Off The Grid

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3. Our own experiement with off grid living wasn't that extreme

We spent a year living off grid in a 32 ft trailer with our three kids. All of our wash (self and cleaning) water was rain water collected off the roof of the mini barn we built, the majority of our diet in the summer months was home grown and all of our heating (for water, food and atmosphere) was on a wood stove. We used power from solar panels the majority of the time with a back-up gas generator. All of our washing was by hand, we used old oil lights to save power in the evenings, our clothes were hang dried in all seasons and we used a gravity shower and a washtub for bathing.

Since then we have largely returned to the suburbs (the land we had purchased would not support our plans and there were some distance issues with family) and not a day goes by when we do not discuss our plans to move back in that direction, albeit with better housing, planned to be sustainable and efficient. So much of modern life seems unhealthy, disconnected and artificial.

It changes you to live outside the modern.