well 3/4 aint bad, never lived in a log cabin, but there is still time!
Now that we've had a couple generations that did not have to scrape for survival all that "back to basics" stuff has become "retro", it's now "nostalgia" and no longer an indicator of the poverty most were trying really hard to forget.
As an example, my Dad grew up during the Depression, for 50 years he refused to eat corn chowder, to him that was "desperation food".