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   Little House on the Prairie - Old School Skills

   In the electric age of advanced technology, few of us have ever had to labor our grandparents did. We don’t have the same skill sets that allowed them to survive without the modern conveniences we take for granted today. Few of us have the tools that would be necessary to do the work they did with their hands and hard work. Our ancestors lived without machines, electricity, gas heat, and computers. They washed clothes by hand, had to make a fire in the stove in order to cook, churned their own butter, made coffee on the stove, baked their own bread, cooked their own food - most of which they grew and raised themselves, and they chopped wood and carried water every day. There are homes today that don’t have books that don’t require electricity.

   It is my plan to lay in the supplies necessary to function off the grid (a term that means without electricity). One long-term power outtage and we are basically back to living like the Engalls family. Without the proper tools, and the know-how, we will be lost.

   A good exercise to try - to prepare your family to function - is to spend a weekend without electricity. How will you function? What needs arise that can’t be fulfilled? What creative ways do you and your family come up with for coping and getting things done. You can make it fun, and still teach your children how to take care of themselves without the modern conveniences available. Once you master a weekend, how about a week? How much more time do you spend outdoors? How many more conversations do you have? How much more time do you spend together instead of in your own plugged-in and tuned-out worlds? How many old-fashioned board games did you play together? How much more laughter was there? It’s something to think about.

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