Dan Price crouches to enter what he calls his 'Hobbit hole' house, which he built into a hillside in the small town of Joseph in northeast Oregon. Using scrap wood, he spent $75 to build it; most of that paid for fasteners and sealants. The living space is eight feet across and shaped like a circle with a four-feet-high sloped ceiling. 'The things I need are food, clothing, shelter,' said Price, who lives on about $5,000 a year. Adopting a life of radical simplicity, he said, 'stopped all of my worrying about money and jobs.'