posted on Feb, 19 2008 @ 03:43 PM
You've all covered the "top 3" pretty well, I'm thinking of a few also rans, just things we SO take for granted that it could be an issue later .
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-refrigerators
I know that we're all tough survivalists who can do without refrigeration. Still, after a few weeks of killing animals and having to butcher
them yourselves, dry/smoke them yourselves, and constantly throw away what we'd otherwise call "leftovers" because we have no place to keep them
safe, and even after we all lower our standards of edibility . . . you'll still wish for a cold place to keep food safe.
-soap that doesn't smell of animal fat.
animal soaps are cheap, and will be what other people use. So people will literally smell like pigs (or at least like lard) once the stores
are empty. Enjoy.
-warehouse sized pharmacies
once they've all been looted (see the appropriate page on these forums) by your co-survivalists, there won't be easy access to anything. So
when you get lice, there won't be any rid-ex handy. Or athletes foot powder, spray or anything else. Soon you'll be making bandaids from old
underwear, like your great grandparents did.
-mass produced birth control
no more condoms or pills. Vatican roulette for the rest of your (sex) life. Don't even think about porn. Most of it will disappear, shortly after
the real toilet paper is used up.
-toilet paper.
leaves, twigs, snow, sand(!). Now you know why people from developing nations are always so irritable!
-adequate artificial lighting.
after a month or two, you'll be using lighting that puts out more heat than light, and probably smells either of a burning wood or hydrocarbon.
You'll start going to bed at sundown in order to "save daylight." which will be ok., because you won't be sleeping with the shades pulled down,
anyhow. In the wildernerss, everyone's an early riser.
-a toothbrush you didn't make yourself.
-sugar
Most of us aren't planning to hide out on a cane plantation, and don't live in the tropics. You may laugh at my addiction to coffee, but if English
is your home language, then you are probably as addicted to sugar as I am to coffee.
-dentists
Lovely chain of thought, isn't it?