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What are you doing to prepare?

Posted on 10/07/2012 2:50:25 AM PDT by djf

We often have threads that quote recommendations of others about things you should do to prepare. Those threads usually focus on food, water, medicinal items, bug out preparations, etc.

So I think it would be interesting to find out what FReepers themselves are doing. Combined, we are probably one of the most intelligent, experienced, honest, and practical group on the planet.

Without further adieu! In the last two days I:

Bought 3 food grade 5 gallon buckets Bought enough oatmeal to fill one, which amounted to 18 lbs. Bought a 5 lb bag of tobacco (I'm a smoker, I admit it, but if SHTF, tobacco will be priceless) In my garden, I had a number of radish plants that went to seed, so I spent about an hour collecting radish seed pods.

So post away on what preps you are making. Hopefully, we can give ideas and help out people who are curious about what to do!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: prepper; preppers; survival
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To: eartick
Re-sighted in all scoped rifles (not an easy chore).

Just curios. How did the sights go out of calibration?

21 posted on 10/07/2012 5:21:20 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: djf

For some; it is cheaper to die.


22 posted on 10/07/2012 5:25:49 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: djf
In between killing zombies.

Zombies are already dead so you need to dismantle them with extreme prejudice.

23 posted on 10/07/2012 5:28:15 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: nuconvert

“Order monthly lantern oil, wicks and parts”

lamp oil & wicks

My mother grew up with a tin can with grease in it and a paper wick.


24 posted on 10/07/2012 5:33:19 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

Extreme prejudice won’t work. They are already dead.

Besides, the question is what are U doing to prepare?

Fail.

;-)


25 posted on 10/07/2012 5:38:54 AM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: djf
I have been looking for a new vehicle but the new SUVs look so gaudy. Might as well enjoy myself while I can.

It would be good to have a camp stove for use in the kitchen when the power goes out. They can run on gasoline. I got a propane adapter for my Coleman stove. Got to have something to boil those Y2K beans for days. Got an antique 4 foot saw for firewood.

26 posted on 10/07/2012 5:42:13 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: raybbr
I have been doing some preparing, I suggest all check out honeyville grains products, reasonable prices and shipping is 4.99 for whatever you get, most of the items have a shelf life of between 5 and 20 years, plus we have been trying the different items and they are good, esp. the TVP products, tried the Taco TVP(textured vegetable product, soy)and it was great. I also have a fair amount of food in mylar bags, either in 5 gal pails or in boxes, some bulk, and some in smaller amounts, like oatmeal 2 lb 10oz, in one bag so I don't have to open up 20lb tub, but something that is missing is water, I don't think many folks consider how much water we need. Drinking, cooking, cleaning, and hygiene. If there ends up being a SHTF event, then staying healthy is going to be paramount. I have developed a system that uses 4 5 gal buckets one with a 100-50 micron filter, next 50-20, next 20-5, and last 2 ceramic filters. My proceedure is first filter water with cheesecloth, let water settle to remove heavy stuff, then pour into 5 gal bucket, I have a fixture at the bottom made out of a PVC cap with holes drilled in it, I put more gauze and filter water one more time, then it gets poured into each bucket with filter progressively getting cleaner. For basic hygine the 5 micron water is fine, for drinking use ceramics which get down to 99.5(but take longer to filter). If you have buckets set up for all containers this is a continuous process, final water still should be treated with clorine of some type household bleach, calciun hypoclorite, or UV(found a 12 volt unit). Last point you will need something larger than 5 gal buckets to store water, you can use bathtub in short term, but 55 gal food grade barrels probably best, my 2 cents
27 posted on 10/07/2012 5:43:29 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: djf

“We often have threads that quote recommendations of others about things you should do to prepare.”

Prepare for what, exactly? No sarcasm intended. And whatever the intelligensia says about it, who or what represents the intellegensia?

Is it preparation for four more years of Obama? Is it the December, 21, 2012 Mayan calendar thing? Biblical prophecy or some other catastrophic geological or astronomical event?

When something like that does not come to pass as expected, how many will be disappointed in the outcome? How many will be disappointed that they will not be able to say “we told you so”?


