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What are you doing to prepare?

Posted on 04/02/2010 5:05:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance

Are you truly independent? Do you have the skills? Can you hunt, grow a garden, can food, sew-knit, live off the land? Are you ready? Do you possess the "lost" skills? Our family is ready. In obama's words, "bring it on". Once the economy collapses, I'll be here longer than the liberals and their pampered lives.


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: crash; economy; lping; prep; preparedness; preppers; prepping; shtf; survival; teotwawki; trends; unrest; vanity
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To: Indy Pendance

Feel free to come share ideas here.

http://freerangepatriots.ning.com/group/personalreadinesspage


21 posted on 04/02/2010 5:19:31 PM PDT by Moozle (Free Constitutional education resources online at http://freerangepatriots.ning.com/)
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To: NurseZac

AK74 and 2000+ rds.


22 posted on 04/02/2010 5:19:37 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Atom Smasher

canning supplies that can heat up over flames and not depend on electricity. Also, don’t forget the jars, lids....all the stuff that goes with canning and preserving.

http://www.freshpreserving.com/


23 posted on 04/02/2010 5:19:39 PM PDT by NurseZac
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To: Indy Pendance
What are you doing to prepare?

I purchased Lifelock, saved $15 on my auto insurance, and canceled my AARP membership.

24 posted on 04/02/2010 5:19:45 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Sacajaweau

You need a driver and personal bodyguard?


25 posted on 04/02/2010 5:20:35 PM PDT by halfright (My presidents picture is in the dictionary, next to the word, "rectum".)
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To: PatriotGirl827

ditto


26 posted on 04/02/2010 5:21:01 PM PDT by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: Travis McGee

Lol!

Hey, I clicked on a Census link and it took me to a site with a map.

There are currently somewhere between 650-1100 people per square mile where I live.

If the SHTF, I’m inclined to think fairly soon that number would go down to the 40-50 range. Max.

Truly frightening.


27 posted on 04/02/2010 5:21:22 PM PDT by djf
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To: Indy Pendance
I'm fully supplied.


28 posted on 04/02/2010 5:21:36 PM PDT by garjog
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To: sonofagun
I really like this site, they're not over the top wackos, just 'normal' folks. I hear you, I'm in my early 50's. This stuff is scaring the crap out of me.

American Preppers Lot's of good info, tons of links. How to can, hunt, garden, water, all sorts of useful information, it's not a "I've got 50,000 rounds of ammo, come and get me" site. Normal people giving practical advice.

29 posted on 04/02/2010 5:22:12 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: Indy Pendance

I was seriously thinking about buying a STEAM ENGINE!!!

Seriously!

Hook it up to a heavy duty car alternator, have a nice little 1000 watt inverter, and you’d be good to go!


30 posted on 04/02/2010 5:24:33 PM PDT by djf
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To: Travis McGee

I got pleanty of DVD’s and a handcrank that my younger cousins can use to keep my big screen plasma HDTV on so I can watch my favorite shows...

Anything else I divulge would be detrimental to our compounds security and discrete location and existance...

If you know the password, we may be amiable to visitors...;-)


31 posted on 04/02/2010 5:25:22 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: Indy Pendance

Stocking on ammo, food and medicine. I can cook from scratch bread and most foods. We have a garden that I can various foods and this past weekend bought half dozen fruit bearing trees. We also hunt on our land and have a pond for fishing bass and catfish.

My grandparents were very very poor and my grandmother made sure I learned how to cook from scratch. I mean EVERYTHING from scratch. Not that I do all the time, I mean I love to open some pasta and I certainly buy loaves of bread and all, but I do know how.

Oh, and we don’t have any chickens right now, but we do have a coop and neighbors have a ton of chickens we can get chicks from if needed.

Oh, and we dug a smoker pit in the yard for smoking wild turkeys, wild boar meat and rabbits.


32 posted on 04/02/2010 5:25:35 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

We’ve got about 9 months stocked.


33 posted on 04/02/2010 5:25:38 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; Blue Jays; ...

Preparedness/Survival Ping!!


34 posted on 04/02/2010 5:27:34 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (God to Obama: Don't think I'm not keepin' track. Brother.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They really ASSumed the Americans would roll over. Perhaps the city folks, but us fly overs will rue the day. We ran away from Europe.


35 posted on 04/02/2010 5:27:50 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: NurseZac

Absolutely. Also, be sure to check the shelf life of your canned items. Back in 1999, I made the rounds - DelMonte is my pick with a 10 year shelf life. Ever since the year 2000, I have been rotating groceries. I buy 20 cans a month for the emergency supplies.

....and, don’t forget a toilet seat!n To some this may seem insignificant, but it will be a welcome asset to your supplies. You can put it on top of a 5 gal bucket (with a plastic bag inside), over a milk crate, or purchase one of the “chair type” toilet seats from a medical supply store.

As well as lots of toothpaste, shampoo, soap, detergent (even if you have to wash clothes outside), dish soap, & tons of batteries.


36 posted on 04/02/2010 5:27:56 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: Indy Pendance

I just listened to a book on CD called Patriots by some guy names Rawles. It was basically a survivalist manual in the form of a novel. Very compelling and some decent advice.


37 posted on 04/02/2010 5:28:49 PM PDT by cyclotic (Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
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To: Travis McGee

Can last maybe a year without needing essentials.


38 posted on 04/02/2010 5:28:56 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Indy Pendance

One of the benefits of living out in the country. They can laugh and call us rednecks but we won’t go hungry.


39 posted on 04/02/2010 5:31:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help! I've been Alinskyed by the Obamanoids and I can't get up!)
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To: EGPWS

I’ve just been to Sam’s. I can barter in TP and cheap appetizers.


40 posted on 04/02/2010 5:31:41 PM PDT by GnuHere
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