I haven’t read through the entire thread yet, so this might already been suggested:
Regarding #27 on your list - Stockpile seeds. When buying seeds or plants, remember to buy NON-hybrid. After growing the plants, the seeds harvested from hybrids will not germinate.
Something I learned during my Y2K days. I might have looked silly when nothing happened, but I learned a lot from those days, and we didn’t have to do much grocery shopping for many months afterwards! It was great! Mr sneakers (who humored me through the whole thing, bless his soul!), really liked having a lot of supplies on hand!
Regarding #27 on your list - Stockpile seeds. When buying seeds or plants, remember to buy NON-hybrid. After growing the plants, the seeds harvested from hybrids will not germinate.<<<
That can’t be said too many times, as it is the most important fact at all....saving the hybrid seeds can mean no food at all.
I have had it happen with tomatoes, beautiful plants and not a flower or tomato.
Yes, I too learned a lot before Y2K, and it was fun for me to read in the different groups, how the stored foods were used.
Many like you and I, were glad to have good food on hand, and the many folks who posted when their mate lost their jobs or got sick and how glad they had prepared for Y2K, I could agree with.
I admit I laughed at the ones who had bought 400 pounds of beans and after Y2K, asked how to cook them. The only use that I ever saw that they had planned, was for trading stock or the sheer joy of hoarding.