Micro-Prepping -- Final Call

Common Sense (mine) | Nov 20, 2015 | William of Barsoom

[William of Barsoom]

Micro-Prepping: Final Call. If you're reading these pages, you know it's coming. You probably also think it's close -- very close.

[DavidLSpud]

“Ralph Kramden” and “Ed Norton” got cast adrift in a lifeboat...

they found a bottle of “spirits” in the emergency kit..”Ed” read the instructions... :FOR SNAKE BITE...

“Ralph” looked around at the rolling sea and said...

Paraphrase-”Yep there might be some snakes out there”...

and they drank the bottle. ( ; )

If there is an EMP event, are LED lights more easily damaged by the Electromagnetic pulse?

You might want both kinds of lights...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bullets, Beans and Gasoline, Baby! :)

Great advice for the novices amongst us. The list you posted is pretty much what we lay in before the first snow - which is TONIGHT! :)

[Oatka]

Think I read this tip here;

Don’t forget your garden solar lights - bring ‘em indoors at night and save your batteries. Some are bright and last for hours - some aren’t. Check ‘em out.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mr. GG2 is not home right now. I’ll ask him when he gets back and try to let you know. It only take about an hour or so to make one.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“And stock up on alcoholic beverages so you have something to trade with all of the folks who have been prepping for years.”

@ss, Gas or Grass. NOBODY rides for free! :)

[Carthego delenda est]

Wow! How funny! I, too, wish the battery life on the ‘high’ setting was a bit longer, but it’s sufficient. I buy the AAA batteries in bulk, so they don’t cost too much that way. I’ve had to replace the elastic, but that’s par for the course no matter what brand. I also wish they offered it in all black, but I think Lenser has the ‘athletic’ group as its target clientele since there’s so much other competition for military/LE.

[Iron Munro]

What compact LED flashlights do you all like? There are so many to choose from.

The free ones at Harbor Freight work great and seem to run a long time on just regular AAA batteries.

Look for coupons like the one below on Harbor Freight circulars, at the store, or sign up on line, also in the Sunday newspaper, magazines, etc.

You can print the one I posted here or go to this link:

http://www.dealsoff.com/images/led.JPG

More links here:

http://images.harborfreight.com/hftweb/campaigns/localmedia/digitalsavings/Nov2015/digitalsavings_03.png

and here

http://www.dealsoff.com/harbor-freight-coupons/

[Mich Patriot]

I got about 1/2 dozen of these little Cree LEDs, which run on just ONE AA battery that lasts quite a long time. They are very small, maybe 4" long, have an adjustable beam, a pocket/belt clip, and are quite bright for their size. I got mine on Ebay for about $3 each.

[Mich Patriot]

Beaten to the punch by davetex, but at least we agree!

[Kartographer]

Spices and gravy! Selco tells that gravy makes a lot of uneatable, eatable! Spices can change the bland to something different each time.

[Mich Patriot]

I am micro-screwed.

Let's hope your GF never says that, Laz.

[Kartographer]

One thing I do is dehydrate, peppers and onion. Peppers and onions can do a lot to dress up a meal.

[nomad]

Bump

[Kartographer]

For those who claim that SHTF can’t happen here and is only something that just doesn’t happen in 1st would countries its far past time for you to wake up!

We are watching what was a measured SHTF event unfolding before our very eyes. And as I predicted it has now busted wide open and the 1st world Western European countries have carnage in their streets like of which they haven’t seen since WW II.

The odd thing is it is very likely that Eastern Europe will survive not only because they were wide aware of what was happening, but because of their prolong Iron Curtain Russian occupation those countries have made them tough, resourceful and more resilient than their rich neighbors.
How ironic would that be if in the end the former Eastern Block countries owe their survival to Joseph Stalin?

I will add that these former Eastern Block countries are the ones that have and continue too retain their Christianity while in Western Europe churches sit empty with many being turned into mosque. The east knows what it means to live without Christ and wont do it again.

It almost like God prepared them for this time.

It is your choice you can prep you can scramble for leavings.

So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3

Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.

A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/

You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.

I also posted this advice the other day, but it bears repeating:

If you watch this thread you will see that even on FR there are those who hate and scoff at those who would be prepared to take care of their own should a shtf event occur. They like to claim they are not worried,because nothing is going to happen, some even say things like if it happens I just rob the preppers for my needs. When called on their words they claim they are only joking, but in my experience people who try to mask their words by claiming that they are only joking are only trying to cover the slip of the real them that came out in their words.

When push comes to shove you would surprised what people who claim they don’t care will do to cling to life. One of the most dangerous groups that preppers will have to deal with are the anti-preppers, because they will not only covet what preppers have they will feel the need to punish preppers for having prepared and will feel morally justified in punishing preppers as in their twisted minds they will see the reason that the SHTF event occurred was because they dared prep for it. Their envy and indignation will be like that of leftist have for people who strikes out works hard and makes a good living or even gets well off and not sharing with them.

Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!

For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, paper goods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say: ‘When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.’

Again I like to recommend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:

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

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/

And More

Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
http://shtfschool.com/

There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.

[MarchonDC09122009]

You can safely use Coleman fuel in your gasoline fueled car.
I have. Use dry gas (to absorb water) and one gallon of Coleman per fuel tank full.
If in doubt, use it in a rental car ;n)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Stay out of the FEMA camps, ‘specially if you’re red-listed as a un-reeducatable conservative crank who frequents FR!

That is why I am fortifying and bugging IN. There will be no safe place for me and mine. And my place will be no safe place for those looking to 'reeducate' me.

No more running. I aim to misbehave.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Knew that was coming...

“I am micro-screwed.

Let’s hope your GF never says that”

[Talisker]

I am so screwed.

It's what you're famous for.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Alcohol and cigarettes were absolutely essential barter commodities shortly after Tropical Storms Irene and Sand left my home on an island for a tide cycle and without power for a week each time, as well as a monster blizzard that shut the place down for abut 48 hours. .

It’s amazing home much people will pay for a pack of smokes after a couple days without any.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Things to remember. Good post Kart.