[InternetTuffGuy]

Rice? Check. Beans? Check. Sugar? Check. Flour? Check. Bourbon? Check. Tobacco? Check. Gold and silver? Check. Spring, well and hand pump well? Check. Chickens? Garden? Check. Lures, pole, stand, and lots of ammo? Check.

Mortgage? Nope. McMansion? Nope. Fancy car? Nope. Do I care? Nope.

Why am I not worried?

My neighbors have the same check list.

Small town, God Fearing Community? Check.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Unopened bourbon keeps forever. Good (best anyway) for about a year after opening.

[cripplecreek]

Small town, God Fearing Community? Check.

The one necessity that people most often overlook.

I live in a little village of around 150 people surrounded by farmland and everybody here, gardens, hunts, and fishes.

[onona]

Damn, forgot the bourbon.

Thanks for the reminder

[investigateworld]

What no DuPont fishing “gear”?

[djf]

Something I would add to the list.

I was kind of lucky in a way, for a while some people lived next door to me, who worked for a moving company. You know, the trucks, the straps, the blankets..

Well, when they moved, they left a boatload of the moving blankets around. So I snagged about 10 or 11 of these REALLY NICE moving blankets, I mean these are the hard-core blankets you use to keep your stuff from getting scratched or dented in the back of the truck. Heavy duty to the max!

They all went through the wash AT LEAST 3 times, bleached and air-dried.

So now I got some REALLY nice blankets (along with all my sleeping bags, of course.) Total cost: maybe 1.00 worth of electricity and 2.00 worth of detergent and bleach.

And one of the things that sticks out most in my mind was that the property owner was surprised that I wanted them, he (and I would bet most others) was ready to just throw them on the dumpster along with the other odds and ends the people left.

Waste not, want not, eh?

[dennisw]

Lay in some bourbon and cigarettes for trading purposes...barter