Via The Onion, Alternative Spring Break Devolves Into Real Spring Break:

“We owe a debt to these students for providing my family with a home, but I was expecting glass in the windows and a ground floor,” said Mavis Riggs, whose original house was completely destroyed. “Converting the new septic tank into a hot tub was inventive, but we really won’t get a lot of use out of it. Or the barbecue pit, which I think was meant to form part of the foundation.”

The article gets bonus points for the shout out to my Alma Mater in the second paragraph. An AnonymousSister reported back from her Alternative Spring Break in an AnonymousLatinAmericanCountry with a similar experience.

Why pay professional house builders to build houses when we can spend twice as much to do it ourselves, party while we’re at it, and feel good along the way?

Categories: Funny, Philanthropy