How we Shower, use the Bathroom and Wash Our Clothes with No Running Water
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Hallo Kalle, I use a camping washing machine. You can fill the water in with buckets. There is a short washing program of about half an hour, and a separat for draining. It works very well for me. Even my Garden Clothes are clean, and the draining ist really good. I need 2 buckets of water to wash and another to buckets to clear. Maybe this could help you. Good Luck
If Christine gets her way, you'll have horses for her to ride to her parent's summer house for showers and laundry!
Just thought; if you hang the clothes you are going to change into by the fire before the shower, you will have heated/warmed clothes when you come back in. Food for thought anyways
I can get you running water to the house...... look at how the moonshiners use it do it grab a garden house make a small damn and the water will build pressure up and put it to the house or Hydraulic Ram Pump you can build or by these either or will work you can also youtube them as well this would be the simplest all you would need is someway to heat it like a propane on-demand hot water heater and some way to store it... just remember an old northern wood tick showed you how th-cam.com/video/H4e6-tu0g24/w-d-xo.html or th-cam.com/video/kHLxjPOYbRY/w-d-xo.html
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This video reminds me of how my Wife and I started out years ago. We have progressed to being completely self sufficient, owning our own power generation, water wells and springs, growing and raising all our own food. Thanks for the reminder. The simple life is the best life.
Awesome! That's my dream some day.
@@zxyatiywariii8same
2 ideas for outhouse seats; you can either remove the seat itself and hang it by the fireplace, or make a seat shaped piece of Styrofoam. It never feels cold to the touch no matter how cold it is. Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada!
Excellent ideas! 😊
The styrofoam is a huge difference! I lived a short time in Alaska & we had an outhouse with Styrofoam. My friends have lived for many years this way. About 2 to 3 nights a week we heated a huge container of water on the propane stove (very spoiled) and several took it out to the steam bath. A separate little building with a wood stove, benches, containers of cold water to drink. With little kids, you put a wire fence barrier in front of the stove, just in case. We usually had our steam bath with my partner, his brother & sister-in-law (some times a few friends). The kids were old enough to stay in the cabin for abt 1/2 hour (without killing each other) so the adults had time to relax & talk before we called the kids out. They loved making "snow angels" and sometimes watching the Northern lights before going into the cabin. I just started watching these videos (1/2024). Reminded me of some wonderful times in my life. Have a wonderful new year!!
You should get a cauldron or a pata in finnish. It's basically a big pot where there's a stove under it where you burn wood to melt snow or warm the "shower" water. It's very common in saunas in finland.
Yes ... and look like a cannibal's dinner in the process of taking a bath! LOL
@@SherryAnnOfTheWest Hehe - but really, it would be practical - you can boil your sheets clean in it, and any linen and cotton clothes, if not too color-sensitive, and you can splash water around if placed in the sauna or outdoors. Of course it must stand a little downstream and down hill from the place where you fetch drinking water, but not so many steps.
BTW, if you live in such a clean environment as Kalle does, you don't get very dirty at all, which is a great plus. The cities make us dirty. 🙂
That is perfect to do laundry in to!
@DNA350ppm that is nonsense; of course, you get very dirty out in the country
@@randybobandy9828 Yes, it happens, if you work directly with the soil or with animals that are dirty. Of course if you get sweaty from other work, too, but you shouldn't, when it is so cold that there's snow and all. You then should just work in an even pace. When you make fire or something, there shoudn't be soot, it is a sign of ineffective combustion. The snow in the countryside of the type where Kalle lives, is clean, as long as there are not sources of pollution nearby.
I think our bodies are designed for extremes in temperature and food. We evolved in an environment to withstand seasonal changes that pushed us and we have the capacity to adapt. Food scarcity and cold/hot stress to the body has actually been shown to improve our immune system and help the body heal inflammation. A sauna in the winter will be amazing for you guys!
Yes! And the benefits of fasting, cold showers etc are starting to be better understood!
