10 Morale Boosters for Any Worst Case Scenario

Survival Mom ^ | 11/20/11 | Jack C. (Kartographer)

[Kartographer]

Ok, so the SHHTF (S#!t Has Hit the Fan). You are hunkered down with your preps about you. There’s no ‘zombies’ knocking down you door, but the first few days are nerve-wracking to be sure. You will be busy securing what you can, monitoring the situation and generally getting into a survival routine to match whatever is going on. Generally, you will be too busy and with your adrenaline pumping and all the work to do it won’t seem that there are enough hours in the day to get everything done. But what happens when the initial action is over and now you are just biding time and waiting for things to get back to a more normal? What if it’s an extended period? How do you keep morale up, stave off depression, and keep hope alive? First, hopefully you are prepared for whatever the event is. Being prepared and being able to provide even just the basics will go far in reducing worry and panic. Full bellies (even if it isn’t exactly what you wanted), sated thirst, and a warm, dry place to sleep will at least give you something to build on.

[marktwain]

This is the one I am very close to ordering. Just haven’t done it yet. My daughter got married yesterday.

http://www.batteryjunction.com/md-1600l-combos.html

[marktwain]

low maintenance woman isn’t that in the same category as big foot, the loch ness monster, the abominable Snowman.....

No, they are out there, but they are almost always happily married with children.

[marktwain]

A 6 kw solar power system is in process of being installed on my place in Yuma.

[goodwithagun]

I posted on an earlier thread the Dollar General has Libby brand canned veggies on sale through Wednesday for $.40/can. If it’s time for anybody to rotate stock or add to, this would be a great time to do it. It is a better deal than Aldi’s and store brands.

[marktwain]

Not the Freeplay. I have one. It uses a spring to operate a generator. It works like the motor on the old wind up phonographs.

The early Freeplay radios had that system. An Internet search has indicated that they have not made them that way for quite a while.

[Octar]

http://www.freeplayenergy.com/page-view.php?pagename=Audio&language=

[familyop]

"Wonder how it would work with an old a/c fan attached to the shaft, then hoisted up on a pole?"

It probably wouldn't. Try the following, if you have some welding and other technical experience (especially industrial safety and construction). It will work, but winds of 10 mph or more, much of the time, are required (e.g., the commonly raging winds in a basin on the east side of real mountain peaks, like those on the Great Divide).

10-foot wind turbine instructions (homebuilt)
http://www.otherpower.com/turbineplans.html

The following would work the best to save a lot of money on energy in most parts of our country, but it also requires real work. Contractors only build closed loop systems with all of the parts out of boxes (far too little thermal mass in such systems, but easy for retards to install).

$2K Solar Space + Water Heating -- One Simple DIY System

Technocracy--read the real definition, and embrace it. It will precede the rebuilding. The current social paradigm is dying. The "service economy," overly high "property values" and their friend, bipartisan socialism, will be gone for decades.

Have fun. Enjoy the slide.

[marktwain]

Freeplay does have a 12 volt standalone charging system available. It looks handy.

http://www.freeplayenergy.com/page-view.php?pagename=Freecharge-12v-link3

[anonsquared]

Kart, Letting you and other preppers out there know that Lowes is selling food grade #2 HDPE 5-gallon buckets for only $3.98. At prepper sites, you’ll pay around $6-7 for them.

I found the buckets at the front of the store by the registers. They are done up for Christmas - red with candy cane stripes and green with Happy Holidays. Added bonus is whatever food you store in them would be mistaken for Christmas lights or decorations by anyone poking around.

They come without lids but you can purchase gamma lids from beprepared.com, just watch for their sales.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post and your work. Thanks to all contributors to this thread.

BE PREPARED!

[magslinger]

I wasn’t talking about books to read before the collapse or how to manuals you will read during and after but apres deluge morale books.

[familyop]

"http://www.batteryjunction.com/frsushrars.html"

Good site for rechargeable and solar things. Thanks.

[I see my hands]

These recently ubiquitous inexpensive solar charged items have AA rechargeable batteries in them that are easily removed for use in other devices.

[21twelve]

On that show “The Walking Dead” one kid returns some paperpack to the old guy in his motor home.

“Here’s your book - thanks.”

“You’re welcome. And sorry, If I had known, I would’ve grabbed better books.”

[Kartographer]

Here’s the set-up I am looking at:

http://www.amazon.com/HQRP-Monocrystalline-Controller-Regulator-Radiation/dp/B002WHQL2U/ref=pd_sim_ol_3

Then adding a inverter and a Deep Cycle battery and a inverter. Mount the whole thing on a two-wheel dolly.

I am also looking at this as a back-up:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BKS3Z2/ref=s9_simh_gw_p23_d0_g23_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1KY45AY7ZEF2PD473D1F&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846

[bgill]

You left out a real man who isn’t afraid of getting his fingers dirty and has at least one handyman brain cell.

[RedMDer]

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Freepers! Happy Thanksgiving! Let's get this done before that! Come on! Day 51 of the Freepathon and only 41 days until the start of the next. What will you do and where will you post if it goes? All contributions are for the Current Quarter Expenses. Click here or mail checks to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

[call meVeronica]

Bump

[Pipe Dog]

Will you add me to your ping list please?

[Pipe Dog]

What model uses the spring system? I have been looking for something like that.

These might be of interest. BayGen Radio