Surviving Another Depression.......What Would We Need?

[PineBurrowPeeps]

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Seriously, it just hit me, I take Zoloft everyday and have for 2 years now. Without it I am seriously suicidal.
How on earth can one "stockpile" prescription medications? There have got to be others on bloodpressure meds, heart meds, diabetics who need insulin, etc...
What on earth will we all do?

That stopped me in my tracks. What a scary thought.

 

[cknmom]

Frogdog-

It seems that THE authority on them is a man named Kiko Denzer. He has several books out and a good article I have from Mother Earth News Oct./Nov. 2002, you can find it in their archives online.

No, I haven't done any cooking in one but have benn to demonstrations at historical houses. I have read many articles, according to them, you can cook anything, salmon, casseroles, bread, cakes, pies, cookies, meats, veggies, pizzas etc. If you are interested I can pm or email you with some websites.

Some people even make them into shapes , I saw one that was shaped like a dragon, the oven was the mouth!

Monica

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

Thank you for the response. That is the book I had narrowed my search to (Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3rd Edition: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves) It has been sitting in my cart on Amazon for close to a month, so I guess it will be the one I will get. I also really like the simplicity of this one also. http://www.sunset.com/sunset/garden/article/0,20633,690891,00.html
I am not sure for me at least where I live how feasible getting the wood will be, I live in pretty much a desert environment. It has been a real toss up between this and a solar oven. I have already bought a book on plans for a solar dryer.

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

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Seriously, it just hit me, I take Zoloft everyday and have for 2 years now. Without it I am seriously suicidal.
How on earth can one "stockpile" prescription medications? There have got to be others on bloodpressure meds, heart meds, diabetics who need insulin, etc...
What on earth will we all do?

That stopped me in my tracks. What a scary thought.

I had thought about this a lot over the last year, and I talked to my doctor about it, since running out of my meds causes me to have major panic attacks, even the thought of it. I take 20 mg or prozac a day, have for years and 100 mg or trazadone (as needed) for sleep. My doctor changed my scrip for prozac to 40mg a day so instead of getting a scrip with 30 pills I get 60, 20 mg pills....I still only take one a day and son now I have a little stock pile of my meds, and with the trazadone its 30 pills each scrip, and I now only need to take them maybe 2 times a week but I still fill it each month and have a backup of those also. Once in a while our insurance will laps for a week or so if DH is on a layoff (union...they have to work so many hours to keep their coverage) So I just fill them each month when I know for sure we have the coverage and even though the scrip has been uped I still only pay $10.00.
I am sure there is something "not ethical" about this...but I have peace of mind now...in more ways then one!!
And unlike you PineBurrowPeeps....if I am off my meds, I dont want to kill myself...I want to kill everyone around me....LOL

~Tiff~

kinda back on topic here...Did you all see the dang stock market.....we are DOOOOOMED! j/k

 

[cknmom]

Frogdog-
I was looking at that one also. We live in the mountains and cut our own wood, so we will have plenty. It might be a good idea to have both.

Monica

We will have problems getting areserve of meds. Our dr. is very stingy with meds of all kinds. We will have to figure out something.

 

[setter4]

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This is exactly what I was thinking!
If we have a recession or even a depression things may be expensive and some will be hard or impossible to find but the majority of the population will go on with only moderate adjustments to their life.
This thread sounds more like preparation for nuclear holocaust and frankly if that were to happen I am not at all sure that I want to BE one of the survivors.
I garden because i enjoy it. I can because I enjoy it.I keep chickens because i enjoy them. I don't and won't spend my life worrying about what horrors the future might bring.

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

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This is exactly what I was thinking!
If we have a recession or even a depression things may be expensive and some will be hard or impossible to find but the majority of the population will go on with only moderate adjustments to their life.
This thread sounds more like preparation for nuclear holocaust and frankly if that were to happen I am not at all sure that I want to BE one of the survivors.
I garden because i enjoy it. I can because I enjoy it.I keep chickens because i enjoy them. I don't and won't spend my life worrying about what horrors the future might bring.

I agree, most of the reading and input for me is a matter of being more self sufficient for future goals etc. I won't be fearful of something I cannot change if it does then you buckle down and persevere as my grandparents did. But I do want to have skills/learn skills that would enable my family to live better.

 

[cknmom]

I am not a fear monger, nor do I live in fear. I do what I can to prepare for any situation that may occur. If/when something happens, I don't want me and mine to be among the ones that hid their heads in the sands thinking that nothing will/could ever happen in America. I want us to be able to take care of ourselves and our loved ones. I don't think that it is being fearful or overreacting to prepare yourself. I grew up in a scouting family "Always be prepared!!"

I also garden, can, live how I want and enjoy. If it also helps me to be prepared if/when something happens, then all the better.

Monica

 

[ears73]

Thanks, whoever posted Barbara Kingsolver's book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle". I am really enjoying it!

 

[Jilara]

I think one of the most important things in any crisis of that sort is the first that gets overlooked: friends, family, and community.

The problem with so many cities is there is no community. I am blest in that I live in a real neighborhood in a city, where we all know our neighbors and people go on walks through the neighborhood in the evening and actually talk to each other. I'm the lady who is known for her apple trees that hang over the sidewalk, who tells passing kids to help themselves, there are plenty for all! I have another neighbor who cans, and gets fruit from everyone in the neighborhood, returning us a box of mixed canned fruit every autumn. We all chat, exchange news, whatever. There is so little of this, any more.

You don't survive any crisis, be it a storm, a flood, an earthquake, or an economic downturn, simply by hoarding food and having a generator. It's a more complex interaction, and one which I'm afraid modern society is losing touch with.