Joh! But I hate cold water. We have very mild winter in South Africa
We are indeed perfectly set up for the seasons. Our eyes are brighter in colour for improved night vision. Our skin is pale so we get more vitamin D from the sun. And when we take cold baths, our body builds up brown fat, that keeps us warm. And when we get too cold, we shiver, because vitamin D is stored in the white fat and we shiver because the body goes into the white fat. And then there's more I'd forgotten.
He could build a Swedish hot tub. I'd love one
And when we lived very basically our life expectancy was much much less... Just saying.
You can coil pipes around the outlet pipe of your fireplace and create a closed system with a water tank. The heat will create a continual cycle and warm up your water. If your tank is well insulated you can enjoy a warm shower at any time of the day.
For washing clothes you can buy a special washing bag for camping. It works well and can be done in the comfort of your warm home.
Oh woe nice
This is so interesting.98% of people aren't thinking of how to get a nice hot shower in the cold frigid air of winter. And its really cool how well you adapted
Dear Kalle, I was just watching your video about having a shower/wash in winter season. Since I´ve got some experience in Finnish winters and cabins without running water, I can strongly recommend installing a sauna as first project on your water bucket list!
Why? In winter, you are anyway in the need for a warming-up place and there is nothing more efficiently warming than a sauna. So, every 2nd or 3rd day, you´ll heat up the sauna stove (that contains a huge boiler for hot water) and after having sauna, you´ll mix the hot water with cold one and wash yourself (comfortably sitting) in a warm enviroment where splashing of water doesn´t harm the building construction at all. In our cottage in northern Finland we´ve got a huge stove that carries a "ring" of water container around the stone mass, and within half an hour there is plenty of hot water - enough for up to 6 people washing themselves entirely.
After sauna, you are heat up from inside and you´ll walk to your house without freezing.
Of course, there is still the need of cold water to fill the stove´s boiler and for mixing.
I think, as soon as you got a sauna, you can be quite relaxed in planning your water project. :-)
IMPORTANT: in order to beeing able to use your sauna as a washing place, it MUST have a drain in the floor! In many old saunas in Finland, it is as simple as just a slot in the (slightly aslant!) floor.
Yes! Those are great suggestions.
Also you can just place planks top of the stone posts and let water drain from the bottom with 10mm gaps between the boards (for ventilation that takes moisture away and lets it dry even when completely wet. Also reason why old buildings last longest since it can dry even if say roof leaks).. just dont drop you phone or such under it cause that will suck to retrieve. Other option is concrete floor with drain in the lowest spot that runs under ground into hole other side of the hill compared to pond, so anything flushed wont end up into stream or pond and there end of a pipe you just put in lots of rocks under ground, maybe little earth separation fabric to keep stuff filling between rocks. Water flows there and eventually seeps into the ground, though look your local regulations regarding this since you might not get to build this no longer as new construction depending on the local code. Once it gets cold you need to drain the stove boiler, unless you build the sauna into the house it self to keep that area above freezing point, but for moisture control its better to have it separate building bit further from the house it self so incase of fire it wont spread to house it self.
@@Hellsong89 Placing the sauna in a separate building far from the house is a great suggestion. And, depending on the underground temperature in the area, a tunnel could connect the two structures. Boards or some other material could be used as flooring/walkway to avoid contacting the earth on the bottom of the tunnel.
For instance, I now use a vintage basin to wash at my also vintage washstand, i don't have to wash with cold water and i'm totally clean, no troubles at all. I also have 3 kettles full of water warming up on my wood stove for when I want to wash the dishes, or myself.
There's so many ways to improve this set up so that it's more comfortable and safer. I guess looking "cool" is the point here.
A simple garden watering can would work better or a squeezy sports bottle. Or just bath inside next to the fire while standing in a tub like so many people have done before as documented in many memoirs. "Sponge" bath rather than pouring water. Stand in the plastic bucket outside rather than the snow. Build a wooden grate to stand on rather than snow or mud. Etc etc.
