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1 posted on 02/29/2016 8:25:57 AM PST by Kartographer
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There’s a couple in Washington State who have been living a Victorian lifestyle for a long time; they get around on very old fashioned bicycles:

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9275611/victorian-era-life

-JT


48 posted on 02/29/2016 9:23:27 AM PST by Jamestown1630
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Retroculture is really a thing.


49 posted on 02/29/2016 9:24:56 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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Does she also refuse modern medicine?


50 posted on 02/29/2016 9:42:02 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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Does she have a victory garden in her back yard?

And someone should tell her that they did have indoor plumbing in the cities in the 1930s.


51 posted on 02/29/2016 10:02:45 AM PST by PAR35
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As a recovering Young Fogey, I totally agree with this.


55 posted on 02/29/2016 10:16:01 AM PST by kaehurowing
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More fun to live like it is 8,000 BC.


57 posted on 02/29/2016 10:21:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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There was an excellent BBC short series titled, "Supersizers Go..." in which a couple, a restaurant critic and a comedienne, eat the diet and live the lifestyle of various periods of British history ranging from the Roman era to the 1980s. Prior to each week, they receive battery of medical tests, blood work, etc. with a follow up visit at the end of the week for comparison. IIRC, they actually came out of the WWII episode with some pretty positive results:

Supersizers Go Wartime

I can highly recommend the entire series for foodies, history buffs and just those looking for a little off-beat entertainment.

58 posted on 02/29/2016 10:21:46 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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Cool. So she’s a prepper, sort of.
I’m doing something similar. Not discarding all modern conveniences just yet, but preparing for a possible grid-down situation by acquiring/installing old-timey accoutrements as backups.
The outhouse is quite convenient when I’m doing yardwork and would rather not trek all the way back to the house, and I keep a bottle of alcohol out there for hand washing.
But I still appreciate, and use, my modern indoor plumbing, and for now, my future chamber pot holds a lovely houseplant.


63 posted on 02/29/2016 10:24:46 AM PST by mumblypeg (Reality is way more complicated than the internet. That's why I'm here.)
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I think one of the ladies from the TV show “1940s House” continued on with some of the practices from that time. Heaven knows none of the “Frontier House” ladies had any interest in hanging onto much from the daily realities of THAT lifestyle!


65 posted on 02/29/2016 10:29:41 AM PST by Amity
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Living like it's 1939 England would be a hardship.
69 posted on 02/29/2016 10:43:54 AM PST by Oratam
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Is she busy Friday night?


79 posted on 02/29/2016 1:17:53 PM PST by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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Interesting


80 posted on 03/20/2016 6:29:00 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Time to go Galt!)
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