[concerned about politics]

Learn how to make soap from hardwood ash and animal fat. Seriously. You can barter soap for just about anything. You can go to any town and find work.

Better yet? People will have to protect you. No you - no soap for them.

Cheese is also a good trade. Instead of rennet, learn how to use milk thistle. It's the only way top store milk for the winter if there's no electric. Farmers will love you.

[Miss Behave]

"Cheese is also a good trade. Instead of rennet, learn how to use milk thistle. It's the only way top store milk for the winter if there's no electric. Farmers will love you."

Pinging you to cap's wisdom, Diana. Hope all is well with you up there behind the Cheddar Curtain. ;-)

[Miss Behave]

"Cheese is also a good trade. Instead of rennet, learn how to use milk thistle. It's the only way top store milk for the winter if there's no electric. Farmers will love you."

Pinging you to cap's wisdom, Diana. Hope all is well with you up there behind the Cheddar Curtain. ;-)

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From Alexander Tyler...

“From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”

Guess where we are...