Wash tub. Growing up in Wyoming temporary can get to 20+ below. There is way better ways
I agree. Did washtubs growing up for many years
Yeah i agree. He also have power in the House. So the solutions are endless.
He could wear a pair of flip-flops instead of going barefoot.
@spottedlizard23
Thank you! Your comment is, for me, a slice of common sense I missed here, despite the drama of someone pouring water on themselves.
I saw that camping shower device that "someone" broke in a video last year and ordered one right away.
First, we used it with water we heated in a "solar" camping shower bag in the summer on sunny days. The pump device came in handy, because you can fill the warm water into a bucket and don't have to lift the water bag over your head any more so that the water can run down.
We live in a "normal" house with running water central heating and central water warming. That one warms 120 liters of water, we actually don't need so much hot water during the day. So we started using it once a week only, otherwise using a water cooker, a bucket and the camping shower device with pump. Since Putin started the war, we do not even warm our water any more once a week. Legionellae are no problem, they need water temperatures above 25 degrees to get active, we "freeze" them out.
So far, we only heated with firewood and hope we will make it through the winter, hoping it will not get too cold. People here in Germany have to try to use as little natural gas as possible, we hopefully will not have to use any, just add a sweater or a cardigan. And we still will have luxury using the camping shower device with pump in our shower. So I am glad I saw that video last year, I learned from it for life.
Nobody is forced to use little or no gas, but we are just able to do it, so why not? Others might need the gas that we don't use. A little bit of simple living in a "normal" house.
Kalle, when my husband and I lived in our little off-grid cabin (23 years ago) we took plastic tote baths in the winter. We would gather water from the stream and keep it heating in a large bucket on the woodstove and voila...tote bath heaven by the heated stove:)
@tammylong5945
How do you collect the water from the floor?
Have you thought about building a hot tub with a few bricks and an old bathtub? Make a fire underneath, soak and watch the stars, and even soap and soak your clothes before rinsing them in the stream? Then you only need one of these old knee-high electric top loader centrifuges we had at the public pool in the eighties. My mom forbid me to put my swim suit in it, because she feared the germs. But if you own it, you know what‘s in it.
Rinse your soap in the eiver/ stream?? Hell no
@@susanlea7759 there’s non-toxic soap that has all natural ingredients like dr Bronners soap. It’s vegan organic and cruelty-free
@@LezgoBrandon as a backpacker i am well aware of Dr Bronners etc. How many average folk use it?? Few. Very few. People are stupid. Work retail for just a few days and you'll be amazed at the stupidity. Then go out on a 3 night hike and see their stupidity as they destroy nature.
@@susanlea7759 yes, no surprises here. I’ve lived and worked in Yosemite for 2 years and I’ve seen it all. One time someone drove to wash his jeep in the lake, while people were swimming nearby.
Yes a hot tub would double as a bath and a wash tub to boil the clothes.
You guys will have it so nice in the sauna when you finish it. ☺️ In addition to the kiuas, us Finns often have a big water heater either connected to the kiuas or heated separately with fire. I can’t stress enough how luxurious and useful it is in cottage conditions! You’d have warm water at your dispense by just lighting a fire (and some water carrying). ☺️
You could use what many sailboats have - a foot pump that sends water up from a container under the sink and pours out of your faucet so it works "like regular kitchen sinks." Put another tube from the sink to a second container to hold gray water. Easy peasy!
