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My uncle lived like this his entire life until. He lived in the Balkan mountains in a cabin that had no electricity. The only water he had was running water from the top of the mountain. The clothes on his back and his knife and gun. He was the happiest person I knew. R.I.P Adzo Ramo.
When I was 57, I moved to a state park in SC, set up a tent and lived there with my dog for a year...worked as a teacher at a school 12 miles away...few park visitors during the off season so we practically had the place to ourselves...camp fires and long peaceful walks...stars at night by the millions...when teachers at work found out where I lived, everybody either snickered about it or felt sorry for me...I always felt it was the best year of my life....there is nothing compared to serenity....nothing.
@@frankiebe4818 Off season would be any time after Labor Day and before Memorial Day weekend...left dog in friendly town vet's place and picked up after work. Winter was the best season for camping re: weather as in SC it can get chilly but seldom snows. Rains and at night the sound on the tent was very soothing...also, none of that damn SC heat and humidity!
@@francispoldiak2139 tnx. I live in a class b camper right now. Im lucky i can bring my dog to work. I wanna be as flexible/portable as i can. I wanna fit everthing in 3 luggage
It is amazing how this woman is completely satisfied with what most of us would consider a simple and frugal life. She has a beautiful and gentle personality. She is really proud of what she has accomplished. She has everything she needs to survive. Good for her.
A smart individual can see the accomplishments and appreciate them. Most people are smart and want good for others. Maybe you should give people more credit so people like me don't have to defend them when you go on the attack. It is a pretty sweet set up though 😁
Yeah... We need more people like you. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, ElonMusk and the rest od rich needs more fresh air to use their yachts, Bentleys, and pivate jets (1 hour od flight is more than you will use during a year even when you own a car and travel everyday 100 km, the same without yachts)
Hear me out: more people like her are not needed to be easy on Earth, but because their lifestyle also means they don't consume the things that make those people you mentioned richer. @@krzysztofhurbiszewski6539
Visiting the library and happened across your video. I have been off grid in a cabin for almost five years - ALONE. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I asked for this. The world moves too fast for me. I found that many old dresser mirrors brightened the place up reflecting candles, giving psychological space, and helps with having motion inside the cabin which is me, myself, and I. We get along with one another much better now. I particulary liked your answers as to why you made this choice. I have several of my own; but more important is that I never want to go back to what is normal living. Thank you for sharing your deeply inexplicable existance. Touched.
I also live alone in the woods. Ok, with two cats and sometimes with three children. And I would never cope without electricity, I think. Once you get used to the lifestyle, it is unthinkable to move to a city again. We are not created to deal with all these distractions.
I have to get out of this city I live in. It hurts my mental health, and I have been in therapy many times and even warded into an institution for a couple of days to help calm my mind. I feel this kind of life that she's living is where my heart lies.
Realize the video is an idealized version of this way of life. I also find the city causes anxiousness. Your personal problems will follow you but a smaller community can be helpful. Note 'community' instead of city. There is work everywhere for the willing. Isolation isnt the true answer but is a band aid. Try to stay active and eat whole foods instead of sugary processed crap. There is nothing wrong with you. Life is a rollercoaster so keep going and never give up. The best days are yet to come amigo
@@jamespitson6524 They are finding that so many of us that truly love being IN nature.....might be suffering from PTSD. If true, vast numbers of the world are suffering from it! Or just anxiety, etc.
It's all part of the plan to make you feel good and stay sane by watching someone else's life, so you can go to work relaxed and then buy all the stuff you don't need to support the economic growth and capitalism. ;)
@@bcotrell It do attract animals but mostly they try to avoid places where they hear human voices and smell human scent. Also how u storage food depends. When you put it in the basket and let it freeze less odor it will emit. Temperature you can adjust by burying things under compressed snow. Snow is good insulation so under thick snow things don't get so cold and also smells will attract animals even less.
I can't believe some non-thinking person asked if you have baby proofed the cabin. What I see are 2 wonderful people with their baby next to them being spoken to in a soft and loving way. Tova thank you for showing us everything. It all works because you all are smart and organized. I love you all, dianne
baby proofing is a novel thing LOL It just came into existence when I had my kids - car seats were just starting then...... strange that we all survived :)
Baby proofing is only needed for people who don’t watch their children constantly. I had four sons and never baby proofed or moved anything. I watched them and taught them what not to touch.
I've got some friends that have a stretch of woodland property. I'd love to help build a small cabin with them and become a groundskeeper for their property
Jen A. Damn straight. I'm sick of being made sick by the manmade EMFs that won't allow me to have a moment of peace and is constantly putting both my mind and body under stress and many other symptoms. I'd love to escape and come back to the me I seem to have lost.
Choosing to live like this is smart for so many reasons that I'm not gonna elaborate on. Let's just say that there are indications in this world, and have been for quite a while, that we need to step back and start living more independently with nature.
Isn't that selection bias, though? We only see the one's featured in videos. At least, I don't know anyone else living off grid. I don't know if the ones I see in video are a representative sample.
@@purebliss2669 I really hope this is not intended to be a "nice" message lol. AKA god is going to take you out soon. He decided that he is done playing with his toys and is going to end it all. That's frightening and not something I would throw out there as a good thing. It sounds more like a threat!
"Walk out the door and into the forest and be part of nature". That says it all to me. You are a lovely, informative hostess. Thank you for allowing virtual visitors into your cozy, very-well organized home.
I have over 300 books in my phone library. They are with me everywhere I go. (Not in the cloud either). The library in my office is almost obsolete. Eating the stuff in that jar everyday for breakfast would take me 11 years to accept. No coffee in this cabin... I love tea and coffee & bulk coffee is much cheaper than tea... I’m just saying this because we all “off grid” with different mindsets. The weather in the southeast United States is so mild that year round indoor and outdoor use is about 97% of the year. Very interesting to see this style and culture of living off the land. Now a days off grid doesn’t mean “survival” like it did a hundred and fifty years ago. There are serious creature comforts now. Love the insight of this video but that’s a hard life to just “step into” even though it’s beautiful - and it really is beautiful.
"Farstu" is a shorted version of what in modern Swedish would be "förstuga". In this case 'för' is the word 'före', before. 'Stuga' can be translated as cabin or cottage. So "before-cabin" / "fore-cabin", the cabin before you enter the real cabin. I think 'mud room' is a good choice of word. The farstu's purpose was, IS, to protect the inner cabin from weather and wind. Not let rain, snow and cold air in, and make the heat stay inside. At the same time it was a perfect place to leave muddy clothes and boots.
It's a cosy home that functions perfectly. Reminds me of my nana's cottage in Ireland. No running water so buckets were carried from the spring, bread made by hand daily. The food was all home grown and delicious. Something to be said for keeping it simple.
Not far from where i was born we have a park that has a museum in the middle which was a a family home for 400 years which was stolen from the church when King Henry the VIII, Put the majority to the sword,They were given the land in the 11th century made two lakes from the local stream kept cows and sheep and chickens,When they weren't allowed to "eat meat" which walked around on four legs,They ate fish and chicken Chicken wasn't meat because it only had TWO LEGS
Thank you for sharing your lifestyle, I love it, reminds me of my childhood in Pennsylvania, USA. I now am 81 living in Massachusetts and miss the woods. You are a strong woman and may God continue to bless you and your family.
Absolutely, the junk drawer keeps me sane, we have two kids, 14 and 7, and crap is always being left laying around. I often don't know what it is I'm looking at, goes to the junk drawer.
@@GokuInstinct1 I wish I could just do that, honestly, but I'm the only guy in an otherwise all female household, I'd quickly be in trouble I started doing that.
When a Swede says "It was really cold", you can bet it was really, really cold! Wonderful tour and I admire your ability to live this way off the grid.
a lot of people will be saying "how can you live like this?" whereas its making me say "how can I live the way Ive been living" so beautiful ❤ your boy is having the best childhood he could hope for, thank you for sharing 🙏
Some people would call that place boring, but watching, it was so calming, like the weight of the world was left in the city. Felt like i could breath better after watching this place.
@@Archonsx they're probably actually implying they live in a 1rst world country and all the distracting and clustered environment there unlike where the lady lives in the video
Tranquility, slow pace of life, time to yourself and with no distractions when you pursue your personal interests. The sound of your fire going while you read and drink a cup of tea or cocoa. Paradise. I'm someone who loves my personal space and my privacy; I would get used to that so fast.
If everyone lived in a cabin there wouldn't be books and cocoa in the first place. You can't have cocoa farms, schools that teach you to read, publishers who print books, and stores selling the cocoa and books if everyone is living in a cabin in wilderness.
The cabin is full of modern products that can only be produced in factories by people who've enjoyed modern education for years. If she has a husband and sleeps with him it means she's using modern contraception. If one of them gets seriously ill or injured they'll go to a hospital. They aren't self-sufficient at all, they just live in a place where they can't see the civilization that's providing for them.
@@OutragedPufferfishYou don’t need to give up absolutely everything. You find a nice middle ground. We need to go back to nature, but we can still have nice things, that aren’t so demanding on our environment.
As strange as it sounds, you can just feel the love emanating from that little cabin and it’s occupants. From the cats, to the precious baby and everywhere in between, that home is full of love and respect.
I watched your video some time ago, but I occasionally find myself thinking about it and i rewatch it. I am enchanted and in love with your way of life. It's practical, yet filled with coziness and a quiet simplicity that I yearn for. Thank you for your content.
I came from watching live news about the chaos in the United States to this video. You guys are doing life correctly! Bless you and your family. Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us all!
and these people are so honest, they don't show a story in the name of freedom, because it can be marketed well, but show people who have always wondered what it is like to live in a lonely Swedish hut, how it can be can. Thanks for that. Real freedom doesn't take up a lot of space when you are at peace with yourself.
I was scrolling and found this simple lovely video. I wish I was taking a live tour through this cabin right now......away from COVID and the chaotic mess the U.S. is going through right now. Thanks for sharing 💕
I've been on you tube since 2007. I've had dozens of channels and watched hundreds of thousands of videos. This video is one of the coolest ones I have seen. Very impressive. Thank you, Tova for sharing this. You're awesome!
Thank you for inviting us into your home. So organized. Do the things you want to do in your own way and in your own time. So pleased to look a little bit into your life and see how you do things and how you build out your home and homestead. Thanks for having us.
