Evaluate consumption AGAIN !

This section is meant to detail the things a person would do or consider doing under the very worst of conditions. Cut back again, to a more basic level.

Cut to basic energy needs

• Keep power switched off most of the time.
• No clothes or hair dryer use.
• No cell phones.
• Use furnace only occasionally.
• Stove only occasionally.
• No computer, TV, electronics, or stereo.
• Stop mowing the lawn.
• No electric yard tools.

Reduce living space.

• Live and work in one room.
• Cook in the one living space that you heat.
• Insulate and seal off the living and working space.
• If sleeping in another room, no heat.

Reuse everything

• Begin reusing SOME water - grey water
• Bath water, to dish water, to garden water, etc.
• All water should end up watering crops.
• Start a no garbage life style.
• Keep all containers.
• Food waste to compost or chickens.
• Or to feed worms.
• Packing material is insulation.
• Reuse any building materials.
• Kill the lawn with newspaper.

Consume even less

• One or two meals a day.
• Sew up clothes; keep all rags.
• Don’t break things.
• Buy as little as if possible.
• Share anything that others can use too.
• Stay home; garden with hand tools; watch your home.

Live in a family group

• Give up living at multiple houses.
• If gas is available, plan car use to accomplish many tasks in one trip.
• Pool labor at one central location.
• Garden, cook, tend animals, cut wood as a group.
• Fill a house with many family members living together.

Set up barter

• Store things to trade.
• Trade for your skilled labor.
• Search out barter currencies.
• Find swap meets.
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