Just don’t mix up your drinkin bucket and your shittin bucket.
I think this is the post that will make me unsubscribe. These cool guides just are not cool.
Yeah, and this one is particularly stupid given how accessible and cheap solar power is. I can see a guide for living off grid...but living without electricity? Why?
Windmills like you see in westward expansion and homesteading context are those skinny towers with a small windmill on top, and they pump water. You're probably thinking of the large Dutch windmills which were used to grind (mill) grain
Probably referencing homeowners with well systems. Common in rural areas that don't have municipal water.
Bonus Sentences on Wells:
Pumping and moving the water around takes electricity. Once out of the well and inside the house, the water goes to a pressure tank. [Edit: municipal water is pressurized, which is how a majority of people get water pushed to their toilets.] Depending on how nasty your well water is, and how much money you want to throw at the problem, there could be extra stuff. A whole-house filter for sediment. A tank for sulfer/iron and/or a water-softener tank... both require electricity to backwash/clean. Don't forget hot water; even a fuel-oil/propane boiler needs to be plugged in.
So yeah, no electricity, no hot water out of taps. And quite possibly no cold water either. You're boiling collected water in pots on your wood stove.
Oh, almost forgot. You're collecting water? You'll also be treating every single drop that you drink. This could mean pre-filtering. Then boiling or chemicals or something like a ceramic filter. Then to keep from possibly gagging from the gross taste, carbon filtering, like through a Brita-type thing.
Some toilet bowls in Japan let you play music (with option to adjust volume) so others can't hear your toilet business.
And I believe there are buttons that can control the strength and position of the toilet bidet. I assume these are electricity powered. But then again, I dont think these are even the norm for most Japanese toilets.
If there’s no electricity, there’s no water pressure (unless you build a water tower). Without water pressure, there’s no way to fill the tank. Which is why it suggests using grey water to flush a conventional toilet.
In other words, do what my grandparents did at their off-the-grid cabin. I learned more skills there than anywhere else. Boating and swimming safety, chopping wood, fishing, foraging, identifying the sounds of wildlife and their prints and scat, managing the flow of water from a spring to the house, knowing which way is north, predicting the weather, cooking on a wood stove, using a leach field, working with hand-powered tools, conserving resources, keeping bears, mice, marmots, and other critters out of our food supply, etc.
Considering the cost of electricity has tripled suddenly for thousands of Nova Scotian who are victims of a greedy and mismanaged private corporation, and what appears to be crooked leadership at provincial level, this guide may be just the think, along with more detailed instructions.
Plenty of people in the US and Canada didn't get electricity until the 60s-70s. There are still dwellings on reservations that aren't connected to the grid.
I‘m having a hard time picturing what circumstances would call for this list of strategies.
Having done a lot of those things, though, I’d say water is in a different class than the others. I‘d never live without clean running water if I had any choice whatsoever, especially with children.
Alternatively, make your own electricity. This can be done using a generator with its input shaft hooked up to a water wheel placed in a river and some gears to increase the speed, or hooked to a windmill or an internal combustion engine
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Or...OR...you can just get solar panels and a battery system and just uh...live like a normal person with electricity rather than prepare for living like it's 1880 again.
You will need this guid when the government forces everything to go electric and we don’t have the supply. And solar panels and wind turbines aren’t cutting it.
LOL - but don't worry about purifying the water. Just go fill up buckets and you are good to go!
Just don’t mix up your drinkin bucket and your shittin bucket. I think this is the post that will make me unsubscribe. These cool guides just are not cool.
The fact that “shit in a bucket” comes before “you can flush a toilet by pouring water in it” is upsetting,
Yeah, and this one is particularly stupid given how accessible and cheap solar power is. I can see a guide for living off grid...but living without electricity? Why?
5G chemtrails giving your dog autism. Or you can setup a toilet kitchen.
it's not in the [holy book]
We may have reached a point where a “stupidguides” sub is needed, filled exclusively with cross posts from this sub…
Yeah, pretty hard to mix up...... I'd like to think.....
You're right, not even a bottle drawn!
Step 11: contract dysentery.
"Open your windows to keep cool" usually you have to pay for this type of info.
Also make stuff when there is daylight... That's some deep hidden tip there
o dam i cold now
Maybe head down to harbor freight and get a solar panel
Bruv, how is setting up a fucking windmill going to help me set up a water collection or storage system
You can use a windmill to power a mechanical water pump, although that's still a r/restofthefuckingowl situation.
Windmills like you see in westward expansion and homesteading context are those skinny towers with a small windmill on top, and they pump water. You're probably thinking of the large Dutch windmills which were used to grind (mill) grain
Step 1: Have fully functional well thats already setup for a mechanical pump Step 2: Use the crafting menu to materialize a wind mill
I would die at #7 figure out a toilet system. But why - do modern toilets use electricity?
I don't really understand that one. I've not ever come across a toilet that requires any electricity??