I only found your vlog today. I'm a retired American living in Germany. I worked for the Swedish company Ericsson for 23 years in mobile telecommunications R&D in Herzogenrath, Germany (near Aachen and the NL and Belgium borders). I am also an avid bicycle traveller, so, besides my work travels, I have spent a lot of time cycling and camping through Western Sweden and Norway. Your homestead reminds me very much of much of the land I travelled through. -- As an American devastated by the shock of our recent election, I really need something like your site to help me regain my balance. After watching this Home Tour video I started watching your vlogs from the very beginning. I know I'll look forward each day to catching up on all the videos between the first one and this one. Thanks for what looks to be a very interesting site.
when I was a kid and sometimes we did not have electricity, I was really happy inside, enjoying the little things I had, and so I felt more connected to the place, happy new year to all of you
Yeah same here. I have lived my whole life in this small village with no electricity during the day. Although truthfully, I stay on my phone all day mostly. (What can I say I'm still a teen lol.) But one of my favorite things of living here is showering with a cup and a bucket is so normal to me that normal showers 🚿 seem like a waste of water. Edit: also its not like we're poor or non materialistic either, you probably wouldn't be able to tell us apart from those living city lives.
I can’t believe people ask why you would want to live that way. The world would be so much better if we all lived that way. It’s a beautiful place and way of life! Thanks for the great video
David Lewis... I totally agree with you. It is unbelievable that anyone would question this couples choice, of how they live their lives. I watched the video, but felt I was intruding into their private space, etc. Some people are just inconsiderate, nosy and interfering... With no regard for others privacy or choice!
@david lewis, as a matter of fact, we can all live with a little less useless stuff from now on, just by being aware of it. But we cannot all live the 'Talusbuan' way if we would like, we are just with to many.. For the knowledge to live like this, we shouldn't forget that maybe 7% of the modern population would survive this way, others don't have a clue.. In the past, much of this basic knowledge was lost, due to famine and plagues, which costed millions their lives, and the natural solutions for health where gone with them. This dip in knowledge, is filled up with our modern solutions, and we should be happy with that, use them both ways, sensibly. To me it isn't thàt strange to question this way of life, giving up the comfort, cost a lot of energy in order to survive, and then limits other creative expression's which you might have. And I am happy for them to grab this opportunity as it passed by, and share the videos with us who couldn't do. In this way we might both become more aware.:-)
@@patriciabarnes7034 If they didn’t want us to see I’m sure they wouldn’t show us so I don’t feel bad for watching, but I know what you mean. People like to criticize when it makes no sense to when they’re trying to live healthy rewarding lives. Happy new year
@Dennis Yen , everything which makes you deeply attentive, whatever it might be, is not a 'drab lifestyle' anymore. It is just the working of attention in you, not the thing you choose, which is free.:-)
WHAT A GLORIOUS WAY TO LIVE! MY DAD HAD A FISHING CAMP OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE GULF OF MEXICO , IN NEW ORLEANS EAST, THIS REMINDS OF THOSE WONDERFUL DAYS. THIS IS LIVING! THANK YOU FOR SHARING
A family living the simple life, one they are happy and contented with. There will be many families watching this who will be encouraged to do the same. Thank you for posting this video.
I loved the tour and your home is so pure and so welcoming, somehow it feels it is so full of happiness! I think it´s great to know that the wood is out there, when you sleep at night surounded by peace, in the middle of nature and your own loving family. Wonderful, best wishes...!
Since august 2016 i live in trailor in the bushes. I have a little goat farm, with chickens, rabbits and three dogs of my own and one strayed dog. I understand you, sister and i admire you. I could easily live like that for the rest of my life. Only, i have sun povered electricity all the time. Greetings from Bosnia
In a German children's story; "Master Eder and his Pumuckel" there is a line where they are showing their small home and the visitor comment is that "it is very small"! The Pumuckel replies:" Happy people don't need such big homes because they don't need to avoid each other, so often" That, stuck with me for 40 years! I embrace your choices, there is a natural flow/order and harmony. When you are sharing a meal, together in the home, with the animals, there is a sense of exquisite balance/inclusion..being held in each others arms-feeling, that comes across in the videos as well. Thank you, for the tour such a talented and creative home-maker, Partner, Parent and Land Steward, you both are! Wishing you all, a very healthy and prosperous New Year!! Loving greetings!
As a rumanian who works in Sweden for 1 year now as telecom engineer been in a lot of places like this. I was always amazed by the peolple who chose to live in the middle of the nature. Whole clip is nice but the best part is at 20:16 and 22:10. I appreciate you a lot guys! Big hugs!
Thank you for opening your home and for letting us meet your gorgeous baby. I give you a lot of credit for doing what you and your husband have chosen to do. YOu are an inspiration! You have a lovely cabin and have really made the most use of it!
I grew up in a similar way in Northern California. I am very thankful to my parents for being back to landers and providing me such a unique, wholesome childhood. Many blessings on your way.
Just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing. I am living with my 2 dogs in a kind "Circus Wagen" made of wood since 3years without running water, but a good stove and I have electricity. In Germany it is hard to find a place and it is not allowed to live off the grid. Videos like yours are always a big inspiration, what else is possible. I love all the books in your house. I am looking forward to watch more of your videos.
Such simplicity, yet perfect completeness! If I close my eyes, I could imagine sitting here, in a snowstorm, sipping on tea, reading a book, and holding the hand of someone you love! Thank you so much for the experience.
I have never heard the sound of silence like i did in this video.. In America.. there’s always a car driving by. (At least where i live) Beautiful Sound of Silence.
This. I moved to Chicago and it is busy. Went to CA for a semester in the suburbs. It has hills, but it is not the country side. I got creeped out. Because when I walked the streets I hardly saw anyone...it felt like those zombie apocalypse movie where you're walking on a lonely road and the zombies will come and get you soon. But, I slept like a baby at night! So quiet. I forgot what real peace and quiet was.
Eh, it depends on where you live. I spent two years in a trailer in a rural wooded Alabama (long story), and it was at least that quiet - in rural Alabama the main sound I remember was rain and animals. I imagine that if you live near Stockholm or something, it's probably about as noisy as a large American city (I assume, I've never been to Sweden, so I could easily be wrong).
@@satqur I agree,there are massive amounts of land (in every state) where there are sometimes hundreds of miles of woods or other terrain that is completely isolated.
Fantastic video... Your calm voice and unique accent made me feel I was there, I could feel the quiet, peace and joy of your lives. It makes me think. .After years of immigrating to Canada, with housing prices through the roof (like from 10 to 20 times my yearly salary) and rent increasingly unaffordable, I´m strongly considering a similar lifestyle by constructing my own little home and living rent free. Current technology allows us to live completely off grid. I´m getting old and need to work on that. Thank you so much for the inspiration!!
no coms = you cant call for help when something wrong happens = you cant get treatment = you die for something wich wouldnt be deadly in other place with coms = shorter lifespan
It is quite remarkable how much people are interested in this way of living. Makes me think how far we have gone in the wrong direction. *That* is what matters. Lovelovelove ❤️
As a person who lives in the city centre I totally agree. Human beings werent made to live alongside concrete and huge, towering buildings. It's in nature we truly belong.
When I think of the monstrously wrong direction we have gone in, (which is quite often), I see that it was and continues to be at the behest of powerful and greedy men who set the standard for masculinity = toxic. We haven't had balance since the madness took hold a long time ago. We desperately need more women like Tova to get us back to a good place because sadly there are women who believe in the wrong direction. We also need the men like Adzo Ramo who is fondly remembered by Night Kruzer. I believe a fundamental question all human's need to ask is what exactly do we want to achieve for the benefit of all humans, our planet and it's other inhabitants.
After watching this vlog, I found myself watching all of them. "Off Grid Home Birth " brought up tears of emotions. It was beautiful. What you two do everyday is just admirable. I love your videos and please do not change anything, they are perfect. Give a warm hug to your beautiful baby for me.
Mia, it is not necessary to live off-grid for a home birth. I was born in the same bed where I was made, lol. Many may think I am crazy, but I always feel that it made a difference in my life's beginning: the peaceful and comfortable home was the first thing I sensed. I always used to tease my Mom, saying: "When I was born, I came out, looked around and thought to myself 'hey, I recognize this place... I think I saw it once already, 9 months ago!" Mom always would giggle and say, "you are my most wacky child:" and I would reply, "I know, that's why you had to have me first"... I loved my parents so much... they were the most wonderful couple I can think of... so much love!
Yes, I did enjoy seeing it. Thank you. I saw some things the same as on my narrowboat that I have been living on for the last 7 years. 120cm wide bed and two kettles (that's the English word gor them:-). I tend to use two in winter to get enough hot water to wash clothes. But also, I keep one kettle separate to heat the water for hot water bottles. That way I can reheat the same water over and over. I do have electric from solar and pumped water from my tanks in the bow. But I get a bit more daylight in the South of England. Also, so far I have found that no pipes or tanks have had any problems from cold. Even if the canals freeze over and I am not here to light my stove. Partly because the metal hull is below the ice layer. I have a friend who has a summer cabin in Sweden. I hope I get to see it one day.
Thank you Ms Tova for opening your home when most people prefer privacy. You're an amazing woman and I understand that you like living that way, that's purely your choice. I hope your new home is bigger and your little one will be as strong as you!
I live the same way in the US, in the center of a city in an old Victorian built in 1902. We are truly blessed, those like us. I don't have solar power yet so I use a generator to produce whatever electricity I need to charge everything. I'm 63 years old and have had this lifestyle 12 years. No one has ever asked me why, but I would tell them that it was my choice, and that I'm happy this way. It's all about the quality of life. Love from America. 💖
Thanks for the tour, I grew up in the wilderness, 14 years in isolation and we never relied on stores for food or clothing. We made everything by hand, clothing, leather items you name it.
@@urmama54 I guess the same thing people did for millennia before grocery stores. They hunted, gathered, fished, and grew their own. Where do you think the grocery stores get the food from? It's been raised, fished, etc.
This is how my Father grew up until maybe his later teens. He lived in the country and his parents were sharecroppers until his mother passed unexpectedly so his father had to move the family of seven children just outside of town which was still rural. My grandfather never had indoor bathroom and finally got running water lin later years. He still had a water pump on the back porch and it was the best water. Thank you for sharing your home with us..
