Posted on 09/02/2021 4:05:13 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Other points about prepping.
You want to look poor—your house, your cars, your clothes etc.
If things get bad you want to be the last place needy folks come to visit, not the first.
The best prep trick I ever heard—Buy lots of red ribbon and a black magic marker. Use a spare piece of wood that can hang on the door.
If things get ugly you make a sign:
“Quarantine.”
Extra points for a fake health department printout under it.
Use the red ribbon to cordon off the area.
Deception is your friend.
Other points about prepping.
You want to look poor—your house, your cars, your clothes etc.
If things get bad you want to be the last place needy folks come to visit, not the first.
The best prep trick I ever heard—Buy lots of red ribbon and a black magic marker. Use a spare piece of wood that can hang on the door.
If things get ugly you make a sign:
“Quarantine.”
Extra points for a fake health department printout under it.
Use the red ribbon to cordon off the area.
Deception is your friend.
Get biohazard tape and put across your door 😉
The first rule of Prepper Club: You do not talk about Prepper Club.
One day I saw a mom at my little girls’ dance practice talk about blocking the main road into the county from the city down the hill “when the day comes”. The was universal agreement and understanding. Flipped school buses and blown bridges....
Funny as heck
Cities will extinguish within a week. Preppers can hold out for a year but there will be prepper wars and the city refugees will be scavenging. SHTF is pretty much the end depending on the circumstance but the more we depend on government,SHTF will be dystopian catastrophic apocalypse.
Dang ole Amish, always stirring up trouble.
BTTT
I doubt these two do any gardening or cleaning vegetables. They just appear as the subjects in "Happy Farmer Couple" images that sites can acquire the rights to.
This reminds me of when my wife subscribed to “Country Living” magazine.
The people looked a bit too scrubbed clean for my taste, so one day I asked her where the magazine was published.
We looked together, and it said New York City.
She canceled her subscription that day.
;-)
I only keep like minded friends. And I don’t have many. I do have acquaintances who laugh at my off grid living. They don’t know about my ‘stash’ of food and supplies hidden away. They think I’m some deranged paranoid lunatic. And of course, when something breaks I’m the type of person they call. We were out of power for 2 days when it was below zero last winter. If I didn’t go in to my office I wouldn’t have even known. I was nice and warm with plenty of ‘juice’ from my solar system and propane. They were freezing their butts in the cold dark. For those people take a look around you. The store shelves anywhere are about 50% stocked. And that’s only 7 months in to the most historic presidency in history. Just wait.
Bkmk
“Cities will extinguish within a week. Preppers can hold out for a year but there will be prepper wars and the city refugees will be scavenging. SHTF is pretty much the end depending on the circumstance but the more we depend on government,SHTF will be dystopian catastrophic apocalypse.”
I don’t think people have a clue as to what would happen in a true grid down situation. Some people above were talking about generators. I guess they have thousand gallon fuel tanks in their yard. Otherwise I don’t know where they think they will get fuel. What are your friendly neighbors going to do when their families inevitably start starving to death and know, or even suspect, that you have some food? You better not even walk out of your house. There will be desperate people trying to take what you have within a week of total grid failure.
Sorry. We actually WERE pretty darn poor in the eighties, and I worked like a dog not to show it, lol. It's different now, but I am paranoid about keeping my insanely large yards up to snuff.
These days if you are not a “deranged paranoid lunatic” you are not paying attention!
Anyone with normalcy bias in 2021 is dangerous to themselves and others.
It will be murderous rancor on a scale never before seen when it happens.
I’m talking just seeing another human will mean violence.
Who knows what may happen—but the point about prepping is you hope for the best but plan for the worst—and that includes the worst in people.
No real prepper tells anyone that they are prepping.
Anyone who does that is a fool because they will be swarmed when TSHTF.
I encourage others to stock up for stuff like winter, which my family has always done.
My sister lives down south and she is always prepped for hurricanes although they rarely hit her area.
My other sister preps for winter for the same reason I do. We both hate having to go shopping for more than the basics if the weather is bad.
And besides, I am not out to make prep converts to the point where I start up conversations with them to convince them to prep. If the subject comes up, I feel them out and encourage them to be ready for storms, etc, but otherwise if they want to know, they can ask.
That’s the other reason to not tell anyone you prep.
Now you’re becoming labeled an extremist for doing stuff like food preservation.
Best to keep that information to yourself.
I don’t tell folks about my stuff either.
No need and none of their business.
I guess if the SHTF, the good news is that it will be the last we hear about “vaccine passports” since nobody will be able to enforce it.
9 out of 10 Americans will also be dead within 5 months, and that might be an optimistic estimate.
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