Shack in the woods, question below.

LadyEmeraude said:
Could you live in a shack in the woods for one year without the internet/phone service, transportation for $200,000?
Any comments welcomed.
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No heat, no electricity, no plumbing/running water for a year, and I'd have to kill my own food?
Ok, cure me please: SPIDERS! - Page 7 Cracki10
I ain't that rugged, lol.
 
Aunt Bea said:
My biggest want/need other than store food would be a refrigerator.
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I lived in a cabin that had a refrigerator, but didn't always have electricity. Not a problem in winter, but in warmer months, people who didn't have smokehouses would coat all their meat with a thick layer of salt, put it in sealed containers or wrap it up in layers of butcher paper, and bury it at least a couple feet deep. But bears, foxes, and wolves will dig it up if they smell it.

What you have to do is hunt for food you can eat up within a few days. So you have to hunt or fish a lot more often in warmer months.
 
Murrmurr said:
I lived in a cabin that had a refrigerator, but didn't always have electricity. Not a problem in winter, but in warmer months, people who didn't have smokehouses would coat all their meat with a thick layer of salt, put it in sealed containers or wrap it up in layers of butcher paper, and bury it at least a couple feet deep. But bears, foxes, and wolves will dig it up if they smell it.

What you have to do is hunt for food you can eat up within a few days. So you have to hunt or fish a lot more often in warmer months.
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I’m too lazy for all of that. 😉🤭😂

I would probably sink a wooden box in the lake, spring, creek, and use it to keep things cool.

Keeping some foods hot or heating them periodically is another way to keep things from going bad. Many old timers kept a never ending pot of soup or stew bubbling away on the back of the stove.

I would also probably learn to excel in the 100 yard dash. 😉🤭😂

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It's doable. Heck, when we first built our place in Arkansas, we had no internet, no cell service, and there was a land line phone if you wanted one. (we didn't). About 4 years later, internet was available, buy, til the day we left, there was no cell service. You were on your own.
Was told you could get internet if you had cable for tv, but, you had to pay for the tv whether you wanted it or not. (chose to do without).
We had plenty of wild life, (deer, turkey, wild hogs) a creek with fish, and raised garden's. Transportation might be an issue, but, again, doable especially for that kind of money since we were kind of like hermits anyway.



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No
To accustomed to creature comforts like A/C in hot weather & HEAT when it's cold. Other considerations, health care available immediately, food availability, what kind of animal/insect/rodent life around to interfere with peace of mind?
 
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