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Just wondering.  With all the guns, beans, rice, dried wholefoods, generators, composting toilets and other stuff some of you have, have any of you ever actually simulated with your families what it would be like living for a period like that?

........Have any of you, for example, lived without utilities for 1 or 2 weeks, not used a flushing toilet, not used outside forms of entertainment, TV, internet and just read to the children and stayed entertained.  Have you spent that week or any other significant period digging on your plot or land or garden, weeding.

How did you wash and shower during that week?  What did your wife and children think of the exercise?  Did you learn anything about yourself and the ease, difficulty or challenges you'd face if the real thing does happen?

Does this count? When our first child was 12mo and I was pregnant with our second, we purchased the only property we could afford, dirt cheap, with a loan from a very good friend. We had to cross through the river to get onto it, there was no power so no electric appliances. My husband had to carry our water up from the river in a container which he carried in a wheelbarrow, until he could make other arrangements. There was a simple house with an outside bucket toilet and no laundry. He had to build our bed from scrap materials lying around the place.

No refrigeration so we ate quite a bit of beans, rice, dried wholefoods; if we bought meat we ate it the same day. He eventually built a cellar, then on top of that a bedroom for the children.

We had no guns, generators, or composting toilets, though he did build a septic tank which watered our bananas.

We did have solar for light for 2 hours, but after that we used kerosine lamps for reading. Needless to say we had no canned entertaunment and didn't have any need for it.

I could write a book about our experiences. After 14 years of this life we were sad to leave, but this 14 year retreat helped to bring us out of the Novus ordo and into the True Religion.

Just wondering.  With all the guns, beans, rice, dried wholefoods, generators, composting toilets and other stuff some of you have, have any of you ever actually simulated with your families what it would be like living for a period like that?

The military have exercises and manoeuvres.  Soldiers crawl under barbed wire with live rounds whizzing over their heads before they are sent into battle.  Computer systems are tested with real date and real transactions before they are switch into production and the old system turned off.  Firemen test themselves in burning buildings.  Submariners escape from submarines and air-crew practice getting out of crashed and burning or sinking aeroplanes.

Have any of you, for example, lived without utilities for 1 or 2 weeks, not used a flushing toilet, not used outside forms of entertainment, TV, internet and just read to the children and stayed entertained.  Have you spent that week or any other significant period digging on your plot or land or garden, weeding.

How did you wash and shower during that week?  What did your wife and children think of the exercise?  Did you learn anything about yourself and the ease, difficulty or challenges you'd face if the real thing does happen?

Are there any of you who have significant survival plans, let's say you've spent several thousand dollars of more specifically on stores and equipment, for such a scenario who have never conducted any type of simulation lasting more than a few days?

I've lived without running water and electricity after a hurricane. I posted a few things below about buying plenty of paper plates, plastic utensils, bleach and trash bags.

Yes nadir. That counts, though you still bought meat from a store.

I am wondering who has simulated the workload and problems which would crop up.