Thanks, Granny, I’ve been reading for a while and have picked up some tidbits that I’ve filed away. Ever since I’ve been a kid, I’ve thought that someday we would live in this country like it was the 1700’s, if you know what I mean. I’ve tried to be thrify all these years, even when I didn’t have to for financial reasons.
My thoughts always run to “what if we had absolutely nothing” and the way it looks, I may have to find out!!!
>>>My thoughts always run to “what if we had absolutely nothing” and the way it looks, I may have to find out!!!<<<
LOL I’ve had those same thoughts - but I didn’t expect it like this...
My thoughts always run to “what if we had absolutely nothing” and the way it looks, I may have to find out!!!<<<
When you suddenly move from a nice house, to a travel trailer in the middle of the desert, you learn a new way to do things.
With no bathrooms, water or electric, you discover that the roll of toilet paper slides right over the handle of the shovel and some sticks and a couple sheets work for privacy.
You don’t dream of Iced drinks, instead you wring out a towel in a bowl of water and drape it on your head or body and think you are cool.
LOL, and if you do go visit family, you tell them they can talk to you in the shower, for that is where you will be.
You simply don’t buy things that will spoil and cook and plan for no leftovers.
Until this moment, I never understood why Aunt Mo. cooked only enough for dinner and not extras, she is a fantastic cook and I would have loved to been served more.
When she married my Uncle, the dashing Army man in WW2, she came off a poor depression farm in Mississippi, and I bet she did not have electric and refrigerators then, as we did not in San Diego.
Smile, they did well in San Diego and she never went without again, which pleases me.
If you have to haul water, you will, in whatever will hold it, until as time goes by, you get containers that are large enough to make the job easier.
If you have real doubts, take what you think you would in a bugout bag, put it in the back yard, lock the doors and give someone the key, so you can’t get back in, until the set time you intended to get back.
Find out if you and the kids will survive, you can tell them it is a camping trip, or the truth.
It will give you a better idea of what you need, as in really need and not just think it would be useful.
For years I kept a duffle bag, ready to go, spam, beans, coffee, can opener, etc, enough for 2 for 2 days and all I had to do was grab and go, the coffee pot was always in the pick up.
But if I had time, I would pack so much that Bill was beginning to mumble that I had too much, leave something at home.
You do understand, he ate all that I had in the ice chest, and liked to have a bed, etc.
I once took a very old miner out in the desert, in my pickup, as he wanted me to take a look at some old claims of his.
He made a couple of smart remarks about all the stuff in the truck bed.
But when it was time to eat, he ate well...........went into deep thought, and then said in my 70 or more years of prospecting, this is the first time that out in the field, ...well...
that i have ever sat in a chair to eat, while in camp on a claim.
After a very long pause, he said “It isn’t bad at all, not nearly as sissy as I thought you would be, when I saw what you had in the truck...”
Try camping rough and you will know what is important and how to get it in the load.