Posted on 03/03/2011 9:08:03 PM PST by blam
I know how to do it all as well, but have the sad misfortune of children who only want to buy “stuff”.
They are so busy trying to build careers, look good, and travel that they do not even have the time to tend their pachysandra, for goodness’ sake.
They do not want to learn to knit, sew, can, spin, tend chickens, or garden. It is all available at the “just-in-time” stores. No matter what I say, they can’t imagine a world without “stuff” easily available, therefore think there is no point in learning how to grow their own “arugula”.
I am depressed. Where did I go wrong? Maybe when the cool kids wouldn’t trade my home-baked whole wheat sandwiches for fluffernutters on wonder bread?
:::sigh:::
all my hard learned skills, just going to disappear when I am gone, like a puff of smoke.
My kids are pretty uninterested in learning those skills as well.
However, there is someone in my church who wants to learn and her teenaged daughter is VERY interested in learning.
Don’t worry. You can pass on your knowledge here and when TSHTF, you’ll find your skills in high demand.
No problem, glad to do it. A couple of things I didn’t mention but are important.
Cash: there probably won’t be any ATM’s in service during a severe emergency. Try to keep a supply of cash, in small bills, in a secure location. Banks may close before you know of any emergency.
Fuel: If the banks aren’t open it’s a safe bet that the gas stations are closed too. Every other month or so, I go to Tractor Supply and buy two 5 gallon gas cans and either a diesel or kerosine can. I add the proper stabilizer to the cans and fill them with fuel to be stashed in my shed. The label on the stabilizer states that the fuel will be good for at least 12 months. I once put gas stored like this for three years in my Harley and it ran fine.
The more time you devote to choosing a location to go to the better. If you already have a place in the country, great. Maybe you have friends or relatives who live out here. If so, talk with them about the very real possibility of you being an emergency resident. Make plans for that eventuality by storing food and supplies that will provide for everybody.
Don’t tell anybody that you are storing anything anywhere for any reason unless they are someone who you are willing to share everything with because when the excrement strikes the turbine, you will be. They will remember who has been getting ready and run there first. They will probably bring some of their friends with them, so much for your supplies.
Get a bug out bag ready for every member of the family. It will have MRE’s, first aid, lights, matches, emergency blankets, etc. You can make these yourself or buy them ready to go at places like”Emergency Essentials.com” I shop there quite a bit.
Keep your bug out bags with you all the time because you won’t know how much time you have until it’s time to go. Have family meetings to establish what everyone should do and, most importantly, where they should go when it happens. You will need a collection point so nobody gets left behind.
Assign research to family members to report on various threats (civil, bio, nukes, etc.) and what your appropriate response should be and what additional supplies might be necessary.
I would much rather be ready years too early than one day too late. I figure that the most substantial portion of my investments in this is for food. I buy freeze dried food just like they prepare and serve on US submarines that has a shelf life of 30+ years. I figure that if I am totally wrong about all of this,I can always eat my investment. I have tried several items that I have in storage and it is very good.
Good luck to you and may God Bless you.
Full bellies make for apathetic citizens.
Soon, the Obama Agenda will change that.
He brings us incivility, treason, war, and hunger.
The Four Horsemen of the Obamalypse.
Excellent post!!!
So true and so spot-on accurate!!!
Thank you!
btt
Good plan Hank.
"OK."
So I put in five posts and built a spring-loaded, locking gate. The fence is 5' high. I put down weed-block and planted a bunch of plants. Then I painted the posts and put up varmint-proof wire-mesh.
And that was the last time anyone paid any attention to the garden.
At least I'm not bitter.
I've always had a green thumb but, my garden consists of eight tomato and four bell pepper plants and it's already in the ground growing.
Frankly, it is easier and cheaper for me to buy what I need. Tomatoes and peppers in an 8' X 4' plot are easy to do.
It would be good to have heirloom seeds, and non-hybrid varieties, so that the seeds could be harvested and re-used, in the event that circumstances have made it impossible to obtain new seeds
My Mama used to do preserves, can some vegetables, and freeze field peas, and stuff like that. She never did a whole lot of canning, that I remember, so I never learned. My sister-in-law, who grew up on a farm does a lot of canning, so I’m going to have her show me how. I could probably read about how it’s done, and figure it out, but I like seeing it done, as well, when I’m first learning a new skill.
I’ve gotten to the point that all I have to do now is check the processing times of whatever it is I’m canning.
Everything else is second nature.
I also do my canning over the period of several days. One day is just taking care of cleaning and checking supplies. Looking at the jars and washing them, washing a whole bunch of lids, making sure I have enough bands, getting out funnels and spatulas etc, canner kettle is ready to go, and having cooked a meal for leftovers the day of canning and the kitchen is clean and picked up.
It makes it so much easier breaking it down like that.
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