[Mogger]

This whole electricity, running water, indoor bathrooms and communications systems is just a passing fad anyway.

We got along just fine with none of them when I was a kid.

[JDoutrider]

LOL!:)

Yep... All those city folks gotta learn sometime though!

[Marcella]

“This whole electricity, running water, indoor bathrooms and communications systems is just a passing fad anyway.
We got along just fine with none of them when I was a kid.”

I think experiencing no power, no running water, and outdoor potties, as a child at my house (we had power and running water but no indoor bathroom) and my grandmother’s house with no power, no running water, and an outhouse, helped me put together substitutes for those utilities. I knew life at my grandmother’s was fine, just had to adjust to the methods they had.

I started with thinking I was back in those times and put together a system that would work. I’ll have running water with no piped water, I’ll have working fans to substitute for air conditioning, I’ll have stored food and food growing outside, I’ll have a working TV if there are any stations in Houston, have working radio and short wave receiver, have working phone if phone companies are working. Will have light several ways if power is out. Have several ways to have a potty and a better way to clean than regular toilet paper and that method stores in a not huge box.

Really, it just took thinking, planning and researching to find substitutes for what we have now.

[Rannug]

“We got along just fine with none of them when I was a kid.” Yeah but does Sears still have that good catalog? I’m not going to use corn cobs again.