NO Fridge...could you do it?

[FarmerChick]

I started the thread----

SO

I get the fudge!


Ya'll back off!

 

[FarmerChick]

its funny cause as self sufficient as I want to be...there are things I am not going to do without.

Yea, pioneers going from the east to west in wagon trains....can you imagine????? none of us can!

Voyagers on the high seas, from Europe to USA.....can you imagine back then???? no Carnival cruise then folks...no buffet and casino????

A way of life just gone. Due to technology. The great with the bad. Medicine improvements, wonderful, the society we created, horrible almost....Hmmm......

With all this around me, like fridges and my electric can opener etc...LOL...I can't bring myself to back track to a different era. I can't do it.....yes I can downgrade to smaller cause honestly my fridge is not full at all....but to do without, nah, I don't see me being a pioneer woman.
Or a true self sufficient off the grid gal. And Tony wouldn't come along for the ride even if I tried..HA HA

 

[poppycat]

We do without a fridge when backpacking. Obviously we're not eating ice cream or drinking cold milk but we do ok too.

My fridge, according to the energy guide we got when we bought it, costs $54 a year to operate. That's not too much.

Yes we could do without it. But think it helps you make good use of your food resources (freezing extra berries, keeping leftovers good for lunch tomorrow...) and it saves a ton of time.

 

[FarmerChick]

poppycat

that was a good spin on this thread

what benefits are a fridge!
you are right, they make it possible to process full deer and such to save money and we aren't using up needless cows that are being bred, so we do help ourselves truly owning a freezer....makes sense in that respect. A little energy for maybe a great trade off....smart.

 

[poppycat]

We trade energy for much more frivolous things than food storage. I'd give up TV a million years before I gave up a fridge. Probably he computer too. What else... water heater? I dunno. washer and dryer... maybe, but probably not.

If electricity were not available, we would be ok though.

 

[FarmerChick]

yes I didn't think of that side of it.
what is electricity best used for...food storage is a high priority and that is fridge/freezer benefits.

I guess if push came to shove then my luxury junk like tv would go first...unplug and run when Tony finds out..HA HA

 

[hoosier]

I had a great uncle that didn't have a fridge (his choice) until the 1970s. He tied a rope to his milk,etc and dropped it down his well. Of course
after he got one he wondered why he had waited so long.