Survive Infinite Dangers: The Family Survival Guide of 21st Century Dangers Read Online Free PDF

$600 for property taxes for your log cabin (no one is truly self-sufficient – the government “has your number” even if you are ten miles from the nearest dirt road) you don’t have a job so just “living” becomes your job. Two hours to make butter, an hour to darn a pair of socks, time to gather and chop wood (no cheating with gas powered chain saws!) and on and on. By the end of the day you may wish you had a steady job, could eat a TV dinner popped in the microwave then sit down to watch whatever mind-numbing TV show is on tonight. You’re tired either way. At least not being a true survivalist, not being that “Boy Scout on Steroids” I mentioned you do have solar panels to provide a small amount of electricity and you do have a well for water, tablets or other means to purify the water and you may even have enough solar panels to afford the low wattage small refrigerators, hot water heaters, a low-wattage television and the like that are becoming very popular with families who “live off the grid”. If such living sounds of interest to you, I hope I’ve created enough interest for you to look into it further. In fact, in the back of this book is a “reference sources” to buy everything you need including books on becoming a true “hermit”. No insult intended by “hermit”. If I didn’t have a family and a “life” I might like to see if I could be a hermit myself! But read a hermit’s Web site (many have their own sites with their computer powered by alternative power). To “exist” there is no “sleeping in” or taking a day off. It’s a 14 hour seven day a week job. But it still sounds neat!
     
    As solar panels become more efficient and less expensive and products of all types meant for such living explode into the marketplace, we may all be living “off the grid” in another thirty years. Well, not entirely “off the grid” but certainly for energy needs and other goods and services you pay for now. What a nice thought but today it is just a thought. Such living is possible now for the person who is committed to living off the land for decades acting as they or their group is the last person/people left on the face of the earth. Hmm, that also means no I.R.S. and no motor vehicle office where you spend hours only to learn you’ve been in wrong line!
     
    Oh, yes. Even if you have no income you still have to file a 1040 and state tax forms each year. But by pre-paying an attorney years in advance and giving him or her signed power of attorney (POA) form they can become “you”. Better give them POA over a large checking account as expect to be audited every year as 1040’s that show zero year after year are flagged by the I.R.S. All you barter for is supposed to be on the federal 1040 and state income tax forms. Trade bushels of corn you grew for gallons of milk with your neighbor must be reported just as they and you are supposed to report what you gained by helping your neighbor build a barn. Come to think of it is darn hard to totally “legally” disconnect from civilization.
     
    In general, people who truly live off the grid (except, as I say, legally) are willing to pay more for that privilege than visiting Super Walmart once a week. I know this will earn me letters written on tree bark using colored tree sap for ink from people absolutely swearing their “off the grid” abode and life style is saving them money but I have yet to actually see an “off the grid” home that truly costs less when everything is included than a new, energy-efficient high technology home of today if you count work time keeping it all running at say, even, $10 an hour. But the day is coming! Quadruple the efficiency (or cut the cost by 75%) of solar panels and/or invent a battery bank that is not the cost of a small car plus find a way to cheaply remove salt from sea water and clean it the point of it being safe to drink and you win! But we’re still at least 20 years away and Big Oil and