Lessons Learned?

[bulldogeagle]

just how wedded ordinary people are to their technology and they will queue, sometimes for days, to get the latest gadget, yet very few even know how to skin and cook,say, a rabbit if they were given one.

[pseudonym]

That I now have to take age and health into account, in contrast to past years where I believed I could survive just about anything.

Yep, and me bugging out now involves a Camp bed and a stove in the tent

[preppingsu]

All of the above...

[bulldogeagle]

Yep, and me bugging out now involves a Camp bed and a stove in the tent

you've forgotten the mattress for the camp bed

[Selfsufficientwoman]

How important it is and how hard it can be. Also how dependent we are on the system

[smileyt]

How much we take for granted. How lucky we are in this country for many things, like clean running water etc. How dependent we are on electricity.

[diamond lil]

Wow, some good ones there. We are so lucky to have this forum and all the pooled knowledge eh? We are learning !!

[hobo]

How much we take for granted. How lucky we are in this country for many things, like clean running water etc. How dependent we are on electricity.

We're in the second year of our very own family 'energy descent plan'. Not just that we're short of cash anyway (!) but we really do believe we'll be forced in the near future to using less .... so we're preparing for it. The idea is a Transition Town one, applied to just us. Lots of links online, just google Energy Descent Plan.

[andy prepper]

How much we rely on people we do not know for food, water, energy and health.

[Triple_sod]

By far the most important lesson I’ve learned is that it would be great to have everything, but having something is a million times better than having nothing.