I think you're one in a million Tova. I feel something deep inside when people like you make a life that doesn't conform to the wired world. Honestly it makes me question my own existence and what I focus on every day. Huge respect, thank you for a completely unexpectedly visceral video. This will stay with me.
@@valueinyou9931 corporate careers are stupid. The idea of working hard and step up the ladder. People don't need that. In alternate world, I hope there are no career men and career women. People can live simply and can go anywhere in the world without the need of money and passport. That's my stupid idea of how to live a life (in an alternate universe, of course) I guess I'm sounding Utopian right now.
@@norpriest521 You know what...? I don't think you're sounding stupid at all, honestly. I mean who's to say the other way is not stupid (you know, the corporate ladder crap with politics and traffic and stress leading to heart disease, spending 5/7 of every week of our adult lives away from the people who mean the most to us) ...and look at our world because of it. Do you know I read a statistic the other day that prior to the year 2000 in the US, we averaged three (3) mass shootings a year...? And additionally, in the same statistic, it shared that through July 2022 the US has had 240 mass shootings. 240. And the year at that time was barely half over. I don't pretend to know exactly what the answer is, but your comment isn't stupid at all. In my opinion if you look around and DON'T question things, that seems stupid. Great comment.
I love your home and the location. I live in a converted horsebox which is built inside entirely from wooden pallets, over a hundred pallets were dismantled, sanded and oiled, it took a few weeks. I live on a farm in the UK so like you in the winter we don't get much solar power, so I bought a wind turbine that gives 600 Watts of power and I'm going to make a water wheel for the stream, using a car alternator. I'm a beekeeper which replaces sugar. I have chicken's and ducks for eggs and meat. I have a milking nanny goat called willow and a log pulling horse that also is ridden and pulls a cart. I'm a tanner so any animal i eat gets skinned and tanned and made into clothes, knife pouches and belt pouches. Nothing goes to waste as any bones or antlers are made into coat hooks, rune set's etc. Like you my two dogs live under the bed and they are both lurchers and have a job, they help with the hunting. My cat also, she keeps the rodents under control. I have a log burner which is toasty and stays lit all night. There is no other way of life for me, I've lived like this for 13 years and could never go back. People think I'm a little mad because i ride around in full viking clothing but that's okay, it gives them something to talk about 😂and makes people smile and ask me questions. In my spare time I'm learning to play the bowed lyre, I'm getting there. Thank you for sharing your journey. I also forage herbs and fungi and make tea's, tinctures and potions and grow all of my own fruit and vegetables. Simple life, can't beat it ✌️
Tova you did really well and you're English is very good well done ,I live in the UK and this video is just what i need as we are in lock down and can't go out xx
I loved this tour the most of all I have seen in the past couple months. I wish I was doing the same thing as this lady and her family. She does a GREAT JOB of explaining everything.
I love the "take-outs" at the end! Glad to see your sense of humor with using English in these videos! And, of course, your beautiful baby at the end; no words to describe the incredible opportunity you are giving him, living in concert with Mother Earth. Thank you for sharing.
That cabin feels like being gently and romantically hugged by life, the entire time. And it appears that you have been able to transform the small inconveniences and minor hardships into the spices of life. The place is brimming with love. 👏🏻
I am very impressed about your report of your way of life! I have a similar but larger cabin in the southern mountains of Switzerland and I can share your feelings of being connected with nature, woods and animals. Here we have Foxes, hares, wild boars, deer, deer, badgers, etc. and soon we will have also wolves, you can hear them already from beyond the mountains on the Italian side. Also bears will be coming. Here the biggest middle European jungle is developing because people are leaving all villages and the woods are growing faster and faster. Our house has no electricity and we have our own source for water. Heating up means chopping wood blocks mostly by hand etc. But the rewards are great: the sound of nature, of the trees and birds. The loneliness and decoupling from civilizations unrest gives you an inner strength and calm. Great way of living! Heartly greetings from Switzerland!
This reminds me of my family's cabin. It is a breath of fresh air and realness compared to all the super expensive " off grid" tiny homes that are popular.
It's interesting how in the most luxurious and expensive "mansion" presentations you rarely see a book, yet this cabin as small as it is, there's a half-wall of them.
Because they are smart and buy ebooks. Also books (reference books, text books, etc) get outdated fast or there is a new version or an update. And only pretentious people stack tons of books to show off how "well read" they are. Plus the only books that are worth buying and storing are classic novels, story books, fictional books, etc. The kind, if you have too many, shows that you have nothing better to do in your life than read someone else's thoughts and dreams.
I think it has to do with lifestyle. The rich, or "well-to-do" are typically going to be more used to highly stimulating types of entertainment, as they have more access to it than most people. Things like private home theaters, electronic gadgetry, large social circles of people, and the means for frequent travel. At this point, your brain is retrained to require that level of stimulation to achieve satisfaction from entertainment. For others, whether it's through self control, or monetary ability, are going to be more centered. Books for this type of person are actually very stimulating sources of entertainment, typically because they haven't spent their days dowsing their brains with dopa through internet usage, and video games. That's not to say you can't still enjoy reading if you take part in these things, but subjectively the person who hasn't formed those mental pathways will find more satisfaction through less stimulating activity. The majority of us exist somewhere between the two.
yes no ones gives a shit about you in the city. The noise is unbearable. Its too expensive and crowded and the traffic makes me homicidal. I dont understand low to middle class people who enjoy city life it only seems worth it if you're rich.
@@joshuaortiz2031 try poland bieszczady or south but no Krakow coz is too smog during winter I live in iceland I really enjoy but prices are horrible and weather unpredictable 8month a year
Ivar is such a beautiful baby! Thank you for showing us around and as always the drone footage is breathtaking. Also, the bloopers at the end are fun. Thanks again and Happy New Year!
I am so inspired with how you lead your life, many of us grew up with such a similar direction of survival, but we did not have the adequate knowledge passed on to us to create such a beautiful biodiverse state of art living. Loving the way, you Cherish your historical ethnical existence
This is so inspiring. Just goes to show that 'modern life' is just so dull. I think the world is changing and we're returning to our ancestors' roots. A 'hybrid' world of sorts...the mix of old and new technologies. Being self-sufficient is amazing and a skillset that is being lost. Humans NEED to get back to this. And we shall...thank you for an awesome channel!
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Amazing. Love your warm, artistic, hygge-filled home. It’s an experience you will always remember. So many people today are so far removed from the land and nature that they have forgotten or never learned how all humans are connected. Good fortune and health to you from California.
After weeks of stress watching nothing but our homegrown political shit show, this was just what I needed. So soothing...I fell asleep before I got to the end, and finished it in the morning. Thank you Tova for sharing your beautiful family and home. Sweden is the country of my ancestors, what I wouldn’t give to live there now! 💙💛
I'm stupified! I'm from Michigan. Looking at this makes me remember why many nations think America is the land of assholes. I'm looking at this video thinking "I'd like to try that for a minute" but I would have serious "luxury" withdrawals.
With all that butter and eggs I'm not so sure about sustainability. :) Not saying that I have a problem with that or that I do better. It just doesn't seem to be the solution for sustainability problems to move into a forest in the woods. ;)
@@alquinn8576 composting toilet and sauna/shower hut is our solution for our offgrid situation. Humanuer methods are super beneficial to the land, and grey water systems to feed the herb/flower garden is smart/sustainable water system to use. Avoiding the use of harsh chemical products becomes the game, because the last thing you wanna do is harm the forest if you live in it.
@@bened22 better than just consuming products and working a mindless job and paying for your life in a stinky city.... everyone can sustain in different ways, who are you to judge her process?
I truly enjoyed the tour of your cozy cabin, thank you. This year has been very hard for most people due to the pandemic but your videos have kept many sane. Wishing you and your family good health, happiness, success and prosperity in the coming !
Dear Rosa. For your information, this is a faked pandemic. If you do your own research on what inventor(Kary Mullis) said about PCR(or RT PCR) -who said it should NOT be used for diagnostic purpose-and the fact that PCR for COVID-19 was imported to each country in the year of 2017 alone, you will be able to make yourself understand that the whole hassle was merely the result of greed of corrupt beauracarts(including WHO and World Bank) and evil pbarmaceutical companies. Visit David Icke website or that of Michael O'Bernicia.
@@wookyungkim5507 omg I cannot believe you even said that or thought it. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the u.s.. alone and you say something that ignorant
@@marlenejones6266Do turn off corrupt corporate media and do your own research! US CDC admitted as early as in Sep that they only ESTIMATED in counting the numbers of Coronavirus deaths beforehand and admitted that only 6% of the ESTIMATE are deemed to have died 'of' this Commom Cold virus! www.eutimes.net/2020/09/cdc-revises-the-us-death-toll-only-6-died-directly-of-the-disease-94-had-serious-comorbidities/
@@marlenejones6266 Also, WHO admitted that chances are extremely low that pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic ppl spread virus to others. Also, it is being revealed that hospitals are in fact empty despite Tier 4 lockdown in UK or the equivalent in Germany. Read true newa from Evidencenotfear.com and give me yr email address. I can send you literally hundreds of references evidencing that you are being fooled by TV or main stream media!
@@wookyungkim5507 Completely agree!! Unfortunately not many people see that... I have a channel too, where I show my life but also talk about all that you are saying. Feel free to check out!! ☺️
Thankyou so much for this tour of your lovely home, I know little about life in Sweden so it was so great to see this. Your home is beautiful, the setting is just gorgeous your cats and baby were the highlights for me. How cosy sitting in your cabin with a tea would be watching the snow. Live your best life. Love from Australia ♡
No library is complete without Terry Prachet!! My youngest daughter and I lived in a cabin a little smaller than yours, for 10 years when she was younger. Every item had to have 2 purposes or we couldn't keep it... We did have a wonderful little wood cook stove that could heat us right out of our cabin at below 0° f. Many adventures winter and summer here in the Colorado Rockies with our two dogs and a cat that loved to go hiking with us (even in the snow!). It is so important for children to be in reality in the wild. I wouldn't change those 10 years for anything. I understand everything you are doing, and doing well!!💜👵
It's amazing how small a space we can live in and how we can organize it to fit in all that is important to us. I've done it living aboard a small boat and it was the best time of my life. Thank you for showing us around your cozy and cheerful cabin and for reminding me what's really important in life.
i guess living in a small space is managable when you have plenty of space outside and you are working/occupying yourself outside most of the time, especially when you live with several people in 1 small home....
