Which of the utilities could you not do without for a week?

[Giraffe]

Twenty years ago I reckon water or electricity would have won by miles.

But the new kid on the block Mr Internet is pretty hard to live without now.

 

[Notters]

Water obviously.

 

[Max Paper]

Leccy for me, house would go into meltdown

 

[surrey jim]

Water and Electric

 

[oldalbiongirl]

Water, couldn't not have a shower for a week. Everything else I could cope without no problem for a week.

 

[beorhthelm]

you realise that electric and telephone is required for your internet to function, and electric is probably needed for your gas to fire too?

 

[melias shoes]

Back in November our gas meter failed during a cold spell. Lasted a week until sorted out bloody cold but survived. So the utility you couldn't do without surely has to be water.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

No water - no cooking, no cleaning, no washing, no drinking, no toilet .... bit of a problem

 

[spongy]

3 of them are all important, no electric and I can't cook, no gas then no heating, you can buy water from shops so that is do able, you can't buy electric and carry it home.

 

[Ali_rrr]

But then if you have the internet, that means you'll have electricity and a telephone, which you can then get a plumber in or someone else to fix your gas and water!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

3 of them are all important, no electric and I can't cook, no gas then no heating, you can buy water from shops so that is do able, you can't buy electric and carry it home.

Would you use bottled water to flush the toilet?

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Sex for me! When you have sex you don't need water gas or electric - sometimes with sex you don't even need the Internet!

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

We could do without them all for a week, a month or even more; there's almost 2,000 litres of rain water stored that we might need to boil before drinking but the wood stove would be used for this (and cooking).

 

[spongy]

Wouldn't use our toilet, we get on with our neighbours so would pop round for a "chat" if needed, I tend to do most my shitting at work, its very rarely I actually go at home thinking about it so wouldn't be a problem.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I'm trying to get a wood stove - I think it would be good so long as you can get easy to collect free wood but I understand if you can't you need to realise its a lot more work or more expensive that you think

 

[melias shoes]

Would you use bottled water to flush the toilet?

I'd use the cat litter tray.

 

[Woodchip]

Would you use bottled water to flush the toilet?

Dig a hole in the ground. Easy really.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I'd use the cat litter tray.

Won't that block the toilet?

 

[KZNSeagull]

sometimes with sex you don't even need the Internet!

not married then?

We often go without water and elec through no fault of our own. Water is easy to replace, elec not so. We rely on Elec for heating in winter sadly.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I think the biggest downside of modern life is that you can't live off grid easily.
A wood burning stove is nearest thing you can get as it can provide heat and cooking - if I could invent or find a way of generating my electric I would and that would only leave the Internet and rates bill as I think you can get the water from a borehole.