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To: Jeff Head

Yup. All of our emergency planning involves NO electricity.

We have hand tools, hand grinders, and pedal sewing machine. Leather tools, tire repair kits, rubber belts, rubber hoses, and so on. Hand beaters, knife sharpeners, tons of supplies in mason jars which allows for reuse after harvest or hunt. Bicycles, wagons, carts. Tents. Axes. Band saws, rasps.

We have wool, yarn and fabric picked up at yard sales for clothing repair. Future jeans and shoes for growing kids.

We have medicines, painkillers, anesthesia, sterile guaze, steristrips, and other items that may be necessary to treat wounded. Quinine for malaria. Flea shampoo.

We do have frozen food, but we think of it as a bonus rather than the basis of emergency supplies.

We have seeds of all types, at least one breeding pair of bunnies and usually a couple of layers.

We have items for trading including salt. I don’t believe gold is worth having.

We have a cooking wood stove.

We have oil lamps and tons of oil. Solar flashlight and solar radio.

And on... And on...

If you do this long enough you just keep thinking of things that can be useful (like 6mil poly).


230 posted on 11/16/2008 6:16:19 PM PST by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: TaxRelief
"We have items for trading including salt. I don’t believe gold is worth having."

Calls to mind (again, coming full circle on a term's meaning,) the origin of one being "worth his salt."

(I was talking earlier of some people not being able to "bait a hook," and how strange it is that some of these terms have literally come full circle.)

233 posted on 11/16/2008 6:21:05 PM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: TaxRelief
For more non electric ideas, google “Lehmans” non electric store in Ohio. The store sells supplies to the Amish. They have a catalog you can order from. There's everything anyone needs there to live without electricity.
235 posted on 11/16/2008 6:21:59 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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