Spend a week living off-grid.

“i bought enough dry goods to last like ten years. Just a ton of rice/beans basically. meat i got through hunting/fishing. One moose is enough meat to feed me for an entire winter (9 months). [...] most of the year it is frozen in summer i have an underground "fridge". basically just dug a hole like five feet deep, put a tote in it and cover. Stays refrigerator cool.”

“oh, one thing i wanted to mention - in the first couple years I lived on about 2,ooo a year. Basically that is nothing but occassional trips to the store for groceries/supplies. [...] You cant only eat meat so you got to get some other stuff from the store occassionally. I was using no gas and had no equipment to maintain other than sharpen an axe and oil a gun. Just nothing to spend money on really.”

“A bit about me: I spent 10 years living in my tiny house, fully off-grid. That meant solar panels for power, a compost toilet, and a greywater system. I just wrote a book called Living Off Grid through Princeton University Press that is out April 15th that pulls together everything I learned the hard way over that decade — system design, the real costs, what I’d do differently, and the day-to-day reality nobody talks about.”