Enjoying a hot shower at our humble North place had me thinking of luxury's that turn into necessities.

Any other folks fall into the trap?

The hurricane down here sure will make you appreciate electricity and all that it runs.

Like A/C.

Guilty.

netflix

And Hulu

^^^This^^^

Hard for me to live without those two.

Back when hunting camp was a tent as deep int public land as we cared to go, wet wipes were worth their weight in gold.

You mean like cell phones? Especially smart phones.

In cars: heated seats, electric windows, push to start....

Yeah I pushed many an old truck to start it!!!

WiFi

AC. I think people would curl up and die if they didn't have AC. I don't know how we made it so long without it in our upstairs bedrooms when I was a kid... I guess we were living in luxury if you count big ole window fans!

Generators.

Spell check

I like to go down to our hunting cabin just to get in touch with reality. It is about 5 or more miles from the nearest electric lines, so we make do without. After 4 or 5 days you start to really appreciate stuff you take for granted.

I guess I never had the newfangled kind, where you push a button.

Lord knows I'm about to wear my key twistin' hand out after alla these years. May have to try that push button thingy.

Whiskey and a cold heart?

Those who live rural will understand this one - a deep well with an electric pump. When the electricity or pump goes out you quickly learn how importand both are.

drover

Heat in the winter. Hot and cold running water.

The lady in my phone who tells me where to go.

Car radios, automatic transmissions, intermittent wipers, starter switch on the column instead of the floor, AC

Good Bourbon

CHOCOLATE!

Geno

Filtered cigarettes

I have a lady in the living room that tells me where to go......................regularly!

Geno

Morning Hardons.

Fresh produce 12 months a year...

Meat we didn't have to kill...

Fresh fish in markets 12 months a year...

Pavement...

ice machine

I call BS here.

I still prefer starters on the floor.

I think being able to sleep in the same place (much less warm and dry) every night is a luxury taken for granted.

Pneumatic airguns. I've hand banged more pounds of nails than I care to think about, but sent pallets of paper collated nail strips through paslodes the last 20 years.

Yes it is.

AC in Texas, we didn’t have it at home, couldn’t make it without it now. This smart phone I’m pecking on is handy.

++1


If you tell me you have a ButtonKap gun, i'll send you two cases of roll-collated plastic green tops.

Long shot, yes

toilet paper

a woman that shaves her nether regions

mmmmMaybe....

Let it grow a couple of days and it's touch-n-go.

My mom was 16 before they got electricity, carried water about 200 yards.
Married my dad at 18, lived 3 or 4 more years without electric.
Carried water about 100 yards.


One day dad was teasing her about returning the dishwasher.
He ask what convience she wouldn't want to give up.
No thought.


Running water.

a woman gotta stay on top of it just like a farmer

Indoor plumbing, electric lamps, horseless carriages, Internet porn, grocery stores

5 or 6 days in the back country makes everything better.

Music sounds better.

Food tastes better.

A hot shower is heaven though.

I'm guilty myself.

I built a Generator so I didn't have to........Ever!

Toilet paper, especially 2 ply.

a chair at hunting camp.
when i was young, a log or cooler would suffice.
not now

cordless drill/driver

And cooled seats. Don't know how I ever lived without 'em and wouldn't own a vehicle now that didn't have 'em.

Never had to do without running water, so can't chime in, there. Lived with all sorts of heating systems, from central forced air gas fired, to coal stoves. I could go back.

The one thing I would struggle without is the refrigerator. Even with a root cellar, that would really change my life....

Good shoes and boots.



mike r

High speed internet. DarnTough socks. Satellite radio, inverter, microwave, and 12V freezer in the truck.

I use the hell out of my smartphone. Use it for navigation, research, pay submittal, pay verification, communications, entertainment, tethering, banking, shopping, lists/memos, photos....... It's a great tool.

On one of my "vacations" to aghanland I was at an international market and had a local ask "Is it true you Americans bathe in drinking water?"
I know we are blessed as I have been in twenty-some-odd countries and realize how spoiled we are... but his question really put it in perspective. Before we arrived over there, many of those folks never had candy, ice cream, bottled water, etc. Things we don't even think about when we pull into the gas station with our fifty-thousand-dollar trucks and drop fifteen bucks on ice cream, jerky and cheese-its just to hold us over till we get to the restaurant.
Those folks wait for the rainy season just to build their mud huts they live in by hand. A well with clean water is a luxury to them.
In the Phillipines in the 80s, the locals would scrounge our MRE (waterproof) boxes to build their huts with. They would also steal anything, especially food, that they could get their hands on. A plastic bottle was not thrown away after one use, but would become a utensil or container for the life of the object for them.
In jungle survival school, I had a local.S.F. guy get so angry with me I thought he was going to kill me in my sleep... over throwing away birds feet into the river while field dressing one. They eat everything and nothing goes to waste.
Kind of crazy how different cultures have developed... or not developed over thousands of years.

I downloaded a voice app to my GPS that sounded like The Gunny.

First time my Ukrainian wife used the GPS she came home all flustered and said “Some man was yelling at me!!”

I had a 48 Ford coupe that had push button start and a little honey to warm up the seat.

I did without flush toilets for the first 11 years of my life, and another year 10 years later in a faraway land. I would really miss flush toilets.

