I can't stop watching Little House on the Prairie...

[dolo amber]

(that's another thread completely...:cry:)

and so I'm wondering...

WHAT IF...some of the tin foil hatters' predictions came true (peak oil or something) and our society as we know it ceased to exist...we were sent back to pre-Industrial Revolution times. Scraping out a meager existence by the sweat of the brow; chopping wood, preserving foods, hand washing all clothing, bedding etc... Church as the main social function (as most would be too busy sweating to 'hang')...no phone, no lights, no motorcars...not a single luxury. How do you think you'd do?

[Wat_Tyler]

1. Just shoot me now.

[redqueen]

2. I used to love that show.

I think I've seen every episode.

I think I could adapt.

[liberalhistorian]

27. Me, too!

I lived in South Dakota for several years as a child, and loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books long before they were turned into a series. I remember going to DeSmet, SD, and seeing the house she lived in with her family, the schoolhouse she taught at, and the cemetery where many of her family and the townspeople she mentions in the books are buried. That was back in the early 70's, so we actually met a woman who had known Caroline Ingalls, Laura's mother, and her oldest sister, Mary, since they didn't die until the 20's (mom in 1924, Mary in 1929). I always loved watching the series, too.

[Jessica]

3. I think I could adapt.

Bring on them beans & cornbread.

[terrya]

4. Just shoot me now.

Fuck, I can't even imagine life without a microwave oven, let alone chopping wood and building a fire and all of that crap.

[Skittles]

5. *sigh*

signing you up for a good ass-kicking, dolo

[dolo amber]

6. D'oh!!

:o

In fairness I suppose anyone who watched LHotP deserves a good ass-kicking... :D

[Dora]

7. I have a hammer, and I'm not afraid to use it.

I think people are more resilient than we give ourselves credit for. I'm sure that at least some people with the skills we need to survive will be willing to share their know-how with those that don't. It'll be rough for those who are tied to the technological teat, but life goes on.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. I'm proud to say that someone I love very much helped make you happy today

My sister, Annabelle. :loveya:

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Death before dishonor...

...dishonor before living in my own filth.

[asthmaticeog]

10. I'd become someone's bitch right away.

You know, for protection.

[Coyote_Bandit]

11. I Grew Up in the Middle of Nowhere

We always raised a big garden. I was taught how to dress game. I can remember as a very small child visiting a remote area (virgin forest) that had no electric service or indoor plumbing. I could adapt.

But it certainly would not be my preference.

[Solly Mack]

12. I could adapt. My mother taught me how to grow food, sew

and a crap load of other stuff I didn't think I would ever need to know..but I'm glad I do know. Especially now ...

[tigereye]

13. watch Frontier House next time it comes on -

People's lives were extremely hard. I would be in the shoot me now category.

[Solly Mack]

16. I've seen it. Always wanted to take the challenge.

My mother grew up on a cotton farm that didn't get indoor plumbing until after she was born (1929) and didn't have electricity when her mother married my grandfather. I worked the family farm every summer of my childhood, to include picking cotton by hand. My mother thought it important that we learn.

I know it would be hard. Harder than I even can imagine but I still say I would adapt.

[tigereye]

17. probably depends on your personality

I could probably adapt, but think of how little free time one would have due to the extra time spent on just basic stuff. I love to read a lot and that would be hard to maintain, I bet. I tend to think that
most first world women have it so much easier than at any time in history, and I would be loathe to give that up.

[Solly Mack]

18. You could do it! It's like you said, the thought of giving up

reading and other pleasurable ways we currently spend leisure time because you now have to milk the cow. :)

for the record, I complained the entire time I was forced to work the farm.

[RandomKoolzip]

14. I'd try to adapt as best I could, but I still would never go to church. n/

[dolo amber]

25. Oh yes you will, sinner

:grr:

[Dzimbowicz]

15. I could adapt without any major problems

except for socializing at the church. I would become a "guerrilla farmer" and invite my neighbors over for harvest time.

:smoke:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. There'd still be weed right?

[Dzimbowicz]

22. I'll invite you over to my place at harvest time.

[arwalden]

20. I Could Adapt...

... but I'd avoid that church thing.

[mcscajun]

21. I could handle most of it...but...

"Church as the main social function" ???????????

AAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!

Just Shoot Me Now. Please.

[Sequoia]

23. I only like it before Laura gets married

since they're better when she was a kid. However, they show it on that Christian channel and the commercials drive me nuts.

[pdx_prog]

24. I never liked it because of the store owner's wife and daughter

they should have taken both of them out to the pond and drowned their ass.....

Just my opinion...

[Left Is Write]

26. I think I could adapt, but it would be harder for us

than it was for the actual pioneers, because we've HAD the luxury of modern conveniences, and we would know what we were missing.

[OhioBlue]

28. I LOVE Little House on the Prairie

I was so disappointed to find out this thread wasn't really about it. 'member when Laura traded her pony to Mr. Olsen so she could get her mom a new stove........ I loved that episode.