The young of today, are going to have a rough time of it.
They will need to learn to do without and how to survive on the barest of supplies.
I have about given up on mine, they think that I am old fashioned and not keeping up to date.
The latest electronics, simply bore me and I hate TV.
LOL, but I do love my computer and bread making machine.
One of the few good things that I saw come out of the hippie era, is their efforts to learn the old ways of doing things, I have learned many things from them over the years.
It is a shame that they got bored and joined the mainstream, as they were doing a good job of bringing back the old ways of doing things.
I may still have the plans for making a spinning wheel, from the wheel of a bicycle, I wanted one, to use outdoors, under my big tree..
I love my traditional spinning wheel, but still think the hippy wheel would have been fun.
I lived through the big depression, on a sharecroppers farm in Texas, so have not always had running water, electric and indoor plumbing.
I hear you granny. My great grandparents lived in a 4 room house with no indoor plumbing. I remember when I was very young staying there, having to use the outhouse during the day, the chamber pot at night, pump water for everything, took baths in a tin tub in the kitchen in front of the wood stove after buckets of water were hauled in and heated on the stove. Those experiences have stayed with me and I have memories of being comfortable and happy. It was a frugal life for them, but a busy and happy one. The smell of woodsmoke still takes me back. We have lived through times without much of what most today consider necessary. And you know what, it was a more relaxed time, centered around family, honest work, faith, and yet, we were the greatest nation on earth.