Off the Grid & Getting Bills

I have to say I love the idea of living off-the-grid. In reality, it's really, really hard. My poor Sim gets wash-tub arms just trying to keep her small family in clean clothes. Not only that, but it rains entirely too much in my game and stuff rarely gets dry in a timely manner. Since this save is 'set' in the 18th century, I have made it a good will effort to stay true to the times. But, I have made a choice, that when they move again (and they moved about every three years) I will reflect his growing success by giving them a real washer and dryer in their outlying washhouse. Then, once they move to the Settlements (the Original Wild West), gone will be the niceties, shortly thereafter. Candles were very hard to come by, for instance. No matter if you could pay for them, or not.