Posted on 01/01/2013 3:54:53 AM PST by Kartographer
It’s the Little Things That Matter: 100 Survival Items To Help Keep A Sense of Normality and Sanity After the Collapse
Bullets…check. Beans…check. Band Aids…check. The list goes on and on sometimes doesn’t it? As preppers, we all are stockpiling the items and supplies that we plan on needing if and when it hits the fans. We all need to make sure we can eat, drink, protect ourselves from the elements and defend what needs to be defended. However, today I found myself thinking of things that weren’t on my “Need in order to survive” list. Little things that we all take for granted today, but someday, we may look back and think how simple it would have been to pick up a couple of those items when they are no longer on a store shelf near you.
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Besides I'm the guy that bootlegged a pig here in this little town until it weighed 100 lbs. Chickens, minus a rooster aren't that big of a deal.
Stupid law=ignore.
/johnny
Coffee is a necessity. I load up at every sale. I also like the coffee with chicory. Since I have plenty of Chicory growing, I plan to dry the roots and make the coffee last longer that way too.
Now that I have successfully grown a lemon tree indoors and harvested the wonderful fruit, I plan to experiment with a coffee plant. We are planning to have a greenhouse/solar room attached to the house to expand my indoor gardening area and gardening supply storage area.
Hubby can build it once I have the design. I am still reading and sketching. If SHTF too soon, it is not a necessity, as we can continue what we are doing indoors. Our winter wheat is doing well outdoors, and we have plenty from last year’s crop to keep going till the new harvest.
Funny thing about pink. I bought a pink thermos for the same reason. Every time I had a thermos, it disappeared and was eventually inadvertantly left on the job. I knew Hubby would not take a pink thermos to work.
I was wondering what sort of emergency would require a blackout of all other stations? An interruption to switch to the Emergency Broadcast System which has been tested as long as I can remember is one thing, but you’re right, If can block it, they don’t have to turn it back on.
We are finding bulk spices at the Asian Markets when we go to St. Louis so much cheaper than our local stores, we have quite a lot of those, except for the ones I grow myself.
Lots of spices are easy to grow and dry yourself, and for some I prefer to have fresh, so I grow them in little pots year round.
I keep thinking I'll regret not having one, but I've had that thought for about five years running. There's always a more urgent need for the money. Plus, the weather has been so mild, hot and dry and not given any reminders or reasons to get one.
On the other hand, that next could hit next week. I remember a freak storm in Phoenix that hit my area and killed power for a week. It happens. And, obama happened twice.
I figure inflation's coming and I may not be able to buy one later with my deflated dollars. On sale right now, I could get two 2000 watt Hondas or buy a 1 oz. gold Buffalo and a few ounces of silver or do nothing. Hard to know which would be better at this point.
LOL. I admire your determination. It’s not a law. It’s an agreement. When we bought the lots we agreed not to have noxious animals. I usually honor my agreements.
If Hubby decides he wants to take care of chickens in the winter time, I’ll be happy to take care of them in the spring, summer, and autumn as well as make the case that they are not noxious animals cause we don’t have a rooster. LOL. I’ll call them pets.
I don’t see how they would be any more noxious than a bunch of hunting dogs in a pen, do you?
You are welcome. So many decisions, so little time. I am glad that we already have the generator. However, now I am wondering if there is a converter to run it on propane.
Gasoline might be hard to come by. Whereas we can get a large tank of propane to run the generator on. So that’s going on my list to research.
Code Enforcement: "It's a pig"
Neighbor: "John, that's one ugly dog."
So I whistled for my 'dog', and fed it some dog food when it came to the whistle.
Sam grumped, and grumped.
But I kept the 'dog' until it was time for a BBQ.
I let paper wasps build nests on the front porch and just point at them when annoying people visit.
'Doesn't play well with others' was on my first report card. ;)
/johnny
(Fwiw, I am not affiliated in any way with either company.)
The reason given by Hussein, was, in case of an emergency involving the whole country, they could take over TVs and radios and broadcast from Washington telling us what to do.
Because they can turn them off and on, they can keep us from getting any news except what they want us to know, never turning them back to the original stations. We do not own our TVs and radios anymore, Hussein does.
If he does it, I've got the short wave radio to listen to news around the world thanks to the ham operators.
The man who calls himself our president isn't my president. He is a TV/radio thief.
I’m convinced that some simple things would be for all intents priceless.
You mention salt.
Soap. (hand soap, laundry soap, conditioners)
Pepper. Way back when, people risked their lives on ocean voyages and faced wars for the simple peppercorn.
