Posted on 06/11/2011 3:46:44 PM PDT by Kartographer
In today’s “modern” globalist economy, we have relied upon centralized and highly manipulated trade, forced interdependency, senseless and undisciplined consumption, endless debt creation, welfare addiction, and the erosion of quality, as a means to sustain a system that ultimately is DESIGNED to erode our freedoms not to mention our ability to effectively take care of ourselves. We have been infantized by our financial environment. In the near future, those who wish to live beyond a meager staple of government handouts (if any are even given) will be required to make a 180 degree reversal from their current lifestyle of dependency and immediate gratification towards one of self sufficiency, personal entrepreneurship, quality trade, and a mindset of necessity, rather than unfounded excess.
This means that each and every one of us will not only be driven to form barter networks outside the designated confines of the mainstream, we will have to become active producers within those networks. Each and every one of us will need to discover practical goods and skills that will be in high demand regardless of economic conditions. Being that our society has all but forgotten how this kind of trade works, let’s examine a short list of items as well as proficiencies that are sure to be highly sought after as the collapse progresses…
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Not many squirrels, here. But pigeon, quail, waterfowl...
Oh, no! That's exactly how I do it in my garden. Am I doing it wrong?!?!?!
“Am I doing it wrong?!?!?!”
Heck yeah. You need Mexicans.
OK Mexicans don’t work in agriculture. I made it up.
Check on your local County Extension website for seasonal crops as well as preserving. Great source of info.
Zombieland. Don't expect the rest of us on here to feel any sympathy when the zombies stumble out of the city. You say it won't happen, yet you keep posting.
Munching on homegrown cherry tomatoes as we speak. Yumm. Just like candy.
I’ve had bugs eating the broccoli and cauliflower but taking my thumb and forefinger to them has solved the problem. Squish!
We've had high 90's to 100 degree temps for two months and the garden is happy. Summer doesn't start for another two weeks. What do you consider a heat wave?
As Sipsey says in Fried Green Tomatoes (another great dish from home gardens), "The secret's in the sauce."
With CDs paying so little in interest and then having to return part of that pittance back to the government at the end of the year and considering it might not be so easy to get to it when you need it, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to dig a hole and bury it.
Canning meat isn’t that difficult. Home canned chili - yumm. My bunch pig out on homemade jerky.
Because of their high acidity, tomatoes can be canned in a homemade solar oven.
I'm betting Regulator's tiller uses the same gas and oil as a motorcycle. Cool, front door fuel delivery and it'll last for many a growing season.
Yes, there are people who do have gas stored on their property. Do you seriously think people drive their tractors into town for fill ups at the convenience store pumps? Hahahahaha, your gang wouldn't last a mile past the city limit sign if you even make it that far before an inner city gang takes your bikes for themselves.
Don’t you still have to replace the jar rubbers?
granny - Do you have an old Betty Crocker Cookbook? There’s a recipe in there for “filled cookies” that is da bomb for using up old jam. The best filling is tomato preserves, yum. It’s basically two sugar cookies with jam between much like a pop tart. They freeze well, too.
Which is why store shelves so soon go empty and the ones who didn't make it there in time are left complaining to tv cameras. It plays out like that each and every time. You'd think they'd have found a clue by now.
bttt
“You’d think they’d have found a clue by now.”
They are too busy making fun of those who do prepare.
Here in the Mid-Atlantic, folks clear the shelves at the first forecast of snow. It doesn’t take much to freak ‘em out.
My favorite laugh from the days just before Y2K when I went to the food store with my mother, who was in her early 70’s at the time. A friend of hers was there with half her cart loaded up with loaves of bread and couldn’t seem to understand why Mom wasn’t doing the same. Mom pointed to the 10-lb bag of bread flour and jar of yeast in her own cart and said “I am. I just store it differently than you do.”
I have not read all the comments, so this may have already been addressed.
I do not know who this "Randy" is but if he believes that until the past 30 to 40 years Americans did most of their commerce by bartering and independent trade, he is FOS. I have been around for over 70 years and I cannot recall a time wherein it was NOT the practice to use MONEY to BUY goods and services.
But some people, the world began when they were born.
One year I had a pear in a coke bottle, no one knew how I did it....easy. Right after its done flowering, and has a tiny fruit, put a bottle over it and it grows in the bottle.. sometimes you have to tie the bottle to the branch...works with pears and peaches, I didn't have any apple tree's on the farm....To the little kids you become an instant genius....LOL
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