Life without mod. cons.

Which of the following have you ever lived without (in your home; not holiday house or temp. cabin etc). What was it like, as you remember it?

Piped water & plumbing
Mains/grid electricity
Central heat
Radio or TV signal
Telephone service

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originnone · 61-69, M

none really...I've lost heat, tv, electric, but never plumbing....I don't have a land line for phone.

Really · 80-89, M

@originnone I've lived without those all at once but I was a kid and I didn't know it wasn't great. (I wasn't the one pumping the water, heating the washtub, scrubbing the clothes, hand-wringing etc. etc.)

Nowadays I have them all but my emergency fall-backs are the woodstove, the land line and hand-cranked radio. Not to mention the veggie garden. BUT water would be a problem if the power stayed out.

originnone · 61-69, M

@Really I live in an area that's bustling enough that there would be enough people wining that something would be fixed as soon as they could....or things would otherwise be so bad I'd probably die anyway....I do worry about not having a portable generator....