How do you get rid of human waste? How do you bathe yourself?
How do you clean your dishes? How do you clean up around the home? How do you clean your clothing, or your bedding?
Posted on 12/15/2013 3:57:43 PM PST by dontreadthis
You have a levered door knob...at least your door opener would be in compliance in British Columbia! /s
If this woman has gone that route, I would agree that the system could fit her needs suitably. Even if she did some sort of cut-down system, she could make do. So your point is a valid one.
Somehow I doubt she’s actually doing this. I may be wrong, but she sounds somewhat problematic to me on first blush.
If she can document what she’s doing, she should. Tell the local government to pound sand, and I’ll stand corrected.
You system sounds good.
I am a firm believer in folks being self-sustaining in their water and power needs. If they can rig it, it makes them better prepared for trouble, and it reduces the strain on the grid locally.
I am somewhat antagonistic to a utility company essentially being able to have a monopoly. Folks can do something about that. I think they should. Of course admittedly, this is a do as I say not as I do situation.
I should follow my own advice though.
;^)
Same here.
It used to get down to freezing in our bedroom at night. My grandmother would heat up a brick on the stove all evening long. At bed-time she would wrap it in newspaper and send us to bed with it. We would essentially hibernate under the covers until morning. My brother and I each had one in our bed.
To this day, I sleep much better in a cold bedroom.
Also on here it says she has a website or webpage, something, where she describes her system. And she said she uses camp showers.
Don't know what she does about light but that one isn't hard to solve. I have a large enough solar panel and charger to keep rechargeable batteries charged for years. Each batter can be charged 1,500 times and I have a bunch. Maybe she has a solar panel.
If our grid went down, the cops wouldn't have power and there would be no gasoline, so they would leave her alone and she could exist and they couldn't, if she also has stored food.
Some people prepare and most don't. I live in hurricane country and don't have to depend on Homeland Security to help me. See, I don't know anyone in Homeland Security and there are over 300 million in the country, so I take care of myself.
Another thing: We paid for the most expensive prepared place in this country and it's Hussein's underground prepared place across the street and down from the white house and there is water, food, everything, including a surgeon there with a surgical suite. See, I am as important as he is, so I spent my own money to make a place for me. See, I have a country, too. My country, of which I am President for Life, is my house and back garden. As President, I determine who can enter my country and who can't. I have one citizen besides me, and that is my Yorkie and she is entitled to a bed, water, food, and a good life. My country is swell.
I guess they don’t want anyone without electricity.
whigh makes me wonder... do they have a way to listen / monitor thru standard electricity?
“My grandmother would heat up a brick on the stove all evening long. At bed-time she would wrap it in newspaper and send us to bed with it.”
My dad has a similar story of growing up in North Louisiana in early 30’s. His room was the screened in porch with canvas covering for the winter. His mom used heat bricks and do he same thing.
Nice going Marcella. Sounds very good.
It worked great.
Thanks for mentioning what she was doing. That helps.
Perhaps she’s not as off the beaten track as I thought.
If not, then the city should have a hard time doing anything to her.
“Another was bit by a rattlesnake in his kitchen. I thought he might be taking it too far.”
Yeah, he should kill the snake before cooking it.
How do you get rid of human waste? How do you bathe yourself?
How do you clean your dishes? How do you clean up around the home? How do you clean your clothing, or your bedding?
Been there done that too.
Had a pump that looked just like that one.
Had a pump that looked just like that one.
Can't say that I have, but I'll always remember the first visit to the ex-wife's village in Thailand, watching her little sister pushing a 2 wheel cart containing the water tanks she had filled up from the well.
Probably still many 100's of millions live without running water. As I commented on a photo of a North Korean housing complex a while back, the absence of water tanks on the apartment roofs indicates that few people in the whole country have it.
Thanks for the mention. I realize that many people around the world live this way. I also realize that we have some people in this country that want to be prepared in case rough times creep up on us. By and large though, we’re a modern nation with things like electricity and running water.
We can live like that, but I’d rather have it in reserve than go all in. I will say that the closer to normal the facilities are though, the less problem I have with devising an alternative to the modern norm.
It is interesting to note how others live isn’t it. We take so many things for granted.
They showed her house on the news. It was spotless clean. She has a flush toilet. She collects rainwater and stores it in barrels and treats it. Many people do this up here in Alaska, not by choice, but because there is no other way in some areas. All she is doing is collecting what nature gives her and bypassing the middlemen. The environmental movement should applaud her, as she is living with a very small footprint.
Looks like I was way off base here. I appreciate the update.
I thought she was some sort of wing-nut based on some unrelated things in the article. That’s probably why they were included.
Thanks for the correction...
You don’t need running water....You catch rainwater in some barrels. Buy drinking water at the supermarket and sh** in a 5gal bucket you empty out every few days on the front steps of City Hall. Urine you throw on the flowerbed
For cooking get a BBQ propane tank and attach a two burner propane stove to it.
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