28 posted on 10/07/2012 5:53:23 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: blitz128

Yikes!
Good job!

Sounds like the only thing you are missing is paragraphs!


29 posted on 10/07/2012 5:55:15 AM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: djf

Extreme prejudice= 454 Casull.


30 posted on 10/07/2012 6:00:05 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: elcid1970
“the day may come when a pound of tobacco is worth more than a pound of gold.”

I grow and process my own tobacco. It's not rocket science. The stuff grows almost everywhere.

/johnny

31 posted on 10/07/2012 6:03:26 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: equaviator

Well, I anticipated your question.

And if you can’t decide what you are preparing for, then that means you are not preparing for anything.

Besides, you know damn well what I mean. No food at the store. No gas. Even worse, no electricity or running water.

Note bien:
I am asking what people specifically did to prepare. Not whether they should or shouldn;t or even wait for the gummint to give them free cell phones or food stamps...

food stamps with wasabi.... yummmm....


32 posted on 10/07/2012 6:05:38 AM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: equaviator
I prepare for the after effects of tornadoes and straight line winds, that being the major natural disaster where I live. Others might prepare for earthquakes, hurricanes, forest fires, etc...

Disasters can be more personal, a lost job, financial situation, whatever. After the market tanked in 2008, I wound up living for over a year on stored food and local forage.

Up until about 60 years ago, almost everyone went into fall with a room full of stored food. It's just conservative prudence to prepare to take care of yourself and your family, regardless of the circumstances.

/johnny

33 posted on 10/07/2012 6:09:37 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: who knows what evil?

Yeah; and some have over-complicated what they actually have to have to survive. - I grew up eating dried beans, potatoes, and cornbread every day, heating with a coal stove, going potty in an outhouse and toilet paper was a page torn out of the Sears and Roebuck catalog, tea cakes Momma made once in a while, water drawn by the bucket from a well, communal dipper in the bucket was our shared water glass, an 8 oz. soda and a small candy bar from the store was a treat. Our paper towel was a rag, our paper napkins were our shirt sleeves or the back of our hands, our Kleenex was a cloth handkerchief or a bit of toilet paper from school; I could go on, but it would gross you out.


34 posted on 10/07/2012 6:16:28 AM PDT by Twinkie (Live and let live.)
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To: equaviator

Societal meltdowns happen. Really. Natural, social, political, personal, whatever the cause. Some are partial, a few are total. Prepping isn’t so much concerned with the cause, more with the odds that disasters happen and regardless the cause you may need to operate independently for a year.

The main worry now is economic collapse. Think Great Depression times ten. At least in the GD people were still close enough to the earth to manage gardens and chickens; nowadays the stores empty in 3 days in an emergency and nobody knows how to feed themselves thereafter.

Even if nothing happens, knowing how to care for ones self and family 100% is good for the soul.


35 posted on 10/07/2012 6:25:38 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: equaviator
Prepare for what, exactly?

I'm preparing for a coronal mass ejection to act like a global EMP, thus causing a run on the banks to deal with peak oil as global warming affects the fluoride in our drinking water to turn everyone into zombie hordes if they aren't imprisoned in FEMA camps ;^)

You didn't know?

36 posted on 10/07/2012 6:26:10 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: djf
For me, that would probably be calamari, someone put that once in a salad I was eating, I luv seafood, but that stuff was downright foul...

Agreed. Tried it once.

37 posted on 10/07/2012 6:26:29 AM PDT by Vinnie (A)
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To: Twinkie

Yeah...I miss those old catalogs...way cheaper than Charmin.


38 posted on 10/07/2012 6:26:34 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Twinkie

After harvesting this year’s crop of popcorn; I’m saving the cobs...just in case. Clean cobs will be the new currency after the SHTF. :-)


39 posted on 10/07/2012 6:30:49 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: equaviator

Try this:
Shut off your home electricity, water, gas. Cut up the credit/debit/ATM cards.
Now carry on for a month.

No, it’s not far-fetched. It’s how humanity functioned for most of history. Most cellphone weilders today couldn’t make it.


40 posted on 10/07/2012 6:31:05 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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