Here's a somewhat unfortunate but also kinda fun fact about life, you just don't get to live in once place for whole life,
yeah while that might be the case if you're financially struggling.

Pinkie suddenly found herself sitting in the middle of a scrapyard with a hut made out of scrap metal and a few other materials nearby.

Speaking of finance one reason for this scenario is because the economy needs you cause if ponies and other creature don't make money to get taxed the government of Equestria can go broke, the stock market and crash and every creature loses their jobs and go broke.

It show this in the form of a factory where bottles are by mass produced by many different creatures mainly ponies and dragons, the factory is then slapped with a huge closed sign, shows a steady stock chart plummeting to the bottom and even through the chart.

"Notice Anything?" the narrator asks "Yeah I think this stock chart has a weird red line going through it" Pinkie responds looking at the arrow that had gone through the chart

"Wait a second so you're saying that if I just start financially struggling I don't have to work and even if Equestria's stock market crashes, I'll have nothing to lose meaning that i can just stay in one play for the rest of my life?" Pinkie asked breaking the 4th wall

"Pinkie first of all you're not suppose to interrupt me, second of all you shouldn't start financially cause that just create more problems than just staying in one place and third of all that's besides the point i'm not gonna go in depth about finical stuff since this is suppose to be about something a lot more simpler." Practical Dragon explained

Going back on track you see when you've finally matured enough at the age of 18, above and sometimes even 1 or 2 years under your foalhood ends and your parents sent you on your way to go live a life of your own, think of your foalhood as a free trial and once it ends you have to start paying which is what the real world pretty much is.

This idea is represented by Pinkie celebrating her 18th birthday and as soon as she blows out the candles on her cake her parents then pack her gifts into a suitcase, they then throw her another suitcase full of clothes and other stuff, hand her the cake, dress here in city clothing, then push her out the door and when she walks up to a nearby hot dog stand she is charged 3 bits for it.

"Guess this is the real experience!" Pinkie commented before reaching into her pocket and pulling out 3 bits and handing it to the pony, once getting the hot dog she goes for a bottle of ketchup only to be charged 1 bit, annoyed she hands the pony another bit.

"So you're saying that my foalhood was like a free trial but with most free trials you can just cancel it and then get it again and now you have unlimited free access to the service you're suppose to be paying for." Pinkie explained breaking the 4th wall again.

"Pinkie that's not how free trials work now a days you have to pay in advance and by pay I mean give the company that run the service your card information, I'm just going off the original, dated meaning of free trial which simply means the priod of time a service is free." the orange dragoness explained

When you go out into the real world one of the first thing you want to get is shelter and by shelter I mean something like an apartment or homeless shelter if you don't know what to do with your life yet, but were just gonna be focusing on houses today, while most creatures would just buy their house if you have a practical mindset like me you can just build yourself one.

"If i can just buy myself a house, what's the point of building one and all these extra complicated step?!" Pinkie asked looking at the script "How'd you get that!?" the dragon asked then flying in and snatching the script from her. "Listen cotton candy hair building a house is the whole point of this educational short okay were trying to teach creatures the basic idea of building their own houses."

Step 1: The first thing you'll have to look for when building a house is a strong material something like bricks, stones or rocks I personally built my house out of rocks and stone. The reason you wouldn't want to build your house out of something weak or cheap like straw, hay, stick, twigs, clams, shells, crystals or shards.

This is shown by small piles of each materials appeared around Pinkie before coming together making a strange mixed up house.

Trust me even with all these weak and cheap materials combined it'll sill won't stand a chance against a griffon more specifically The Big Bad Griffon.

The fake griffon which was a badly made horse like figure made out of wood painted blue with yellow accents and armor made out of plastic gold was suddenly destroyed by the swipe of claw which belonged to the REAL Big Bad Griffon "WAIT WHAT!?" the narrator yelled

Practical then flew into the multi-material house which was completely empty except for a single chair in the corner, that's where she found her 2 other friends Snorkler-Griff and Pony-Miner.

"This might be the only time i don't get stopped by or because of Pinkie, which one of you big ninnies brought the actual Big Bag Griffon here?!" she asked, the pony and hippogriff looked at each other "He/She did!" they both claimed pointing at each other.

"They both did!" Ocellus said dropping her disguise as the chair in the corner pointing a hoof between the two creatures "So if you both brought the Big Bad Griffon over here, how did you get him over here without getting eaten?" the dragon asked "Well it was my idea" Miner started "And I executed it" Snorkler added

Flashback

Snorkler and Miner used a blanket covered with feathers from pillows and painted brown as a griffon disguise as they placed the last door on the ground before knocking on the door of his hut before hiding behind a small bush. The Big Bad Griffon answered it he looked down and saw the door, which angered him causing his blue eyes to turn red and bring his claws balled into fists down and smashed it too pieces.

"I hate doors!" he muttered before spotting a whole trail of doors, each made of different materials which extended out and beyond Griffonstone. He then started following, more accurately smashing his way through the trail before eventually ending up where they were filming this short.

