Book Report 1

This book ended up in my hands in kind of a roundabout way. I had a class last quarter taught by WWU professor Charles Sylvester and one day a student brought this in to his office to show him. I had already talked with Charlie about this cabin that I wanted to build and he suggested that the student contact me and show me the book instead.

Great idea.

This book, published in 2005 by Running Press Book Publishers, is filled with snippets, trials, tribulations and thoughts compiled by a man named Dan Price during his ongoing fourteen year journey to eliminating the clutter from his life.

I found some of them to be applicable to what I plan on doing out in the woods, the biggest of them being the idea of not cooking. Dan says that "dirty dishes suck," and I have to agree with him. It would be one thing if I had running water in my cabin, but without it cleaning dishes just means hauling more water in and then hauling waste water out again. He said he was able to achieve this by spending a few months out of the year making lots of jerky, tending to a garden, and dehydrating lots and lots of food.

I'm not against cooking, but keeping it to a minimum does seem like it would be a much more efficient option for me.