[DCBryan1]

Thanks Diane in WI. My wife and I call your suggestions "common sense". Somewhere around the mid 20th century, Americans stopped being self-sufficient as a whole.

Time for a "back to the land" movement in America, if not....then do it in your back yard.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You’re welcome. I do/have most of this stuff already, but my goal this coming year is to be even more self-sufficient out here on the farm, Apocalypse or not! :)

[EQAndyBuzz]

Time for a “back to the land” movement in America, if not....then do it in your back yard.

Hence the new food safety bill. Sorry, you can no longer grow in your backyard. Suggestion, goats, chickens and pigs make excellent pets, wink wink.

[Indy Pendance]

I know I’m a week late on this, but, it’s Christmas.

My daughters, in their 20’s, are big on learning the ‘lost’ skills. They’re sewing, knitting, gardening, canning, and home schooling. Woman work. Our Hubby’s are chopping wood, hunting, fishing, carpentry, Man work....... etc.

For those of us that get it, we haven’t lost those skills, we’re just fine tuning them. And I’m seeing more and more 20 somethings jumping on board the prep bandwagon.

There is a portion of society that has no clue. When tshtf, we’ll be ready, they’ll be lost. Perhaps darwin will bite them in their liberal butts. Survival of the fittest. Their big fancy jobs in Chicago and New York won’t matter. We’ll have been honing our bartering and prepping skills. Their cell phone will be useless.

We have soap recipes ready to go, a hand pump for our well. Their Chinese take out will be history.

It’s great to be a conservative!