One of these:
And 15 of these:
What does that make me besides lucky?
I'm kidding.
I’ve been trying to convince Mrs. Frog that we need to do more preping, but not getting very far with that.
You could have “prepped” the spellchecker...but I digress.
It’s being called Doomsteading.
I’ve been doing some things ... stocking up on things, getting cash, etc.
Dithering about cashing out my IRA, but it may be too late now, should have done it 6 months ago.
Been stocking up on guns/ammo.
We are also planting a garden this year.
This is one of those threads, and I believe it contains links to some of the other threads.
I dug a hole in my living room floor to hide food and ammo, but the people in the apartment below me got a bit aggravated. Stupid liberals.
My choice for maintaining preparedness comes more from an admiration of my grandfather... (But I have since realized that in today's world it becomes a more relevant choice.) Once, when I asked him if the Depression was as bad as it was shown on television, he looked at me and smiled slightly. His reply: "We didn't really know there was a "depression" until someone brought us a 6 month old newspaper."
My grandparents lived in a very rural area and were totally self reliant, with the exceptions of kerosene, sugar, and salt. No electricity. They didn't use money very often, but instead bartered with their neighbors for the three aforementioned items. I am much in the same position, only I have shelter, defensive, and communication capabilities that he would have never dreamed of (or found necessary.) He would probably just shake his head and say I had taken things to extremes.
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Raven6
Honestly, I’ve never really prepared for more than two weeks of an emergency before now. Today I just put up some shelves to help organize my rapidly accumulating stash:
Gardening equipment and seeds
3 months supply of food (this will be 15 months of food and cleaning supplies by the end of the month)
vehicles are about to be maintained and tuned up
canning supplies and about 100 jars (need lids)
money piling up for an “emergency shopping trip” (This is a list which I’ve compiled that can be filled in 24 hours and will be filled at the first sign of trouble. After this list is filled, we’ll be able to put together a small farm and should be able to live almost independently for up to 12 months... except for my son’s insulin)
have guns: need ammo
bought books on farming
started building first aid supplies and antibiotics
7 month supply of tobacco and tubes, then I quit. (The feds aren’t getting one DIME of my money if I can legally prevent it!)
If the collapse doesn’t happen for another two years, we’ll be cherry. We’ll have a well by that time and the farm will be running. (goats, bunnies and chickens!) :-)
As of right now, I don’t have any way around the water, electricity and insulin problem. Water will not be an issue for long, but the last two are insurmountable walls for us. We are stockpiling test strips and needles for my son, but the insulin itself is problematic.
For us, there is no downside to doing this. If things manage to stay afloat, then our grocery bill goes *way* down for about a year and we’ve got several thousand in the bank. Even if we spring for a well, it’ll save us money in the long run. We’re hunters and like to target shoot, so the ammo will never go to waste.
Win-win.
One of these:
And 15 of these:
What does that make me besides lucky?
I'm kidding.
Living way out in the country in SW Louisiana, you almost have to be a Type 1 or 2 being in hurricane alley. We’ve always maintained a good stock of dry and canned goods along with with plenty of water, gas, diesel, batteries and ammo. We recycle our supplies to keep em somewhat fresh and current. The spat of recent hurricanes have given us plenty of “real time and good hands-on” experiences that we’ve since capitalized on and improved our skills. We now could easily go for weeks without power, water, fuel etc. and we stay very well prepared. The last hurricane, we had to do hardly any prep for it at all other than to “batten down the hatches”. The only thing new for us under the rule of the Kenyan Usurper is a bigger garden, greater ammo reloading capabilities and a 12-gauge tactical shotgun added to the existing firearms mix. We figure the biggest problem is when the all those folks on the govt. teat go hungry due to economic collapse, they’re gonna come out here lookin’ for those that have something. When they show up, they’re gonna get “something” hot alright but it won’t be food.
Currently type 1 but heading ever closer to type 2.
Yep. Been laying in the salt and sugar. flour and rice.
rotated out some canned goods that were close to expiring and replaced them.
Bought more canning jars and extra lids.
Bought extra heirloom seeds and put them in dry storage.
Guns and more ammo. always need/want more.
Stashed away extra batterys and lamp oil.
There is a lot of things that can be done that are inexpensive but practical. There is no better time to prepare for disaster than now.
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