You are a much braver soul than me. There's no way I would leave a warm cabin to go sit in a cold building to empty my bowels and bladder. I would just place the potty in a warm corner in the cabin, hang a curtain around it for privacy, then carry it all to the outdoor compost bin later. Sawdust and wood shavings/chips can be tossed in the corner potty to help eliminate any odors until time to dispose of the contents. I would also bathe in a galvanized steel, or heavy duty plastic, tub in front of the fireplace/stove. A hose can be connected to the bottom of the tub and a stopper inserted into the hole until time to drain it. The other end of the hose can be pushed through a hole in the wall at floor level (with a plug/stopper added to cover the hole when not in use). The bath water can also be used to wash clothes and linens before draining the tub. A brand new toilet plunger with holes drilled in it can serve as an agitator. You don't really need a lot of water to take a tub bath, just deep enough to cover your legs while sitting down. My granny would heat two gallons of water on her stove, pour it into the tub, and then add a little bit of cold water if it was too hot. Or, we would just wait for the hot water to cool down on it's own before climbing into the tub. If you absolutely feel the need to experience a shower, you can still use a small bucket to pour water over your head while sitting in the tub. A few extra buckets of water can be placed on the floor next to the tub for that purpose. But, if you must shower outside in freezing weather, at least wear a pair of rubber garden clogs or even shower thongs to keep your feet from coming into contact with the cold ground/snow/ice/dirt/grass, etc. I realize it's your life and you'll do what you want, but I just wanted to add my two cents worth of suggestions. Good luck on your building projects. And have a Happy New Year!
we have only one bathroom, wich my husband soaks his bad back for hours, ugg so i have a camper potty that i use indoors when its cold, it has a seat ,by the back door, i just open the back door if needed and i use that, way better than having an accadent lol
@@sandrajohnson5624 We also have only one bathroom. We have an understanding that if he is in the tub area and the toilet is not occupied, then he will close the shower curtain while I use the toilet. This only happens in "emergencies"; and in order to keep such emergencies to a minimum, he will ask me if I need to use the toilet before he takes a shower. And I will offer him the same opportunity. We have a potty chair in another room in the rare event we both need to answer nature's call at the same time. We also have a mobile home on our property that we use for storage, but the toilet in the mobile home is sometimes too far away to reach when "the pain hits". Then again, there's always adult diapers, a 5-gallon bucket, a bed pan, gender-specific urinals, or simply a trash can. Like you mentioned, it's way better than having an accident.
To each his own. You seem quite happy and love your life. I could not live without running water, especially in a cold place. However, your place is beautiful and if it works for you, then that is all that matters. Appreciate your video.
Good for you but I could'nt do it. I always feel like I should've lived long ago. But my modern comforts I could'nt give up!
Having a wood stove with a huge kettle is brilliant! Every time you make food, the water gets warm. And it warms the house as well.
Waking up in the morning and making coffe or tea? You have to know how to light the wood stove. And everyone learns, people are not stupid :-D
Kalle, it's funny, but I felt so relieved when you and Christine announced her parents buying a cabin nearby with running water. It was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I admire your spirit, but I don't want you to freeze showering outside in the winter. Congratulations about your new neighbors!
It's so great that you have a spring crossing into your propertly! Also congrats on the new summer house, that will be such a huge help! ✨
That's one of the best things about this place 🥰
@@KalleFlodin Yes, I cannot image how good it feels! Since I tried drinking spring water at my parents place, cannot go back to the city water. I hope to one day have my own place with water spring like that ☺
Your Cold Spring is amazing!! What a treat!! The water also gets filtered through the rocks and underground rock strata. It would be fun to see you get it tested for purity!!
Reckon it will be fantastic compared to the awful piped stuff sent through towns and cities... Our town only tests for 30 toxins yet we know there are thousands
Nice video as always.
Primary water is the best water!
Thank you! Couldn't agree more 😊
That cold spring looks so pure! I just finished watching Christine’s video and I’m so glad for you guys, it’s going to make day-to-day tasks so much easier! Lots of love to you and the family! 💙
Thanks for the lovely Sunday evening video. You are so right about the fire giving off a different heat - the fire is also like having a little friend in the house for company! Wonderful news about the family summer house - life if always better when you can share the joy and have family close by. So happy for you and Christina. xxx
I love the upbeat attitude behind the lack of the usual comforts and all the stories behind it, because they're so candid and genuine, this video was excellent and thank you for sharing!! I lived with a composting toilet once so I know what that means! Love the stream, I'd come up with a straw if I could! Love from Italy🤗❤
Thank you for a beautifully thoughtful video. It’s so lovely you have found your “forever home” and are carefully building it into your dream home. Thank you for sharing 🙏
I loved this video. It was more than just seeing how you handle those necessary things. It was a life lesson about resilience.