Great video !! I'm a Finlander and retired mechanical engineer. I was able to retire almost 20 years ago, raise my children and cure my health issues. Now that my children are on their own I'm living off grid in Northern Arizona and finally find out what I'll become when I grow up. I'm using all the natural materials on my land which is perfect for rammed earth construction. It using thermal siphon with geo thermal tubing underground for cooling and passive solar for heat. I've dreamed of this my whole life and can't wait to get to work on it every day. Life is very good now. Thank you for sharing a look into your life and I pray you have continued success in the future.
@@piper3032 Thank you for your kind comment. I've dreamed of doing this for so long and had hoped to teach at the local college but now I'll give free seminars at my place so that I can give those a boost in self confidence and esteem. Apache County is the poorest County in the U.S. so there is definitely a possibility for those who want to change their lives and be able to live within their means.. I have many inventions I've worked on for many years and now it's come full circle where I can give them away to make the planet a better place than it was before I arrived. I learn something new every day and the university of u-tube is a great resource as so many share ideas and inventions with others. I'm building a permaculture system to harvest rainwater for my trees and plants, I built an aquaphonic greenhouse harvesting rain water for the plants and fish and invented fuel systems for engines. One a plasma system for my truck and a hydrogen system for back up generator and my car. The latter uses rainwater for fuel. Hope you can attend.
Hi @Charles Hugh Bryan, I’d love to connect around your sustainability project. Have a big interest there. Do you have a way we could get in touch off RUclips?
@@michaelterry1000 Thanks for your reply, I'm of Finnish descent as my Grandparents moved here around 1900 and settled in upper Michigan to farm as it was very similar to Finlands climate. I live in Northern Arizona at 6,400 feet and this morning it's 23 degrees and rarely gets above 90 in the summer. We have all four seasons here and it's great. I go to Phoenix in January to thaw out , LOL. Have a great day.
I bought a stuga in Fagersta in Sweden when i turned 70 years old. It is also rural and beautiful. My home is in Amanzimtoti in South Africa where it is very tropical. I spent three months in my stuga during the middle of winter. I did have electricity but relied on a wood stove, a kakelugn and water supplied by my son who resides a kilometer from my home. I learnt all about cleaning pathways through the snow to get to my outdoor toilet! Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with me.
A dream most of us here would love. A cabin in the forest and snow in the winter. My idea of perfect living. I can't think of anything better than living off the grid and living off the land. Love snow!!! Miss it. There's so much today to make it easier. Just too bad I can't do it. Hello from Tennessee.
Lovely. I could live there in a heartbeat. I live in a van but as soon as I step outdoors, I am in my living room of mountains, forests and deserts, all with cathedral ceilings filled with stars and planets. I’m so happy for you. I live off grid because it is simple and true.
My husband and I needed to find shelter for 6 months. We put a two room house. W put our tents outside on a wooden floor we made. I was very organized too. We survived off guide really well. Thanx fur reminding me of a happy time in my life. Wow soo many books, hahaha. Beautiful, well stocked home. I only caught some words that you spoke,, but missed some of the indepth due to a language barrier. God bless U. Peace
I just came across your Channel this morning. I cannot believe I hadn't seen it before. I subscribed instantly. My stress level dropped just watching this video, the tour was awesome.
Greetings from rural Finland! The farstu would be called a "porstua" here (it is a direct loan from the old Swedish forstova). Great bookshelf... I never imagined I would bump into the Silo trilogy (Wool, Shift, Dust) in a stuga in the Swedish woods. It's a great read. Take care, and may your birch bark reserves never run dry and may the water in your stream flow clear for years to come.
You've made such a beautiful space for yourselves. I love it. It looks like a fairytale. And you've managed to live here successfully for so long. Very clever. You seem serene and endearing. It's so refreshing to see a lovely young couple be successful and happy in their endeavors. Bravo.
Isn’t living at this time on Earth great? One can live in the arctic in Sweden, and also have coconut to eat for breakfast. It’s an interesting time to be alive.
@@dinas2369 centuries sure, he said 4000 years ago lol, that's millennia ago, around 2000BC. I honestly don't know a ton about that period but it would shock me if they had coconut in Northern Sweden back then but hey the world's a crazy place. You're referring to a couple centuries ago which makes total sense.
The best way to see that living close to nature reveals our humankind and opening to others. For me, living in a of town, it's obvious that you and your kid are just full of kindness and positive energy. Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you for watching! Do you have unanswered questions? There's more videos for you.
Common questions is answered in this video: ruclips.net/video/5CEdF74NE9I/видео.html
A tour of the outside as well: ruclips.net/video/X9UswPcrGIs/видео.html
Where is the toilet?
@@lindatyler3372..toilet on the earth
Farstu in English to us is called a mud room..
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@@Talasbuan are you married??
My uncle lived like this his entire life until. He lived in the Balkan mountains in a cabin that had no electricity. The only water he had was running water from the top of the mountain. The clothes on his back and his knife and gun. He was the happiest person I knew. R.I.P Adzo Ramo.
Zvuči kao plan... Pozdrav s Ćićarije
🙏🏻🤍
Adzo the great
Adzo legenda ispred svog vremena .Na kojoj planini živi ?
@@lucaantonelli1511 All hail Adzo the Great!
When I was 57, I moved to a state park in SC, set up a tent and lived there with my dog for a year...worked as a teacher at a school 12 miles away...few park visitors during the off season so we practically had the place to ourselves...camp fires and long peaceful walks...stars at night by the millions...when teachers at work found out where I lived, everybody either snickered about it or felt sorry for me...I always felt it was the best year of my life....there is nothing compared to serenity....nothing.
That's nice
Where? Winter? Left dog when working?
@@frankiebe4818 Off season would be any time after Labor Day and before Memorial Day weekend...left dog in friendly town vet's place and picked up after work. Winter was the best season for camping re: weather as in SC it can get chilly but seldom snows. Rains and at night the sound on the tent was very soothing...also, none of that damn SC heat and humidity!
@@francispoldiak2139 tnx. I live in a class b camper right now. Im lucky i can bring my dog to work. I wanna be as flexible/portable as i can. I wanna fit everthing in 3 luggage
South Central?
It is amazing how this woman is completely satisfied with what most of us would consider a simple and frugal life. She has a beautiful and gentle personality. She is really proud of what she has accomplished. She has everything she needs to survive. Good for her.
A smart individual can see the accomplishments and appreciate them. Most people are smart and want good for others. Maybe you should give people more credit so people like me don't have to defend them when you go on the attack.
It is a pretty sweet set up though 😁
She is one of those authentic people who do not need photoshop to be happy.
We'd all be satisfied with this if we were honest with ourselves and deprogrammed our Capitalist brainwashing.
The father lives there too. They were making videos together for a long time before she got pregnant
As it says at the end of the description, the names. Mathias is the father and Ivar is the baby
The world needs more people like yourself. Your lifestyle is easy on the earth.
Yeah... We need more people like you. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, ElonMusk and the rest od rich needs more fresh air to use their yachts, Bentleys, and pivate jets (1 hour od flight is more than you will use during a year even when you own a car and travel everyday 100 km, the same without yachts)
@@krzysztofhurbiszewski6539 And you need this guys for whine one internet :)
Hear me out: more people like her are not needed to be easy on Earth, but because their lifestyle also means they don't consume the things that make those people you mentioned richer. @@krzysztofhurbiszewski6539
Be the one
Visiting the library and happened across your video. I have been off grid in a cabin for almost five years - ALONE. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I asked for this. The world moves too fast for me. I found that many old dresser mirrors brightened the place up reflecting candles, giving psychological space, and helps with having motion inside the cabin which is me, myself, and I. We get along with one another much better now. I particulary liked your answers as to why you made this choice. I have several of my own; but more important is that I never want to go back to what is normal living. Thank you for sharing your deeply inexplicable existance. Touched.
i feel ya.🌈🌎🙏🏽🦋
The real world is full of hypocrites
Your world is pure free from junk
World is too fast for me too, I retreat from it mostly and one day hope to have a tiny house on some land
Sounds nice TheWebock!
I also live alone in the woods. Ok, with two cats and sometimes with three children. And I would never cope without electricity, I think. Once you get used to the lifestyle, it is unthinkable to move to a city again. We are not created to deal with all these distractions.
I have to get out of this city I live in. It hurts my mental health, and I have been in therapy many times and even warded into an institution for a couple of days to help calm my mind. I feel this kind of life that she's living is where my heart lies.
Try to spend time in nature
Just go
Realize the video is an idealized version of this way of life. I also find the city causes anxiousness. Your personal problems will follow you but a smaller community can be helpful. Note 'community' instead of city. There is work everywhere for the willing. Isolation isnt the true answer but is a band aid. Try to stay active and eat whole foods instead of sugary processed crap. There is nothing wrong with you. Life is a rollercoaster so keep going and never give up. The best days are yet to come amigo
@@jamespitson6524 They are finding that so many of us that truly love being IN nature.....might be suffering from PTSD. If true, vast numbers of the world are suffering from it! Or just anxiety, etc.
Go for a walk in the park or go for a simple hike bring some things in a backpack. Granola bars and water go for it.
I just love the fact that youtube keep on recommending "simple living."
It's based on what you watch here.
lmao right?? nothing simple abt it
You're watching Ghost Town Living right? If not you should.
It's all part of the plan to make you feel good and stay sane by watching someone else's life, so you can go to work relaxed and then buy all the stuff you don't need to support the economic growth and capitalism. ;)
You will have nothing and be happy
The way you organized everything inside your cozy cabin is just perfect! Wishing all the best to your family. Greetings from Ukraine.
In the winter you can use the outside as a freezer.
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yep very convenient actually. if you wanna cool drinks or something. about two weeks ago it was like -24 C here. i think a freezer runs at -18 C :)
Will animals eat the food? Honest
question. I’m a city dweller, and we never keep food outside because it attracts animals.
@@bcotrell It do attract animals but mostly they try to avoid places where they hear human voices and smell human scent. Also how u storage food depends. When you put it in the basket and let it freeze less odor it will emit. Temperature you can adjust by burying things under compressed snow. Snow is good insulation so under thick snow things don't get so cold and also smells will attract animals even less.
