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PREPPING MISTAKES: 6 Mistakes Preppers Make That Can Get You Killed
Off Grid Survival ^ | 11/14/12 | Rob Richardson

Posted on 11/14/2012 4:53:51 PM PST by Kartographer

1. Not Having Enough Water

2. They put too Much Importance on Their Gear

3. They lack the Knowledge it takes to Really Survive

4. The Rice & Beans Mentality

5. Becoming too dependent on your Guns & Ammo

6. Not Understanding that People will become a Threat During a SHTF Crisis


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: preparedness; prepperfail; preppermistake; preppers; shtf; survival
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To: yarddog

Most of the common spices one needs can be grown in almost any climate.

I live in NY and in my garden I have sage, thyme, lemon thyme, and oregano and they are perennials.

Parsley is a biannual and reseeds itself very effectively.

Basil and rosemary are annuals in this climate but basil can be grown from seed easy enough and it’s not too hard to grow enough to be able to harvest your own and dry it for the year.

I grow my own garlic which does very well in this climate as well and that is also very easy to propagate.

And since I use all the fertilized I can get from my farmer friends, it’s all *organic* (oooohhh.... ahhhhh...)


61 posted on 11/14/2012 6:20:29 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Do you have a linnk to your Poverty Cooking chpt 1, John?

Thanks in advance...


62 posted on 11/14/2012 6:21:19 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“Depends on the circumstances and the community.
I intend to do what I’ve done in the past, and help folks out as I can.”

As you said, depends on circumstances - you live among people you have known a long time - I know very few and the people around me aren’t prepared at all. I know that from seeing what they did after two hurricanes passed.

In a serious, long term emergency, I move my car away from my front door, lock my front door and no one sees me until it’s over. I could have three related people here if they could get here, otherwise, I’m by myself. I have a very low profile around here.


63 posted on 11/14/2012 6:22:01 PM PST by Marcella ("When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand

I wonder how long before you get Zotted?


64 posted on 11/14/2012 6:24:04 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: prairiebreeze
Last Friday's Prep thread. I don't have a link.

After the whole thing is all done, and I've incorporated appropriate comments, I'll do a stand alone thread as a FR original content.

/johnny

65 posted on 11/14/2012 6:24:52 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: driftdiver

Must have been, CA, near Nevada?

Only Ca requires porta-potties so the spotted tree fart frog is not endangered by trench latrines ;-)


66 posted on 11/14/2012 6:25:43 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Old Sarge; RedStateRocker; Kartographer
Kart is the keeper of the prep list. I'm only posting the poverty cooking stuff on the regular Friday Prep threads.

/johnny

67 posted on 11/14/2012 6:27:07 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Now if there was a whole community of people who looked out for their neighbors and were prepared, they’d do very well.

Well, there is, but I don’t plan on becoming a Mormon ;)

Seriously, where are the non-Mormon, non-Millennial, non-cult survive as a community, strength in numbers, ready for the hard times, people?

The end times have come again and again in history, the four horsemen carrying away the only world people have ever known.


68 posted on 11/14/2012 6:28:15 PM PST by heartwood
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To: JRandomFreeper

That makes sense

This is a Freeperthon thread.


69 posted on 11/14/2012 6:28:19 PM PST by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: Old Sarge; RedStateRocker; JRandomFreeper

He’s been added.


70 posted on 11/14/2012 6:29:11 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: metmom
I grow my own garlic

Daughter's Father-in-law grew some this year, I didn't. He gave me pounds of the stuff.

I used my normal amount in a recipe. I reeked of garlic for 2 days.

Garlic can be highly variable. I now test, like I do jalapenos. What he gave me should last until 2014. ;)

/johnny

71 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:33 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
This is a Freeperthon thread.

No, but I suppose it could be if you want to pony up to close out the quarter.

The actual purpose of the thread is to annoy you. Specifically you. No-one else.

Welcome to Free Republic, btw.

72 posted on 11/14/2012 6:34:15 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer

“I’d say that preppers biggest mistake is in planning to live apart from the community “

“U’s right. Nowes u’d feed me ‘fore I bust a cap in your 4$$!”

Hi there! I’m a federal community organizer, and I’m here to help you, you know, survive.

Incredible. We’re talking about a SHTF scenario and a freeper fatuously opines, “It takes a village!”
I’ve run out of chewing gum with some of these whining “Can’t we all just get along” bozos.

They seem to have no idea that people are going to be running off strangers at gunpoint when the cold & hungry sad sacks sidle up to their campground sucking around for handouts: “Take care of me?” and regardless of their politics. I think I’ll put FEMA’s toll-free number in my BOB for just such occasions: “Here you go. Good luck!”

Tough love, huh? It’s Aesops’ grasshopper and the ants, nothing new under the sun. Good night nurse grumble grumble grumble ... Keep up the good work Kartman!


73 posted on 11/14/2012 6:36:36 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: heartwood
Dispair is a sin, in my book. I try to avoid it. I don't know about end times. My bible says that no man knows the hour or the day.

I do know that I'm enjoined to prepare myself, serve others, and have faith in God. That keeps me pretty busy right there.

/johnny

74 posted on 11/14/2012 6:37:35 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer

Thank you


75 posted on 11/14/2012 6:39:33 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Blueflag

No this was in Asia.


76 posted on 11/14/2012 6:39:33 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Kartographer

put me on ping list


77 posted on 11/14/2012 6:43:19 PM PST by deadmenvote (goverment is a waste of tax payers money)
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To: Kartographer
4. The Rice & Beans Mentality

Could you elaborate on this?

78 posted on 11/14/2012 6:45:37 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: prairiebreeze
I did find a link to Chapter 1. Make any comments or suggestions you like about it. My feelings don't get hurt over comments about my writing. They make my writing better.

/johnny

79 posted on 11/14/2012 6:51:04 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer

I would suggest a bug out place that is very difficult to find, a place that regular people would not try to get to, this may be a hunters blind on the side of a rock face, a small island on a rural lake, almost any swampland. One of the ideas I like was from a scene of the movie “Red” where a derelick junk car was used to hide a stairwell to a bunker.

With the expanded use of drones from what may be not so friendly forces research into concealed coverings should be done, especially thermal scanning. FLIR can be defeated by very good thick insulation like several layers of blueboard insulfoam with fiberglass batting sandwiched between.

Any heat source like for cooking needs to be carefully set up so as to diffuse away from the campsite or drawn into an underground muffler so to speak such as a steel barrel so it will cool off. Heat will give you away.


80 posted on 11/14/2012 6:51:14 PM PST by Eye of Unk
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