You know, we all joke about our useless stuff. God knows I've accumulated enough stuff in 74 years, but what really tickles me is some folks have so much stuff that they rent storage space to keep it all in.
Wonder what the old mountain men would have thought of that? Everything he owned, he carried with him.
Could say we're spoiled.
The Hermit
We are spoiled for sure, but the way things are going, that could change.
When I was a youngster.....many, many years ago. I would spend more time at my cousins house than I did at home. At least in the summer. I loved it there.
We had all the modern convinces at home, like electricity, indoor plumbing, radio and 78 rpm record player.natural gas for heating and cooking. My aunt (not auntie back then) and uncle cooked on a wood cook stove,had an out house, two hole variety, and we drew water from a well, with one of those skinny, long, well buckets. I bet some of you remember them! They had no electricity, and went to bed with the chickens, and got up with them as well.
When I stayed with them I had to help milk, slop the hog's and water the stock from that well out back.
"Let me tell you" Three cows can drink water faster than you can draw it from the well, with one of those skinny little buckets.
Toilet paper was a Sears, or Montgomery Ward catalog."Funny thing" the ladies lingerie section was the last thing used
We squirrel, or rabbit hunted almost daily, and ate them too!
Perhaps we need to go back to the basics!........"WHO KNOWS" We might not have a choice.