@@bcotrell Especially racoons.
I can't believe some non-thinking person asked if you have baby proofed the cabin. What I see are 2 wonderful people with their baby next to them being spoken to in a soft and loving way. Tova thank you for showing us everything. It all works because you all are smart and organized. I love you all, dianne
baby proofing is a novel thing LOL It just came into existence when I had my kids - car seats were just starting then...... strange that we all survived :)
baby proofing is for people leaving the baby wander while they caress thier phone with thier finger tips
I dont think that sweet baby is going to hurt the old cabin.lol
Baby proofing is only needed for people who don’t watch their children constantly. I had four sons and never baby proofed or moved anything. I watched them and taught them what not to touch.
“Baby Proofing”comes from the lawyer/insurance company complex.
99.9% of people would rather be living there right now than in this crazy insane on-grid life right now. God Bless you.
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ya definitly away from all the nonsense going on right now.
I've got some friends that have a stretch of woodland property. I'd love to help build a small cabin with them and become a groundskeeper for their property
Jen A. Damn straight. I'm sick of being made sick by the manmade EMFs that won't allow me to have a moment of peace and is constantly putting both my mind and body under stress and many other symptoms. I'd love to escape and come back to the me I seem to have lost.
No thanks i need the city life
Choosing to live like this is smart for so many reasons that I'm not gonna elaborate on. Let's just say that there are indications in this world, and have been for quite a while, that we need to step back and start living more independently with nature.
You are spot. We need to move in urban side.
So you are technically against the advancement of medicine and contraception
You are literally being a primitive anarchist, I recommend that you go to therapy or an asylum
It's not smart to live this way, it's harmful :)
Of course the first thing the bizarre Leftist brain conjures up is "contraception"
You ever notice people that live "off grid" life are just good genuine humans! So refreshing.
Isn't that selection bias, though? We only see the one's featured in videos. At least, I don't know anyone else living off grid. I don't know if the ones I see in video are a representative sample.
except the one dude that lived off grid and would steal and I think kill people. Not sure about the killing people though lol
@@purebliss2669 I really hope this is not intended to be a "nice" message lol. AKA god is going to take you out soon. He decided that he is done playing with his toys and is going to end it all. That's frightening and not something I would throw out there as a good thing. It sounds more like a threat!
Oh and she speaks English better than most New Yorkers. he-he
Unabomber not included, right?
"Walk out the door and into the forest and be part of nature". That says it all to me. You are a lovely, informative hostess. Thank you for allowing virtual visitors into your cozy, very-well organized home.
Tiny home, big library...these proportions are wonderful!
Exactly!
For me it's tiny house basics, and a massive workshop.
I have over 300 books in my phone library. They are with me everywhere I go. (Not in the cloud either). The library in my office is almost obsolete. Eating the stuff in that jar everyday for breakfast would take me 11 years to accept. No coffee in this cabin... I love tea and coffee & bulk coffee is much cheaper than tea... I’m just saying this because we all “off grid” with different mindsets. The weather in the southeast United States is so mild that year round indoor and outdoor use is about 97% of the year. Very interesting to see this style and culture of living off the land. Now a days off grid doesn’t mean “survival” like it did a hundred and fifty years ago. There are serious creature comforts now. Love the insight of this video but that’s a hard life to just “step into” even though it’s beautiful - and it really is beautiful.
"Farstu" is a shorted version of what in modern Swedish would be "förstuga". In this case 'för' is the word 'före', before. 'Stuga' can be translated as cabin or cottage. So "before-cabin" / "fore-cabin", the cabin before you enter the real cabin.
I think 'mud room' is a good choice of word. The farstu's purpose was, IS, to protect the inner cabin from weather and wind. Not let rain, snow and cold air in, and make the heat stay inside.
At the same time it was a perfect place to leave muddy clothes and boots.
How many people live there?
It's a cosy home that functions perfectly. Reminds me of my nana's cottage in Ireland. No running water so buckets were carried from the spring, bread made by hand daily. The food was all home grown and delicious. Something to be said for keeping it simple.
Not far from where i was born we have a park that has a museum in the middle which was a a family home for 400 years which was stolen from the church when King Henry the VIII, Put the majority to the sword,They were given the land in the 11th century made two lakes from the local stream kept cows and sheep and chickens,When they weren't allowed to "eat meat" which walked around on four legs,They ate fish and chicken Chicken wasn't meat because it only had TWO LEGS
Your nan had the internet? Wow.
But Ireland is Irish 😮😮🧘♂️✍️❄
Thank you for sharing your lifestyle, I love it, reminds me of my childhood in Pennsylvania, USA. I now am 81 living in Massachusetts and miss the woods. You are a strong woman and may God continue to bless you and your family.
stunning and brave
Mr black tell me about messachusts state of us.
I love that the junk drawer is a great equalizer. No matter where you live, what language you speak... Everyone has that catch-all space. ☺️
Absolutely, the junk drawer keeps me sane, we have two kids, 14 and 7, and crap is always being left laying around. I often don't know what it is I'm looking at, goes to the junk drawer.
i dont got a junk drawer. i just throw crap away
@@GokuInstinct1 I wish I could just do that, honestly, but I'm the only guy in an otherwise all female household, I'd quickly be in trouble I started doing that.
What goes in the drawer to the right of it? "Equipment for... our fimin work"?
@@leanderthal-z 😂 makes sense. I’m single so I’m enjoying that for now
When a Swede says "It was really cold", you can bet it was really, really cold! Wonderful tour and I admire your ability to live this way off the grid.
It does not look like she is completely off the grid. She still has access to youtube ..... :-)
@@jonathanthink5830 she also said they are so close to the village.
Jonathan - they use mobile data.
a lot of people will be saying "how can you live like this?" whereas its making me say "how can I live the way Ive been living" so beautiful ❤ your boy is having the best childhood he could hope for, thank you for sharing 🙏
Some people would call that place boring, but watching, it was so calming, like the weight of the world was left in the city. Felt like i could breath better after watching this place.
in what hell hole of a 3rd world country are u living in bro
@@Archonsx why would you assume they live in a third world country?
@@Archonsx they're probably actually implying they live in a 1rst world country and all the distracting and clustered environment there unlike where the lady lives in the video
Amen Brother!
@@Archonsx let me guess you're from america
Tranquility, slow pace of life, time to yourself and with no distractions when you pursue your personal interests. The sound of your fire going while you read and drink a cup of tea or cocoa. Paradise. I'm someone who loves my personal space and my privacy; I would get used to that so fast.
If everyone lived in a cabin there wouldn't be books and cocoa in the first place. You can't have cocoa farms, schools that teach you to read, publishers who print books, and stores selling the cocoa and books if everyone is living in a cabin in wilderness.
The cabin is full of modern products that can only be produced in factories by people who've enjoyed modern education for years. If she has a husband and sleeps with him it means she's using modern contraception. If one of them gets seriously ill or injured they'll go to a hospital. They aren't self-sufficient at all, they just live in a place where they can't see the civilization that's providing for them.
@@OutragedPufferfishYou don’t need to give up absolutely everything. You find a nice middle ground. We need to go back to nature, but we can still have nice things, that aren’t so demanding on our environment.
As strange as it sounds, you can just feel the love emanating from that little cabin and it’s occupants. From the cats, to the precious baby and everywhere in between, that home is full of love and respect.
Ya, but did you see how irritated that cat was when she stopped petting it for a second?
They couple fought at the end of this video. I am not sure where do you see the 💕 LOVE
The best of all the cabin are the baby and the cats.
@@lsophial Damn didn't know you lived with them to know that. Way to go Felicia
I watched your video some time ago, but I occasionally find myself thinking about it and i rewatch it. I am enchanted and in love with your way of life. It's practical, yet filled with coziness and a quiet simplicity that I yearn for. Thank you for your content.
I came from watching live news about the chaos in the United States to this video. You guys are doing life correctly! Bless you and your family. Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us all!
and these people are so honest, they don't show a story in the name of freedom, because it can be marketed well, but show people who have always wondered what it is like to live in a lonely Swedish hut, how it can be can. Thanks for that. Real freedom doesn't take up a lot of space when you are at peace with yourself.
I was scrolling and found this simple lovely video. I wish I was taking a live tour through this cabin right now......away from COVID and the chaotic mess the U.S. is going through right now. Thanks for sharing 💕
Hah, I came from the same exact thing. seems like some sort of eerie premonition, but eh 🤷🏾♂️
I quit watching "the news" months ago. Amazing how much more peaceful life is now.
I found this after reading the news in the US. I needed this today. We all do.
I've been on you tube since 2007. I've had dozens of channels and watched hundreds of thousands of videos. This video is one of the coolest ones I have seen. Very impressive. Thank you, Tova for sharing this. You're awesome!
Thank you for inviting us into your home. So organized. Do the things you want to do in your own way and in your own time. So pleased to look a little bit into your life and see how you do things and how you build out your home and homestead. Thanks for having us.
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I only found your vlog today. I'm a retired American living in Germany. I worked for the Swedish company Ericsson for 23 years in mobile telecommunications R&D in Herzogenrath, Germany (near Aachen and the NL and Belgium borders). I am also an avid bicycle traveller, so, besides my work travels, I have spent a lot of time cycling and camping through Western Sweden and Norway. Your homestead reminds me very much of much of the land I travelled through. -- As an American devastated by the shock of our recent election, I really need something like your site to help me regain my balance. After watching this Home Tour video I started watching your vlogs from the very beginning. I know I'll look forward each day to catching up on all the videos between the first one and this one. Thanks for what looks to be a very interesting site.
when I was a kid and sometimes we did not have electricity, I was really happy inside, enjoying the little things I had, and so I felt more connected to the place, happy new year to all of you
Yeah same here. I have lived my whole life in this small village with no electricity during the day. Although truthfully, I stay on my phone all day mostly. (What can I say I'm still a teen lol.) But one of my favorite things of living here is showering with a cup and a bucket is so normal to me that normal showers 🚿 seem like a waste of water.
Edit: also its not like we're poor or non materialistic either, you probably wouldn't be able to tell us apart from those living city lives.
Living in a cabin in the forest I hope to one day be able to myself. I'm so sick of everyone's shit.
