Posted on 03/12/2012 11:27:17 PM PDT by blam
I think the problem with prescriptions is that insurances won’t pay for more than a few months at a time.... “accidentally” forgetting your prescription bottles at a hotel or a gas station (when you took them in the bathroom(?) and getting a whole new set would make sense.
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I knocked them off the counter and they fell into the toilet!
I will probably have electricity so might bring an electric wok. Will probably go to the local wholesale food market, pick up small cheap apples and bananas, bag of rice (preferably brown, I am in Whole Foods country). If I can find large (number 10) cans of beans or chile, or tomatoes I can whip up something. Otherwise a trip to Walmart for large cans. Rice and beans, spaghetti and meat sauce, peanut butter and jelly, for variety. Thanks for ideas, I will also lobby for more money.
Good luck! Thought and preparation will lead to success. That and hunger... ;)
An old vet told me that the best meal he'd ever eaten in his life, was a single boiled potato while in a German POW camp, after days of nothing to eat.
I have an MSR gasoline stove for camping or bug out.
Rocket stove is for fixed location because it is heavy.
BTW, don’t have the link, but there are backpacking stoves that you can make out of a tin can that burn just about anything very efficiently.
Kind of like “accidentally” losing my guns in a boating accident. Good idea.
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Here you go. Happy hunting.
I generally get my “take every day” prescriptions refilled every 25 days (the insurance generally allows a refill a few days before you run out).
That way, you’ll accumulate an extra one-month supply every five months.
The drawback will be that you’ll run through your 12 refills in 10 months, at which point you’ll need to get another authorization from your doctor. As long as they’re not pricks about “How’d you go through a year’s worth of medicine in 10 months?”, that shouldn’t be a problem.
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Look what is happening right before your eyes and take heed. There’s a Great Storm coming you can feel it.
Listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
One of the things that will hurt is the fact that many will not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it?It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Its your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
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For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
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“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
You can always make tortillas. My friend and I used to make them with masa flour and eat them with butter - YUM!
10-4 on that. Anyone with a serious working knowledge of 20th Century history should see it similarly.
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Hit up your co-workers to help with a Potluck (ie: Cookies, etc)
Cole Slaw, Potato Salad, pasta salad from scratch is relatively cheap
Egg Salad, Pulled Pork, Ham Salad - from scratch.
Rolls from Thrift Bakery- shop around
walmart has levothyroxine for $10.00 for a 90 day supply. Ask your doctor to prescribe a 90 day supply with refills. Then ask the pharmacist if you can get two 90 day supplies to keep on hand. Since you are paying cash, there will probably not be an objection.
Good article for low budget prepper in a small space. This is better than waiting for FEMA till you die.
If you have absolutely nothing else but water and a blanket and no resources beyond a couple of dollars, a bag of dog food will keep you alive. It has enough nutrients and has been used on abandon ship kits for long distance sailors. You will not want to eat it all at once so it will last a while and will keep you alive.
Check out the sales in your area.
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