Are you in a trailor or garage?

 

I can setup anyware. ATM im in this;

But have setup in this:

Sometimes I setup in a mansion like this:

Farm worker, lots of travel and lots of differing accomodation from BYO to country cottages. Most times its transportables like these;

All the gear in the original images can fit onto the big black roll-in bag and 1 backpack.. All of it. If driving I take a couple of milk crates for extra cooking kit, dry food stuffs and a bigger wet cell battery. Also have 5x 20 litre / 5 gallon water containers, two for gas and , a 205L/55Gal drum of diesel and an empty metal drum for non potable water, more diesel, gasoline, moonshine, or other precious liquids.

 

Living rough leaves me wanting for nothing. It doesn't mean living off of crap MREs or nothing but tinned food. I can live off the grid and still have all the mod-cons. 12V xbox, lighting, tv, access to net etc. Provided the grid is up.. and available. If the grid goes down I can live, like this, indefinitely. We all can.

No we can't. Not unless you are on a self sufficient homestead. Just because you have the means to live like this now does not mean it will always be this way. "I have a 12 volt XBOX cool". Meh. Tell us about your preps. Not a single picture of food or water.

 

I'll bet it has been Thirty Years since I heard the term "Mod-Cons"!

Good you have little need, and that you are comfortable enough - I have Entirely too much Scheisse...

 

I like it, being a minimalist has its merits!

 

Worked as a cowboy for a couple of years and some folks just dont understand.....
Living a different life with no running water, no power, no phone or IPOD, up at sunrise and to work......Seeing nature in its raw form and beauty.......
The Last Outpost you are blessed with what others try to dream about.....

 

Mate, couldn't say it better myself.

 

Wow seems like more of you gettit than don't Cheers guys, I'll have a cold beer for you all tonight when me and the fellas and fillies watch the sunset drink some, smoke some and discuss the stars.

For the rest of you;

My preps

The ability to reliably find water, game and fertile enough soil to plant out heirloom seeds. . And kit.

Confidence and training to get myself to these locations, on foot if necessary. And kit.

Familiar and qualified in Ham and EMS 2 way communications and procedures. And kit. HF VHF UHF

@MTShawn: If your location becomes non-viable, then what? Your comment was a bit pithy mate. Just coz my way is different to yours doesn't leave it without merit.




You know who you are. You all call yourselves 'preppers' and are very quick to correct others, be condescending and judgemental... But are never prepared to admit that being ready means being prepared to go on foot. Your never going to leave your location? That's called a vision of grandeur and you need to see a doctor, and probably lose some weight..

 

Too few people understand that if you are already accustomed to living rough, you have a lot less worries than some who have so much to do without.

I keep my life simple and need very little, so it is much easier to live. Sounds like you do the same.

 

Nicely done, thanks for sharing.
You certainly seem to be one of the few that will make it.

 

Uh, I prep so I don't have to live like that before, during or after a natural disaster.

I like chucking thing in the washer, dryer, and dish washer and avoiding drudgery. I like setting a temp and enjoying it being stable, force air heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer. I like having warm water from the tap for my showers. I like flipping a switch when I want light. I like seeing what's on TV, tossing something in the oven or the microwave, or doing some skilled cooking and I really, really like cold drinks with ice while I'm learning stuff on the Internet and communicating with family and friends through at least four different means, all electonic. I'll enjoy all that as long as I can. One doesn't need to practice suffering to learn to endure suffering, especially when it's been unnecessary for me for almost half a century. If it happens, it happens, but it'll be a few weeks before I'm at that state. (Except for EMP, then we'll almost all be like that.)

Being a prepper for me has absolutely nothing to do with wanting to live like a migrant worker or being on a camping trip I don't want in all sorts of bad weather.

As for going on foot during and after the crisis?

That's being a refugee, and no different than what the unprepared sheeple do...no thank you!

I certainly don't prep so I can wind up a refugee!

 

I like chucking thing in the washer, dryer, and dish washer and avoiding drudgery. I like setting a temp and enjoying it being stable, force air heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer. I like having warm water from the tap for my showers. I like flipping a switch when I want light. I like seeing what's on TV, tossing something in the oven or the microwave, or doing some skilled cooking and I really, really like cold drinks with ice while I'm learning stuff on the Internet and communicating with family and friends through at least four different means, all electonic. I'll enjoy all that as long as I can. One doesn't need to practice suffering to learn to endure suffering, especially when it's been unnecessary for me for almost half a century. If it happens, it happens, but it'll be a few weeks before I'm at that state.

Well, yeah. Most of us do. That wasn't his point. You may very well be able to enjoy all those things, but if your house burns down... then what? This gentleman is mobile, able to set up house in many different ways. He seems to have a backup for his backup. He's not tied down.

Maybe he doesn't have two years worth of food stored, or a bunch of equipment for washing clothes and processing cider. It's not necessary for everyone. Why the vitriol for anyone who lives well within their means and is more versatile than most?

