Tips about and stories of~Off-grid Living:Tell us what interests you!

[redhen]

Yes, please write it! I'd love to read it!

 

[Beekissed]

You guys are serious? Would you read it from curiousity or would you be interested in how to do it yourself?

I'm just curious how many of you would ever contemplate just letting it all go and going backwoods? I mean, keeping your present jobs and all, but just buying some land, building a cabin/home, and living off grid.....would any of you ever even want to do that?

I've often thought, when the kids are gone and I am no longer needing to go out in the public, I would find a place in which to hole up and do the do. Just disconnect. Go native.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

I've read books like this (going out to build your cabin alone in the wilderness) and love them. I would do it if I thought I could get along without all the trappings of modern society. For me, that would mostly be things like a refrigerator, oven, food processor . . . But I suppose if I was in the right environment I wouldn't feel like I needed that stuff to be happy day to day.

I think mostly I would read it out of curiosity, but if there were tips included, I'm sure I would happily absorb those too.

 

[Beekissed]

If you are like me you would read it just out of curiosity and the imagining yourself doing it or not doing it, how well you would do in the face of adversity, etc. Sort of like reading those good books where someone has to survive in the wild and you get to thinking....now, I wouldn't have done that because of this or I would have never thought of doing that in that circumstance.

Just good old fashioned collecting of information that you never know when you will need, ya know?

 

[Dace]

You guys are serious? Would you read it from curiousity or would you be interested in how to do it yourself?

I'm just curious how many of you would ever contemplate just letting it all go and going backwoods? I mean, keeping your present jobs and all, but just buying some land, building a cabin/home, and living off grid.....would any of you ever even want to do that?

I've often thought, when the kids are gone and I am no longer needing to go out in the public, I would find a place in which to hole up and do the do. Just disconnect. Go native.

Totally serious...I will be the first to buy a copy I would read it for the anecdotal aspect (which I just know it would have) and for real how tos.

As for going backwoods....I don't think it would be realistic in this time and space that my family is in, but if we had the money to out right purchase a place and Dh did not need to commute to a job (wearing ironed dress clothes and all) I would do it in a heart beat. I would miss y'all and everything but I would ditch it all if given the chance. I think society as it is, is wayyyyy overrated!

 

[big brown horse]

If it was just me, I think I could almost do it. I would need someone to come over for the butchering aspect tho.

I would love a book that compiles all of the useful info for me. Like a manuel that tells me what to do during the year to stay prepared.

My dream is to live off the grid one day...wind power and solar power and myself power.

 

[Beekissed]

I will tell you that a certain amount of bliss was associated with not being "in" the world. We didn't absorb the stress from hearing about every day stressors, media hype or even economy woes as they just did not apply to us. When other's electricity was out, we never knew. We heard if school was cancelled by listening to the radio.

It was like being on another planet.....a quiet one. We went to school and work just like everyone else, but our time at home was spent working or enjoying the labors of that work. We couldn't really discuss current TV shows with the other kids and this was received rather weirdly but, funny thing, we would have to keep reminding those folks of the fact.

They just kept forgetting that we lived off-grid which, to me, was a testament of how well we did back there. We got to school clean, participated in after school sports, and were able to "blend" without feeling like, or others thinking , we were some kind of granola freaks.

Of course, back then, there were a large number of poor country kids and not so much of the snots....they were the minority back then!

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Interesting observation, Bee, about the TV show conversations. My parents didn't let me watch much TV, or even many movies, so I had a similar experience, although I lived in an area with a higher "snot" ratio. I notice the same with regard to people forgetting that you weren't watching the same stuff they were. Even in my adult life, I have to remind my husband that I did not see most of the movies that he saw growing up.

 

[big brown horse]

Interesting observation, Bee, about the TV show conversations. My parents didn't let me watch much TV, or even many movies, so I had a similar experience, although I lived in an area with a higher "snot" ratio. I notice the same with regard to people forgetting that you weren't watching the same stuff they were. Even in my adult life, I have to remind my husband that I did not see most of the movies that he saw growing up.

Your parents were like mine. People talk about the old sit coms that were on when I was a kid and I have no idea what they were like.

We did have a little black an white that came out of the closet for National Geographic and Sunday's The Wonderful World of Disney Specials.

 

[Beekissed]

Sounds like my upbringing. Even before we went off-grid, Dad felt like TV was evil.... ...so we didn't get to see much unless we were visiting someone else's house. I think I got enough of it in reruns later on in life to absorb some of the pop culture from the era but, when its all said and done, we didn't miss much.