People need to force themselves to do these projects.
Survival means having to learn to do things with your hands, having to learn the root of processes, and why things have to be done in certain ways, how non-store bought food has to be handled and manipulated and processed to make it work for you.
The less mechanical and skilled with their hands someone is, then the more they need to make these things on the list, and especially if they live like a typical American who doesn’t have a heap of junk parts and raw materials out in the barn, and on their acreage.
If you are living in a pristine, uncluttered condominium or home, then now is the time to be trying these projects, while you can go to the hardware store and buy things, and deal with the (initially) wasteful learning process of learning to be a handyman.
You are correct ansell2. Prepping isn’t just ‘STUFF’ it’s skills and knowledge ae well both of which will out last your supplies of ‘STUFF’.
As for the Rocket stove on this list I like to post a couple of links about another DIY Rocket Stove:
Ammo Can Rocket Stove
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2850938/posts
My Ammo Can Rocket Stove
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2914240/posts
Uncluttered does not compute.
Agreed that people should learn skills now. Too many think that if/when it htf that they will be harvesting their garden, milking their goats, sending out morse code status reports halfway around the world and have their home clad in 6 inch steel in the first week.
I finally got the tomato and pepper seeds started inside to go into the garden this spring. Trying some new varieties this year to see if they will give a me a better harvest what with our heat and drought. Also, put up and baked up the last of the tomatoes from the garden. Air drying some peppers.
I stopped in at the Walmart two towns over and was floored at their high prices. I rarely shop at Walmart and that one maybe once a year. I usually don’t grocery shop but once or twice a month so either that WM was just expensive or prices jumped over the new year. I did buy some little preps like another manual can opener and one box of matches. Strange, they only had one box.
I’m making a list of projects/things to do. Yesterday and today were devoted to rotating the pantry. The freezer is full but it needs to be re-organize it after it got jumbled when a neighbor needed temporary space.