In that pic the girls look like they have a bad case of mange. =}
couple of cases of cheap Burbon in half pints.
I think there will be a market.
Ammo
#1 will be to find a conservative with a gun that will maybe protect your arse.
ping
Underwater masks to help us find all our lost firearms?
A good water purifier.
Preppers’ PING!!
Note: No mater what you are looking for and what you have or what you find it isn’t yours unless you can protect it. Not even your life.
Dehydrated food with a long shelf life AND WATER and the ability to heat it!
Drones for recon intel about which homes have food, fuel, transportation.
Hope you don't mind I borrowed the list.
I can tell you what resource I have been running out of the most myself and that is WOOD of all things.
Building is insatiable.
It’s all common sense stuff.
One other item is a special fuel reserve for labor saving tools. Many will have gas for a generator, ATV or other vehicle, but IMO the most important fuel supply is for that chainsaw, log splitter, air compressor or garden tiller.
Just think, winter has set in and while you are struggling to get that firewood hand chopped and split you get sick from exhaustion. When your priorities were to keep the generator running or to drive around spent all fuel supplies.
This is a separate fuel supply and off limits except for those special uses.
Another special use reserve would be for a bug out vehicle. If your situation becomes such that you have to abandon all and just get out, that gas could come in handy.
I like the part about “save the condoms”..
Need a bit more guidance here:
B4 use after use rinse no rinse.....??
Matches. Or ya can’t start a farr.
BS!!
Chocolate
Instead of just thinking about supplies, I’ve been thinking about skills that would be handy. After all, supplies will eventually run out, but if you can manufacture things yourself, YOU would be a commodity of value.
4 things I think preppers should consider learning to manufacture from raw materials (and also learn how to acquire those materials):
1. Ethanol - easy to make, and the raw materials are very easy to find. You could also make methanol using an even simpler version of the process, from even easier to acquire materials, but you cannot drink methanol to help you cope with a post-apocalypic existence :)
Useful for: fuel, disinfectant/antiseptic, anaesthetic and a valuable trade good.
2. Soap - easy to make, materials are easily available, and it is an absolute necessity if you want to avoid dying from infections in a world without hospitals or antibiotics. Also, you and your posse will probably get along with each other much better if you don’t all smell like wild animals.
Useful for: hygiene, laundry, cleaning tools/utensils/cooking vessels, trade good
3. Candles - Once the kerosene and batteries run out, you probably won’t want to be reduced to wood fires for all your lighting needs. They’re smoky and hot, and will draw a lot of attention to you, not mention you are going to have to spend your energy chopping and gathering wood. If you have the materials to make soap, you also have most of the materials to make candles, so you might as well learn to do both.
Useful for: lighting, trade good
4. Gunpowder - This is the trickiest one to make, and probably the one you can most easily do without, if you just stockpile enough ammunition and powder ahead of time. However, if the situation lasts a long time, this would be a very highly valuable skill to have, and a rare one as well. The easiest form of gunpowder, black powder, would not be too difficult to make, if you can find sulfur. If that is not commonly available in your neck of the woods, think about stockpiling some of it just in case. For smokeless powder, you would need to know how to make both black powder AND nitroglycerin, so it’s probably best to forget about that unless you don’t mind losing a hand while you try to perfect the process.
Useful for: ammunition, explosives, trade good
The solid coconut oil is getting less pricey and it keeps for a very long time. It is worth stocking up on.
Also, you can get bricks of sealed Crisco. I vac seal them and store them in the freezer. Another long lasting cooking oil product.
#1. Water
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