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How to Survive Hard Times
grandpappy.info ^ | 2007-2010 | Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.

Posted on 06/06/2010 4:04:30 PM PDT by dynachrome

1.How to Find Water and How to Make Water Safe to Drink - Revised Oct. 21, 2009.

2.Realistic Self-Sufficiency: The Do's and the Don'ts - Added July 22, 2009.

3.A Simple But Effective Survival Plan - Added June 2, 2010.

4.How to Preserve Food Using Three Simple Old Fashioned Methods - Added May 7, 2010.

5.Part One: How to Start Preparing for Hard Times on a Very Modest Budget - Added Feb. 10, 2010.

6.Part Two: How to Start Preparing for Hard Times on a Very Modest Budget - Added Feb. 24, 2010.

7.How to Improve the Quality of an 1800s Lifestyle - Added Jan. 15, 2010; Revised May 10, 2010.

8.How to Select the Optimal Retreat Location - Added Nov. 2, 2009.

9.One-Year Emergency Food Supply for One-Adult - Revised June 2, 2010.

10.Food Inflation Price Index Based on the One-Year Emergency Food Supply - Revised June 2, 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at grandpappy.info ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: hardtimes; preparing; prepping; shtf; survival
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To: Windflier

I just read it for the first time, and it pretty much makes a lot of sense.
I can see his point that it’s not “if”, but “when”, and “how long” would it take. An hour seems to me a bit fast, a day or two might to me seem more likely, but no matter what, it comes down to the same thing:

You would have to survive with what you have. You would no longer be able to buy ANYTHING AT ALL.

I also TOTALLY agree that the whole GOOD philosophy is basically suicidal. The roads will become impassable before the day is over. Way better to hunker down, talk with your neighbors (hopefully, you have discussed these things with them in the past), set up guard rotations, and shut out the lights!


21 posted on 06/06/2010 11:59:28 PM PDT by djf
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To: dynachrome

Tagged for later retrieval...


22 posted on 06/07/2010 1:12:23 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Mantra of the left: 'It's only okay when WE do it.'")
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To: combat_boots

Thank you for the ping, it is a good site.


23 posted on 06/07/2010 1:55:05 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
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To: Noumenon

Ping.


24 posted on 06/07/2010 2:09:02 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: dynachrome

I don’t really agree with buying massive amounts of food bars and wheat. A better idea is to simply buy large amounts of the canned and dry foods that you already eat, several cases at a time instead of a few cans. Put oldest cans in front, and eat them as you normally would. As you use up a case, buy another, and put it behind. You can easily keep a sizable stock of food you actually like to eat on hand, and if disaster never strikes, no problem.

In other words, store what you eat and eat what you store.


25 posted on 06/07/2010 3:07:06 AM PDT by Hugin (Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
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To: Windflier

Okay - I need to go to Survival Mom’s site and read that article.


26 posted on 06/07/2010 4:47:04 AM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner)
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To: dynachrome

Bookmarked


27 posted on 06/07/2010 7:14:25 AM PDT by gundog (Outrage is anger taken by surprise. Nothing these people do surprises me anymore.)
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To: Hugin

I’m with you on that - buy what you eat.

My main concern is getting the kids out of the city and back home before it’s too late. The major highway would be shut down so that would mean backroads. I need to find some county road maps for their cars.


28 posted on 06/07/2010 7:53:28 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: dynachrome

bump


29 posted on 06/07/2010 4:32:25 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: dynachrome; waterhill

Bookmark and ping.


30 posted on 06/07/2010 8:06:49 PM PDT by Envisioning (Call me a racist,........one more time.....)
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btrl


31 posted on 06/08/2010 10:22:18 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (We need to limit political office holders to two terms. One in office, and one in prison.)
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To: Lurker; Squantos; Kartographer
Thank you my friend. I love this stuff.

Friggin dittos to the max!


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

32 posted on 06/08/2010 10:37:07 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: The Comedian; Lurker

Site is also smartphone friendly an fast.....great reads at lunches....

Not impressed by his firearm references / comments but then I’m a picky SOB when it comes to such....:o)

Stay safe !


33 posted on 06/09/2010 1:25:04 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: GeronL

Agreed—
What a great website! I’ve bookmarked it. Love the recipes section too. http://www.grandpappy.info/indexrec.htm


34 posted on 06/10/2010 9:22:27 AM PDT by StopBigGovt
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To: dynachrome

This is a great resource. Thank you for posting it.


35 posted on 06/10/2010 9:32:21 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: GeronL
is it all available in a single PDF file?

Not that I can see, but I just manually converted a couple of the links to PDF files and saved them and they look formatted ok.

Just click on a link. When it brings up the article, I click on FILE, and then PRINT, and when the print box pops under SELECT PRINTER, I choose ADOBE PDF. It then converts the entire article to a single PDF file which you can save to your harddrive for later reading.

36 posted on 06/10/2010 9:42:00 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: OB1kNOb

thanks


37 posted on 06/10/2010 9:49:35 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: dynachrome

Who to know when shtf...

I am going to piddle in circles.....


38 posted on 08/20/2010 6:01:35 PM PDT by waterhill (i)
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