Posted on 01/08/2016 7:26:53 PM PST by Kartographer
**I am OK with simplifying but these people are nuts. What about when they get old and become disabled? Who is going to chop their wood and haul their water? A sprained ankle will mean that one of them has to do the work of two. When they get old they have to move to town and who pays their bills then?**
Well, the alternative is to stay in your homestead, like a half dozen of my ancestors, and drop dead where you stood, hauling a wheel barrow load of wood into the kitchen, in the middle of winter. Or you could be in a nice warm nursing home, with drool running down your chin sitting in a wet diaper with your own feces.
The choice is pretty simple, IMO.
I lived a couple of years with just an outhouse for pooping when I had the cabin. Peeing is actually easier in the woods. Admittedly I had electricity and had a well tho' so I could bathe whether I needed it or not.
Seriously? If deprived an indoor privy you would die?
Sad.
Well, we all can do what we can do. - I grew up sort of
hard; so my ideas are not like everybody elses. - I can’t
go the kerosene in the lamps - it burns my eyes like crazy -
have to use PARAFFIN OIL. It’s probably higher cost; but I
can’t help it, can’t take the burning eyes & still function.
We cook on the wood heating stove in the living room; keep
cooking to a minimum year round now. I don’t pay no
attention to spiders unless they’re the black widows or
the giant wolf spiders; the others are worth their weight
in gold killing ants and other stuff. - If you’ll keep a
kettle of water on the heating stove, leave the lid open
slightly, your eyes won’t dry out from the house getting
too dry. - We may possibly not have any CHOICE about how
we live by the time the politicians get through draining
us dry!
The American people have spent the past couple centuries specializing skills and improving the quality of life so that we can sit in a warm house in the middle of winter and read a book, instead of spending the whole day chopping wood, hunting your dinner, hauling water and doing the hundred other chores that needed to be done back in a log cabin on the prairie in 1815.
I've got acres of woodlands around my house and I can live off the land in my current house if I absolutely had to. I choose to wait until or if I absolutely have to. So in meantime pass me another beer, put a decent movie on Netflix, and check the temperature of the turkey in the oven. The turkey I got at the supermarket.
The only thing I would point out (and without knowing your specific situation—this might not apply to you) is that many, many folks are thinking they will be able to go into the woods next door and live off the land.
In a SHTF situation, the local forests will be empty. There are no “seasons” and no limit. People who understand how to cure meat for preservation will clear out anything larger than a mouse in two weeks top.
I was speaking specifically about the people in the video. how far out in the boonies do they live? Do they have a job, any source of funds? What are they going to do when their boots wear out, their tools break, they need medical attention?
Lots of people continue to live in their country/farm home like they always did, that’s to be expected but that does not appear to apply to the couple in the video. They appear to have turned their back on society OR are they looking for a TV reality show?
Actually, at -30 you can lose tender bits on the outhouse seat if you don’t linger long enough to allow it to warm. It is an unpleasant experience, and if someone was in line ahead of you, the residual warmth in the seat makes it considerably less so. Stray air currents at that temperature (-30) can also adversely affect the elimination process.
Now I know why grandpa always kept that extra milk bucket in the house. He was a canny fellow.
I have to show this to my husband!
if you have to poop and pee in an outhouse in the middle of winter, why live?....
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I hope you are not serious. My grandparents never had an indoor bathroom down on their farm. I loved visiting them. The chamber pot came in handy in the winter.
These days, it is easy to have modern plumbing out in the booties. In fact we live less than a mile out of town, and have our own sewer disposal system and water from a well.
But even if we lived further out, we could have the modern conveniences-it is simply a matter of setting everything up.
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