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All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics [Survival Today, an on going thread] Coronavirus special thread
3/24/20 | Cottonball

Posted on 03/24/2020 5:14:41 PM PDT by CottonBall

This is our ongoing prepper thread, re-invented to be more specific to prepping for, and of course during, pandemics.

Where gave you found your preps have withstood this test? What would you like to have done differently? What are your current prepping plans?


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: anotherdamnedvanity; granny; prep; prepper; preppers; prepping; preppingprepper; shtf
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To: Responsibility2nd

JR hisself cancelled my monthly donation, since it was insufficiently aligned with prevailing opinion for 2 weeks.


61 posted on 03/24/2020 7:31:03 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Messaging to Snowflakes: They stole it from Bernie AGAIN!)
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To: CottonBall
I had an interesting experience tonight. My neighbor, 60 or so year old lawyer, head of small firm, very solid guy, stopped me in the driveway and asked if he might borrow one of my guns for household defense. No problem, I have tons. But It occurred to me that he was actually worried about home invasion. In my neighborhood that is laughable. The teens all look like Harry Potter and the adults are either doctors or lawyers or corporate types.

I wonder why he is afraid all of a sudden. Very puzzling.

I have an old 12 gauge break action with a 16” barrel. A monkey could make it work. I can only pray he doesn't have to fire it.

62 posted on 03/24/2020 7:31:14 PM PDT by anton
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To: Jayster

You may want to check out this thread then......

Weekly Garden Thread - March 21- 27, 2020
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827019/posts


63 posted on 03/24/2020 7:32:08 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: CottonBall
Coconut oil.

As far as I can tell it does not go bad unless really mistreated.

I have opened a sealed container five years after it's Best By date and it was perfectly fine.

64 posted on 03/24/2020 7:35:34 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: redfreedom

Many decades ago, I worked with a guy who was a real outdoorsman.

I asked him if he was a survivalist, and he said that a real survivalist would never tell you that they were. So if he said no, it didn’t mean he wasn’t.

So too with real preppers.

My family knows of my prepping tendencies but I don’t talk much about it beyond that.


65 posted on 03/24/2020 7:36:21 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOL!!!

I love it.


66 posted on 03/24/2020 7:37:07 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Uncle Miltie
cancelled my monthly donation, since it was insufficiently aligned with prevailing opinion for 2 weeks. Gee that sounds fairly serious.

I don't spose you care to mention the cause of the dispute?

67 posted on 03/24/2020 7:37:13 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: eartick; Diana in Wisconsin
That is an easy fix....buy another gun safe or two ;)

They're probably all sold out, too.

68 posted on 03/24/2020 7:38:05 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: little jeremiah

Neat, there is a drop 45 minutes away!!

They have grown. Back when I check them out there wasn’t a drop anywhere near.


69 posted on 03/24/2020 7:39:44 PM PDT by CottonBall (A Republican's power comes from your prosperity. A Democrat's power comes from your poverty.)
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To: Cboldt

;)


70 posted on 03/24/2020 7:40:02 PM PDT by CottonBall (A Republican's power comes from your prosperity. A Democrat's power comes from your poverty.)
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To: CottonBall; eartick

Gasoline can deteriorate though and must be treated and used within a reasonable time frame.

Mr. mm is anal about that.

One FReeper mentioned once that whenever there is weather expected, he empties the gas cans into his vehicle and buys fresh to fill those back up.

That way the gas never gets too old and ruined.


71 posted on 03/24/2020 7:40:23 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Fightin Whitey

I supported the guy I thought was most ideologically conservative a little longer (two weeks) than prevailing opinion preferred. Ted Cruz. Turns out that Trump is excellent, but a time lag was enough to be shunned to purgatory.

After 4 years, I may re-up my monthlies if they’ll take my tainted money.


72 posted on 03/24/2020 7:41:47 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Messaging to Snowflakes: They stole it from Bernie AGAIN!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

LOL. Really? Well that does show character. If you’re going to zot a person, don’t take their money.


73 posted on 03/24/2020 7:43:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: little jeremiah

I would love to know how to can butter. I just canned a bunch of bacon, and that’s another one the FDA says we’re not supposed to do. I just opened my last jar that I canned about 5 years ago and it’s just fine. I have a bunch of powdered butter but it doesn’t have that oiliness that is necessary in some dishes. Just the flavor. In a prepping situation when we are working hard and limiting what we are eating, fats will be important.


74 posted on 03/24/2020 7:43:13 PM PDT by CottonBall (A Republican's power comes from your prosperity. A Democrat's power comes from your poverty.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I picked up on that from FR.

Started stocking up when China started seriously cracking down.


75 posted on 03/24/2020 7:44:37 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: anton

Feral urban yutes can get restless....

They can drive....


76 posted on 03/24/2020 7:46:37 PM PDT by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Congrats on being a survivor. I kept my head down and nose clean. I only lurked on the political threads and posted only on the garden or prepper threads.

We lost a lot of interesting people and I miss most of them-but not all. LOL


77 posted on 03/24/2020 7:49:14 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: caww

I even got some Manuka just for the medical qualities.


78 posted on 03/24/2020 7:50:05 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: greeneyes; eartick

One thing you all might want to consider for water is an RO filter.

They are not all that big.

Mr. mm bought one a few years ago to make purified water and it works great. It takes a while and you use more water than you get, cause there is run off.

I’ll find out where he got it because I don’t think it was the expensive Home Depot models.


79 posted on 03/24/2020 7:50:09 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Spent 8 years prepping during Ophonybama/Ophonybiden years.

All prepped up?


80 posted on 03/24/2020 7:50:41 PM PDT by Taxman ((We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!))
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