I get along wonderfully without a smart phone.

A Ronco pocket pussy.

Fleshlight?

Page 3 and the most obvious can't do without luxury item has not been mentioned!!

The T.V. remote.

Wet wipes are great until they freeze as some guys found out north of Nome.

Wtf.....

Mine looks like Jenna Jameson,s poontang an actual life like molding of it.

Not something from the Rocky Horror Picture show....

They got all the villains, change em out

Alien, Predator, dennis rodman, etc

You fellas seem to know all about them things?

They got tables of them at the gun shows there?

Geno

One of the trucks I learned to drive had the floor starter button - it was a PITA to hold down the gas pedal AND push the starter button for a kid with small feet!

Menard's has everything.

THIS ^^^^^^^^

Bed warmers...some guys even end up marrying them and calling it a 'wife'.

DEET

Back scratchers.

Hahahahaha!!!!

Spencer's.

I am always amazed by the people who think that doing without something that makes life more comfortable somehow makes them superior beings.

Disposable paper products.

Amazed by superiority?

Seems normal to me.

And a well pump...

Love Menards. Wish we had one closer than Owensboro and Evansville.

Fire.

I can think of a number of things throughout my lifetime that were once considered a luxury that is not a necessity. If I had to pick one, I'd probably go with A/C. I can remember when most places weren't equipped with them, and how hot and miserable it was in the summer.

PVC pipe and the wet glue.

How do you even KNOW about the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

But OK, here ya go......

OK, I pulled my water from a stream and lived without power of any sort for three years. Most of what we call necessities really ain’t, they are conveniences. You dont have these things and the course of your life doesn’t change, after all guys without all these came up with the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

After water, food and fire, I’d put as a game-changer any source of light at night, without which life virtually stops.

at dark. Matches in particular were way significant.

For me personally, I need binoculars, and cartridge firearms.

Its monday Birdy.
I dont wanna fugg with you man.
Ain't you got young minds to impress or something at school.

Tell them about your hardships dude.
They are probably a receptive audience that wanna hear about your life experiences living in a cave.

Implied that he'd been jerkin off to womens world cup soccer

lol

I've never been

It was a joke



Do they have free popcorn and baby rabbits for me to cuddle?

The Asian teams!!!!

Dumpsters full of live chicks that some employee took care of???
Like at Rural King.
Peeps....

Hahaha!!!

He'd be "turning japanese" in 45 seconds if he cracked my turtle nest thread.

Damn she secksy

Sure do, like in about two months from now

Meanwhile, evening in the NCO’s Club, tough ol’ Sergeant’s kicking back over a beer, watching a few favorite movies

Riding lawnmower although I am not sure a green ffield around the house is a necessity.

Menard's is kind of like a Lowes/Home Depot and Walmart all rolled up into one. No popcorn, no baby chicks, no farm stuff, it's actually a pretty cool store. I enjoy shopping there.

Sirs, there is no way I would ever discuss self-gratification with guys from Tennessee, shades of albinos, porches and banjos an all that.

Alcohol. The drinking kind.





P

Been there, done that.

No good.

Modern medicine and dentistry.

Oh I forgot birdy is a teacher
(Probably union also)
They dont work during the summer.
Just sweat in unairconditioned homes in texas.

Bout 18 months rent free in your noggin birdy
And all it took was some hummingbird poking ya with a stick comments and vids back when.
TFF!!!


I'm rounding over 2 hammer humps carefully maintaining the flush firing pin striking surface .
And removing slight burrs and 2000 grit polishing on 6 contact surface points on a tapco g2 trigger.
Might not have ta spend 70 bucks for a ALG trigger after all....
Spend it on ammo insted!!!!
Shooting for no drag feel, crisp releasing trigger and faster resetting
With about 3.75 to 4.00 pd trigger.

Follow along per Google fu
46 minute vid and couple of 10 min vids
detail out the procedure for your viewing interest.


Doing it in my man cave in a nice 70° AC temp also.

I wont post pics .
Ain't even worth it.
People would rather pay a "smithy" to do stuff for em.
And my project vids are always lame anyways.


Got better things to do than playing with your watered down cheap wine mid day drinking azz.....

Toodles

Salt
Toilet paper
Cars

No midday Merlot around here, turns out even mostly empty houses don’t clean themselves. Sucks.

Ain’t no teacher’s unions with any effect here in Texas.

That's good glad to hear both actually.
Get with slumlord about house cleaning tips.
Hahaha!!!!
Got a nice trigger now, all 4 goals for it done.
Smooth even feel with no drag squeeze, crisp break, fast audible reset
Right at 4 pds.
Dudes 46 min vid followed to a T except I did a way better polishing than him.
Now I gotta go shoot in the next couple of days.

Bud Light

$5 reading glasses

Chain saw, tractor, chipper.

Don't ask me, I got fired.

I sent a couple of Sharpie markers thru the dryer.

bad bad bad🙉🚔

With the white linens too I bet!

Geno

Toilet paper, ice cream, bacon, internet porn, power windows, Amazon Prime, paid vacation.

Good selection

Porsches

Nice!

Cop would never notice that one whizzing by...

A well ...buy water at 2cents a gallon and haul it .....a well is your friend !