“Little Rascals” star Bug Hall lives off the grid with his family in Arkansas after ditching Hollywood, but still documents their “simple” existence via X.
The child actor clarified in December 2025 that while he doesn’t own a computer or TV, he does have a phone.
The 40-year-old regularly uses his cell to post pictures of his wife, Jill DeGroff, and their five children — four daughters and one son — as they celebrate holidays, take nature walks and more.
While the little ones’ names are not public, Hall made headlines in September 2025 for referring to his youngest, a baby boy, as an “heir” and his girls as “dishwashers.”
He and DeGroff have been married since 2017, with Hall honoring his “beautiful beloved bride” on her birthday in November 2025.
“She was bragging this morning about how she’s married with five children before the age where I had even gotten married,” wrote the “Get a Clue” star, who was 32 when he tied the knot. “Please pray for her pride.”
The couple has taken a “vow of poverty,” as he explained to the Daily Mail on Wednesday, and they live in a camper van with their brood as Hall builds their home on their 80 acres of land.
Hall regularly shares his home projects, from lugging bags of corn to struggling to clear a “frozen poop … blockage” from their toilet.
He shared steps to “building a house from scratch,” with another social media user in November 2025, claiming “the steps are simple enough,” including “identifying the homesite” and “clearing” it with “fun chainsaw work.”
Hall noted, “I’m building a stone and timber frame house. Design … is another fun part. Pick up some graph paper and get to drawing until you’re happy with what you’re building.
“I also recommend using a measuring tape to draw out rooms on the ground in actual size so you can get a feel for how big you want things to be,” the retired actor, who revealed he pays less than $300 on annual property taxes, continued. “I also recommend going bigger on everything so you have room to grow.”
On Wednesday, Hall told the Daily Mail he eventually plans to establish his own hydro-electrical dam and plumbing and electrical systems.
As he works, the self-proclaimed “Catholic extremist,” who has a “pre-chip vehicle” he “can fix [him]self,” occasionally pulls back the curtain on his kids’ day-to-day activities online.
“In the far-flung corners of remote lands there are still children being raised like children always were,” he captioned a barefoot snap of the siblings playing last year.
Earlier this month, he described bonding with one of his daughters while “cut[ting] 80 pieces of blocking with a miter saw” as they “prepped for [her] first communion.”
She and her siblings wore matching outfits for Christmas 2025 while opening simple toys, like Lincoln Logs, and played a family football game on Thanksgiving.
“This was the first time my children got to see it and partake,” Hall wrote via X during the 2025 holidays. “It was a good opportunity to teach them that sportsball is for playing, not watching on TV.”
Hall, best known for playing Alfalfa in “Little Rascals” and Jack Downey in “Get a Clue,” left Los Angeles for Michigan after his 2020 arrest for allegedly huffing air duster cans.
“I didn’t want to go work some job that was basically meaningless … to entertain people or distract people,” he said in Wednesday’s interview.
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