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All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics [Survival Today, an on going thread]
CottonBall

Posted on 09/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PDT by CottonBall

This is an ongoing thread – meaning come back to chat, post information, or ask questions any time. Hopefully the thread won’t stagnate and I’ll do better at posting weekly (or bi-weekly) topics than I have in the past. (anyone willing to post a topic now and then we'll be highly praised and appreciated).

We are in for some bumpy rides, and prepping can only help. If for peace of mind, if nothing else. We have a wonderful gardening thread and a current-events survival/prepping thread, and hopefully this one can piggyback off of those, maybe having a longer discussion about certain topics or … whatever. It's your thread, do what you like with it! (civilly, of course)

Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:

nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1

nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #2

nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #3


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: chat; cooking; dc; granny; prepper; preppers; prepping; survival
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Welcome Back!!!
1 posted on 09/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: 4Liberty; aaa; Albion Wilde; Aliska; AmericanMermaid; Ann de IL; Apple Pan Dowdy; Augie; azishot; ..
This is your ping to the All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics [a place to come sit on the porch and chat, an on going thread]

This week's topic is

Welcome Back!! and

What do you think is the most crucial survival topic to start with?

I thought I would try to revive the old thread and hopefully do a better job of keeping it going. If anybody wants to help posting topics, you will have my undying gratitude and lots of praises.

I'm using the old ping list so if anybody wants off it just let me know.
2 posted on 09/16/2023 3:28:45 PM PDT by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" – Mussolini)
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To: CottonBall

Just finished canning my Pink Tip Greasy beans. Then I did four batches of potatoes pressure canned without water. Now I’m waiting for the dried beans I ordered to get them processed. Then it’ll be time to bring the firewood to the house. Fall is in the air!


3 posted on 09/16/2023 3:32:20 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: ryderann

That sounds idyllic . . .


4 posted on 09/16/2023 3:40:19 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: CottonBall

“:I’m using the old ping list so if anybody wants off it just let me know.”

If you would put me on the ping list that is ok.

For a few days now I have been looking at the “Bug out Bag” stuff online. Some are ok some are stupid what to put in that bag are interesting it is a personal choice.


5 posted on 09/16/2023 3:42:01 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: CottonBall

Great thread idea, CB!

Glad to see it. I am visiting with son and granddaughter at the moment (just took a quick trip in to use the facilities lol) but will check back later.

Thanks for starting this - we’ve been doing a mess of prepping up here, north of the border!


6 posted on 09/16/2023 3:43:33 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: nomorelurker

My family have bug-out bags, but I don’t know what’s in them (it’s my daughter, SIL and grands). They didn’t make one for me lol so I’m thinking I’m not bugging out any time soon.


7 posted on 09/16/2023 3:45:04 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: ryderann

Fall is in the air for sure!

I spent that last few days under a mountain of green beans and tomatoes. Potatoes being pulled soon, but we just leave those covered with dirt and stored in the walk in refrigerator in an out building.

Five little piggies that aren’t so little are going to butcher soon, so freezers full again.


8 posted on 09/16/2023 3:46:58 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: CottonBall

Please add me to ping list

Thanks


9 posted on 09/16/2023 3:57:30 PM PDT by The FIGHTIN Illini ("Let Us Never Forget What They Have Done")
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To: JudyinCanada

Oh, I miss my own pork. Haven’t raised a hog in years, since the milk cow was sold. Milk makes amazing meat. Didn’t have a large freezer then so I canned a bunch of the meat. Lasted for years in the jar.


10 posted on 09/16/2023 3:58:25 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: nomorelurker

I think that for almost everyone, the home BOB is about going to a shelter or a friend’s home, so it should have all the things based on that, the one in the car should be based on living in the car for X days and/or hiking out under worse winter or summer conditions and for the longest distance to your home or occupied houses.

A lot of guys seem to base their BOB on moving to the woods and living off the land which makes zero sense.


11 posted on 09/16/2023 4:01:14 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

I don’t plan on bugging out, but I like your idea to have supplies in your car or work so you could walk home.


12 posted on 09/16/2023 4:05:31 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: CottonBall

bookmark


13 posted on 09/16/2023 4:06:10 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: P.O.E.

“””I don’t plan on bugging out, but I like your idea to have supplies in your car or work so you could walk home.”””

A lot of people keep gear at their work/office so that they can shelter in place if needed, or hike home if they have to.


14 posted on 09/16/2023 4:09:56 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: CottonBall

Rule #1 for Preppers:

Decide who you trust with your life.

Never let anyone else know about your preps.

You will want to look poor to any outsider.

That means no noisy generators, no fancy vehicles, etc.

This great scene from Goodfellas explains the issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUksG2txnxY


15 posted on 09/16/2023 4:10:38 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: CottonBall

Canned 15 pints of fresh peaches from a friends mini farm this week. Had enough left over for a lovely pie.

Around here opening a jar of summer peaches in the depths of winter is one of life’s little joys.

L


16 posted on 09/16/2023 4:12:53 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: CottonBall

Thanks for the ping, CB.

Glad you have started these threads back.

Time is of the essence.


17 posted on 09/16/2023 4:13:51 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is tnow fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: ryderann

You’re going to have to back up a minute and educate me.

How do you can potatoes without water?

What are Pink Tip Greasy beans? a green bean?


18 posted on 09/16/2023 4:14:01 PM PDT by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" – Mussolini)
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To: cgbg

Always good advice. You do not want to be conspicuous in a TEOTWAWKI situation. You don’t want to be the guy running a generator with the lights on. You will attract looters and other riff-raff like moths to a porch light.


19 posted on 09/16/2023 4:16:15 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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To: cgbg

LOL...whatsa mattah wit you?? Great scene!!


20 posted on 09/16/2023 4:16:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is tnow fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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