 percent) wish money could buy happiness, with 78 percent willing to pay a premium for true happiness.
89 percent attempted to find happiness in online shopping during the pandemic and while 47 percent said that receiving packages made them happy, 12 percent struggled to remember the purchases they had made online.
We don’t know if our secret, teeny, tiny, 50 SQFT LIFE will remedy any or all of these, for US and YOU... but we do know we’ll smile more, laugh more, hopefully inspire and provide unique and authentic value in an extremely new and entertaining way.
It’s been an extraordinary ride so far living in secret and we’re having a lot of fun figuring out what to do next.
The type of things that might lead you here are interests in redefining who you are, who your family, children, friends, coworkers think you are a creative calling, creative lifestyle, generation x, secret rooms, DiY projects, minimalism, parenting hacks, parenting advice, parenting fails, marriage, relationships, fine arts, visual arts, illustration, digital art, fitness, exercise, nutrition, cooking, baking, getting old, staying young, mid life crisis, menopause, parodies, mockumentaries, building a business, building a personal brand, genuine, mundane, trivial details of life, comedy, awkward humour, Dry and Sarcastic humour, Clever and Quick-Witted, Obscure and Absurd, Black and Dark, Raunchy and Blue, Friendly, Goofy, Slapstick humour, strong opinions about awesome things like JAWS, Ricky Martin, Baseball, Nirvana, Bon Jovi, The Office, Superman, Breaking Bad and Chase Jarvis. If you like us. You like Chase.
In short…If our calculations are correct, you’re going to see some serious sh*t.
Welcome to 50 SQFT LIFE. Tell everyone, to tell no one.
