Pre- Internet, mobile phones, Computers...
Pre- TV...
Horse-Cart delivered Bread to our Bread-Bin in the driveway...
'Fridge' had a block of ICE in the top, for cooling...
Battery Banks, (if you are lucky), to power lighting-only on Farms etc...
And kids appreciated what they got/had!!
We lived "in the bush", 40km from the Perth GPO--------it's an "outer suburb" now!
We had a horse & cart, as Dad had eye troubles, so couldn't drive-----we couldn't afford a car, anyway.
Our first Winter, we lived in a tent before we built the house, initially, just "one big room", which was made with bush timber, as were the later bedrooms, & bathroom, although Dad later built a new front room with milled timber.
Lighting was kero lamps, heating, initially, & mostly, in the large kitchen, which was the original "one room", we used the "Metters No 2 stove", which also did all the cooking, but we later had a couple of small cast iron "potbelly" stoves in the other rooms.
Firewood was no problem, from our 13.5 acres of mainly bush.
Our radio was a valve (tube) portable, which used a fair bit of current, so we had to " ration" the use of it to conserve the batteries.
We kids didn't think we had it bad------we loved it!