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Stop Acting Tough, Filter Your Water
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Stop Acting Tough, Filter Your Water
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Expanding on a comment I made about well and septic and how it's overregulated and puts too much financial and time delay burden on folks. One of the main reasons folks go off grid is to save money on costs of living. It's more upfront cost
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Off grid does NOT mean living like a caveman. It doesn’t mean “roughing it,” and it damn sure doesn’t mean giving up technology, the internet, your phone, or modern conveniences. If you want to live primitive, that’s fine. Do it. For YOU. What you don’t get
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