Posted on 08/26/2024 8:59:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Great advice! Thank you!
I bought a book on foraging, a book on natural remedies, and I grow longevity spinach on my patio.
She could get a rice out of me...
Alcohol and coffee are also good for calming people after a month or two of shortages.
If you can offer a stressed neighbor a warm cup of coffee or a glass of booze it can relax them and make them feel more normal while you talk them back to calm.
In a movie type survivalist situation (end of world?) being able to talk over a few ounces of booze or sweetened coffee can help you with your intelligence networking and information gathering, it would pay to maintain communication and relationships.
We had a real life survivalist situation with the covid shortages, people were without toilet paper and food, yet preppers never talk about how they reacted and how they helped others, or withdrew and kept silent while looking out for number one.
The covid shortages gave us a chance to learn how we deal with an actual prepper situation, much more so than hurricanes and being snowed in does, it was a national event where we knew people with shortages and knew that strangers and neighbors had shortages, what did everyone here do?
#34: Yaesu FT-60R
I’ll steal their gold after they starve and freeze to death.
“”””I feel relatively confident we can hold out for quite some time working together if need be. But I sure hope and PRAY that we never need to live that way!”””””
Living well is its own reward, your situation is more than being prepared it is just good living and that makes for more happiness.
Being prepared, even for an apartment dweller without a garden and wood to burn makes for a calmer, more confident existence, and helps keep a human able to think more clearly and be good when troubles arise.
That’s about my exact post from 36. I typoed sat for salt.
“...what did everyone here do?” (During CovidBS-19)
Absolutely nothing different than living our normal life. I did use the Walmart service of them shopping your groceries for you and you pick them up. I HATED those stupid, USELESS ‘masks’ so I avoided going into stores as much as I could. I don’t remember too many shortages of everyday things, though we’re 10 miles from the small town where we shop and the Walmart is well-run by local people.
We went to church, we went to hunt club gatherings, we worked on the farm, raised a beef steer (but we always do that), we gardened, hunted, fished, I put up more food than normal from the garden and there WERE some shortages on canning supplies, but nothing that stopped me from canning. We walked the dog. Watched movies. Crocheted. Sewed. Fixed fences. Started remodeling the barn. Read. Played Cribbage. Had ALL holidays with family and friends. Mowed the lawn or shoveled the snow. No one got sick and no one died, other than my Dad, but he had cancer. He had to die without me because the nursing facility banned all family from any visits, but he had a Hospice Worker caring for him. THAT part of Covid I will never forget and NEVER forgive. Ever.
*SHRUG*
Yeah. Gotta pick your moments, though. The neighbor’s kid was once jonesing for a cigarette, pacing up and down the driveway for hours, waiting for mom to come home. He could have walked the half mile to the grocery store. I had a years-old pack of Camels, but no way I give him those. Still have ‘em. Must be 30 years old, by now.
I meant in regard to others, I let a few elderly neighbors know that I could give them some toilet paper and canned food and dry beans if they needed it and called my preacher to tell him I could help a few church members who needed it but to not let anyone pester me who didn’t need to.
Did anyone remember to bring a box of ziplock baggies for anything we might fish, hunt or forage that we can’t eat right away?
Like a squirrel.
Presumes you can get to the airport and they’re flying and you’ve interpreted the signs correctly.
The church itself should be prepping to help those in need.
He was jonesing for weed, one time, and I told him about some small plants I’d stumbled into, several miles back into the woods. He actually hoofed it back there and took some of it. Had to be nasty....green leaf....but he was motivated.
How, that is a lot of work, a job in it self.
You do not have to take the full burden on yourself.
What you can do is have some one of one discussions with church elders and get them interested in moving forward.
You can be a leader and motivate others to do the right thing.
It only takes one person to get a process started.
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