Good job, OP.

 

I have not heard the term "mod con" in a coon's age.

I too have lived the nomadic, minimalist way. I could do it again, but honestly, I like conveniences.

Nice work though.

I bet you are in great shape doing that sort of work too.

 

Thanks for the post. I have one of those Butane cookers but I haven't tried it yet. Do you like it and do you keep a big supply of the disposable fuel cans? Is there any way to refill the cans with bulk butane supplies?

 

@ daveeds. Mate, you are absolutely rite. And people, the risk of BOOM becomes significantly higher with no/low ventilation.... Like in a tent. Do the right thing and route cables inside and leave lead acid batteries outside. My Big Bad, there is no excuse.

@ Writers Block lol, coons age! I had to googlate that. Once have lived mobile, you can always live mobile, even if you don't presently. Love farming, keeps me healthy, wealthy and wise.

@ Stillar. The butane cooker on the left is a disposable item, realistically. They produce a nice cooking flame and a canister will last 2 people a few days, if you do things like heat water on open fire.. You can't reload the cylinders legally and even if you figure out a way to recharge them they only last 3 or 4 fills max. The crimped rubber seals in the neck are only designed for a single fill cycle and perish very quickly. However, the well used cooker on the right, the gold one, is a gasoline charged stove. It can run on gas, kerosene or even diesel in an emergency. IMO this is a much better proposition for a emergency kit. A Coleman like the gold one should set you back about 70 bucks and a fully portable multi-fueler like a MSR or an Optimus will cost about 150. DO buy American [I'd buy Aussie only we don't make camping gear any-more ]. Its the right thing to do, but also you wont have to wait for spares.

@ Prepper. If you haven't planned and drilled for the eventuality that you might have to give up your home and move on foot than you are not actually prepared at all. I am not living like a refugee, and nor would I want to become become one. But then preparing is being willing to accept unsavoury prospects like becoming a refugee, and being prepared for it.... Frankly I find your inference that I am living like a refugee ill-informed, narrow-minded and offensive. And so would all the others living like me, working long hours, working in and overcoming extreme conditions, so other people can eat, buy manufactured products from mined materials and burn fossil fuel and LNG.

Prepper. I find it odd that you claim to be an ex Marine and ex Army, yet by your post history you clearly don't know basic stuff you should know by heart. You don't even seem to recognise my kit for what it is. .. classic mate. A real Marine would never be so dismissive about the idiom that you cannot dismiss any potential situation. Its 'do or die' mate, not 'do what's convenient to you and dismiss other scenarios because its unlikely or are tiresome or die' The Marines are Semper Fi, you seem to be more Semper Opulenti..

Prepper, Stop with the name calling.. Or else. The place for trash talk is 'the dark side', not here criticizing other peoples efforts, thoughts and ideas.

 

Thanks for the post. I often wonder how soft I've become over the years while a younger Lowne used to walk off and see how well I could live off of what I found in the woods.

One trip, my hunting/fishing success was so crap-tastic that I was glad I had taken a can of green beans with me. Nibbled on that for 72+ hours.

I hate green beans to this day!

Prepper, Stop with the name calling.. Or else. The place for trash talk is 'the dark side', not here criticizing other peoples efforts, thoughts and ideas.

Yeah, he's good at that, a rather unreasonable and, seemingly, unbalanced individual. I recommend the ignore feature.

 

Good on ya. Just keep on, some deride me for living in Mexico, too. Meh. It's a learning experience. You're right in the middle of the NT right, I tried to drive that road from Townsville in 1985. Car died. Never made it to Darwin, as I'd hoped, went to NZ instead. Liked OZ. Hope to get back one day...


"BLOODY YANK!!!"

What the doubles driver yells at me when I drive in his lane. From the opposite way...

 

"BLOODY YANK!!!"

What the doubles driver yells at me when I drive in his lane. From the opposite way...

Don't feel too bade mate. Was driving on a double lane road it the Southern US [KY or TN from memory] The road turned to a 4 lane divided road as it neared town. Long story short I ended up going the wrong way up a clover leaf intersection..... Untill then I had wondered what sort of morons would need the signs that read "wrong way, go back". Ends up they're for morons like me...

 

I think it is wonderful that you can and are willing to live like this now but I think I am more on the same page as prepper.
We are in the process of building on a large piece of land. We will be using hydropower as our main source and solar as a backup if that should ever be needed. The house will be built using passive solar and everything that can be possibly done to make it energy efficient will be done during the building stage. Although I thought at first I was going to downsize the house we have decided not to and stay with a 3000 sq/ft + basement so that we can continue to prep the way we have been now.
We have planned what animals we will be raising and how they will be raised to almost totally eliminate purchasing their food from a commercial source.
Is there anything wrong with how you are living? Absolutely not. Is it for everyone? Probably not. I know I couldn't live in such a small place. Wshtf I hope I will be prepared enough even for an EMP so that our lives won't change too much. Our vehicles are even EMP proof by design. I just hope nothing happens before we are done with our property and get moved out there.