For real
Shitting in the woods, shivering during winter, and no porn. Sounds great. Where do you plan to get your food?
Agree
Agree…away from…
Lmao me too
I can’t believe people ask why you would want to live that way. The world would be so much better if we all lived that way. It’s a beautiful place and way of life! Thanks for the great video
David Lewis... I totally agree with you. It is unbelievable that anyone would question this couples choice, of how they live their lives. I watched the video, but felt I was intruding into their private space, etc. Some people are just inconsiderate, nosy and interfering... With no regard for others privacy or choice!
agree
@david lewis, as a matter of fact, we can all live with a little less useless stuff from now on, just by being aware of it.
But we cannot all live the 'Talusbuan' way if we would like, we are just with to many..
For the knowledge to live like this, we shouldn't forget that maybe 7% of the modern population would survive this way, others don't have a clue..
In the past, much of this basic knowledge was lost, due to famine and plagues, which costed millions their lives, and the natural solutions for health where gone with them.
This dip in knowledge, is filled up with our modern solutions, and we should be happy with that, use them both ways, sensibly.
To me it isn't thàt strange to question this way of life, giving up the comfort, cost a lot of energy in order to survive, and then limits other creative expression's which you might have.
And I am happy for them to grab this opportunity as it passed by, and share the videos with us who couldn't do.
In this way we might both become more aware.:-)
@@patriciabarnes7034 If they didn’t want us to see I’m sure they wouldn’t show us so I don’t feel bad for watching, but I know what you mean. People like to criticize when it makes no sense to when they’re trying to live healthy rewarding lives. Happy new year
@Dennis Yen , everything which makes you deeply attentive, whatever it might be, is not a 'drab lifestyle' anymore.
It is just the working of attention in you, not the thing you choose, which is free.:-)
WHAT A GLORIOUS WAY TO LIVE! MY DAD HAD A FISHING CAMP OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE GULF OF MEXICO , IN NEW ORLEANS EAST, THIS REMINDS OF THOSE WONDERFUL DAYS. THIS IS LIVING! THANK YOU FOR SHARING
A family living the simple life, one they are happy and contented with. There will be many families watching this who will be encouraged to do the same. Thank you for posting this video.
so glad to see that even a cabin in Sweden has a 'junk' drawer for those items that have no other place :D
Agreeing
Exactly my thoughts
I'd have a microwave and some tv dinners in there, and maybe a stereo. And some drugs. Lots of drugs.
Lol ikr
A home without a junk drawer is not a home!! 😁
Living off the grid is looking better and better every day
I loved the tour and your home is so pure and so welcoming, somehow it feels it is so full of happiness! I think it´s great to know that the wood is out there, when you sleep at night surounded by peace, in the middle of nature and your own loving family. Wonderful, best wishes...!
This was one of the most relaxing videos I’ve found on RUclips, what a lovely way to live.
Lovely for them. I think most people would not find this lovely. imagine two of them have diarrhea. Now what?
Since august 2016 i live in trailor in the bushes. I have a little goat farm, with chickens, rabbits and three dogs of my own and one strayed dog. I understand you, sister and i admire you. I could easily live like that for the rest of my life. Only, i have sun povered electricity all the time. Greetings from Bosnia
I agree with you here....Because I experience the same way too
@@chelsreise8354 Greetings
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In a German children's story; "Master Eder and his Pumuckel" there is a line where they are showing their small home and the visitor comment is that "it is very small"! The Pumuckel replies:" Happy people don't need such big homes because they don't need to avoid each other, so often" That, stuck with me for 40 years! I embrace your choices, there is a natural flow/order and harmony. When you are sharing a meal, together in the home, with the animals, there is a sense of exquisite balance/inclusion..being held in each others arms-feeling, that comes across in the videos as well. Thank you, for the tour such a talented and creative home-maker, Partner, Parent and Land Steward, you both are! Wishing you all, a very healthy and prosperous New Year!! Loving greetings!
What a nice story! 😄
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Das stimmt, 100 Prozent
Eloquently said James.
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As a rumanian who works in Sweden for 1 year now as telecom engineer been in a lot of places like this. I was always amazed by the peolple who chose to live in the middle of the nature. Whole clip is nice but the best part is at 20:16 and 22:10. I appreciate you a lot guys! Big hugs!
Thank you for opening your home and for letting us meet your gorgeous baby. I give you a lot of credit for doing what you and your husband have chosen to do. YOu are an inspiration! You have a lovely cabin and have really made the most use of it!
hi I think the same, I wish you many more generations🙋👍
An intimate portrait of a beautiful and deliberate life. Thank you for sharing. My best wishes to you all for a wonderful new year.
I grew up in a similar way in Northern California. I am very thankful to my parents for being back to landers and providing me such a unique, wholesome childhood. Many blessings on your way.
I'm curious what area of CA you grew up in. I'm in CA and spent a year in a fairly remote area.
Just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing. I am living with my 2 dogs in a kind "Circus Wagen" made of wood since 3years without running water, but a good stove and I have electricity. In Germany it is hard to find a place and it is not allowed to live off the grid. Videos like yours are always a big inspiration, what else is possible. I love all the books in your house. I am looking forward to watch more of your videos.
Such simplicity, yet perfect completeness! If I close my eyes, I could imagine sitting here, in a snowstorm, sipping on tea, reading a book, and holding the hand of someone you love! Thank you so much for the experience.
then someone starts to break the door down with an axe... what do you do then
@@granola661 😆😆😆😆
hi 😃I think the same, I wish you many more generations🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
perfection!!!!
@@granola661 click click boom
The footage of the child in the snow is simply precious!
That baby so cuute. Over here: Someone would see a baby in the snow, freak out, and call the law on ya.
@CharlyRomeo2009 Had it happen to me over nothing so Karen's are out there.
I think you look like your grandfather 🇸🇪
Legit snow angel
@@dalisegar2513 that actually happened about 2 weeks ago!
I have never heard the sound of silence like i did in this video.. In America.. there’s always a car driving by. (At least where i live) Beautiful Sound of Silence.
This. I moved to Chicago and it is busy. Went to CA for a semester in the suburbs. It has hills, but it is not the country side. I got creeped out. Because when I walked the streets I hardly saw anyone...it felt like those zombie apocalypse movie where you're walking on a lonely road and the zombies will come and get you soon. But, I slept like a baby at night! So quiet. I forgot what real peace and quiet was.
We have woods with cabins in them also.
I mean crazy uncle ted seemed to like it in montana. Here in rural canada though we are a bit spoiled.
Eh, it depends on where you live. I spent two years in a trailer in a rural wooded Alabama (long story), and it was at least that quiet - in rural Alabama the main sound I remember was rain and animals.
I imagine that if you live near Stockholm or something, it's probably about as noisy as a large American city (I assume, I've never been to Sweden, so I could easily be wrong).
@@satqur I agree,there are massive amounts of land (in every state) where there are sometimes hundreds of miles of woods or other terrain that is completely isolated.
Fantastic video... Your calm voice and unique accent made me feel I was there, I could feel the quiet, peace and joy of your lives.
It makes me think. .After years of immigrating to Canada, with housing prices through the roof (like from 10 to 20 times my yearly salary) and rent increasingly unaffordable, I´m strongly considering a similar lifestyle by constructing my own little home and living rent free. Current technology allows us to live completely off grid. I´m getting old and need to work on that.
Thank you so much for the inspiration!!
Her accent sounds strangely norwegian..
Simple living = no stress = peacefulness = better health and contentment. I love your lifestyle
I'm so jealous. Here you would need lots money to buy land then build on.
But Freezing Cold ❄️ 9 months off 12 every year
@@mariskabarends5792 Too cold for me, and I would get bored AF.
no coms = you cant call for help when something wrong happens = you cant get treatment = you die for something wich wouldnt be deadly in other place with coms = shorter lifespan
@@sparrowlt I mean, if you have a heart attack at home alone in a city it's no different than dying in the woods.
Her self composure, grounding and serenity is so inspiring. Hopefully I will live like this some day and find true inner peace.
Make sure you film it though. Otherwise no one will care
me as well
Thanks for the tour Tova , many blessings for your family .
No honking, sirens, pollution, people talking all the time, endless queues for everything, traffic... This video is the definition of peace.
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It is quite remarkable how much people are interested in this way of living. Makes me think how far we have gone in the wrong direction. *That* is what matters.
Lovelovelove ❤️
Exactly what I keep saying. People inevitably return to the old ways. Humans like simplicity in the long run
This is what life actually is, its inevitable people want to get back to this. Something real and authentic.
Agreed. Way to far
As a person who lives in the city centre I totally agree. Human beings werent made to live alongside concrete and huge, towering buildings. It's in nature we truly belong.
When I think of the monstrously wrong direction we have gone in, (which is quite often), I see that it was and continues to be at the behest of powerful and greedy men who set the standard for masculinity = toxic. We haven't had balance since the madness took hold a long time ago. We desperately need more women like Tova to get us back to a good place because sadly there are women who believe in the wrong direction. We also need the men like Adzo Ramo who is fondly remembered by Night Kruzer. I believe a fundamental question all human's need to ask is what exactly do we want to achieve for the benefit of all humans, our planet and it's other inhabitants.
After watching this vlog, I found myself watching all of them. "Off Grid Home Birth " brought up tears of emotions. It was beautiful. What you two do everyday is just admirable. I love your videos and please do not change anything, they are perfect. Give a warm hug to your beautiful baby for me.
Mia, it is not necessary to live off-grid for a home birth. I was born in the same bed where I was made, lol. Many may think I am crazy, but I always feel that it made a difference in my life's beginning: the peaceful and comfortable home was the first thing I sensed. I always used to tease my Mom, saying: "When I was born, I came out, looked around and thought to myself 'hey, I recognize this place... I think I saw it once already, 9 months ago!" Mom always would giggle and say, "you are my most wacky child:" and I would reply, "I know, that's why you had to have me first"... I loved my parents so much... they were the most wonderful couple I can think of... so much love!
8 years and I wish you at least more 80 years at that blessed place. Happy New Year !
