Please consider this our Weekly Preppers’Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice, questions and ideas...
Our Kitchen Queen is arriving Monday.
http://www.antiquestoves.com/kitchenqueen/
I suggested to my wife that instead of buying more 5.56 for the AR, I should get an AK-47. Based on ammo cost, about 2,000 rounds of 7.62 would save enough to pay for the AK.
Umm, she didn’t jump at the idea. I don’t understand, it seems so sensible to me.....
Unfortunately, I have to pay a large amount (to me) of income tax and didn't realize that was going to happen (I lost a deduction due to husband's death). That has to be paid by April 15, of course. How do Hussein's people who work in govn. in Washington, owe millions of dollars in income tax and don't get thrown in jail? I remember hearing several months ago how much those people owe in back taxes. If I didn't pay mine, ON TIME, you can bet the IRS would be after me. Anyway, April is pretty much shot for buying a large amount of preps. When I have to go to the grocery, I buy the cheapest paper towels and toilet paper to store. I buy both every time I hit the grocery. I have scaled back buying more expensive food and get simple food so that extra can go for more prep food.
I am cutting every expense possible to have more for preps like the guy says in the article.
I keep the house temperature at 75 during the day and I must have it at 70 at night in order to sleep. Most days and nights have been cool so that saves on the power bill but that is going to change soon in southeast Texas.
Gifting to yourself or spouse is one thing but you don't want to advertise you're prepping.
I delayed keeping my canned corn stocked due to the budget and now our one and only grocery doesn't stock the cheap brand. The best lower priced solution is to keep abreast of situations.
Just a heads up:
We just noticed that some of our Clorox bottles were the “X2” version, and some were the “low splash” version.
After reading the fine print we discovered that only the “regular” Clorox should be used for water purification. The low splash version has something else added to reduce splashing, and the “2X” version is hydrogen peroxide. We don’t want either one in our water.
Side Note: We stock a bit of Clorox for short term water purification needs, and granular swimming pool chlorine for longer term use. If you get the granular stuff you can solve the long term chlorine storage problem (Clorox starts losing effectiveness after about six months of storage). Be sure to get the right kind of granules.
(Our own granules are stowed away and hard to get to right now and I don’t remember the details, so someone else will need to provide that info.)