Yeah; and some have over-complicated what they actually have to have to survive. - I grew up eating dried beans, potatoes, and cornbread every day, heating with a coal stove, going potty in an outhouse and toilet paper was a page torn out of the Sears and Roebuck catalog, tea cakes Momma made once in a while, water drawn by the bucket from a well, communal dipper in the bucket was our shared water glass, an 8 oz. soda and a small candy bar from the store was a treat. Our paper towel was a rag, our paper napkins were our shirt sleeves or the back of our hands, our Kleenex was a cloth handkerchief or a bit of toilet paper from school; I could go on, but it would gross you out.
Yeah...I miss those old catalogs...way cheaper than Charmin.
After harvesting this year’s crop of popcorn; I’m saving the cobs...just in case. Clean cobs will be the new currency after the SHTF. :-)