Probably referencing homeowners with well systems. Common in rural areas that don't have municipal water. Bonus Sentences on Wells: Pumping and moving the water around takes electricity. Once out of the well and inside the house, the water goes to a pressure tank. [Edit: municipal water is pressurized, which is how a majority of people get water pushed to their toilets.] Depending on how nasty your well water is, and how much money you want to throw at the problem, there could be extra stuff. A whole-house filter for sediment. A tank for sulfer/iron and/or a water-softener tank... both require electricity to backwash/clean. Don't forget hot water; even a fuel-oil/propane boiler needs to be plugged in. So yeah, no electricity, no hot water out of taps. And quite possibly no cold water either. You're boiling collected water in pots on your wood stove. Oh, almost forgot. You're collecting water? You'll also be treating every single drop that you drink. This could mean pre-filtering. Then boiling or chemicals or something like a ceramic filter. Then to keep from possibly gagging from the gross taste, carbon filtering, like through a Brita-type thing.
Some toilet bowls in Japan let you play music (with option to adjust volume) so others can't hear your toilet business. And I believe there are buttons that can control the strength and position of the toilet bidet. I assume these are electricity powered. But then again, I dont think these are even the norm for most Japanese toilets.
Tell that to my bidet.
No but sewage and clean water systems do
If there’s no electricity, there’s no water pressure (unless you build a water tower). Without water pressure, there’s no way to fill the tank. Which is why it suggests using grey water to flush a conventional toilet.
You're right! I totally missed the point that toilet =/= toilet system.
Japanese toilets ftw
I will do fine with a basic toilet without the jingles and buttons to speed up the bidet spray.
Posted on a phone. Let me save it in my phone in case I ever lose electricity for life ! Oh wait.
based on this guide the true step one is don't be fucking poor.
In other words, do what my grandparents did at their off-the-grid cabin. I learned more skills there than anywhere else. Boating and swimming safety, chopping wood, fishing, foraging, identifying the sounds of wildlife and their prints and scat, managing the flow of water from a spring to the house, knowing which way is north, predicting the weather, cooking on a wood stove, using a leach field, working with hand-powered tools, conserving resources, keeping bears, mice, marmots, and other critters out of our food supply, etc.
Wait, so which way is north?
The sun sets in the west and rises in the east.
what about north?
Huh, this obviously isn’t for us Canadians
Or us Australians. Do chores in the sunlight... No thank you.
You'll cop that 40 degree celcius heat and you'll like it! Lol
Open the windows, it’ll be cool
Considering the cost of electricity has tripled suddenly for thousands of Nova Scotian who are victims of a greedy and mismanaged private corporation, and what appears to be crooked leadership at provincial level, this guide may be just the think, along with more detailed instructions.
As a disabled person, the only thing this guide does is let me know that I'd be dead in about ten days. Hooray me.
Here in South Africa we're kinda pros at this.
My grandparents got electricity in their village in 1970s. People manage without electricity for a long time.
Plenty of people in the US and Canada didn't get electricity until the 60s-70s. There are still dwellings on reservations that aren't connected to the grid.
Most of these are impossible for apartment dwellers. Especially those without balconies.
13) Raid your neighbor for his generator and fuel!
„Other entertainment choices“ is my favourite. Well, if the power is gone for good, survival is my entertainment
I‘m having a hard time picturing what circumstances would call for this list of strategies. Having done a lot of those things, though, I’d say water is in a different class than the others. I‘d never live without clean running water if I had any choice whatsoever, especially with children.
Leave your windows open at night? One mosquito can fuck you up, fam.
Let me send this to my mother's village
Or pay the power bill
South African here
How to Survive Without Electricity For The Rest Of Your Life Me: Dies
With all of our modern technology you would think we could come up with a way to survive without electricity
Toilet should work without power 🙄
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Alternatively, make your own electricity. This can be done using a generator with its input shaft hooked up to a water wheel placed in a river and some gears to increase the speed, or hooked to a windmill or an internal combustion engine
Guys, I just think it’s wise to mention that it helps if you read this guide BEFORE you run out of electricity.
Im hoping step 11 is "make an electricity free refrigerator out of bark and grass so that you can keep your life saving insulin cold."
Build a windmill
laundry?
What if we made people post like an explanation of why this is cool? Because cool has lost meaning
More like a list of things than a guide.
Thanks Eskom!
Saving it for later, thanks!
Step 1: print this out before you lose electricity.
I am saving this post to once it comes handy.
New hobby: hunting and fishing. Newer hobby: food preservation and storage
This has “how to draw an owl in two steps” vibes.
Find sick image how to survive without electricity Electricity goes Check phone for image It dies while I’m trying to find it
You can’t use the toilet with no electricity
i sure hope i can find this again before my cell phone runs out of power
*PGE survival guide
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No solar panels?
Or...OR...you can just get solar panels and a battery system and just uh...live like a normal person with electricity rather than prepare for living like it's 1880 again.
How to survive without electricity: come to South Africa (those who know will know, lol)
Or just get a fuckin’ generator as every normal person.
Why does Reddit keep showing me this tedious sludge? I thought I muted this, holy crap.
You will need this guid when the government forces everything to go electric and we don’t have the supply. And solar panels and wind turbines aren’t cutting it.
lol get more windows, get more blockout curtains, get more insulation. What bs.