We heat with wood from our property. Only cost is a couple of weeks of labor every year.
Pinging the PrepPing list.
Might want to pick up some electric blankets and a little bit of everything you use on a regular basis, food, TP, undies, socks.
Garden and grow meat/eggs if you have a place.
TPTB around the world are trying to break their citizens in preparation for The Great Reset.
Wood heat can’t be beat. We have a wood cooking stove if we have to. Prefer to use propane.
That’s why I save phone books… good emergency TP.
Wood heat and cooking with wood is the best.
My father-in-law heated his house with wood in a stove for his whole lifetime. Even when it was well below freezing outside, that house was nice and toasty.
But then he died, and a few years later his wife became disabled. They got her a pellet stove, but that didn’t work out very well as her condition progressed; especially if the power went out.
Now she can’t deal with either, and has had to revert to the electric heat that they had never used.
But the old wood stove seemed to work better than the pellet stove did.
Look up “Devil Watt” for a gadget you can set on your woodstove to turn it into a source of electricity. It’s not as convenient or dollar-efficient as solar panels have gotten, but it’s a handy backup in case you need power when the sun isn’t shining.
We restarted using heat last winter-after installing a fireplace insert-it worked great. While I think we are well prepared, we continue to stock up on the items we don’t have a lot of.
And we buy extra seeds each year, in case of shortages come spring. I’ll have to say, that the growing season this year was not nearly as good as past years-cooler than usual for longer than usual in the Spring, and fall cool setting in sooner than usual.
I do more or less the same. I find as I get older that I enjoy the experience of cutting/splitting/hauling/stacking firewood less than I once did, so I've shifted the bulk of my stovewood supply to sawmill waste.
I need ~12 cord to get through a typical Missouri winter. Once I have half of that on the pile I burn it straight off the trailer, then use from the pile while the trailer is at the mill being reloaded.
Depending on how the scrap falls a load on my trailer is 1.75-2 cord. $45/load for the wood and a 50 mile round trip to fetch it home adds up to less than $500/yr to heat the house and warm up my 1200sq/ft workshop when I want to do something out there.
I still work up any deadfall on my property that's easy to get to. Doesn't make sense to let it go to waste.