Odds ‘n ends... sewing needles, reading glasses, I have a good supply of generic Claritin even though I have no allergies. Tincture of Iodine, simple Neosporin.
I see you didn’t outgrow your first report card. LOL.
Thanks for the links.
Have you bought any recently? I had a flashback to when pepper was oz per oz with gold. 1/10th of a month food budget, for black peppercorns.
Harumph. I did buy them.
/johnny
I am thinking that this has actually been true for many presidents before Obama, because they always interrupt the regular programming for the test of the Emeregency Broadcast System.
They something like, We interrupt this program to bring you a test of the Emergency Broadcast System, if you can not hear this test, please notify________. If there is a real emergency, you would be advised which station to listen to.
Then at the end, they say this has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System, we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
They have been doing that since I was a child. Is there some new capability that has been passed recently?
I absolutely love pepper and eat it with just about everything!
So, the answer is yes, I have a very good supply. Pre-ground and whole peppercorns, probably a total of 2 lbs or more.
I just had a thought. The town where my Grandparents lived used to have a law that preserved the right to have a certain number of chickens etc. That was a holdover from when everyone had a garden and grew their own food.
It could be interesting to find an old law, saying you are allowed to have a pig, a goat, a chicken for each family member etc. Then insist on one’s right to grow food. LOL.
Might just irriate the right people. I’ll put that at the bottom of my list of things to do just for curiousity.
Yes, last year, the government has bypassed the normal Emergency Broadcast System as that was a cooperation among stations and was not over the entire country at once.
Hussein's emergency system is housed in Homeland Security and is independent over all the country. That is why they picked one day this past year to test this - because it was new and all inclusive. We were told which day and the time it would happen. All TV stations and radio stations were “relieved of duty”, their control was taken completely away by Homeland Security, whether the stations wanted to do that or not.
After the test, Homeland Security said they had some adjustments to make for it to be a complete success. This came about by one of Husseins new executive orders.
One small point on that: I have a high-performance portable receiver (Degen 1103). It is super sensitive with terrific selectivity yet eats batteries, as most electronics with a power-hungry CPU will do. I'd be surprised if a freshly charged 2800 mah set of Nimh batteries will run it for a full 24 hours. So just the other day I ordered a new but old-fashioned analog-type portable, also from Degen/Kaito. Won't match the performance, but they say it lasts months on a (smaller) set of batteries.
Yes, I have the solar chargers, gasoline and diesel fueled charging, many spare batteries, and a lot more, but some time I may end up in a tent with just the radio in my hand, and I want it to last.
Fresh sheets and blankets: I have a zillion sheets collected through the years and almost threw them away a few months ago. Then, I thought about bandages and arm slings and holding up a wounded leg, and chest/body wraps, and I’m keeping plenty of those sheets
I was just about to throw a set of sheets away. Will hold onto them, thanks.
“It is super sensitive with terrific selectivity yet eats batteries, as most electronics with a power-hungry CPU will do.”
I have a new Sony world band receiver that uses four AA batteries. I have a big bunch of AA Sanyo low discharge rechargeable batteries and a 20 watt solar panel with attached smart charger to recharge 4 AAs in three hours of sun. Because of the number of batteries I have, some will always be charged.
If I end up in a tent as you suggest you might, I doubt I will be looking for news outside my immediate area of 10 feet away from me on all sides. At that point, I would be more interested in putting on my tactical vest with my ammo in it and my gun at hand.
Okay, I missed it. I will say that at the rate that he and the rest of his crew are producing orders and regulations, they are multiplying faster than cockroaches. No way one person can keep track, unless that’s all they do 24/7/365.
Thanks for the update.
Last spring I bought two to three dozen fresh farm eggs every two weeks from a local farm. I used food grade mineral oil (horse laxative from a local feed store) and coated each egg.
These were put into egg cartons and placed in a mylar bag with an O2 absorber. I used a small vacuum cleaner to pull most of the air from the bag and then sealed them. I had first tried pulling a complete vacuum on them and the eggs were crushed. A dozen eggs were lost, but I gained knowledge.
After five months of shelf storage at about 76 degrees (too warm) I opened the first stored bag and the oder nearly floored me. A couple of months later I noticed some of the bags were swelling, so I took all them to a local dump. Before I took them to the dump, I ran an egg freshness test. I opened a bag that was not swollen and placed each egg in a bowl of water and if one end of an egg rises any at all, they are not good for human consumption. Some floated. I now have powdered eggs for my storage.
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