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We have come a long way since the first mass-produced telephones, radios and TVs drastically changed human communication. Nowadays, we have added smartphones, tablets, laptops and other electronics into the mix. They have revolutionized how we work, communicate and entertain ...

While there are many different types of off-grid living, a lot of off-grid homes may lack certain modern amenities, such as television or Internet. That might not mean a lot you, but there may be kids or teenagers living with ...

Remember when you were a kid and the only time that you could watch cartoons was on Saturday morning? Or if lucky enough, you got to stay up on the weekend to watch a new episode of your favorite television ...

Doomsday Castle star Brent Sr. recently sat down with Off The Grid News to discuss the new NatGeo series and his prepping background. After spending some time chatting with Brent, any concerns I had about how seriously he took survival ...

I’m an old school man, and my old habits die hard. We do have a television, but I refuse to pay even one dime to watch TV. When we moved into our home, I bought an antenna, assembled it, and ...

In the old days, it was gladiators and lions. Now it’s Olympians. For world governments, bread and circuses were the ultimate way to keep the masses in line. Keep the bellies full and the brains occupied, and no one would ...

When I was a child, it was normal for me to get home from school and simply drop my schoolbag and go outside to play for “a while” (time stretches at that age, so one hour can seem to be ...

We often think of self-sufficiency in terms of learning to provide our own necessities–food, clothing, shelter, medical care etc.  Learning to amuse ourselves rather than passively consuming entertainment has less obvious survival implications than learning to feed and clothe ourselves; ...

I'm just as guilty as you are. I swore I was giving up TV for good … it's all trash anyway… but I still had shows I wanted to watch! Unfortunately, my cable TV costs were breaking the bank. Something had to give, and it wasn't going to be my bottom line. Fortunately, it turns out that there are many ways to watch TV online for much less than you'll pay for a regular cable subscription.

It’s as if you had taken an orange, sliced it in half, and only concerned yourself with one of the halves. —Francis Schaeffer, Death in the City (1969) Obviously Schaeffer should have said, “You have a spoiled orange, while I ...