"Frostbite darn it!, now I'll have to write a whole new section about the Big Bad Griffon one moment" Practical said grabbing the script and then a pencil.

While griffons themselves do have pretty powerful lungs often able to roar for a good few seconds and able to create powerful gusts of winds they're nothing compared to the roars and occasional gusts of wind from the Big Bag Griffon hence the name Big Bad.

It then shows footage that looks like it was taken on a blog camera which show Gilda the griffon the Big Bad Griffon's sister letting out a roar which manages to blow a few plants out of a garden and ruins the rest. It then shows footage in the same style except this time of The Big Bad Griffon himself coming out of a random griffon's hut before puffing up his chest and letting out a roar which completely blows away the griffon's hut leaving nothing behind.

"I'll soar and i'll roar and i'll BLOW YOUR HOUSE IN!" the griffon threatened cutting back to the short, he the inhaled deeply before letting out of roar which blows away all the weak, cheap materials leaving nothing behind just like the footage of him blowing away the random griffon's hut.

Before the Big Bad Griffon could have a chance to pounce at and attack the creatures Practical pulls a lever which drops a crate on the lionbird followed by a trap door opening under him dropping him into a pit.

Back to the main point of this short what i'm trying to stay make sure to make your house griff-proof with strong materials and for extra layer of protection you should use griff-proof cement and or griff-proof paint but that's besides the point, something else you want to protect yourself from is break ins and robberies.

A group of ponies wearing ski masks bandannas and other accessorizes that cover their faces breaking into Practical's stones and rock house and looting her place for bits and valuable items only to be stopped by Practical turning on her security system which retrieved the bags of stolen goods and chased off the robbers which gunfire, lasers and pies.

Step 2: Paperwork, this is one of the biggest but also most complicated and complex steps of building your own house, in order to get permission from the city, town or area you're building your house in you must fill out and sign lots of paperwork.

Piles of paperwork and contracts appeared around Pinkie, a small pile appear on top of her head, another in her hands and a final one in front of her on a table, and to top it all off a unsharpen pencil appeared in her hand, it was then replaced by a sharpen one but as soon as the earth pony placed it on the first paper the tip broke off, the broken pencil was then replaced by a pen.

Step 3: Buying Land, while I won't be going in-depth about what each paper and contract is covering, one of the most important contracts and papers are about land, it gives you permission to get land but you have to buy it with your own money.

Pinkie finds a empty plot of land and pulled out a shovel but right before she could start shoveling out the grass and dirt, a for sale sign appeared out of the ground.

"Seriously so you're saying that I sign a contract that forces me to buy land, or else I'll end up in legal trouble." the pink pony asked

"Like I said Pinkie I won't be going depth about what each paper or contract covers, that's a whole different topic" Practical countered

Step 4: Here's the practical part, Building The House, once you've bought the plot of land and shoveled out all the grass and dirt you can start on actually building your own house, paperwork check, land check, strong material check, extra layer of protection check.

Pinkie brought over piles of bricks, a bag of normal cement and griff-proof cement and a bucket of griff-proof cement Pinkie poured normal brand cement into the shoveled plot of land, followed by her placing griff-proof cement on the bricks to build the foundation and worked forward from there.

The earth pony settled on a simple layout, a two room house with a living room, and kitchen, complete with a chimney and fireplace.

Step 5: Furniture once you've built and painted your house, you want to decorate it since you don't just wanna be living in a empty house, some pieces of furniture are a necessity like a bed, speaking of necessities while some of these can be built out of your leftover material like a chair others like a fridge and the mattress of a bed must be bought, due to no way of being able to replicate their function out of bricks.

Pinkie built a chair out of leftover bricks and cement, but when she tried the same with the bed it just looked like a rectangle block with a headboard, she thought the fridge would look better only for it to look like a block, and as a result she couldn't open it to store her Triple Layer Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate Ice Cream Cake.

She then reached into her mane and pulled out a sledge hammer, and smashed both failed builds to pieces. She then reached into her mane and pulled out a party cannon, opened the front door, hopped in, but on a helmet and next thing she knew the earth pony was at the furniture store.

Step 6: House Upgrades, while the last step was basically the last step this is one you can complete overtime, since you're now a real mare you can get a job and with the money you earn for this you can afford house upgrades you can buy fancier more cosmetic furniture, maybe expand your house.

Pinkie starts building, adding more rooms to her house, replaces the simple brick chair with a fancier one, and decorates her house and walls with paint and fancy decor

Practical places down a sign with reads The End only for her and the sign to be blown away by The Big Bad Griffon who now has a black eye and dented helmet.

Miner sneaks up behind the griffon and attaches a firework to his back and Snorkler instead of lighting the fuse on the fireworks lights his tail fluff.

"Thought a crate and a pit could hold me?!" He yelled, only to find his tail fluff on fire causing him to fly upwards, and start yelling in pain, and once all the fur on his tail was gone the firework's fuse somehow lights and goes off sending the griffon into the sky and blowing up into a firework show, the final one spelling out The End.

Author's Note

Please don't try to correct me on anything of the complicated stuff with a long boring paragraph this is just my way of simplifying it