Yes, I did enjoy seeing it. Thank you. I saw some things the same as on my narrowboat that I have been living on for the last 7 years. 120cm wide bed and two kettles (that's the English word gor them:-). I tend to use two in winter to get enough hot water to wash clothes. But also, I keep one kettle separate to heat the water for hot water bottles. That way I can reheat the same water over and over. I do have electric from solar and pumped water from my tanks in the bow. But I get a bit more daylight in the South of England. Also, so far I have found that no pipes or tanks have had any problems from cold. Even if the canals freeze over and I am not here to light my stove. Partly because the metal hull is below the ice layer.
I have a friend who has a summer cabin in Sweden. I hope I get to see it one day.
Thank you Ms Tova for opening your home when most people prefer privacy. You're an amazing woman and I understand that you like living that way, that's purely your choice. I hope your new home is bigger and your little one will be as strong as you!
stunning and brave
I live the same way in the US, in the center of a city in an old Victorian built in 1902. We are truly blessed, those like us. I don't have solar power yet so I use a generator to produce whatever electricity I need to charge everything. I'm 63 years old and have had this lifestyle 12 years. No one has ever asked me why, but I would tell them that it was my choice, and that I'm happy this way. It's all about the quality of life.
Love from America. 💖
Envious.
@@barbarabrennan1753 *I’m very envious...*
That's amazing!!!!
👍❤🇭🇲 sounds wonderful
I'd love to live like you do but the wife won't.
Thanks for the tour, I grew up in the wilderness, 14 years in isolation and we never relied on stores for food or clothing. We made everything by hand, clothing, leather items you name it.
so you would hunt and gather every day (re: no stores)? like what did you do for food exactly?
@@urmama54 bear soup, bear paw lasagna, bears head cheese, bear jerky, bear back ribs... 😉
What did your family eat?
@@urmama54 I guess the same thing people did for millennia before grocery stores. They hunted, gathered, fished, and grew their own. Where do you think the grocery stores get the food from? It's been raised, fished, etc.
This is how my Father grew up until maybe his later teens. He lived in the country and his parents were sharecroppers until his mother passed unexpectedly so his father had to move the family of seven children just outside of town which was still rural. My grandfather never had indoor bathroom and finally got running water lin later years. He still had a water pump on the back porch and it was the best water. Thank you for sharing your home with us..
I think you're one in a million Tova. I feel something deep inside when people like you make a life that doesn't conform to the wired world. Honestly it makes me question my own existence and what I focus on every day. Huge respect, thank you for a completely unexpectedly visceral video. This will stay with me.
@Lynda Totally agree. Never worry about the news...never thought of it that way. Amazing. (Sigh).
@@valueinyou9931 corporate careers are stupid.
The idea of working hard and step up the ladder.
People don't need that.
In alternate world, I hope there are no career men and career women.
People can live simply and can go anywhere in the world without the need of money and passport.
That's my stupid idea of how to live a life (in an alternate universe, of course)
I guess I'm sounding Utopian right now.
@@norpriest521 You know what...? I don't think you're sounding stupid at all, honestly. I mean who's to say the other way is not stupid (you know, the corporate ladder crap with politics and traffic and stress leading to heart disease, spending 5/7 of every week of our adult lives away from the people who mean the most to us) ...and look at our world because of it. Do you know I read a statistic the other day that prior to the year 2000 in the US, we averaged three (3) mass shootings a year...? And additionally, in the same statistic, it shared that through July 2022 the US has had 240 mass shootings. 240. And the year at that time was barely half over. I don't pretend to know exactly what the answer is, but your comment isn't stupid at all. In my opinion if you look around and DON'T question things, that seems stupid. Great comment.
I love your home and the location. I live in a converted horsebox which is built inside entirely from wooden pallets, over a hundred pallets were dismantled, sanded and oiled, it took a few weeks. I live on a farm in the UK so like you in the winter we don't get much solar power, so I bought a wind turbine that gives 600 Watts of power and I'm going to make a water wheel for the stream, using a car alternator. I'm a beekeeper which replaces sugar. I have chicken's and ducks for eggs and meat. I have a milking nanny goat called willow and a log pulling horse that also is ridden and pulls a cart. I'm a tanner so any animal i eat gets skinned and tanned and made into clothes, knife pouches and belt pouches. Nothing goes to waste as any bones or antlers are made into coat hooks, rune set's etc. Like you my two dogs live under the bed and they are both lurchers and have a job, they help with the hunting. My cat also, she keeps the rodents under control. I have a log burner which is toasty and stays lit all night. There is no other way of life for me, I've lived like this for 13 years and could never go back. People think I'm a little mad because i ride around in full viking clothing but that's okay, it gives them something to talk about 😂and makes people smile and ask me questions. In my spare time I'm learning to play the bowed lyre, I'm getting there. Thank you for sharing your journey. I also forage herbs and fungi and make tea's, tinctures and potions and grow all of my own fruit and vegetables. Simple life, can't beat it ✌️
How you get money to pay for internet?
Beautiful life!
Sounds incredible, compliments and courage!!!💪👍 We live full time on our ⛵😂
Sarah, how did you get to begin this kind of a natural and healthy way of life? You are blessed.
@@onelove4255 how you get money to eat your food the same
Tova you did really well and you're English is very good well done ,I live in the UK and this video is just what i need as we are in lock down and can't go out xx
I loved this tour the most of all I have seen in the past couple months. I wish I was doing the same thing as this lady and her family. She does a GREAT JOB of explaining everything.
I love the "take-outs" at the end! Glad to see your sense of humor with using English in these videos! And, of course, your beautiful baby at the end; no words to describe the incredible opportunity you are giving him, living in concert with Mother Earth. Thank you for sharing.
That cabin feels like being gently and romantically hugged by life, the entire time. And it appears that you have been able to transform the small inconveniences and minor hardships into the spices of life. The place is brimming with love. 👏🏻
brimming with love is the perfect description!
Nice formulated.
@@bobcandy4022 pedantic guff
I am very impressed about your report of your way of life!
I have a similar but larger cabin in the southern mountains of Switzerland and I can share your feelings of being connected with nature, woods and animals. Here we have Foxes, hares, wild boars, deer, deer, badgers, etc. and soon we will have also wolves, you can hear them already from beyond the mountains on the Italian side. Also bears will be coming. Here the biggest middle European jungle is developing because people are leaving all villages and the woods are growing faster and faster. Our house has no electricity and we have our own source for water. Heating up means chopping wood blocks mostly by hand etc.
But the rewards are great: the sound of nature, of the trees and birds. The loneliness and decoupling from civilizations unrest gives you an inner strength and calm.
Great way of living!
Heartly greetings from Switzerland!
Lots of Respect from Pakistan
This reminds me of my family's cabin. It is a breath of fresh air and realness compared to all the super expensive " off grid" tiny homes that are popular.
It's interesting how in the most luxurious and expensive "mansion" presentations you rarely see a book, yet this cabin as small as it is, there's a half-wall of them.
Probably because the well read Mansion dwellers don’t give video tours for publicity
@@luminoustorus548 indeed, that is a valid point
Because they are smart and buy ebooks.
Also books (reference books, text books, etc) get outdated fast or there is a new version or an update. And only pretentious people stack tons of books to show off how "well read" they are. Plus the only books that are worth buying and storing are classic novels, story books, fictional books, etc. The kind, if you have too many, shows that you have nothing better to do in your life than read someone else's thoughts and dreams.
Maybe not everyome likes to read it has nothing bad
I think it has to do with lifestyle. The rich, or "well-to-do" are typically going to be more used to highly stimulating types of entertainment, as they have more access to it than most people. Things like private home theaters, electronic gadgetry, large social circles of people, and the means for frequent travel. At this point, your brain is retrained to require that level of stimulation to achieve satisfaction from entertainment.
For others, whether it's through self control, or monetary ability, are going to be more centered. Books for this type of person are actually very stimulating sources of entertainment, typically because they haven't spent their days dowsing their brains with dopa through internet usage, and video games. That's not to say you can't still enjoy reading if you take part in these things, but subjectively the person who hasn't formed those mental pathways will find more satisfaction through less stimulating activity.
The majority of us exist somewhere between the two.
Even before Corona, I was done with city- living.
Looks like a good option.
Yeah,, hate to be a downer, but cities are going to be awful
soon.
yes no ones gives a shit about you in the city. The noise is unbearable. Its too expensive and crowded and the traffic makes me homicidal. I dont understand low to middle class people who enjoy city life it only seems worth it if you're rich.
There is nu fu... virus
@@joshuaortiz2031 try poland bieszczady or south but no Krakow coz is too smog during winter
I live in iceland I really enjoy but prices are horrible and weather unpredictable 8month a year
Yeah... covid will change the world.. it may be mundane like they live from a city slicker point of view, but in the woods you will find your soul.
Ivar is such a beautiful baby! Thank you for showing us around and as always the drone footage is breathtaking. Also, the bloopers at the end are fun. Thanks again and Happy New Year!
I am so inspired with how you lead your life, many of us grew up with such a similar direction of survival, but we did not have the adequate knowledge passed on to us to create such a beautiful biodiverse state of art living. Loving the way, you Cherish your historical ethnical existence
This is so inspiring. Just goes to show that 'modern life' is just so dull. I think the world is changing and we're returning to our ancestors' roots. A 'hybrid' world of sorts...the mix of old and new technologies. Being self-sufficient is amazing and a skillset that is being lost. Humans NEED to get back to this. And we shall...thank you for an awesome channel!
You are so naive
Esp now, tyranny is pushing self sufficiency!
So no in 2021, simplicity is needed more than ever. Welcome to world global communism!
Moi j ai été élevée par mes grand parents il y avait pas beaucoup d argent et de superflu mais on vivait mieux ce que maintenant et il y avais de l entraide et autre évidemment que la vie étais bien mieux qu aujourd'hui il n y a pas photo on croirais que toutes le si personnes qui répondent sans étonnent et réveiller vous
Nature isn't harmed when we live like this, in fact nature even helps!!!
The Art of living, a precious spiritual way of life that so few encounter.
Amazing. Love your warm, artistic, hygge-filled home. It’s an experience you will always remember. So many people today are so far removed from the land and nature that they have forgotten or never learned how all humans are connected. Good fortune and health to you from California.
Fascinating and ahead of the times. The lady exhudes calm serenity and contentment. Lovely
I love Sweden and Swedish people! So authentic and speaking with heart!
