A guest cabin, a sugar shack's doors and a 52-week budget
Between the building videos, an old-fashioned apple pie came out of the off-grid kitchen, and a morning mobility routine got its own upload.
My Self RelianceStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
The First Steps: Clearing Ground for My New Guest Cabin
Five uploads went up, and they cover most of what this channel is about: building, cooking, keeping the body able to do the work, and the arithmetic of living this way. The biggest crowd so far belongs to "The First Steps: Clearing Ground for My New Guest Cabin," which opened with close to a hundred thousand views on its first day. That is the start of a new build, on a channel best known for a log cabin raised by hand in the Canadian woods.
The newest video is the one moving fastest. "The Reality of My Budget: 52 Weeks of Self-Reliance" had been up for only half a day and was already gathering views faster than anything else he posted. Maybe a price tag on the quiet life is what people most want to see? The doors for the maple syrup shack came in two versions, a full video with an apple pie baked on the side and a short on building cabin doors from scratch. With Canadian Thanksgiving under two weeks away, the pie is well timed.
The channel as a whole ran a little above its usual daily pace. Among the outdoors and homesteading channels, Field Days had the lively week, running at about twice its usual pace, while Outdoor Tom and B2B Castaways drew fewer views than usual.
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- Channel
- My Self Reliance
- Subscribers
- 2,210,000
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- September 25, 2026
- Video views so far
- 148,711
- Views on its first day
- 95,650
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