Ready To Start Preparing & Stockpiling? Where Should You Begin?

Started by AmericanFlyer, November 22, 2010, 02:47:02 PM

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Elfie

blown cattails are good to, multy purpose with it's ability to insulate, uses of the stalks for mats, a wall,,,tubers for food... a good plant to know.
Elfie
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

offgridbob

I would also like to add to get your spouse and kids mentally prepared without spooking them on how to stay calm and why. Also when figuring out your food also think about how best to ration what you have. That could include but not limited to what the smallest amount one can eat and still stay functioning. How to package your food for rationing and maxamal storage time. And how not to look to healthy because that will attract attention and that's the last thing you want to do when those unprepared around you are starving.

AmericanFlyer

GREAT point, offgridbob.  Don't LOOK like you are well-fed and comfortable and clean.  Look like you are just as hungry and thirsty and dirty and desperate as everybody else is.  Play "possum".  Put signs in your yard and/or in your windows, "NEED FOOD AND WATER AND MEDICINE.  PLEASE HELP US!" or "WE HAVE NO HEAT.  HELP US!"

The main thing is..........BE PREPARED to use DEADLY FORCE to defend your homestead and all the people who  live there.  "Normal" people will do "abnormal" things when they are desperate enough.

Eyesabide

(Elfie, I have a few magnesium fire starters, one is in my Bug out bag.)

Another tinder that is popular is dryer lint, mix it with petroleum jelly for a waterproof fire starter. Cotton balls and petroleum jelly too. put it in a medicine jar of old plastic film can. Squeeze tubes of chapstick or vaseline are fine fire starters. Squeeze a strip on a stick. No muss.

I leave a complete fire bow set up in one of my kits so If needed, someone can use it as a teaching model.  Even if I am not there. Good idea to do that for simple traps too.

  It is all well and good to have your house stocked. Don't forget to have a few Caches hidden around away from where you live, so if you cannot get to your house,for whatever reason, you still have back up.  If you are overrun, where are you going to go? If you do have a cache, don't just put stuff in a box or ammo can. Don't forget you might have to carry it.

Muskets High!

Elfie

Quote from: Eyesabide on December 10, 2010, 08:42:42 PM
(Elfie, I have a few magnesium fire starters, one is in my Bug out bag.)


well dang,,,here I thought I could tell ya somethin new,lol....oh well.....
All really good ideas, thanks ;D.
I am thinkin it would be good to have bikes for everyone in the house... Just in case the gas runs out...
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal