Posted on 03/07/2022 6:05:26 AM PST by mikelets456
I have included a "How to prep" website because I had to list a valid link. But here's a few questions I have and want to get your input of how you're preparing. First, I have always been a "prepper lite". Food storage, extra food, life straws, ammo, defense, a garden, dried foods, frozen meats, gasoline, LPG, AWD fuel efficient SUV, items to barter with, etc. I always thought we were sufficiently prepped until Covid happened, then I realized, there's far more thought involved, especially when living up North in PA with heat, ample supplies of food, water, coffee, first aid, etc.
My questions are as follows: ---What are you doing NOW to prepare? ---What are you preparing for? (Meaning--crash of the dollar? Gas shortages? Food shortages? All of those listed?) ---How are you preparing? ---How about protecting your home? Garden? Food sources? While trying to help others? ---Do you have a "bug out" plan? How is that prepared? ---Do you have a list of trusted people? Can people really be trusted when the SHTF?
If there's anything else I'm missing, please add or let me know.
(Excerpt) Read more at happypreppers.com ...
I go shopping every weekend, if I need to or not. It adds up over time.
Good idea.
“””It’s toiletries, cleaning supplies, medical supplies, paper products, laundry and dish detergents, gardening supplies, food preservation supplies”””
You are correct. I now have a two year supply of shampoo.
Rice and beans with only salt and pepper WOULD yield meal fatigue.
Overhyped, perhaps, but plan for variety and morale to keep folks alert, engaged and healthy.
BTW, you are SPOT ON about growing your own herbs and spices. Even in an apartment with a balcony/window.
Also re footwear. Critical. When you have to walk everywhere, cheap Chinese footwear doesn’t last. And the stores aren’t restocked.
Thanks for reinforcing that.
To prep for that, I put in a solar system big enough to support one side by side refrigerator/freezer. It took me a while to buy enough batteries to last the night but I’m now at that point. I’m lucky enough to live in a high sunshine state.
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No list to move to and if I had a list I wouldn’t state it on a forum.
I understand all of that.
Good idea
I live in Kentucky, 15 minutes from nearest town and have one neighbor a relative 100 yards away. Aside from her the nearest neighbor is several miles away. On the main road to get to my place there are maybe five houses and we are related to some of them. My other neighbor is a national park with dense wilderness.
I have five acres, my neighbor-my mother-in-law has a hundred and eighty acres loaded with deer, squirrel, rabbits and ever critter imaginable. Then we have a creek down the mountain from us not a quarter mile and a pond on her property. Propane gas logs with 150 gallon tank for me and 300+ for her.
I’ve had real estate agents begging me to put my house on the market, saying they will get me $500-$600K easily and her close to a million. So far my wife says no, this is her ancestral home property and she’s not leaving.
I have family within a thirty minute drive and they would be welcome but they need to bring tools, meds, food, guns, ammo and anything that could be useful.
I have a couple of liberal friends who have made the comment that when it goes to hell they are coming to my place. I don’t think so comrades. You haven’t been invited and my family is conservative and I have no need of marxist BS in what would be the brave new world.
There is food in the wild to be found.
Also, people can plant fruit bearing plants and nut trees.
I have some raspberry plants on order of example.
Plus, you can get early, mid season, and late bearing variities, and have a decent supply of raspberries all summer long.
All self-serving as they don’t really care about you, but the healthy commission they’d get from the sale of your house.
And, of course, there’s the problem of you finding something as nice as what you have that you can afford.
It reminds me of used car dealers who whine, *We need your car* as if they are destitute and you’re doing them a favor selling them yours, while you then need to buy a new one yourself, from them of course.
I don’t trust anyone in sales.
Now live in NE OK...still have "To Go" bags...for bad weather times.
Have a large pantry....Canned goods. I could prolly live 6 months easy without going to the store.
I have rifles...and ammo. I know how to hunt.....
Hope it never comes to that......but we shall see!!
That is so true.
Serious preppers realize that prepping guarantees nothing, but that you are as ready as possible for most of what happens and you are further ahead than if you had done nothing.
ain't that the truth.
Looks interesting.
12 years I believe.
I call them our ‘walk home’ bags. Be sure to keep walking shoes/boots with the bags ... and socks.
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