After weeks of stress watching nothing but our homegrown political shit show, this was just what I needed. So soothing...I fell asleep before I got to the end, and finished it in the morning. Thank you Tova for sharing your beautiful family and home. Sweden is the country of my ancestors, what I wouldn’t give to live there now! 💙💛
Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us💕 sending warm hugs to you from California 🇺🇸
I'm stupified! I'm from Michigan. Looking at this makes me remember why many nations think America is the land of assholes. I'm looking at this video thinking "I'd like to try that for a minute" but I would have serious "luxury" withdrawals.
Water, firewood & books...you've got your priorities straight in my mind!!!
Love your (temporary) home❣️Baby is ADORABLE!!!
Merci pour votre message de simplicité, de patience, d’intelligence et de courage. 😊 la vie n’est pas que le luxe.
I found this extremely interesting to hear how this totally sustainable family is living in the woods with everything they need in a tiny little cabin
though not mentioned: pooping, bathing
With all that butter and eggs I'm not so sure about sustainability. :) Not saying that I have a problem with that or that I do better. It just doesn't seem to be the solution for sustainability problems to move into a forest in the woods. ;)
@@alquinn8576 composting toilet and sauna/shower hut is our solution for our offgrid situation. Humanuer methods are super beneficial to the land, and grey water systems to feed the herb/flower garden is smart/sustainable water system to use. Avoiding the use of harsh chemical products becomes the game, because the last thing you wanna do is harm the forest if you live in it.
@@bened22 better than just consuming products and working a mindless job and paying for your life in a stinky city.... everyone can sustain in different ways, who are you to judge her process?
@@missymoonwillow6545 I didn't. :)
I truly enjoyed the tour of your cozy cabin, thank you. This year has been very hard for most people due to the pandemic but your videos have kept many sane. Wishing you and your family good health, happiness, success and prosperity in the coming !
Dear Rosa. For your information, this is a faked pandemic. If you do your own research on what inventor(Kary Mullis) said about PCR(or RT PCR) -who said it should NOT be used for diagnostic purpose-and the fact that PCR for COVID-19 was imported to each country in the year of 2017 alone, you will be able to make yourself understand that the whole hassle was merely the result of greed of corrupt beauracarts(including WHO and World Bank) and evil pbarmaceutical companies. Visit David Icke website or that of Michael O'Bernicia.
@@wookyungkim5507 omg I cannot believe you even said that or thought it. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the u.s.. alone and you say something that ignorant
@@marlenejones6266Do turn off corrupt corporate media and do your own research! US CDC admitted as early as in Sep that they only ESTIMATED in counting the numbers of Coronavirus deaths beforehand and admitted that only 6% of the ESTIMATE are deemed to have died 'of' this Commom Cold virus! www.eutimes.net/2020/09/cdc-revises-the-us-death-toll-only-6-died-directly-of-the-disease-94-had-serious-comorbidities/
@@marlenejones6266 Also, WHO admitted that chances are extremely low that pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic ppl spread virus to others. Also, it is being revealed that hospitals are in fact empty despite Tier 4 lockdown in UK or the equivalent in Germany. Read true newa from Evidencenotfear.com and give me yr email address. I can send you literally hundreds of references evidencing that you are being fooled by TV or main stream media!
@@wookyungkim5507 Completely agree!! Unfortunately not many people see that... I have a channel too, where I show my life but also talk about all that you are saying. Feel free to check out!! ☺️
You have every needful thing and your son is really blessed to live as you do.
Thankyou so much for this tour of your lovely home, I know little about life in Sweden so it was so great to see this. Your home is beautiful, the setting is just gorgeous your cats and baby were the highlights for me. How cosy sitting in your cabin with a tea would be watching the snow. Live your best life. Love from Australia ♡
No library is complete without Terry Prachet!! My youngest daughter and I lived in a cabin a little smaller than yours, for 10 years when she was younger. Every item had to have 2 purposes or we couldn't keep it... We did have a wonderful little wood cook stove that could heat us right out of our cabin at below 0° f.
Many adventures winter and summer here in the Colorado Rockies with our two dogs and a cat that loved to go hiking with us (even in the snow!). It is so important for children to be in reality in the wild. I wouldn't change those 10 years for anything. I understand everything you are doing, and doing well!!💜👵
Wow. Sounds wonderful.
Ahh moorepork...
It's amazing how small a space we can live in and how we can organize it to fit in all that is important to us. I've done it living aboard a small boat and it was the best time of my life. Thank you for showing us around your cozy and cheerful cabin and for reminding me what's really important in life.
i guess living in a small space is managable when you have plenty of space outside and you are working/occupying yourself outside most of the time, especially when you live with several people in 1 small home....
Great video !!
I'm a Finlander and retired mechanical engineer. I was able to retire almost 20 years ago, raise my children and cure my health issues.
Now that my children are on their own I'm living off grid in Northern Arizona and finally find out what I'll become when I grow up.
I'm using all the natural materials on my land which is perfect for rammed earth construction. It using thermal siphon with geo thermal tubing underground for cooling and passive solar for heat.
I've dreamed of this my whole life and can't wait to get to work on it every day.
Life is very good now.
Thank you for sharing a look into your life and I pray you have continued success in the future.
Sounds amazing!!!
@@piper3032
Thank you for your kind comment.
I've dreamed of doing this for so long and had hoped to teach at the local college but now I'll give free seminars at my place so that I can give those a boost in self confidence and esteem.
Apache County is the poorest County in the U.S. so there is definitely a possibility for those who want to change their lives and be able to live within their means..
I have many inventions I've worked on for many years and now it's come full circle where I can give them away to make the planet a better place than it was before I arrived.
I learn something new every day and the university of u-tube is a great resource as so many share ideas and inventions with others.
I'm building a permaculture system to harvest rainwater for my trees and plants, I built an aquaphonic greenhouse harvesting rain water for the plants and fish and invented fuel systems for engines.
One a plasma system for my truck and a hydrogen system for back up generator and my car. The latter uses rainwater for fuel.
Hope you can attend.
Hi @Charles Hugh Bryan, I’d love to connect around your sustainability project. Have a big interest there. Do you have a way we could get in touch off RUclips?
You moved from FInland to Arizona ?
How can you stand the heat?
I could not survive in Finland (too Cold) or Arizona (too Hot).
@@michaelterry1000 Thanks for your reply,
I'm of Finnish descent as my Grandparents moved here around 1900 and settled in upper Michigan to farm as it was very similar to Finlands climate.
I live in Northern Arizona at 6,400 feet and this morning it's 23 degrees and rarely gets above 90 in the summer. We have all four seasons here and it's great.
I go to Phoenix in January to thaw out , LOL.
Have a great day.
I bought a stuga in Fagersta in Sweden when i turned 70 years old. It is also rural and beautiful. My home is in Amanzimtoti in South Africa where it is very tropical. I spent three months in my stuga during the middle of winter. I did have electricity but relied on a wood stove, a kakelugn and water supplied by my son who resides a kilometer from my home. I learnt all about cleaning pathways through the snow to get to my outdoor toilet!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with me.
So eloquent and sweet, speaks in a natural manner in front of the camera. It really shows that the place has offered inner peace.
She speaks English very well.
@@daisychain3007 English is a compulsory school subject.
I live in a cabin in Wyoming, USA and I like this video. I love Norway & Sweden.
My paternal Grandmother has Norwegian roots, would love to travel there.
I live in Rock Springs. It's not as nice as Sweden.
Lucky you 😍 i wish i could live by myself in a cabin, maybe with someone i love and forget about the world ❤️ wish you the best 👍
i wanna move to sweden but money lol
A dream most of us here would love. A cabin in the forest and snow in the winter. My idea of perfect living. I can't think of anything better than living off the grid and living off the land. Love snow!!! Miss it. There's so much today to make it easier. Just too bad I can't do it. Hello from Tennessee.
Lovely. I could live there in a heartbeat. I live in a van but as soon as I step outdoors, I am in my living room of mountains, forests and deserts, all with cathedral ceilings filled with stars and planets. I’m so happy for you. I live off grid because it is simple and true.
Amazing!
Solo Over 50 Why did you stop posting videos?
Solo over 50
Did you move to the city?
My husband and I needed to find shelter for 6 months. We put a two room house. W put our tents outside on a wooden floor we made. I was very organized too. We survived off guide really well. Thanx fur reminding me of a happy time in my life.
Wow soo many books, hahaha. Beautiful, well stocked home. I only caught some words that you spoke,, but missed some of the indepth due to a language barrier. God bless U. Peace
I just came across your Channel this morning. I cannot believe I hadn't seen it before. I subscribed instantly. My stress level dropped just watching this video, the tour was awesome.
Wow, what a beautiful home. Feels like something straight out of a fairy tale!
I love cabins and cottages...I never wanted a formal, grand home... I want a home that can be lived it...
Greetings from rural Finland! The farstu would be called a "porstua" here (it is a direct loan from the old Swedish forstova). Great bookshelf... I never imagined I would bump into the Silo trilogy (Wool, Shift, Dust) in a stuga in the Swedish woods. It's a great read. Take care, and may your birch bark reserves never run dry and may the water in your stream flow clear for years to come.
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You've made such a beautiful space for yourselves. I love it. It looks like a fairytale. And you've managed to live here successfully for so long. Very clever. You seem serene and endearing. It's so refreshing to see a lovely young couple be successful and happy in their endeavors. Bravo.
Isn’t living at this time on Earth great? One can live in the arctic in Sweden, and also have coconut to eat for breakfast. It’s an interesting time to be alive.
They were doing that 4000 years ago
@@toddwill2313 Eating coconut in Arctic Sweden? Is that a joke or are you serious? I’m genuinely curious
@@toddwill2313 Not with coconut they weren't
It's dry coconut, even centuries ago countries were trading spices and other dried goods. Not a wonder really.
@@dinas2369 centuries sure, he said 4000 years ago lol, that's millennia ago, around 2000BC. I honestly don't know a ton about that period but it would shock me if they had coconut in Northern Sweden back then but hey the world's a crazy place. You're referring to a couple centuries ago which makes total sense.
The best way to see that living close to nature reveals our humankind and opening to others. For me, living in a of town, it's obvious that you and your kid are just full of kindness and positive energy. Thank you for sharing it!
The best part is seeing your beautiful son, Ivar. He is truly a wonderful child.