Posted on 06/10/2011 6:59:59 PM PDT by blam
Also, I had to chuckle when I saw the box with the vegetables in the first picture...did you notice that every nail in it was bent, lol.
I need to find a good surplus store but I don’t know if they even exist in the form I remember.
Somewhat related:
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
Also, I had to chuckle when I saw the box with the vegetables in the first picture...did you notice that every nail in it was bent, lol.
Thats because they are staples
Honest Al, I didn't take up drinking again.
They look like bent finishing nails to me, lol. (Dang glasses)
B. Hussein Obama
bringing the Mogadishu way of life to a community near you
I have 17 of the skills listed.Plus plenty of ammo.
I couldn’t get past the green squash and squash blooms to even notice how well the crate was made.
What about twitting, tweeting, facebook posting, thumb-typing, video gaming, and sexting?
My late mothers told me that barter was quite common in the midwest in both the 1920’s and 1930’s.
mother not mothers.
Saw the entry for soap making, and wondered what could be used for that, then noticed that lawyers are not on the list.
Lawyers can’t be rendered down to much of use. Abrasives and astringents, that’s about it. Expensive, too.
Back in my great grandmother’s day, they chucked a couple of lawyers down in the privy to help break things down so they didn’t have to move the privy too often.
I'm 67 and my mother (a farmers daughter) told me that during the depression men would arrive at her mother's back door early in the morning to chop that days wood for the wood burning stoves and heaters in the house. My grandmother would provide a breakfast of eggs, ham, grits, milk and biscuits for the lucky chopper.
An interesting side to this story is the fact that she had to set a 'start chopping' time. Different men would try to be the first to arrive each morning until it got to where the wood chopping began at 3:00AM. Everyone was very polite and gentlemanly and would not accept anything they hadn't earned. People wouldn't understand that today.
I do remember seeing the Rolling Store at my grandmother's house. He always gave the kids a piece of hard candy. Grandmother would trade eggs for coffee, etc.
That's all I know about that story.
“Seeds: ...Fresh Produce:”
Save your own seeds.
Sprouts are the easiest ‘fresh produce’ to grow.
However they must be made from food quality seeds (like the ones produced in your garden)as commercial planting seed is treated with poisons. Makes no difference in the full grown plant but can be deadly in sprouts.
Just about any seed or bean makes a nutritous, edible sprout.
“Everyone was very polite and gentlemanly and would not accept anything they hadn’t earned. People wouldn’t understand that today.”
How True! How Sad (your final sentence).
Sort of an early form of Rid-X? I think we’ve just found a use for lawyers, post-SHTF.
The kids of today would ether suffer horribly or turn to crime and slowly be eliminated because they are so used to expecting everything.
A few years back the son of a friend was whining to his dad that he wanted $5 for something. I told him that I had $15 worth of cans in the back of my truck if he wanted them. He turned his nose up at them because he didn’t want to deal with them.
SHTF to SHTL
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