Posted on 09/09/2013 7:55:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For once, I wish people would focus on life skills for living in cities. It’s great to know how to read a compass but people come to NYC from rural and suburban places and immediately become crime victims because they can’t read feral humans beings or understand how to negotiate through a bad neighborhood. Or simply how to stay out of Central Park after dark. Drives. me. nuts.
Buzz Kill
Add a Leatherman to the list for clipping off fishing hooks stuck in someone's skin and such things, and I'll second your list. Also, I've many times killed a nagging cold/flu with a 1/2 - 3/4 pint of whiskey. Yeah, there may be a residual headache - that's why you save a couple swigs for the next day...
Glad to help any time!
Herbs like rosemary, basil, and many more are decorative, hardy, and can't be beat when $ free and fresh.
recent storm knocked down some pretty hefty limbs. I now have three child size, 2 adult size, one platoon-sized weapon, one company-sized weapon, one battalion-sized weapon and a heavy artillery-sized weapon. Each of the heavy weapons is mounted on its own base.
Steel wool and a battery (9v is best, but flashlight batteries work too). Makes a real nice all-weather starter. Scrubs pots too.
Mint grows easily and prolifically, too...as do strawberries.
I can vouch for the strawberries. I started with only about nine plants and now they are a huge mound and threatening to take over the entire side yard!
Where can I get one of those/?
Several kinds of strawberries produce fruit twice a year (Spring and Fall). That’s a nice feat for a perennial that you never have to plant again.
Twice a year you’ve got new food being grown into your supplies.
Realistically, you can’t really store enough food to last you forever, but you *can* grow it.
Strawberries cover your Spring and Fall.
Add one male and one female arctic kiwi perennial and you’ve got Winter covered (kumquats and persimmons work for Winter, too). A single little female arctic kiwi vine can produce up to 120 pounds of kiwi fruits per Winter! Such vines can grow on fences and the sides of buildings to make use of wasted space, too.
*male+female species like kiwis require cross pollination with each other...if chemicals/warfare knocks out all of your bees and butterflies you will have to hand pollinate them (easy enough) or hope for air pollenation (much lower fruit production).
Then you just need a good Summer perennial like Apples (blueberries, blackberries, or cherries) to keep you supplied with food year round, forever and ever.
The old (straight) Boy Scouts USA used to teach all of that, not any more.
Awww, did I do that???
I have heard that this was one of its original uses during the Viet Nam war.
Slingshot forum has some very interesting designs, many of which you don't want in the hands of children.
I've never been gun fishing before, but it sounds fun!
o am on my third season. 90% failure. still trying to figure out if its me the soil or the seeds.
it’s a blast....
I’m sorry, but most of the above are absolutely useless in any populated area in times of crisis.
From Bosnia to Chechnya there are numerous accounts of societies fallen beyond civilization just in a very recent history and I tell you none were saved by knowledge of edible plants, trap-hunting or an ability to read the sky for directions.
First things you need are weapons, ammo and a will to use it.
Thus, points 15, 16, 28-32 are a good idea.
Serious question: what’s the best type of knife sharpener for normal household use, hunting knives, etc.? I’ve suddenly realized all I have is the basic ketchen steel.
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