Prepping seem daunting at first, but just remember start with the basic, take small steps and build from there.
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I think I have to find a help mate. Everything else seems in order.
That’d require money. Us poor folks are screwed before the gate opens.
The last 5 1/2 years have been nothing but hard times. Hopefully the next will be significantly better.
Location, location, location.
Since we are being watched, I say OPSEC Rules!
It is none of anyone’s business what I have as far as gear goes......
I think pellet guns should be substituted for BB gun. I suspect that is what he meant anyway.
The Daisy model 880 is so cheap yet useful that everyone should have a couple. Also get a couple of the better quality springers. Also a couple of quarts of non detergent 30wt. motor oil for general lubrication of guns air guns etc.
I just recently gained 12 lbs so my body must be getting ready.
Pfl
Yet the end never seemed to happen. I still had to do my homework. These days, my mortgage still comes due each month and I have to pay it.
Instead, life just kept getting better. Food became cheaper and more plentiful. Whilst I only had a few entertainment options as a child, they abound today, to the point where there is not enough hours in the day to do all that I wish to do.
Now I'm not oblivious to the fact that we might see a setback at some point in time. I do keep a few extra batteries on hand. A fairly decent collection of canned good and a liquor cabinet to last me a month or two. A generator and fair supply of firewood.
So if a hurricane, earthquake or some other catastrophe was to hit, I'd be able to batten down those hatches and lie low for a spell.
But as for permanent hard times? Not going to happen. This economy continues to explode and our standard of living continues to increase year after year.
And guess what? Whoever happens to be "president" has nothing to do with it. We could put a mental derelict in the White House (in fact, we have!) and yet we continue to progress. Smartphones get smarter. Drilling for oil gets easier. Computers get faster. Food continues to get more plentiful - to the point where our major societal issue is...obesity.
So while I think it's a great idea to do a little "prepping" here and there (I now have three propane tanks filled), the notion that we are going to suddenly descend into a long term situation of hard times is unwarranted. If anything, we are on the cusp of a long boom that will make the current times seem like hard times.
been pushing to extend my basic food stores from 1 month to 3 months. with prices expected to sky rocket the urgency has increased. Been gardening like crazy with good results. good crop of plums, peaches and nectarines - pomegranates coming on good.
“Very basic article, but you might use it to get others to thinking about starting to prep.”
Agree...he does a good job on very lightly touching the critical topics. The next step for people is to start digging into those.
One comment about canned food. Most cans have an expiration date a year or a bit more out. If you give it to a food drive after that, they will politely thank you and then immediately trash it, since it’s “expired”.
But then there are others saying that canned food will last at least a decade, if not several decades, particularly if you keep it cool.
So here’s my experience - I stocked up quite well back in 2009 when I figured the dollar would collapse (as any currency this abused would do, in a sane world). Didn’t happen (yet), so now I have a boatload of 5 year-old food (believe me, if you had my wife’s cooking, you wouldn’t eat...or rotate through that canned food very quickly either). So, she’s been out for a bit, and now I’m eating the food. I made no special effort to keep the house (and canned food) cool either last summer or this summer, and temperatures in the 80s were the rule (even at this moment).
Result: The food is JUST FINE. Cannot tell the difference in taste from new and it has actually been a lot of fun eating it - I can calories very easy that way, and some of it is quite filling for the number of calories provided (like corn and peas). Very good experience so far, and I suspect that food would still be good for another 5 years, even with my (temperature) abuse. Now, give me a cool basement, and I wouldn’t hesitate to try 20 year-old canned food - providing, of course, that the can wasn’t bulged out (none of mine are, by the way), and the contents smelled decent.
I am building up emergency supplies slowly. What prepper dehydrated foods do people recommend?
BTW I am totally serious about the two or three quarts of non detergent motor oil. Also get one of those little cans which allow you to squeeze a lever for a few drops.
There are a few airguns which require special oils but even those can get by with the motor oil. For most guns and air guns the motor oil is about the best thing for them. The motor oil is even more versatile than 3in1 oil.
Also a couple of spray cans of molybdenum di sulphide lubricant. plus the best quality of moly grease with the most moly you can get.
I’m thinking of putting together a cheap 10 food supply list for people that are just never going to get around to storing any food, for instance a high paid single female, downtown condo dweller, that has almost no food in her house except for a few expensive health things, and lives mostly on take out.
I’m thinking of something that they can keep in a single box buried away for five years and then give it to someone (like a single man), or pitch it every five years if they are wired that way, and an easy list that they can replace themselves.
For example:
10 cans tuna
5 cans pork and beans
5 cans chili
10 cans corn and/or peas
2 boxes instant rice
2 large jars of peanut butter
2 cases bottled water
After talking to people about this stuff for decades, I know there are some that just never get around to it. With this simple list they don’t invest much money, and they can just replace it with the same listed items every 5 years.
For the kind of people I’m talking about, they don’t eat these foods usually, they don’t care about wasting $45 every five years, and they are not going to shop and rotate, and so on, so talking to them doesn’t help, you pretty much have to just assign them something.
To me, a list similar to this would be something to give them some extended self sufficiency, assuming they have some things in their cupboard, refrigerator and freezer, it should help them deal with a couple of weeks delay in services.
The website forgot to mention one of the most vital components: a napalm-proof, nuclear-bomb-proof, radiation-proof bunker/vault. Whether or not the attacks come from the Hussein Administration against conservatives, an arrogant Vladimir Putin, or loan shark Chinese, the likelihood of such an attack is very high.
Someone could make a lot of money and save a lot of lives if they opened several such vaults across America. Just make sure that the person running the vault doesn’t try to use the vault dwellers for experiments.
Have food, H2O filters & purifiers, fire, lights, batteries & recharge, solar, medical & dental, soaps, medical alcohol tinctures & Hydrogen Peroxide, burn kits, sun protection, hats, guns and ammo, alarms, B.O.B’s, hi-tech camp gear (light weight and extremly durable, expensive), high quality knives (folders and full tangs), Sven saws, myriad ways of lighting fire, maps, topos, comms, trail markers, boots, warm/cold weather and work gloves, balicavas, confidence, God and if I can get to my brother or vice a versa, we should be fine.
If we need to repopulate society. ..fine by me.
Climbing gear, fishing gear, hunting skills.
Just need some Beechnut.
I laid in a lot of food and other supplies. Recently I’ve sold my big suburban house, got rid of the suburban car, bought a truck, and am shopping for rural real estate. Guns, ammo, medical supplies, drugs, power tools and hand tools, hunting equipment...I’m on my way.