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Originally Posted by buggyone

Living off the grid means to be self sustaining in all aspects. No gas heat, no oil heat, only wood stoves. No shopping with credit or debit cards. Eating only what you raise or kill. No public utilities like water or flush toilets.

Basically, if this is your choice - go live in some of those militia compounds in Idaho with the anti-governent kooks who look like refugees from Duck Dynasty or Cliven Bundy's ranch.

Buggy - Sounds like you are not familiar with the rural way of life that many folks enjoy in the New England area where Senior Citizen and I have homes! Kerosene lamps, wood stove, well from which we drew water a block away from the house and an outhouse is how I used to spend one month of every summer with friends in Maine! Our friends have passed now - but lived well into their 90s - and Charlie worked every day fixing things around his 20 summer camps [cabins to you] or his house until the day he died! Folks up our way do buy their meat from the bison farm or eat the venison from the deer they shot during the season or they shop at the market where the pig farmer sells his pork products. The folks who shoot a moose usually have it slaughtered and throw a party where they roast a hunk for the party and then parcel out small pkgs of the kill for those attending the roast! And there are the ladies who are still using their wood stoves to make bread a couple of times a week and to put up the fruits and vegetables they harvest during the season. And they wouldn't have it any other way! They think we are soft for spendng the winter in Florida. And they are right about that, too! But it is a joy to visit them every Fall when they are canning and getting ready to go hunting. They are beautiful people with a beautiful and simple way of life - pretty tasty, too!