 

Nice diggs.

Here's one of the places I've lived at on and off for the past 3 years:

However, living working there pays for this:

 

Man, I'm so totally opposite now I don't even belong in this thread.

Reminds me of my first apartment. Nothing but beer and a bottle of ketchup in the fridge.

Good on you mate. You'll probably be breathing when my bones are sun bleached.

 

Yeah, gotta admit, sitting in my home (right now extra cluttered as we are doing another Late Summer Cleaning) I feel darn near spoiled compared to how our poster here is doing it.

I'm gonna go out back, in the dark, and carve a new laptop from my Apple tree.

 

I'm gonna go out back, in the dark, and carve a new laptop from my Apple tree.

LOL now THAT is funny stuff.

C'mon fellas, that is a double pun; WE didn't think of it!

 

Good read brother. Your right, with a simple lifestyle you do have a heck of a lot less to worry about. Work more, but less to worry about.

I have been looking at that snugpak tent for a while now, could you please do a write up on your impressions of it?:thumb:

 

not sure how anyone can argue that you have a huge head start on most of us here if SHTF. I have been slowly trying to pull back from our reliance on everything that makes life too easy. my wife and kids (even me i must admit) have it made and are soft. we have at least 10 things in our house that are connected to the internet. i know if it anything ever happens it is going to be one HELL of a transition for everyone. we definitely need to find a balance somewhere. i have been slowly trying but dragging the wife along kicking and screaming. i would like to think i can get by on very little as i have done in the past and in the military. you have it made, and if i were a single man still i could see me living the same way with everything going on right now and knowing life is inevitably going to change for the worse. kudos to you man! i am honestly jealous that i have so much right now and you have it so simple.

 

It took me a day to come up with a good word to describe your lifestyle.

Monkish

I like it, do the ladies have any comments on how you live?

 

I live very simply as well, always have. I can move out of my house in 20 mins, I own very few clothes, the ones I have are hiking style stuff, synthetic, wicking, fast drying, lightweight. I did a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2010, that enforced everything I had been living up to that point, and made me even more of a minimalist afterwards. It also means I have to work less, because I don't have to buy shiny crap.

I pretty much only own hiking gear, 2 changes of clothes, a pair of shoes, this computer, a handgun, and a crappy car. I can do laundry in the shower if I need to, so this frees me up to own less clothing. I prefer life this way, it is more freeing, not being chained down by a ton of possessions or a house.

As far as what the ladies think, the ones that haven't been brainwashed by materialistic society would probably like it.

 

I prefer life this way, it is more freeing, not being chained down by a ton of possessions or a house.

And no family either.

I was young and broke before. Beer and baloney for supper and no TV.
Only time I ate good was when we worked out of town and company payed for B&L.

 

Outpost,

Thanks for sharing. On the average, how much does it cost you to live each month?

 

@ dobs. Nice spread mate. Sometimes the end really does justify the means. ATM I'm saving for another trip to the US.

@ determu. lol, monkish.. well I am partial to a snifter of Benedictine. 'The ladies' I normally associate with come from a similar background so most responses are neutral. The worst response was pompous condescension. The funniest was a girl raised in [the US] south who squealed and clapped, then drank the most of my beer. The most satisfying was the ex IDF backpacker we have working for us at the moment who simply looked around, nodded and said "very good"

@ Msurvivalist. Its a satisfying way to live mate, that's for sure. Did you take photos of your hike of the Appalachian Trail? I'd love to see em?

@ occam. 99% of the time power, water, food and accommodation is provided by the company. Last time I had to kick out my gear at a camp-ground it cost me about $200 bucks a week. I could probably have halved this amount if I had not eaten counter meals at the local bar so often. I would guestimate that I could live like this for $50 bucks a week, If I was uber conservative and squatted some-ware quiet and well hidden. I might figure this our next time I go hunting / fishing.

 

I got at least another year and 1/2 here but if you get to the states and want to visit the Ozarks of MO, give me a holler.

Otherwise, you might want to look into joining me here. We got Aussies and Brits working here plus us Expats and all of Bosnia.

Money is not like what is was but is still pretty good. Easier to save it when you don't have bills at home.

 

Interesting, I'm an irrigator by trade. What kind of work is over there?

And to all the rest of you saying you've lost something... Minimalist living is like riding a bike. You can get rusty but you will never forget lessons learned.

 

Really glad to see you are living life the way you like, but it makes me sad looking back and realizing that I have lost my ability and desire to live a minimal life style. I used to love living out with a tarp and a can of beans. Time seems to rob us of the simple pleasures. Maybe it is time for a change? :