Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Weekly Prepper Thread!
9/7/12

Posted on 09/07/2012 8:09:12 AM PDT by Kartographer

Weekly Preppers' Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice and ideas


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: preparedness; preppers; prepping
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last
Smiths grocery has a CASE LOT SALE! Rice, Spam, Peanut butter, flour, sugar.........Time to stock up!!!
1 posted on 09/07/2012 8:09:17 AM PDT by Kartographer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


2 posted on 09/07/2012 8:10:14 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

I can’t get prepper support from my wife but, I drilled a water well by hand and put in a hand pump and keep a garden going.


3 posted on 09/07/2012 8:14:53 AM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

First aid supplies: http://www.first-aid-product.com

Excellent prices and they are the company most other companies use for first aid supply.


4 posted on 09/07/2012 8:17:28 AM PDT by CodeToad (Be Prepared...They Are.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

Here are a couple of 5 gallon bucket projects-http://www.hourofthetime.com/1-LF/Hour_Of_The_Time_08282012-Bucket_water_filter.pdf-andhttp://www.hourofthetime.com/1-LF/Hour_Of_The_Time_08292012-5_Gallon_Bucket_Hydroelectric_Build%20Manual.pdf


5 posted on 09/07/2012 8:19:24 AM PDT by eglman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer
Mud brick oven is coming along nicely, if slowly. Looking at some ancient mud-brick structures, I understand why the ancient rulers wanted slave labor. ;)

/johnny

6 posted on 09/07/2012 8:24:17 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jyro

How did you drill by hand? I cannot imagine doing that here, but we have bad clay soil.


7 posted on 09/07/2012 8:24:45 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

Emotional preparation is severely lacking in America.

People first need to acknowledge the depth of our problems and accept the fact that salvation is not just an election away.


8 posted on 09/07/2012 8:24:52 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer
Wife went to a class on organic gardening last night.
The instructor lives in Driftwood, TX and was telling how he has a 6,000 gallon rain water catchment with filtration system that he uses for all of his household needs.

Said to go to a professional who deals with the filtration necessary to make caught water potable, but the investment is worth it... he hasn't used any other water source in 20 years, and even in drought, his reservoir has never gotten below 50%.

She's stoked, so I'll go along. :)

9 posted on 09/07/2012 8:27:07 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party of No! Nobama, No Way, No How!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

I often get asked questions about various 30-60-90 and more food kits, buckets of prepared food that store for years as a quick and easy way to be prepared.

Now I’ve not tried the food in very many of these kits and so I can’t really say if the food is good or bad, but here’s the problem as I see with these prepared meal kits. Say you have a 60 day kit that comes with 10 different dinners six of each dinners A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J and since you never tasted their food the odds are that say there will be that there will be 2 to 3 of there meal you really like 4 or 5 that are ok, 1 or 2 you can choke down if you have too and another 1 or 2 you wouldn’t feed your dog!

That means two things one you run the good chance that twenty percent or more of your storage you won’t eat and two after a while what you have left is mostly stuff you don’t like and won’t eat unless forced and that will get OLD very fast.

Me I think that you are better off storing 100% things you know you will eat and in as much a variety as possible. That’s my thoughts.


10 posted on 09/07/2012 8:29:12 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

10 Morale Boosters for Any Worst Case Scenario

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/

Well written if I do say so myself. ;-)


11 posted on 09/07/2012 8:34:49 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

Couple of new bits of info that I’ve come across lately:

Buffet divests half his holdings in municipal bond insurance (in anticipation of more city bankruptcies).

Check your 401k for a “cash option”. If it doesn’t have one, chances are the “safest” offering will be heavy in gov’t treasury bonds, a backdoor nationalizing of your 401k.


12 posted on 09/07/2012 8:35:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

I see having grown up poor and fugal as a great advantage.


13 posted on 09/07/2012 8:37:13 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer
Please add me to your ping list.

Thanks

14 posted on 09/07/2012 8:37:20 AM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: jyro
I drilled a water well by hand and put in a hand pump and keep a garden going.

What part of Texas are you in and how far down did you sink that well? I've seen those motorized drill rigs in the back of magazines and wondered if it would be worthwhile.

If I were to drill one, I'd have to hide the wellhead inside a Rubbermaid garden shed or something.

15 posted on 09/07/2012 8:43:29 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer
In the business, we call that 'menu fatigue', and it is a very real thing. It is important to buy things that you WILL eat.

Serving MREs to troops, I would see some guys toss most of the calories because they wouldn't eat the entree.

/johnny

16 posted on 09/07/2012 8:47:13 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek
having grown up poor and fugal as a great advantage.

True, but filthy rich has it's advantages. ;)

/johnny

17 posted on 09/07/2012 8:50:44 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

Bookmarked.


18 posted on 09/07/2012 8:58:05 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jyro

I reworked the garden here to squeeze in another row and everything is coming up nicely. Before throwing out some 15 year old black beans and red peas, I put some in the ground but it doesn’t look promising. If not, there’s some yellow wax beans that’ll go in there. It’s been too hot for things to produce much this summer but it adds a bit to the table, However, the main reason for the garden is to learn what plant varieties work or don’t work getting a step up on when/if it does hit the fan.


19 posted on 09/07/2012 9:01:24 AM PDT by bgill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: jyro

I too am interested in how you drilled a well by hand.


20 posted on 09/07/2012 9:08:00 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Want to stop illegals and lower unemployment? Shut off the welfare faucet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson