i live up in flatbush [ fbks ] keep the toilet seat indoors next to the stove take it with you to the outhouse when you go and you will always have a warm seat to squat on ..

So glad I found your post.. I'm a kiwi hoping to build a tiny house and have been serious about no plumbing. I already live a life of being conscious of what I use in a standard NZ home and must say after watching this dry does really make sense. Composting loo and a 12v camping shower will be more than fine along with a fire that can heat or sterilise water. I even visualise having a bathtub by the fire, so dry must create more options. even freedom.

Love it ! Thanks for sharing this piece of art!

This was excellent. Thank you!

This was good to know. Thanks, great documentary.

This was a good watch. Very informative. Thanks.

Excellent documentary! Truly informative, entertaining and.. ambient - in just the right way

Great vid. Great people. Inspirational.

this was something very different to watch and i enjoyed it

good movie. I wish you'd included someone who's been doing it for a long time, and included commentary about hauling water before Water Wagon's spigots were built.

Well done (although bad microphone).I especially liked the artist guy's honesty.

Great job Rebecca! Conservative living should be experienced by everyone. I've learned things that have changed my life for the better while in living in my dry cabin

I miss seeing Mark at the Yukon Quest every year. Good people.

***** As a women personally starting this venture I can tell you that comfort level isn't gender specific, however differs from person to person. There are men who wouldn't choose to live this way, and thats totally fine. Due to the extremes one can face on a daily bases exploring this lifestyle, if a person wasn't ALL in and wanting this for themselves they wouldn't be doing it for very long.

@miketraver7453

3 жыл бұрын

So very true

Oh Stanze @21:52 - be missing you.

My great grandfather, who was born in the 1800's, said he could never figure out why people wanted to shit in their house and cook outside.

@giaquinto5064

5 жыл бұрын

That's ridiculous. You don't eat in the f-ing bathroom, or use the toilet as a table!

“The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say”

Stay in the lower 48. It's already crowded here.

@giaquinto5064

5 жыл бұрын

Anyone from the lower 48 states who have a dream to move up there, will usually stay about 3 years and leave. I've seen too many videos of people "living the dream" and move to Alaska, only to leave for a warmer state 3 years later. And many comments from people who lived there are grateful they left.

Love the Yurt but I would wrap it in felt, you would be surprised. In fact thick felt is a fantastic insulation material

I would get a compost toilet if I lived like that

@samella35

8 жыл бұрын

+michelle kearsey Ikr. They should watch the thousands of tiny house videos. Those people know how to live off-grid.

Another question what type of employment is up there? I find it super interesting this type of life style.

I guess no cable tv ? I lived in Fairbanks for 4 years and loved it.

If it were me i would most likely construct a "portable shower". basically heat 5 gallons of water on the stove and allow to cool to desired temp. take to a small shower which would be a shower pan elevated with a bucket below. run a curtain around and affix a shower head above. run a line from the showerhead to the bucket with an electric in-line water pump in-between. when you are done take the grey shower water out n dump.

@0megadwarf

5 жыл бұрын

people do this. it works pretty well.

I had running water and I would have to go to the bathroom get hot water from the shower tote it back to the kitchen pick the least dirty dish wash them first rinse in ice cold water because we didn't have hot water in the kitchen. then dump the water at the edge of the woods. you guys are awesome.

@giaquinto5064

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's unnecessary backward living. Just stupid!

could you cut to driving down the winter road again? I missed it the first 50 times.

was in Ketchikan beautiful

Question if there is so much snow why not just melt it to use it for water?

@CandyDelicia

9 жыл бұрын

that is so interesting to be honest I always been curious about alaska and the way of life there hence I like learning about it thanks for answering ^.^

@missy2435

6 жыл бұрын

It takes a lot of energy (wood, coal, etc) to heat snow to make water. For any water you drink, use in food, you would need to not just melt it, but boil it for some period. In a place where you are barely keeping warm, that's a lot of money or work for heating energy. Getting potable water from a town is "cheaper."

@JesusFChrist666

6 жыл бұрын

Does granola grow in the permafrost?

@JohnDoe-zl6ph

5 жыл бұрын

Melissa nopers if you bring snow inside and your house temp is above 32 degrees Fahrenheit it will melt no extra fuel is needed. Likely the reason they don't melt the snow is because when it's below 0 Fahrenheit there's very little moisture in the snow, and melting it will produce a very small amount of water.

@bingbong9844

4 жыл бұрын

Fairbanks has horrible pollution from all the wood and oil burning in the winter, causing the snow to become polluted.

amazing life style.... i always have dream to have a life like that... one day ill....

@giaquinto5064

5 жыл бұрын

no you won't. and if you did, you wouldn't last a year at it.

What I do not understand is why these people don't want to build the cabin where they could have a private hand pumped well. they wouldn't be hauling as much water, and could have some needs met such as laundry, and bathing without having to travel into the city to use public faculties.

@tinkerbell2u2

9 жыл бұрын

Permafrost is there and it is very expensive to drill into land that has permafrost

@amgray19

9 жыл бұрын

Jean Hoffman Because it costs ~$40 per foot to drill a well here, and often it goes hundreds of feet deep. Not feasible for the average person.

@alcrab65

7 жыл бұрын

In many areas around Fairbanks the water is either too deep to drill a well cost effectively or is arsenic, almost all is full of iron too. A lot of otherwise conventional homes have to either have water delivered or haul water as these people describe. Russ mentions the huge difference in prices due to if homes have "conventional" running water, bathrooms, septic system etc. There is no city water or sewerage system except a small area in the middle of town The point is there are few codes and people are allowed to live how they want and can afford.

all i can think of is how bad those ppl might smell.

@bingbong9844

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone has gym memberships or many laundry centers have showers as well.

And that 1 dude lives in town payin electricity but won't pay water bill?

@Bloodclotzzzzzzzzzzz

9 жыл бұрын

moediddles1 He explains why he doesn't have water. He said unless he has children, the lifestyle meets his needs.

Dry:a mini doc about waterless lifestyles around Fairbanks,Alaska

He said on the internet.

the water runs

Do u have any careers ?

Life was meant just to live in alot of ways the cost of being what some silly people call civilized is not only damaging to our earth but also constant chaos.Let all of us learn to just live.

alaska seems to me like a place where hipsters would not want to live, but i guess they have at least a couple.

@ashleycasey2093

9 жыл бұрын

not hipsters, just hippies, or people who are way more hardier than your ass.

these guys are definitely tokers.

insanity bro. thats odd because i live in fairbanks and would prefer the caribbean or puerto rican

Congrats, you live in the woods....I'm going to get back to playing my PS3 now, have a good life!

Ehh fuck that

Esau that the biblical name of white people man of field sold birth rite to jacob in gen 25:23-25