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| Grizzly | Feb 6 2011, 11:49 PM Post #11 |
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One more thing to remember, shouldn't need to be said, but SAFE storage of food would be priority. For a number of reasons but a simple one would be mother nature. For example a tornado could destroy everything in a matter of seconds. Yes, they can be rare but strange things are happening all over the world. |
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| Mommacat | Feb 7 2011, 12:52 AM Post #12 |
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Good points, Raven. Also keep in mind that in the summer, even though you plant a garden, you should still take advantage of any wild food sources that you can harvest and store. For instance, cat tail bulbs might not be high on your list of fave foods, but if you can stock some away it may make the difference in surviving the winter. |
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| Bullmoose | Feb 8 2011, 12:56 AM Post #13 |
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My personal outlook on it is to store, store, store until there is no longer time to store. But I too feel that a 1 year supply is a realistic goal. I would say I am there in most of my stores. I have to thank god for my unexplainable desire to stock up, because honestly, as boring an activity as it sounds, I literally get excited about it. And I'm not just talking about guns and ammo and the 'fun' stuff, I get excited about canned foods, wire, toothbrushes and lately I'm on a medical supply kick. Speaking of which, just this weekend my brother found Fish-Mox Forte on sale so I bought 100 500 mg tablets for 25.00!! |
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| Foghorn | Feb 15 2011, 01:18 PM Post #14 |
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I think long term prepping needs to be looked at like an investment. For both security and financialy. How much was the spagetti sauce 1,3 ,6 months ago? I go to a resturant supply and back in Oct 2010 a 100 lbs bag of white rice was $24, last week it was up to $36. A $2.00 jar of peanut butter is $2.15 or a 7.5% increase. Where can you invest money and get a 7.5% return these days? Many people respond better when they understand the short term bennefits of buying extra food. |
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| Raven | Feb 15 2011, 02:53 PM Post #15 |
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On the peanut butter, I made the mistake of buying two cases of the real stuff...you know the kind that we used to eat with the oil on top. I find out much later that the stuff doesn't store well and although I used some of it to bake cookies etc. we cannot rotate it fast enough. I have powdered peanut butter on my list of things to get and someday I hope to have several cans of it in my stores. Until that time, I will only keep 2 large jars at a time on my shelves. On the subject of prices, there were several articles about how prices of raw materials is going up and by September of this year "they" expect prices of goods overall to go up on average 10%. One of the articles was in WSJ and one on the Drudge Report. Links were on the survivalblog. |
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| Grizzly | Apr 29 2011, 10:21 PM Post #16 |
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Everyone seen the news on all the tornados down south? Just think if that happened here and all your prepping would be scattered everywhere! I'm thinking underground might be the way to go and ASAP! The scary thing is there just might be something to that Mayan calender, end of the world thing. As they predicted, the storms are getting much worse, more violent, and more often. I've noticed this in the winter too with the heavy snow and very strong winds. One person that was interveiwed said he ran for the basement and 60 seconds later it was over and everything was destroyed. A life time of work gone in one minute. On the bright side of things the royal wedding is finally over. There was more news coverage of that damn wedding than all the death and destruction down south! Any way, I think that some serious thought to prepping storage should not be over looked. I know I'm taking another look at it. |
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| Mommacat | Apr 30 2011, 08:33 AM Post #17 |
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I don't know that I think there is any correlatoin with the end of the Mayan calendar and the end of the world. One guy at the U of M said that the Mayan calendar had three segments and we are on the third and the only reason that it "ended" was because the Mayans didn't see any point in creating any more segments that would be several thousand years off into the future. However, I do agree that the weather is getting "different" in the last several years. But, if a person stops and thinks about it, then you realize that this planet's weather has ALWAYS drastically changed. Think about it, this planet has had ice ages and also weather that was tropical enough for large lizards to develop (dinosaurs). So, its a real stretch for us to think that the realtively nano-second's worth (200 years at most) of weather data that we've collected means anything significant or points to anything but the fact that the climate DOES change, it always has, and it always will. The panic of "global warming" is, in my humble opinion, ridiculous. I understand that there are things humans have done that have contributed to the holes in the ozone and smog over our cities, but to think that the earth's climate would remain always the same is taking a very narrow look at the big picture. Nuff 'bout that. I do absolutely agree that underground storage for supplies, etc. is probably the best place. Not only would it be safe from the elements, but its also a constant 58 degress, (I think) and humid, so that means things won't spoil from high temperatures or drying out. Then there's the element of disguise being easier for something underground as opposed to a locked, window-barred, cinderblock storage building. But, as you've commented before, humidity can create its own problems and ruin many things. I guess all we can truly do is like the old saying says, "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst." P.s. I'm with you; the media coverage of the wedding of two kids in another country and hardly a word about anything that we really SHOULD be concerned about says a lot about how shallow and blissfully ignorant the people in this Country have become. |
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