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Well, of course, the greatest human invention…
Toilet paper.
Bidet in their many forms are a clear upgrade. I would take a bucket of water & a place to wash my hands over TP.
Sure, but it’s difficult to use a bidet in the forest.
Do I look like the Pope? Can’t say I shit in the woods often…
I think you might look like the Pope. But there’s no real way for me to know. Just saying, there aren’t a lot of bidets in the US and toilet paper is definitely lower tech.
US has tipping, gerrymandering, male circumcision, & other weird tendencies. Washing your but with water is even older, maybe even ‘no tech’. Regardless, you owe yourself to install some option for yourself. 😀
Yeah, I like the idea, but don’t you still use toilet paper first? I thought this was used afterwards to make sure everything was clean.
Furniture generally, beds specifically
Stools
Partially buried housing (ground cooling effect)
Do you have any good resource for beginner to learn about this?
YT Our Self Reliant Life.
On this same note, insulation in general. We can only make something so strong, conductive, refractory, light or hard, so we’ve internalised the expectation that there’s always practical limits. But insulative? There just isn’t one. That means that with an arbitrarily small source of energy - body heat is not only possible but typical - you can overcome unlimited external coldness. We’ve being doing this since before we were human, by many definitions.
Siphons
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Consider the humble pillow.
I went hi tek with pillows and got nice memory foam pillows. Changed our backs’ lives, never going back!
See memory foam is cool and all
But my point is that even the simplest pillow consisting of a linen sack with some animal nonsense inside it is still an exponential improvement over not that, or worse, those wooden head-supports that they still use in some eastern cultures.
Also: People use way too few pillows. I use five for the average night.
MULTIPILLOWGANG
right now there are eight on the bed, but two of them are those standing-up-sit-arms-pillows (I don’t know what they’re called) because my partner and I just got the VID.
we used two head pillows each before we got memory foam, now we just need one head pillow and a knees pillow each to be comfy!
Fun fact, some cultures don’t use pillows, and instead have carefully shaped head stands.
I am fully aware
I fear every person from any of those cultures. Those who sleep on hard surfaces are not to be trifled with, for they are stronger than all of us.
I’ve heard it’s actually more comfortable in really hot conditions. If its metal, the whole thing can be a cold spot I guess.
Anyway, I’d like to flex about all the rough sleeping I’ve done. It’s not usually braggable.
Hand tool woodworking. It’s amazing what you can make without a single electron. Its also amazing to feel the tools, the resistance and subtle vibrations as you use them. Like an extension of your own body. I love chiseling, especially large mortises. Hearing that sharp, deep thud, and seeing it sink in as it bites into the wood is so satisfying. Especially when using metal hammers, they are so responsive.
I love sawing, especially when relaxed and working at a slow pace, seeing all the sawdust fly out with each stroke. Sawing isn’t fun when working on difficult pieces of wood, when working in a relaxed manner with softwood, the hoarse sounds of the saw starts to sound like purring and it begins to cut exceptionally well.
I love the finish of handplanes, so smooth it becomes water resistant.
Overall very spiritual and relaxing (as relaxing as you allow it to be at least)
INDOOR PLUMBING
I live in an apartment complex. The thought of having to share an outhouse (more than 1 if lucky) with hundreds of strangers TERRIFIES ME. And/or use chamberpots. FUCK NO
A BLESSED ETERNAL AFTERLIFE OF BLISS FOR ALL HUMANS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO INDOOR PLUMBING SCIENCE 😩
See, in the past we solved that by just not having cities the same way, and no buildings taller than maybe 6 floors. And the smallish cities there were were so disease ridden the population self-limited.
A fountain pen is just a controlled leak
I use a Kaweco Sport as my daily driver.
Bonus: Nobody ever “borrows” it at work because it confuses and terrifies them.
Dice.
Chopsticks
Maps and compass. I like the reliability of finding my way no matter where I am. Plus it’s fun!
Especially the trick of using two landmarks to pinpoint my location on a map makes me feel like an old-fashioned navigator :)I love me an old map. Sadly I lost my Orienteering compass many moves ago
Cars and trucks made before the 2010’s. Wanna fix a new model car? I don’t have the diagnostic setup so that’s a no for me. Oh, and new key fobs make me really mad.
2010s* …apostrophes are for possession & contractions
Candles
