James Rawles Warns: “Be Prepared To Hunker Down For Months”

SHTF Plan ^ | 9/23/13 | Mac Salvo

[Lazamataz]

Aluminum foil and vaseline will block all light from a window.

Not only that, but both items have many 'other' uses.

[PapaBear3625]

I'd rather black-out troublemakers, and leave my blinds alone.

Are you going to shoot your elderly neighbor when she comes whining for you to share some of your stuff with her?

[Lazamataz]

I’ve suggested this before, and it may be elsewhere in this thread, but if it gets to the point in your area and food lines appear, it would be prudent to show up even though you are self-sufficient.

Be careful with that. One of those lines might end up with a School Bus departure point to a FEMA camp.

[JRandomFreeper]

Nah, she'll be too scared to leave her house and die alone, starving. And then the neighborhood will have a party.

We really don't like her.

I know all of my other neighbors. They won't be a problem.

/johnny

[Lazamataz]

MRE’s are for short term use only. After a week of eating them you will become constipated.

MRE's can be used long term but you must supplement them with fiber (there are drinks that can do that) or, as an emergency, take laxatives as well.

[greeneyes]

I kinda consider silver and precious metals as a long term necessity to have enough money to pay the property taxes, that will no doubt be inflated down the road, as well as just part of a well balanced portfolio of investments.

I am even thinking that each year for the next few years, I should be buying silver or gold using the property tax as a guide for the amount to stockpile. Likewise, I think buying groceries today especially at sale prices is a good investment too-not just a prepper thing.

I don’t live in an urban area, so I think I am ahead of the game a little. We have a well and are on a septic system. So is everyone else who lives on our hill/subdivision.

Many of the neighbors also have generators as do we. There’s no way I would squander the use of the generator for mere lighting, when I have candles, oil lamps, kerosene lamps, coleman lanterns, and flashlights/battery operated lamps.

The generator is for running necessities like oxygen condenser for an elderly relative, a few hours of refrigeration along with running the well pump long enough to draw up some fresh water if needed, or maybe a fan if someone is developing signs of heat stroke.

We would also use some of the rainwater collected off the roof to flush rather than run the pump just to fill up the toilet tank.

[Larry Lucido]

James Rawles Warns: “Be Prepared To Hunker Down For Months”

Lou Rawls warns: "You'll never find, another love like mine."

(Lou is better known than James).

[arthurus]

Every new pope, unless he comes with his Conservative and Catholic bona fides already established and denounced by the press, is hailed as the great Episcopalian who will paganize modernize the Church and thereby marginalize it. They hope that they can snow the new Pope to make him feel Approved so that he will act and begin to think as the Press and the Pagans desire. They see new popes as new hires, as if they just got through the HR office. They can't quite understand that these fellows all have many decades of experience as Catholics and would not be such as to be even on the radar if they were naive credulous newcomers.

[JRandomFreeper]

but both items have many 'other' uses.

Yeah, but where are you going to find a dwarf during TSHTF?

/johnny

[Lazamataz]

Selling a gold coin makes people think "he must have more stuff at home". Selling a wedding ring makes people think you're down to your last resource.

Yeah, until one of them picks up you just sold your eleventh wedding band. Then they think you are a cannibal.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, but where are you going to find a dwarf during TSHTF?

I'll just offer to give them a short-stack of pancakes.

[arthurus]

Wrong thread, that last.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Speaking strictly to the portfolio aspect, not the survival aspect, that makes some sense. So does a minor investment in a commodities ETF... I like either DJP (broad based) or DBA (grains). But, this discussion started from an SHTF article, during which time your paper portfolio held by someone else will be at best in the deep freeze, and at worst, lost.

[PapaBear3625]

Yeah, until one of them picks up you just sold your eleventh wedding band. Then they think you are a cannibal.

Would YOU bother somebody who just sold a ring with bloodstains on it?

[dayglored]

>> but both items have many 'other' uses.

> Yeah, but where are you going to find a dwarf during TSHTF?

Geez, and here I figured the aluminum foil was for hats and the vaseline was to make the floor slippery so that would-be burglars fall when they try to break in.

Shows what I know.

Dwarves, huh? Whew.... wait, what? "Pancakes"???

[JRandomFreeper]

I figured it was either the wrong thread, or early-onset dementia. ;)

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Don't ask about the syrup.

/johnny

[Rannug]

Do you have, or have you considered, have any comments about a Faraday cage? Thanks

[Lazamataz]

Would YOU bother somebody who just sold a ring with bloodstains on it?

I'd lick the ring, then rush them, hoping to find a map to all that tasty 'long pig'.

[MHGinTN]

There are several ‘natural’ plants which can give the ‘laxative relief’. If nothing else is available, dandelion leaves mixed into any salad will do the trick, if the plants have already send out their seeds (the puffy propeller tops).