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

[Sierra pachie bars]

I bought some depression cook books from the old days on Ebay for cheap. Also I like having my chickens to fall back on should something happen. I was raised with animals and did the whole FFA in school so I have knowledge on all that good stuff. All though my husbands family feel I am crazy because I don't mind getting knee deep in poopy and taking care of animals. But you know what I know should something happen I will be the first one they call. Since the rest of the wifes of their sons only know how to shop Bloomingdales.

Things I always keep on hand are : rice, flour , sugar, yeast, and dry pasta. Things I should have more of are T.P. Female need items cause you never know. And maybe toothpaste ?

 

[me&thegals]

Quote:
Hey--it's water for flushing your toilets, dishes, bodies, food!

 

[Chicken Fruit]

old time skills. People these days might grow a garden or have a chicken... but how many people can can or preserve and butcher animals?

not many.

Survival is called a skill for a reason! its a dying art.

 

[mtnhomechick]

me&thegals :

Quote:
Hey--it's water for flushing your toilets, dishes, bodies, food!

And even cleaning fresh chicken!!!​

 

[WoodlandWoman]

Or watering chickens.

 

[MandyH]

We have a pond in the pasture for animals to drink out of, but we do have water troughs scattered throughout the place for them to have clean water available. I just recently found out that there is an old well that was covered up 50 years ago right outside my front door. Now how would I go about making it useable again, IF I could actually locate it and uncover it?

 

[banter]

When you find out let me know! We have an 1810 farmhouse with the hand pump still there over the well! I'm guessing it would not be cheap to get it running!

 

[briana1975]

Quote:
Are whole family has grown up living in the country. I really don't know many people who can't do those things. I would rather not butcher my own animals myself but I know we could.

 

[MandyH]

I figured it wouldn't be cheap LOL, what is these days. I mainly wanted it to put a hand pump on and use for watering the animals and the garden. Our house was built in the 1890's so the well has been there for a while.

 

[Whispering Winds]

I use to get a kick out of my mom washing her ziploc bags and hanging them to dry over a tall bottle, and foil, but now I see the reality of it. . .It's funny that I would click on this topic, because this is a great concern of mine, has been all my life, that something would happen and we would not be able to function. I could care less about malls or clothes or stuff, although being a realtor, I have to keep some of the good stuff on hand, but if you don't can or freeze, I would stockpile good solid canned goods, even garden seeds if you can keep them safely through the seasons, I think even a few gallons of water might not be a bad idea as the power may also go. . .my husband worked for a power company for 33 years before he got disabled, and after 9/11 they were on high alert (here in Midwestern Illinois, so it CAN happen anywhere) and that is what started me thinking about stockpiling. Isn't it the mormons who believe in having two years of food put back? I agree. . .we HAVE to start living off of the land again, this is why we are in the mess we are in, living off of everything else instead of the land. . .don't even get me started. I could talk for hours about this. I would love to have an alternate heat source, but the wood burners are soooooooo $$$$ and my husband can't keep a firewood supply going for us, because of his disability . . .but I think another heat/cooking source might be something to think about too . . .I would stockpile papergoods as well, I can live without a lot of things, but TP is not a good oneto be without in my world. I never did think it was a funny joke when my mom would say in the outhouses they always kept red corn cobs and white corn cobs. You used a red one first, then a white one to see if you needed to use another red one. It's funny, but sometimes it makes you think twice too. I have a client who is relocating up here from Georgia, and he told me the plastic plant he is the operations manager at about 18 miles from where I live is going to make OVER a billion of those "fast energy little red bottles" we see in every filling station in the country . . .can you imagine seeing what a billion of those bottles would be like???? I was blown away!!! I think vinegar is another good thing to keep on hand, you can use it for everything . . .from cleaning to eating. . .chickens are wonderful for eggs and meat if it would come to that. I am not one to eat what I raise, just like eating your pet . . .but if it came down to my husband needing meat or our little boy needing a drumstick . .Sorry!! I think I have ADD, i get carried away on different subjects all in one paragraph!!!