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What are you doing to prepare?

Posted on 04/02/2010 5:05:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance

Are you truly independent? Do you have the skills? Can you hunt, grow a garden, can food, sew-knit, live off the land? Are you ready? Do you possess the "lost" skills? Our family is ready. In obama's words, "bring it on". Once the economy collapses, I'll be here longer than the liberals and their pampered lives.


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: crash; economy; lping; prep; preparedness; preppers; prepping; shtf; survival; teotwawki; trends; unrest; vanity
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To: DelaWhere
Whoa! $39? Have to look further into it... the one brand available at the farmer supply is an L.E.M. 8hp electric that claims 4-6lbs per minute...but!... it costs $269.00! It would be hard to justify that much, but then again... That hand grinder sounds more like what I'm looking for.

Great weather here in the woodlands, getting all the repairs done from the Winter damage. Getting that topsoil delivered when I return from the coast later this month... should be able to truck into the garden area without having to send for a D9 to pull it out! LOL! Been there done that! Still too early to plant up here, but boy am I ready!

301 posted on 04/03/2010 7:10:06 PM PDT by JDoutrider (PLEASE HELP FREEPER JEFF HEAD: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2481989/posts)
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To: Indy Pendance
Been ready since 1999...

Wow! Back then I was a nut-case...Now I'm just totally prepared...

Paranoia Pays Alert!

302 posted on 04/03/2010 10:43:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Kartographer

all sorts of AV alarms went off when I clicked on your link... didja boobytrap it with a virus?


304 posted on 04/04/2010 12:55:14 AM PDT by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: ansel12

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305 posted on 04/04/2010 6:54:30 AM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner)
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To: PatriotGirl827; vanilla swirl; Outlaw Woman; Atom Smasher; Red in Blue PA

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306 posted on 04/04/2010 9:59:15 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Why are the non "social conservative" Republicans so unconservative?)
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To: sonofagun
Buy a gun, one that can be used for hunting, not necessarily for self defense(a .22 long rifle caliber is one of the most useful). Learn a few skills, such as hunting and fishing, learn to grow your own food(not hard at all). Learn to put up what you grow(canning and other food preparation techniques), learn how to tan(or simply preserve)hides of the animals that you kill when hunting. Since we can't make cloth or yarn, knitting would seem to be a useless skill.

The biggest skill I can think of right now is how to VOTE for conservative(not republican)candidates, but don't neglect the skills I mentioned.

For people like me who depend on heart medication and blood pressure medication simply to survive, I have different recommendations, I will not go into them here.

307 posted on 04/04/2010 10:05:38 AM PDT by calex59
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To: handy old one; Hegemony Cricket

bump


308 posted on 04/04/2010 10:15:23 AM PDT by handy old one (If you play in nature be prepared to be played with by nature!)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Please add me to the new preppers list!!


309 posted on 04/04/2010 11:41:37 AM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner)
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To: hiredhand

I have never heard of the Firefox books. I will have to check them. out!


310 posted on 04/04/2010 11:53:10 AM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner)
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To: exhaustedmomma

I spent the majority of yesterday reading all about dehydrate. This woman is fabulous. Thanks, I’ve joined her site, sent the links off to my 3 daughters. We’ve got one more tool in our bag. I really appreciate this link.


311 posted on 04/04/2010 4:02:01 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: SuperLuminal

Never hurts to refresh your memory and supplies!


312 posted on 04/04/2010 4:02:33 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: PatriotGirl827
It's "FoxFire"... and I'm not sure where we got ours from. But if you have trouble locating them, let me know and I'll ask my wife. I'm certain that she knows. :-)
313 posted on 04/04/2010 5:31:52 PM PDT by hiredhand
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To: dragnet2

>>>Yep, water and canned food works better than gardens. Gardens are OK to supplement, but canned food is where it’s at...Last for years if stored right too. <<<

Ummmmm, now where do those things in the can come from?

Maybe the goobermint magically turns our taxes into that food that goes in those cans. (Actually, we are buying quite a lot of it from places like China, Mexico, Peru, etc., etc. - try looking really close like in the expiration date printing on apple juice - yep Product of China, even though my own asparagus is producing right now, grocery store has it from Peru, and tomatoes from Mexico at $1.98 a pound...)

I say, grow your own, can/freeze/dry it - eat it and you have my own vertical integration thing going... Keep the radicals/foreigners out of that loop. Sewage fed shrimp or fish just don’t appeal to me - even if packaged with a really pretty label.

Even with American grown veggies, my spinach didn’t come through that washing plant that also washed 26 million other servings each week. Lowers my risk...

This time of the year, I try to have 13-14 months worth of home preserved food on hand - that way even with a complete crop failure one year, we can still make it till the next garden season.

It is amazing how much you can grow on 2 acres and some sweat and toil...


314 posted on 04/04/2010 6:16:15 PM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared a year too early than a day too late.)
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To: DelaWhere
Yep, water and canned food works better than gardens. Gardens are OK to supplement, but canned food is where it's at...Last for years if stored right too.

Ummmmm, now where do those things in the can come from?

From your garden....

BTW, ya left out one tiny piece of my post when ya quoted me:

Canned food is what feeds armies.

Water and canned food, (not gardens) can and do keep armies going for *years*.

It's "MRE's" not gardens...

315 posted on 04/04/2010 7:03:10 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: ChocChipCookie

Please, please, pretty please....

>>>asks nicely. :o)<<<

;-) :>) 8-) :8o)

Ping list me - please...


316 posted on 04/04/2010 7:16:48 PM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared a year too early than a day too late.)
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To: Indy Pendance
>Never hurts to refresh your memory ..."

Yep! Have to agree...Particularly at 76, constant memory refreshing is required...

Constant refreshing of target acquisition and nullification skills as well...

317 posted on 04/04/2010 7:48:25 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Indy Pendance

I’ve got the faith covered, but have no skills. Luckily I married someone my neighbors have nicknamed “MacGyver”.


318 posted on 04/04/2010 7:51:34 PM PDT by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: dragnet2

>>> Water and canned food, (not gardens) can and do keep armies going for *years*.

It’s “MRE’s” not gardens...<<<

LOL, cans were in all those C Rations I ate... Nothing like a really cold day and a can of beef stew - chunks of congealed fat the size of strawberries - ooooh how they protected your teeth with their slick film that lasted all day... And those 20 year old ‘crackers’ (or whatever they were) - Mmmmmm

Actually in the field we tried to get some hot freshly cooked meals whenever we were in base camp.

>>>Canned food is what feeds armies.<<<

With MRE’s, should that be pouches???

But, really, hunkering down with 3600 calories a day MRE’s might pack on a few pounds... LOL


319 posted on 04/04/2010 8:13:27 PM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared a year too early than a day too late.)
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To: DelaWhere

Don’t get me wrong...Gardens are great, but for the millions not able to have a garden, a large stash of canned food/dried food, and stored water is imperative when it comes to survival.


320 posted on 04/04/2010 8:52:18 PM PDT by dragnet2
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