When one goes into a hardware store for needed supplies, but realizes tools are needed to complete the job. Instead of purchasing tools, one opens needed tools and assembles product in store.
Guy1: We need to cut this pipe in half, but I too cheap to buy the cutter.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.