A COUPLE has shared how they’ve managed live a rugged, remote lifestyle with minimal electricity for more than a decade.

Doug and Stacy have no solar panels or wind turbines. They also live without a connection to a municipal sewer system.

“We’ve been here for six years off the grid without electricity,” Doug said in a video uploaded to the pair’s YouTube channel back in 2017.

“We thought it would be this big difficult thing, but as time goes by we’re learning that it’s really not.

“We’re saving a lot of money because we don’t have the electricity.”

The couple has a wood-burning stove for heat and cooking purposes.

Once it gets too hot to keep that running indoors, Doug and Stacy switch to their outdoor kitchen.

“We also use a 100-year-old ice box,” Stacy said.

The well-insulated boxes with slots for a giant ice cube are how homemakers kept perishables cool before the advent of electric refrigeration.

The pair has also installed a gravity-powered 3,000gallon rainwater catchment system.

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“No power, no pumps, no problem,” Doug said.

The couple also uses an old school bucket toilet in place of modern plumbing.

“It has lots of benefits for the homestead,” Doug said, referring to how fecal matter can processed into fertilizer.

“It’s probably the best way to get rid of human waste.”

Susan said the pair no longer has to worry about power outages or contributing to global warming.

“We don’t really have a carbon footprint at all,” she said.

“It really is very inspiring.”

She added that the minimal amount of artificial light the couple is exposed to has made it easier for the couple to sleep.

“We automatically have that natural time frame,” she said.

Still, she and Doug aren’t living a completely electricity-free lifestyle.

To charge their devices, the pair uses a generator and an inverter installed in the truck.