Awesome video as always !
I grew up in a forest area in a house but now i live in a big city 10 thousand kilometers from home in the apartment and when I watch your videos I always get the feeling of nostalgia !
Keep it up, love your content man!
Aw, Kalle, I think this is one of my favourite videos of yours. I love the day to day stories and to see how you both live. I'm sure you are both very healthy from living this lifestyle.
I think your lifestyle and energy are incredible. I hope you achieve all your goals for your home. Congratulations! Many moons of happiness to you and yours!
This reminds me so much of our cabin in the Caribbean, it's way out there in the country side and I never miss the comfort of home with all it's comfort. Thanks for sharing 🤗😊
We have no running water either at our cabin and we collect water from a creek that runs exactly underneath out home. The spring comes out from the ground 10 m down our front door... the trouble is when the snow set in 😁. Thanks for sharing your journey with your cabin cause every time I watch your videos I relive our story. We use a UV light filter to sterilise the water...works amazingly! Ever need suggestions just ask 👍
I find this lifestyle fascinating to watch. You remind me of my oldest son and you make me smile. 💙☺️
In the end when you were talking about not having the motivation to do some things all the time, I could relate, today I was wearing my workout gear, preparing to go for a run and the whole time saying 'I don't want to do this, I don't want to do this' but i did it anyway and it felt great! Push through it sometimes, you will appreciate it even more. Thank you.
Thank you for being so raw and honest with the day to day cabin life! Just inspiring 😊
I love love love your cabin .Finns are so positive and beautiful to be around ❤
Glad you have this opportunity doing laundry and taking a shower in Christine’s parents summer house 💛
That would be awesome to have a sauna to warm up in, and should be fairly easy to build a wood stove for it. I'm fairly sure you and Lars could make it work.😁👍
I absolutely loved watching this video Kalle! It made me smile a lot! Thank you for creating and sharing such incredible videos.
You are such an encouraging young man. Thanks for inviting us in for a tour of your home and a chat. Be well.
Your videos are so beautiful and so inspirational. We are just now in the process of looking for remote land for our future homestead. I look forward to seeing more as you walk through your own journey
Congrats on the Summer House! Heading to the link after this. Your vids are so informative and heartwarming, Kalle. Thanks you for all your effort in documenting such hard work in demonstration of the lifestyle you have. 😘
I used to own and live in a cabin at Lake Louise, Alaska. Here in Alaska, in the cold areas like that, we usually cut a piece of styrofoam in the shape of our toilet seat. Much warmer to sit on! When I "remodeled" our outhouse, I bought a squishy soft memory foam type toilet seat (commercially made, covered in plastic for cleanliness) and wow, what a nice upgrade. I knew some people who remodeled their own outhouse, and they put an electric heater in it, which they wired to a timer that was located in their cabin. That way they could preheat the outhouse before they went out. I had plans to do the same, but after owning the cabin for ten years, we decided to sell and I never wired the outhouse. We took our laundry to town to do. Between town trips, we would just hang our used clothing outdoors, which would refresh the clothing surprisingly well. Putting a stove in your sauna would be my priority! We built a sauna and used a cheap camping solar shower (sturdy dark plastic). My husband put a hose in our lake, and would pump water up to a plastic trash can (brand new, clean) "mixing tank" and we would fill the solar shower bag with warm/hot water and then raise it with a rope that was put through a pulley at the highest point of the sauna ceiling. We purposely designed our sauna with a vaulted ceiling for the shower. We put two levels of benches in the sauna in order to get up in the high heat area as well.
