Are you Prepared?

[DuckLady]

The bakery buckets are food grade and have a rubber gasket in the lid. They lock on really tight.

(I was a bakery mgr for many years)

 

[silkydragon]

country folk can survive lol i can catch and skin/clean my own food the only problem i would have i think i would go crazy without electric to play video games

 

[country freedom]

Alot of this info I didn't even know about!
I need to up my putting away!

 

[cluckcluck42]

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I agree. We need to go back to community based living, our current society is poisonous.

I'm not as prepared as I'd like to be, but we are working on it. We live on a lake, with an outdoor wood stove, so we would get by so far as water and fishing. Lots of game in the woods. I'm very glad to be out of the city. It is so fresh out here.

 

[WalkingWolf]

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You can always replace video games with shooting small varmints with a sling shot, or BB gun. Or a novel idea for country folk go fishing in the local creek, work the dexterity by catching mudbugs by hand.

 

[WalkingWolf]

Some other suggestions are either a pepsi alcohol stove, or a tin can stove to cook with sticks, or both. Google wood gasification camp stove or pepsi can alcohol stove. With ounce of fuel water treatment(methonal) I can cook a full breakfast, or boil water for hot chocolate or coffee. The wood camp stove has to be used outdoors but they easily can cook any meal cooked on a stove top, with just a few twigs. While the pepsi stove will fit in a shirt pocket one must have alcohol for it, but you can cook inside with it. The wood camp stove has a abundant source of free fuel.

Having tarps around for covering holes in roofs or walls or in the event of a complete home loss building a lodge from Poles(medium trees) and the tarps. A teepee lodge can be built with 6 or 8 poles and a tarp twice as long as wide. The height of the poles plus some extra length will be the diameter of the base, tarp can then be folded around the poles for shelter.

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

..Mahroni..I would also like to say that there seems to be a few that want to argue /or ask why bother to be prepared..to this I say, I, along with DH are children of parents who lived during the depression. My mother & MIL instilled in us the "stockpile" and be prepared trait. I have been married for 38 yrs and have always had surplus..not on the scale that we are talking about here but surplus none the less.It has been a "lifesaver" so to speak many times..a relative that lost everything in a fire, 6 mo unemployment period, and in recent years an ice storm that took out power for 7 days. During this time we were fine but had a neighbor that had to borrow everything from TP to propane!!

My parents were one of those that had a fallout shelter..over the years it became great storage; but most importantly..it gave them the peace of mind that they were prepared..btw it was used several times during hurricanes in Fl.

I guess my point is: if the world comes to and end..I am prepared for that, if a life altering disaster happens..I will have the satisfaction of being somewhat prepared and having some skill to survive.

 

[Scoop]

This might be a bit off topic right at the moment, but, I was watching coverage of the quake in Haiti this morning and I finally saw a couple of chickens in the background. I felt a sense of relief to see that. I mean, I always say that in the event of a disaster, the chickens could save your life or at least sustain you for a while. That's assuming of course that they weren't washed away in a flood or something. Actually, I guess it's surprising that those chickens are still alive and haven't been eaten yet. Hopefully they are laying eggs.

 

[WalkingWolf]

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The feral chickens in Key West have survived tropical storms to hurricanes, yes I agree city's, housing authorities, some counties and states have no idea how beneficial it is for the public to own chickens. They are a food source that most times can survive with little maintenance and cost, as they eat the pests. Cities that ignore dogs at large have a kanipshin fit if someone has a single hen. And we are completely ignoring that chickens almost without cost can supply some of our energy needs with methane gas or gasified manure. God really created something special with these wonderful birds.

When push comes to shove a family, man, or woman will eat any available protein when starving, and that means wildlife that some would rather see man perish then the animal. I love the wildlife too, and to protect the wildlife from extinction chickens should really be available to all. Our survival depends on it, as many families did in our forming years. Otherwise another breed of wild pigeon may go extinct as happened during other hard times for America.

 

[warmfuzzies]

One thing I think is interesting, and never mentioned much in the discussion of whether or not we need to or should stockpile things- The fact that all of our ancesters, even as near as fifty or sixty years ago saved enough to get then through the winter each and every year, and enough to get them through the summer if there was a drought. Anyone who was in agriculture (over 90% at the turn of the century) depended on themselves for their food. Since they couldn't grow anything in the winter, they prepared.

Actually, this idea that we should be dependent on the grocery stores and the government and OTHER people all the time, that's the strange new movement. People used to take for granted that we would take care of ourselves, now they take for granted that there will always be someone else to take care of them.

I am only 25, but my grandparents had a two acre garden each and every year, and a small orchard. They had the biggest pantry I have ever seen, and they grew all of their own veggies, fruit, beef, eggs, and chicken. My DH's granpa has rolls of cash stuffed in different places on his farm, hidden who knows where.

Even though he has a ton of money in CDs and bank accounts he doesn't trust them with everything. I thought that was interesting.

I only wish I could have a garden that big... and actually get it to grow something besides weeds.

So does anyone have any idea how much land you need to actually live of of, veggie-wise? not grains, that is to much for me to think about right now.