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Sure, there are ways to refrigerate things without electricity – but they don’t do as good of a job as a refrigerator.

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Recommended Reading: How to Choose a Food Dehydrator 7. You’ll find that you enjoy food better because you didn’t get it instantly. Not to mention all the prep that goes into getting the meals ready when you don’t have an electric food processor to do the work for you.įor those of us in what I like to call the “microwave generation,” waiting for things is annoying and frustrating. Baking in a solar oven is also an exercise in patience. It takes a while to stoke a wood stove for cooking. Soon, you just get in shape and “exercise” is just everyday life. The cool thing is that they stop feeling so strenuous after a while.

My body got leaner from walking to see friends instead of calling them….

Carrying wood beats any deadlifts or squats.

After washing clothes by hand (I use the bucket washing machine method), my biceps got really awesome.

And I’m not going to lie: some of these tasks are really strenuous. Without electricity, you’ll find that you’ve got to do a lot of tasks manually.

Recommended Reading: 23 survival skills that our great grandparents knew They got exercise in their everyday life instead! Our great-parents didn’t have to make a point to exercise. One of the oddities of modern life is that people have to go to the gym to exercise. There is absolutely no need for a gym membership It is nice to have nature keeping your schedule for you instead of the “man” and its pre-decided 9-5 schedule. After doing this a few times, you learn to adjust your schedule to make use of daylight. Chores need to be done on timeĬooking dinner with candlelight isn’t much fun. No wonder why so many of our ancestors were nomadic! 4. During the day I would soak my feet in a bucket of water to help cool down if I wasn’t doing chores.Įven with these solutions, I still found myself wishing I could go somewhere cooler in the summer months and warmer in the winter. I later figured out that taking a cold shower before going to bed helped. I personally have trouble sleeping during really hot summer nights. This surprisingly is one of the hardest things for most people during summer who choose to live without electricity. No electricity meant no fans or air conditioning. When summer hits, you’ll wish you were nomadic It’s quite nice to just sit around doing nothing but listening to the crickets and watching the stars.

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It was a bit strange at first not to have TV (or radio, internet, etc.) to occupy my time when I first went without electricity, but I soon started enjoying the downtime. Funny how I never really feel relaxed after sitting on the couch for hours watching TV! But not having electricity also simplifies a lot of things too.Īfter an initial adjustment period, you probably won’t even miss electricity that much. Yes, some things are more difficult without electricity. Nearly 250 thousand Amish people still live without electricity today, not to mention the thousands of people in developing countries. Living without electricity isn’t as hard as you’d thinkīefore Benjamin Franklin figured out electricity, we all lived without it. Here are just some of the main lessons that people who’ve lived without electricity will know. Thousands of people are saying goodbye to modern conveniences and disconnecting themselves from the power companies. The thought of living without electricity is so scary that most won’t even consider going a day or two without it.īut there is also a revolution happening. How do you entertain yourself without TV?Īnd what about those basic needs which we constantly overlook – like lighting and our washing machines?

For most people, it is nearly impossible to imagine a life without electricity.

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