@annesmith7548
Very practical, smart, and well planned.
I needed to hear this. Doing stuff to push your boundaries. It might not feel good at the time but it always feels good after. I’m going for a walk ❤ thanks for this
Thank you for this video :). I must say it takes awhile to get used to icy cold showers, time to get used to it as opposed to jumping right in! I heard of people having heart attacks from the shock. Sauna and or heat beforehand. You're so right, it is so invigorating. I used to look forward to sauna and ice cold showers at the end of the day.
Thank you for sharing a piece of your life Kalie with us
Without having watched the video: I can't even imagine. We're living in a house in the forest but with running water. We had no water for a while during the building process and even in summer it was a struggle. Not just that it was cold - which is alright in summer - but the hassle to always go and get water, it all takes so much time.
Thank you for sharing. I smile when people say; “In cold winter. Here is -9C”. To me, literally that temperature feels like spring during the frigid cold winters of Alberta Canada when the temperatures dips into -40C and below. If it ever gets to -9, I’ll be wearing shorts ☺️
Same here..
Cool. So glad you're getting running water -- in time. Cheering for you like crazy!
Kalle, your skills in videography and narration have just grown and grown and grown! Bravo!
So glad for the new video!! Hope all is well your way!
Happy to see you here Brian 😍
@@KalleFlodin happy to be here
A really wholesome and inspiring video Kalle, like always! 😊
I could never imagine to move in the middle of the forest without a sauna or without some kind of water tank under the sink 😄 I’m always very surprised when I see how simply you actually live because you make it look so cool and it’s reeeeaally a hard work!! 😎🥰
Beautiful! What a wonderful life you have carved out for yourself. Your dream looks very different to my reality, and also to my dream, but I appreciate and find it inspiring all the same. Congratulations on taking the (cold) plunge to transform your life…
I’m glad you added a sink drain lol - a very memorable first date 😆
Tack Kalle för ännu en fantastisk bra film! Älskar att se era videos!😃
Stort grattis till sommarhuset med! Kommer bli toppen för er alla!😃
The summer when I was twelve my father moved our family of seven into an unfinished house he was building for us.
There were five children ages 2 through 12 years of age.
We had running water, hot and cold, and a toilet.
There was a wash tub in the back room where we were all expected to bath.
The little ones fit in the tub. The adults and older children had to sponge bathe their bodies.
Have you tried sponge baths? I've been surprised with how well they work for staying clean (even with long hair).... and it's pretty comfortable to do too, since you can be inside next to the fire the entire time.
I just fill up a small metal bowl with a few cups of water, then set it on the wood stove for a minute to warm up. Then take it off and use a rag to wash with. Once the water gets cloudy, I just dump it and do it again and again.
It takes extra time.... but really not bad at all (and most importantly comfortable and uses little water).
Also taking a sponge bath using a face cloth is very good for your skin because you rub your skin, it is also good to use lemon juice in your water, when you are threw with all parts of your body soak your feet, you can be inside, been for years, you are sure to be clean. He needs to take the thing he hauls wood on he can haul up more water at a time, make it much easier.
I find it funny how many suggestions there are in the comments. Do whatever works for you Kalle and Christine! ❤
That's why I don't read the comments 😉 I'll just do my own thing instead 🙂
16:47 You are definitely right! We all wanted to live a comfortable life no matter which part of the world we are from. The best thing about living it is to be prepared. You want a sauna and a running water, you'll have it! But for now, you need to live with what you have and get used to it for some time. One day, you'll realize that before sitting warmly in your sauna, you used to bath outside with warm water you just made! Before washing dishes with a tap, you used to fetch water from the stream. Small step. You have to go through somethings sometime.
I like that you're not complaining, you are complementing the things the you have for now.
