Single Mom Builds House With Kids After Watching YouTube

Published on 06/18/2018
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The whole family were now presented with an overwhelming task – they needed to construct a house with their own hands. A feat they had never encountered before. That’s when the Brookins family turned to an unlikely source…YouTube.

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“This was 2008, so YouTube was not then what it is now. There weren’t really comprehensive videos or channels devoted to this sort of thing,” she says. “But there’s a lot of ways to frame a window or to put a foundation together. So, we would watch three or four videos for each stage of construction and then think, ‘Which one of these is going to work the best for us?’”

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