Prepping FYI

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[onona]

Interesting use of crayola crayons for emergencies.

[onona]

[Bobalu]

Cool.

[gattaca]

Good to know.

[GraceG]

What brands work best?

[onona]

I haven’t tested any, but be careful when choosing colors to burn from your bugout bag, you want to leave the kids with enough variety to make nice pictures.

[Bullish]

Jeeze, just don’t let the kids know, they’ll burn the whole house down.

[moose07]

A keep the kids entertained ,Ping!

[Southack]

Sticks of butter also burn like wax candles.

Keep some outdoor solar LED floodlights for your house.

Also, consider that in a viral contagion, you may have to be self-confined indoors for weeks. If your prepping depends on bringing in veggies or water from outside, that plan may not work so well.

The key virus to watch at the moment is MERS. Doctors’ masks to filter out airborne viri are cheap...a few bucks for 20. Have a few in your car. One will even fold into your wallet. Amazon.com is your friend.

[Tax-chick]

I’m sure Tom knows about this, but I’m not going to remind him.

[snoringbear]

“I haven’t tested any, but be careful when choosing colors to burn from your bugout bag, you want to leave the kids with enough variety to make nice pictures.”

Wonder if the various colors have the same affect as the colors of M&M’s?
As I recall, red makes you horny, green causes cancer, blue makes you ugly, forgot the rest.... :)

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[M Kehoe]

So does C4.

5.56mm

[piroque]

As I recall, red makes you horny, green causes cancer, blue makes you ugly, forgot the rest.... :)

ALL these years I've had the colors wrong (green makes her horny)

[Silentgypsy]

Thanks, moose! Did you know you can seal a pinhole leak in your radiator by putting a teaspoon of ground pepper? For obvious reasons, it’s a good idea to have a major repair or replacement, but as an interim measure....

[moose07]

What happens when the radiator sneezes and blows the front of the car clean off? :D

[Marcella]

Thanks, Kart, for the ping. I didn't know that about Crayolas. They could be a barter item and/or you could give some to a friend you trusted not to burn your house down. Crayolas are candles. That is really good to know.

A skill I call the “MacGyver Factor”: think out of the box as items that are normally used for “x” could also be used for “x”. If you mind is stuck on only one purpose for an item, think of other tasks this item could perform.

I didn't miss an episode of “MacGyver”. He was the master of out of the box thinking. Now, every item in my house gets a “MacGyver” evaluation - “What else could that do?”

[Lurker]

Mrs. L also saw every episode of that show. Sometimes she flat amazes me.

[RedMDer]

Cool

[snoringbear]

“ALL these years I’ve had the colors wrong (green makes her horny)”

Actually, You’ve probably got it right. My thinking that green causes cancer now explains why I would have done much better had I used your color scheme :)

[NTHockey]

Dollar Tree and Dollar General have a pack of 10 doctor’s masks for $1.00