I am throwing napolito's in your general direction!
Posted on 02/15/2010 6:05:05 AM PST by Daisyjane69
We live in a house of cards with no clear foundation. We rely too much upon unfriendly foreign nations to provide oil to heat our homes and put gas in our cars. We rely upon other nations to provide produce and other food items that fill our grocery store – food that can easily be contaminated with e-coli and other deadly, infectious disease – food that would not be available in the event of even a partial collapse of the transportation sector. Basic skills such as sewing and cooking are lost upon a generation raised on convenience foods and cheap, “throw away” goods. Could you or your child sew a button on a coat or mend a sock if clothing became scarce? Could you prepare a meal with flour, milk, eggs and canned meat and/or vegetables, or would you stare at the ingredients, wishing for last week’s prepared, frozen dinner?
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I do keep a BB gun, however.
It depends on the show on TV. I won’t look twice at pre-made foods though. I prefer fresh.
...except for Texans.
I am throwing napolito's in your general direction!
2. To Gorgoroth with the anti-poaching laws, shortly followed by getting over the cultural barrier to eating dogs and cats. The first to do these will live longer and travel farther from the centers of disruption than those that only figure it out after the Spam runs out.
3.a. Avoid contact with strangers.
3.b. Avoid conflict with strangers you cannot avoid.
3.c. Avoid losing unavoidable conflicts with strangers by such brutality and treachery as may be necessary.
3.d. In the aftermath of a conflict, take the opportunity to increase your stock from the losers’ resources. In the extremity, this may include harvesting fresh meat from the losers themselves. (Epic Win if you find some fava beans and a nice Chianti.)
4. Team up with your friends, and learn to trust their friends. Form communities based on private ownership and free trade. Accept the fact that the patriarchal dictatorship may be the norm if your group consists mostly of one extended family. Seek to bend it towards a representative form by appeals to reason and history. Failing in that, head out on your own again.
5. Listen to the radio. The presence of entertainment radio with advertising of useful items for sale may be your first clue that somewhere, civilization is being reasserted.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Think about this stuff OFTEN, if not ALL THE TIME. The right mental attitude will give you a head start on the rest. Let your weekend getaways be practice for finding out-of-the-way evacuation routes and temporary hole-up shelters. If you pay close enough attention, you may notice a problem and take action hours, even days ahead of any official announcement or general panic.
Maybe a book on table manners?
“My “Mouse on a Stick” franchises.”
LOL! The free market finds away!
Without my insulin, I don’t see a difference between strapping on a bomb and hugging a Fascicrat.
Heck, I can make a button, spin my own fiber, and knit my own socks with four small twigs, and then wash them in my own fat/wood ash soap.
Flour? What if there's no wheat? Make your bread from any edible wild seed. Use wild apples (or any fruit) to make vinegar (very easy), add a teaspoon of wood ash, and you've got fluffy pan cakes.
Hello. What if there are no grocery stores? There's wild, edible food all over the place. It may not be as yummy at first, but in an emergency, those pancakes will taste pretty good with elderberry syrup.
If there were a national emergency that sent us back into a stone age, what I know alone will keep me and my family alive. If I die, so does my knowledge, and everybody around me freezes, dies of plague, or starves to death.
No meds and I’m a goner, too. Pretty quickly.
It's good to have those skills. It's better to have them, and only use them when I'd like, rather than to survive.
Just my unsolicited $0.02.
Hope you know how to use a spear and ax, so as to fend off the hungry invading your land.
That's working well in Haiti...
Edible and medicinal plants (Good books to have around. Hope they never have to be used, though.)
Anyone can pick weeds. Even if we had to leave our land, there's plenty of land out there.
I hope I never HAVE to use what I know. Right now, I do it just to learn. That way, I have it if I ever need it.
My mom was a small girl during the depression. She used to tell us stories and warned us it could happen again, so be prepared.
An old lady in our church had to learn how to survive with nothing but an old broken down car to sleep in. (She taught me about medicinal plants. She was a nurse during WWII, and they had to use plants when the medical supplies couldn't get through.)
Thanks.
My husband says that we will eat rabbits, I say only if someone else cleans them.
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