Happy New Year!🎉❤
Kalle, as a temporary solution you could get an old bath tub and turn it into an outdoor fire heated bath - what they call here a "poor man's hot tub"😄 you could use snow for water, which you have plenty😄 I think Kristine would really appreciate a hot bath 😄
@Kalle Flodin ur such an amazing Personality!
Yep Glad u enjoy this. Indoor plumbing is a wonderful thing!
For the laundry, you need something like a wooden baseball/cricket bat so your hands are not in the cold water! You can use it like a paddle to turn and squash the wet clothes and clean them…
Check out Amish videos on how they wash their clothes, some of the communities do not believe in electricity or modern appliances. They make and sell a nice but rather expensive washing machine:
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A wooden washing dolly would be perfect.
Hello, and thank you for the wonderful video! I too, have no modern plumbing, or septic system , since 2008, I have a bucket, and use wood shavings for toilet, and I heat water to wash myself, I thank God for everything I have! He is so good, and I feel that I have so much to be thankful for! Jill from Baudette Minnesota, USA
I spent my very young years in a log cabin with no plumbing and no electricity and an outhouse where at night the monsters waited. So this is bringing back memories indeed! Luckily, we had a hand pump in the yard for water, and a big metal tub on the porch for bathing that you could fill with water heated on the wood stove and then just tip over to empty. However neighbours had put next to their pump a a big old metal bathtub with a firepit underneath, so you could fill the tub, light a fire, and take a nice not bath in the middle of the forest. It helped to have two huge planks of wood in the bathtub so you didn't burn yourself :)
Lololololololololololololololol @ where the monsters waited. I hated that outhouse setup. I was like 2 seconds in and out. So grimey and in no way interesting.
It inspired that some people who are living off grid good for you both 💚💜💝
When you mentioned not having running water and the initial struggle with doing laundry in the stream I was questioning if a hand washer with a wringer might be beneficial for you? I don’t know if they’re sold in Sweden. It’s really cool that Christine’s parents have a summer house half an hour from you guys. That’s a definite blessing. We actually made the conscious decision two years ago to do all of our laundry by hand. We use two galvanized tubs with a wringer attached to a stand my husband created from some repurposed wood that no longer had a use. In the spring/summer I carry the tubs and all our laundry things outside and just wash laundry out there. I always love the stories you share about your lifestyle. Your A-frame looks like it’s coming together nicely! Thank you for sharing your journey with all of us!
the word is humility my friend. its like gold in this life right now.
I want to tell you how much I am enjoying watching your videos. I never leave comments, but I feel inclined to do so now. I am currently home bound due to a surprise battle with cancer that recently started. I normally work 60 hours a week and I don't have the opportunity to watch much in the way of television, films or TH-cam videos. I'm very selective with what I choose to watch. Your channel and videos are giving me a great deal of pleasure during a very difficult time. I happily subscribed to your channel so that you can continue making your videos and live your simple lives while supporting yourselves. Keep up the good work and may peace be yours.
Wow!! That is some rough living. The fresh spring water is a real plus. Very healthy living water.
Tabo and a bucket can do pretty amazing things. I reside in the Philippines where I get to deal with warmer conditions. The tabo is very useful
Your so right “the feeling afterwards!”
No way man great super awesome job of sharing the truth that we all desperately needed to know thank U so very much stay completely open about everything U guys can possibly be
I saw Christine’s video! Beautiful house her parents bought and so nice for you two in the winter.
Gosh, if you have to pee in the middle of the night🥶😱.
Yes, the warmth of a food fire is so much nicer then from a radiator!!
Have a wonderful week! 🤎✨
My family also lives with out water, winters are the toughest. We pray God blesses us with new lifestyle always.
Hey, I'm glad I'm not the only one that talks about my system for disposing of waste (living on a boat) as though it's like watering the lawn. But I heard of a system that sounds really great to me. Basically you put a barrel in the ground with holes in the side, and then you put the outhouse over it. Then every time you go No. 2, you sprinkle lime over it. My friend said he did it for years. There were never any flies in the summertime, and one time he emptied out the barrel just out of curiosity, and it was just filled with dirt. Have you heard of that?
