Everyone in the West still lives a higher standard of living than we would if an event occured and I was wondering what I would miss most if there was an event and we were forced to live a more frugal lifestyle.
First of all I was thinking of things we do every day and what would I miss from that. Outside my primary objective of family of course.
I didn’t come up with much to be honest. I don’t watch TV although I do play on the computer, Duh! Yet, I wouldn’t miss it that much as I don’t when I stop using it. Although so far I’ll put that as No 1.
Then I thought about the things I do occasionally. What do I do on a semi regular basis. When it tends to be food related, I’ll have an occasional meal and go out. I can still do that but it won’t be quite as fancy as a restaurant. Computer still No 1 though.
So it’s down to things I do yearly, like birthdays, Christmas and Holidays. Well, birthdays are like other days and being older I don’t get much in the way of presents, get a good meal though, Christmas is pretty much the same and holidays are just days off work where I don’t work for someone else but slave around the house but I get a lie in if I want. Computer still No 1 though.
So it’s down to things I do very infrequently, visiting relatives, going away to places. I think I could miss not going away to see the sights in a remote town. I get bored of that but I think I would miss my relatives. Not being able to see friends and relatives that are just too far away. I would get used to it and eventually I would forget but why should I have to?
Now I have thought about it I can make arrangements with them, I can make sure that we are set up and I can buy what I need now. Looking at options which are radio based. Now if I make it computer controlled and solar powered I’m a winner all around. The rest I would miss but can live with as I can accept it.
What would you miss the most?
Music, it would be nice music I missed most. But it would be nicely complimented if the fall of society coincided with the entire south east being wiped off the earth !! 🙂
I’ll say this I would not miss the bloody internet, its far to distracting and its far to easy for me to go online rather and go and see a feloow prepper. I’ve definately spent to much time in recent years trying to build up a working community of preppers linked by the net, but apart from making a few friends its been a bloody distraction and trouble.
I’d miss sailing but I suppose that’s not a prepper thing to say.
The internet porn…
knowing thiers doctors and the like to treat us when we are ill other than that i would enjoy knowing most of the sheeple have gone and the stress of socioty
I’d miss my gas central heating. I have a Frontier Stove in my emergency kit which could be used in the house or on the move but having had a wood burning stove for 5 years on the boat I know its limitations. For me just flicking a switch for instant heat is the height of luxury and I’d hate to lose it.
I have to admit I like hot water, and thrive in winter on a piping hot bath, I guess i would put a huge amount of effort into building an improvised hot water heater 🙂
Electricity to the kitchen and the keeping the refrigerator and freezer running. I would be one happy camper if I had that. Will be sorely missed.
Wouldn’t hurt to have natural gas still going. Cooking sure would be easier.
Then I guess I would miss the blasted news, internet, BBQ potato chips, ice cream, bologna, and the grocery store. Ah, heck lets face it going to miss a lot of the creature comforts. We are spoiled.
And lets not forget the ol’ toilet. One handy gadget if you ask me.
I keep missing Tony Blair and George Bush……………….. But my aim is improving !!!!! 🙂
Well that was interesting. Now of course you know what you will work on when your base preps are sorted.
yep I’ll have a pole set up in my bol and I’ll just rescue lap dancers…
Get ready for that now. Find a nice pole dancer now and get her into prepping. If the missus is OK with it. Mine isn’t.
It makes me sound like a girl but I’d really miss Chocolate and Wine
Make mead out of wine and honey I’m told it lasts for years !!!
No it won’t. It’ll be drunk pretty quick. It’ll be the only game in town and we will be making it by the gallon.
Mercenary 🙂
I do a lot of hunting, and go through a lot of bullets so I would miss that, due to not being able to buy new rounds, although if the SHTF I would stock up (not allowed to now)as I am sure I would be doing a lot of ‘Hunting’ of some sort in the future.
Generally I would miss the ‘convenience’ of it all. Yes I know it all costs but we all pay the price for what we do/want/need whether it is in money terms or another way.