Exclusive: How Will You Survive the Collapse of Civilization?

Family Security Matters ^ | 2/15/10 | Renee Taylor

[tiki]

One thing about living on a farm, you learn to do everything and have the tools to do it, so we’re one step ahead of most people.

You are usually broke so you have learned how to fix and how to create.

You live far from the grocery store so you have plenty of food on the shelves.

Farmers normally know how to hunt and my husband and son are pros.

You know how to keep seed and which plants you can keep seed from and you know how to handle it.

We also collect native american artifacts and have all the metates and manos to grind our own seed that could ever need. We know where we found them too and those grasses are still there.

My husband can make a mean arrowhead.

[sydney smith]

Never happen. Not in our lifetime.

[IMR 4350]

Pretty much the same here.
It’s GOOD to be king!

[IMR 4350]

You might want to tell him you can starve to death eating just rabbits. Not enough fat.

[GraceG]

The Hungry Zombies from the city will be the thing we will all have to fight....

By Hungry Zombies, I will mean drugged out dependent city dwellers.

[Sarajevo]

Lessee, what can you fling at a Texan that would make him recoil in terror?

This!

[panaxanax]

So, basically what you’re saying is that Mormons are much smarter and more prepared than those from other religions?

Make sure you come well armed.

[GailA]

The "It's not my fault" generation, would have a very rough time. They don't know how to sew, cook, clean, or fix a leaky faucet. They think that wearing a piece of clothing for more than a few months is so passe, let alone having to wear them for years.

Our grand parents who went through the Great Depression knew how to do these things.

Time to start thinking about stocking up on items like TP which is something you can't make for yourself...no Sears & Roebuck catalogs any more.

Survival Gardens in place of the old Victory Gardens would be a must.

My mom and her sisters wore undergarments made of flour sacks, and clothes/shoes were passed down to the next in line until they wore out to the point they couldn't be repaired any more.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***wishing for last week’s prepared, frozen dinner?

UGH! The thought TV dinners make me wish for the collapse of civilization.***

As long as I have my Microwave I will be OK!;-D

[kiltie65]

Did you see the FR report yesterday from Gen Houtian(sp?) from China? I’d heard it before, but it is worrisome and keeps popping up. He maintains China hasn’t wasted money on missiles and high tech defense since their plan is to eliminate 2/3 of Americans with biological means, and invade sometime thereafter taking over all the housing and infrastructure here for their people, and using the l/3 of Americans who survive as slaves. Charming, eh? If that is ever in the offing, I hope we are fustest with the mostest.

[paulycy]

There are still, as far as I can tell, a number of extreme hardliners that want the US to die a humiliating death. Most of those people are in the military.

They could get serious someday but I tend to believe that their sense of self-preservation will win out if only to keep the entire global economy from tanking.

If the US were to suddenly die then China would die, too. We are too inter-dependent and China can’t provide all its own needs. If the global economy dies then China is out of luck for oil and other necessary things like that.

[ladyjane]

I don’t know about your neck of the woods but there there are enough deer, turkey, grouse and fish around to avoid eating our cats and dogs! Too many little Bambis in fact.

[Condor51]

*** The "It's not my fault" generation, would have a very rough time. They don't know how to sew, cook, clean, or fix a leaky faucet. They think that wearing a piece of clothing for more than a few months is so passe, let alone having to wear them for years. ***

Yeah, unfortunately that's true. But on the upside, the 'Family or Tribal Elders' will once again get the respect for their knowledge (like in the primitive tribes in the Amazon or New Guinea still do).

*** Our grand parents who went through the Great Depression knew how to do these things. ***

Yes, and that's one benefit of being a 'Boomer'. Many of us listened and learned from them. Being born in '48 the depression wasn't that far back. Those memories were still fresh in our Parents and Grandparents.

*** My mom and her sisters wore undergarments made of flour sacks, and clothes/shoes were passed down to the next in line until they wore out to the point they couldn't be repaired any more. ***

My mom was one of seven brothers and sisters and hand me down clothes was the norm. Luckily my Maternal Grandfather had a full time job with a Railroad in Chi during the Depression (the Soo Line RR). So while times were tough and money tight, it wasn't 'extreme'. (but still sucked)

[BenKenobi]

‘The “It’s not my fault” generation, would have a very rough time. They don’t know how to sew, cook, clean, or fix a leaky faucet. They think that wearing a piece of clothing for more than a few months is so passe, let alone having to wear them for years.’

I personally think the baby boomer generation will have more difficulty. Leaky faucet, my folks didn’t have a clue how to fix them, or fix anything around the house. Guess who did it.

We are young, generally less burdened by age and age related health problems. What we don’t know we can learn and learn quickly, but for the most part, I know what I would need to survive, just from having done scouting.

I realise it’s in vogue to criticise young people, but that’s just advantageous to us. Underestimation is a pleasant place to be.

Our grand parents who went through the Great Depression knew how to do these things.

[GailA]

I'm the tag end of the Boomer Generation 62, my husband is 70, we do most everything ourselves, from leaky faucets to remodeling this 1960's house. Just finished taking up ugly crumbling tile off the his bathroom floor/walls, mudded the walls, put in a new floor, lights, and base boards. Kitchen we've taken out the 35 year old double ovens and cook top, put in a stand alone stove, and re-purposed the space where the ovens were into a cabinet for pots & pans, and tiled the counter tops. Back splash and stripping the cabinets to re-stain/poly them is next on the agenda. Painting them would be easier, but wouldn't look as good.

It takes us longer, because of arthritis, but we get the job done. He's a former Navy Senior Chief (20yrs), and former prof (20 yrs)at a community college. But he grew up fixing things from TV/radios to cars.

His daughter 34 can repair/troubleshoot a computer, but can't sew on a button or cook, except to nuke or reheat it. My 2 boys can do a little of everything, except sew on a button.

It goes both ways it seems. Probably depends on what your parents demand you learn as a child.

Knew I should have taught those 2 boys how to use my sewing machine! LOL (I'm working on my 4th generation sewing machine).

[Anti-Bubba182]

Kurt Saxon

KURT SAXON ON SURVIVAL:

"Kurt Saxon, owner of Atlan Formularies, is the father of Survivalism. He coined the word. For years he's collected knowledge on trades, crafts, cottage industries and survival skills from a past when our immediate ancestors had to do for themselves on a day to day basis. His work is in anticipation of a time when our overcrowded and down-bred system goes the way of Rome..."

If you want to know about surviving a collapse Kurt can tell you.