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the old fashioned way

I don't use electric lights.

Yep, now you all know my secret.
 
i HAVE to bump this old thread b/c everything i do is old fashioned. i'm still kinda noob, and thought nobody here would "get it". wood heat (cedar, spruce, hemlock, alder -- alaskan temperate rainforest), home brewed beer and wine, rain catchment, fishing, hunting deer and bear, gathering seaweed, beach grains, berries, mushrooms, drying, pickling, and canning all of the above, walking, droving (hitching dogs up to carts/sleds), dying, cooking from scratch (wtf is a microwave??!), and kitchen witching. i don't pay for municipal utilities, and i am an island.
 
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cooking everything myself I once attempted a microwave meal and it did not work for me, not taste tiny portion it was shit.

I have had a deer hanging over the bath tub for a fortnight kids were well pissed off having to wash in the kitchen sink.

I actually sew things instead of binning and buying new ones like socks.

And in winter I make the kids go pick a tree, then we go out at dark and cut it down.
 
oh, yeah, i also refuse to send e-greetings. e-mail is pretty sweet, especially for business, but for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, i use real paper greeting cards that i write out by hand, and put in the post.
 
Oh yes... I do tend to be old-fashioned in some aspects:

- I manufacture my own soaps from scratch, using fat and lye. Even the lowest quality ones beat the most expensive synthetic soaps on the market in terms of luxury.

- I wear an "old man's hat" everywhere, and would wear a trenchcoat if I could find one that fits right. (I almost have a fetish for late 19th/early 20th century fashions.)

- A telephone is something you speak into and listen to. I am starting to get txting, but the whole iphone/blackberry stuff confuses the daylight out of me.

- I do not own cable, I use the radio as my main source of news and entertainment, and enjoy tuning in on long-distance Shortwave.

- If I could hunt and fish, I would. Elk happens to be my favourite meat, and I don't mind eating fish everyday.

- I try to use paper greeting cards when my memory cooperates with dates and addresses!

- I pay too much attention to writing style.

- Wherever possible, I choose the train as my main method of transport, even if it takes days.

- And speaking of which, I actually travel to my destinations instead of watching them on TV ;).

I guess that's enough for now. I'll write more later :).


voxmystic said:
i HAVE to bump this old thread b/c everything i do is old fashioned. i'm still kinda noob, and thought nobody here would "get it". wood heat (cedar, spruce, hemlock, alder -- alaskan temperate rainforest), home brewed beer and wine, rain catchment, fishing, hunting deer and bear, gathering seaweed, beach grains, berries, mushrooms, drying, pickling, and canning all of the above, walking, droving (hitching dogs up to carts/sleds), dying, cooking from scratch (wtf is a microwave??!), and kitchen witching. i don't pay for municipal utilities, and i am an island.
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You seem like someone I'd love to hang out with :).
 
i don't watch tv at all. don't get radio, either. i'm too far off the grid. (i cheat, though, and have a dvd player.......) ham radio is cool, though! CQ DX! you may have talked to my dad, jam. he's a lifelong enthusiast. he taught me morse code when i was a kid.
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You seem like someone I'd love to hang out with :).
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:):):)
 
voxmystic, my father-in-law is an electrical engineer and was a major innovator in ham radio, and is still a major player in the industry. He radios people every night, and still maintains that this technology is a more resilient medium of mass communication than the internet, in the event of an apocalypse. He's quite passionate about ham radio being a technology worth supporting and preserving, much like ancient languages.
 
^ I agree with your father-in-law, every last bit. Ham Radio is most definitely "more free" than the internet, because while the internet depends on servers and governments that maintain them, Radio is essentially vibrations in the ether.

Vox: I wish I have, but sadly I am still in the process of (slowly) studying for exam licensing/callsign, the biggest obstacle is the fact that DX-capable equipment is way out of my budget at the moment, and I don't want to cheap out on something I won't use often (being not DX-capable).

That said, I do have a good HF receiver, so I may have listened to your father talking to others :D.
 
^ i hear ya. DX can get pretty darn spendy with the towers and beams and whatnot.

i wish i'd taken more of an interest when i was younger. dad was willing to teach me and give me all kinds of stuff. it's only been in recent years that i've come to realize how potentially valuable radio is in the event of a cataclysm. (well, i knew before, i just didn't think there would ever be a major event like that. now, i'm not so sure.)

mdao, my dad has a nightly schedule, too! wouldn't it be a trip if they were radio buddies?

cool story: dad once talked to an astronaut ham operator while he was aboard one of the first shuttle missions back in the 80's. it made the news.
 
I would never let a lady open a door when Im with them / I would always stand up to shake a persons hand / I would always offer money towards the pile of ketamine I just helped hoover up ;)
 
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how could i forget?! natural, drug-free childbirth -- the last one at home with the father as the only birth attendant. and i stay home and take care of my kids! i still work, but from home :)
 
I shave with a safety razor, use a brush and soap for shaving lather, dry my clothes by air and if I'm walking with a lady I always make sure that I'm the one closer to the street.
 
I won't buy a Kindle or similar e-reader until it becomes impossible to buy new print books. Give me my rows and rows of heavy, space-hogging paper albatrosses any day. And I don't want to hear that that's equivalent to sticking with clay tablets instead of switching to papyrus. ;)
 
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