I adore the way you are living...
I really enjoyed watching this you came up on my feed . Great sense of humor 😂😂
Enjoyed your transparency & wisdom & vision!
Thank you 😊
Most purest and sweetest water 🌊
I do appreciate my hot showers more after this video. But I also love my cold sea swims in the winter to experience this "uncomfortable" feeling that just leaves you excited, refreshed, energised and just feeling happy afterwards.
I wish you a long and happy life! 🖖
I admire you guys and all others who has got opportunity to live like this beautiful places . Maybe these places are the cleanest part of the Earth. I am happy for You! 👋
Thank you. I needed to hear this today.
Sauna stove would be my priority number one! lol
I totally agree with your comment about doing things that are uncomfortable and the feeling you get afterwards. I run and some days it is REALLY TOUGH MENTALLY to get up and get going, but once I am done, the feeling is priceless as you stated. Great video again!
Thanx Kalle. I will do my best to do the uncomfortable things. This is really a good idea
Happy second of Advent to you both🕯️🕯️ ❄️🎄 And as always, nice video 👍🏻
My friend, I really appreciate the lifestyle that you are trying to have.
I can honestly tell you that you will find solutions for all your challenges and not-that-pleasant stuff after living for 1 week in Romania's countryside, where I lived for more than half of my life. And yes, with no running water and outside toilet.
What I can tell you though as a very serious warning is that you will not be able to live there for long if you won't start making use of the environment.
Make a habit of gathering dry old wood on a daily basis (which is also a way to move and do a bit of physical work with massive benefits for your physical and mental state) and build a kitchener in which you can burn the wood to heat water in a cauldron and also heat up the cabin as well (and bonus humidify the place!)
Good luck and never stop gathering wood.
I love your videos. Just found your TH-cam channel. Stories are wonderful, music is awesome. What a lovely way to spend the afternoon, watching 3 or 4 of your videos. All of them have been so interesting. Your girlfriend is adorable too! You are VERY brave to take a shower in the snow!!! Blessings for a very happy holiday season, from Houston, TX, USA.
Sauna and the bathroom would be definitely my priority above all the rest. Have a nice day !
I don’t know how you do it! But you get it done! Kudos 🎉
For the harsh winter months you could consider a JOOLCA shower with a gas canister. Compared to real plumbing those things cost absolutely nothing! Would also work as part of the sauna area ;) For washing there was this great homesteading video I once saw. She basically had a tin basin connected to a fire like they did 100 years ago, with a press to get out all the water afterwards and everything! But I think I opt for one of thise outdoor jacuzzis, too! :D
It was so interesting to watch this video. I couldn't help smiling! Great job 👍
There is nothing like a wood fired sauna! I never felt as clean from a shower as I did from a sauna. It always boosts my spirits also!
We have a washing machine inside the smaller house but now it's -11C for couple of days and washing machine has frozen and does not drain water :) Some good insulation is a must and it's in my todo list for the warm season
This had me laughing all the way through. I love your humor. I really enjoy these little details even if some of them are related to waste. 😂Thank you for sharing!
You are amazing. My LTR is from Sweden. It is 2 degrees below 0 here. I usually catch pneumonia every year. It is so surprising that you have such a robust constitution and have to do without running water. God bless you. I enjoy all your videos so much
I use 12V pump in my cabin. Basically the same setup as used in RV vehicles. It gives you tap with cold/hot water. Pretty goog for dishwashing/handwashing. Also, i visited “russian sauna” which is more less used instead of shower.
I also have an off the grid cabin, I use a dry flush toilet and it works amazingly!!!! My cabin is on a little island, all by itself, so I do have water all around, but in winter, when we get -35
Had fun watching this, also had some ideas to improve on something.
Great.