Beginner Survival Tips For The City Folk

Started by Solar, December 07, 2010, 07:09:48 AM

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Solar

Quote from: Eyesabide on December 10, 2010, 08:24:55 PM
        1.) Awareness
        2.) Knowledge
        3.) Experience
        4.) Common Sense
        5.) Field Expediency
        6.) Practice
        7.) Faith ( in self, if not as well in a supreme being)
        8.) Will
       
            It does not matter what or how much equipment you have, you need the intangibles as well. There are others, but these come to mind. If you have a family, many of the survival skills can be played as a game. Then they become easy, and not as threatening as having to learn them on the go.
I agree, and I think rehearsal is probably the most important, if you have everything you need, but forgot how to use it.....
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Solar

Quote from: Eyesabide on December 11, 2010, 11:50:16 AM
Be prepared!
ST and I already live the lifestyle, I have been for more than 20 years, I just drug ST into it a couple of years ago and she actually adapted quite well.
It's amazing how easy it is when you do without the frivolities of life, simply getting back to the basics.

It's not like we do without, it's just that living off the grid makes you appreciate the little things.

I just asked ST what she misses the most and she said it was the ability to just run to the store.
Which for me, is a good thing, you tend to stock up on supplies better.
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Quote from: Solar on December 11, 2010, 12:10:05 PM
ST and I already live the lifestyle, I have been for more than 20 years, I just drug ST into it a couple of years ago and she actually adapted quite well.
It's amazing how easy it is when you do without the frivolities of life, simply getting back to the basics.

It's not like we do without, it's just that living off the grid makes you appreciate the little things.

I just asked ST what she misses the most and she said it was the ability to just run to the store.
Which for me, is a good thing, you tend to stock up on supplies better.


But today I NEED whipping cream to make the cookies.....so either I drive into town (30 minutes away) or to the little store (15 minutes away and twice as expensive)  HMMMMM. :-*
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walkstall

Quote from: Solars Toy on December 11, 2010, 12:32:59 PM
But today I NEED whipping cream to make the cookies.....so either I drive into town (30 minutes away) or to the little store (15 minutes away and twice as expensive)  HMMMMM. :-*

WHAT!!!  :o  The country story don't deliver?   ;D  ;D
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Solars Toy

Quote from: walkstall on December 11, 2010, 01:09:37 PM
WHAT!!!  :o  The country story don't deliver?   ;D  ;D

Nope...and if the weathers bad I couldn't get there anyway.   8) 8)
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offgridbob

The best advice I could give city folks on survival is to get out of dodge as fast as you can :P

Solar

Quote from: offgridbob on December 12, 2010, 06:04:26 PM
The best advice I could give city folks on survival is to get out of dodge as fast as you can :P
Everything I've read about crisis, says to be the first out, because the welcome mat will only be up for more than a day in the outlying areas.
Living where I do, I can attest to this, we won't let very many camp out in the area.
They WILL be told to move on at gun point.
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Quote from: Eyesabide on December 10, 2010, 08:24:55 PM
        1.) Awareness
        2.) Knowledge
        3.) Experience
        4.) Common Sense
        5.) Field Expediency
        6.) Practice
        7.) Faith ( in self, if not as well in a supreme being)
        8.) Will
       
            It does not matter what or how much equipment you have, you need the intangibles as well. There are others, but these come to mind. If you have a family, many of the survival skills can be played as a game. Then they become easy, and not as threatening as having to learn them on the go.

"Will" is too far down the list. Without will, most of the rest don't matter.

Eyesabide

 True, Will is far down the list, but on the other hand, it is incomplete and not in any real order of priority. 
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tbone0106

Quote from: Eyesabide on December 12, 2010, 09:11:54 PM
True, Will is far down the list, but on the other hand, it is incomplete and not in any real order of priority.

Yep. Will needs to be a "brother" to many of the other items on the list. Without Big Brother Will, many of the others can't survive.

Elfie

 Most city people will not leave. They will stay and loot. I think when thats done,,,they will go nuts. I have learned that city people are conditioned to  think it's someone elses job to make surte they have creature comforts. Not all of them are cityits but have mercy alot of them are.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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AmericanFlyer

The city leeches will strip the cities clean, pillage and rape and kill, and the "survivors" will fan out into the countryside.  That's the point when the rest of us must be locked and loaded.  That is when the PREPARED will be separated from the unprepared. 

Country folks stick together.  It's a different way of life out in the country.  City dwellers usually aren't held in very high esteem to begin with, especially ones that break the law and are perceived as threats.

Solar

Quote from: Elfie on December 13, 2010, 07:06:27 AM
Most city people will not leave. They will stay and loot. I think when thats done,,,they will go nuts. I have learned that city people are conditioned to  think it's someone elses job to make surte they have creature comforts. Not all of them are cityits but have mercy alot of them are.
I just hope if it ever happens, it happens in the Winter, that way, the city scum will be forced further West, towards Pelosi's district.
St and I will stay safe buried in the snow, where no citified scum would venture. :))
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