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Roy Suomi

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Are any of you getting serious about prepping ? I see an awful lot of stuff on You Tube about the SHTF event coming. I've got some Miller Lite and chips put away, recon I'll need more ?
 
(quoted from post at 10:38:00 08/28/20) I've got some Miller Lite and chips put away, recon I'll need more ?
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Just keep all the beer making dry goods on hand. Takes up less space and you can make it 5 gallons at a time.
 
kinda sorta. For 4 months whenever I shop for groceries I buy twice as much of non-perishable items and set the extra aside. It doesn't cost all that much more, stable for a while, reflects my eating habits, and if all goes well, then I go through it later. I have friends that buy multiple firearms but I prefer 2 or 3 with way more ammunition. I don't see the need for a 38 and a 9mm and a 45. All require different shells. The 1911 and lots of bullets suits me just fine.
 
Guess you could say that I have been doing that since I have lived where I am. Mile long drive way that is easy to block off. Lots of wild life, and places to fish. I do a garden every year and can stuff almost every year. Have shelves full of canned goods and that is enough to feed use for months. Plus step out the door and drop a deer most any day. Biggest problem would be loosing power
 
yup, i got vegetables in the garden and meat in the freezer.. Grain in the grainery & milk from the nurse cows.. As long as i have a little gas to run the chopper/flour mill im good.. MEAT & TATERS, Milk gravy and bread...

Remember what Hank said.. A Country Boy will survive..

I better stock up on salt and coffee...
 

If part of that plan is to stock up on paper towels, you're already too late. If you plan is to stock up on ammo, sorry, too late for that also.
 

I don't think this is anything to joke about. Doesn't matter who wins, it's going to be more of what we've seen. Not a bad idea to think ahead a little.
 
You should be buying up gold.
Gold never has become worthless.
If you have gold, you can then buy what you need after SHTF instead of stocking up on necessities now.I

No shelf life to expire in gold.
 
Guy I delivered a container to this morning said he just bought an extra 6,000 rounds just in case. Didn't say how many he had before.
 
What is so called being a Prepper now is the way almost everyone I knew lived when I was growing up.People raised hogs,beef,poultry to kill themselves for their meat as well as hunting small game no deer here back then.Everyone had a big garden canned and dried food had a couple years supply most times,had fuel tanks on the farm.Pretty much the way I have continued to live,plus no debt,always hated to owe money.
Like the old Fable about the Ant preparing for Winter and the Grasshopper played all Summer, didn't end well for the grasshopper.Winter is always coming in different ways just don't know when.
 
(quoted from post at 16:40:06 08/28/20) You should be buying up gold.
Gold never has become worthless.
If you have gold, you can then buy what you need after SHTF instead of stocking up on necessities now.I

No shelf life to expire in gold.
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IF.. the gov did not insure that critical workers kept working... and kept the food supplies and gasoline coming....

gold would not be worth much... when there is almost no food, no gas, and the few who have it, are smart enough to keep it... No credit cards, no currency or gold will work. The few who have it, and the power to keep it will survive... The nnalert was a good practice but we barely barely barely kept the food on the shelves and avoided the chaos that comes next. (Other than toilet paper) If the hordes move into the neighbor hoods and start burning and looting,, firearms and ammunition will be the new gold standard...
 
Always read the commercials in those articles. Watch who is trying to sell you overpriced "prepper" stuff.
Similar tactics to the gold bugs and their "inevitable currency collapse" theme.
 
I think farmers were the original 'preppers'.

Now putting sandbags around the house may be overkill. . . .
 
Whatchya got is sufficient. :)

Though we have always have some extra stuff on hand...
Iffen stuff REALLY truly does hit the fan... thinkin' that then we just don't care to hang around overly long anyhoo.

Good gravy-I have some crazy relatives who are freeze-drying/seal-a-mealing food that is supposed to have a 25 year shelf life.
AND they are stocking up on rice, dried beans, pasta and flour... literally by the garbage can full. Also stocking up on matches, TP, paper towels, etc. I wonder, for what???

I told 'em have fun!!! Cuz then we's gonna check outta here waaaayyyyyyy before you do, and that'll only be a good thing.

If it takes a bag of gold to buy a crust of bread - heaven's a better place... I hope we'll all be ready.
 
Just retired from the military 5 years ago. Now have a tiny 6
Acre farm. Have 2 Cattle on the hoof and 1.5 in the freezer. 2 goats, 10 chickens, 10 quail, 5 ducks. Also have a garden, blackberries, apple, peach and pear trees as well as plums. Next year Im going to build a greenhouse and start getting into auqaponics. This is what I call food security. At some point Id like to build a root cellar/bunker and store food there. For now we have 2 fridge/freezers and one full
Size and one half size freezers.

Also looking to buy more firearms and ammo.
 
I don't know the status of your health condition but if you are healthy I'd say pretty good chance.No way the Feds can keep spending the extra trillion$ of made up money with no consequences.
The buying power of the US Federal Reserve Notes has dropped a lot lately.Been to the grocery store,bought new tractor parts? Money continues to buy less.I have tried to prepare for financial collapse or decline
as much as I'm able to and I hope I never have to fallback on any of it but like having fire insurance on my house if I need it and don't have it it'd be a whole lot worse.Really do you think the gov't can keep borrowing/spending with made up funny money and everything will be fine?
 
Yes C.0
We have 3 - 5 gallon glass carboys, and 2 - 3 gallon glass carboys. Tied up in
red and white wine at the moment. Need to add one for beer. Good to go then.
 
Wife and I were talking about that the other day.

A lot of what folks call "Prepping" we've just always done.

And taught our kids to do the same.

Fred
 
Back in 1978 I read a book: "How to Survive the Coming Hard Times" by Howard Ruff, who was a New Mexico resident at the time. So I sold the house in town and moved to the country, bought undeveloped land, built a house and barns and such. Got prepared and started waiting for dooms day......and waited and waited, and currently waiting..............my grand daddy told me as a lad, son, the government owns the printing presses......they never run out of money. Never forgot that. So the game plan is to do your heavy buying and worry about the day to day stuff later on when a roll of toilet paper, if you can get it is $10.
 
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(quoted from post at 16:40:06 08/28/20) You should be buying up gold.
Gold never has become worthless.
If you have gold, you can then buy what you need after SHTF instead of stocking up on necessities now.I

No shelf life to expire in gold.
Click to expand...

IF.. the gov did not insure that critical workers kept working... and kept the food supplies and gasoline coming....

gold would not be worth much... when there is almost no food, no gas, and the few who have it, are smart enough to keep it... No credit cards, no currency or gold will work. The few who have it, and the power to keep it will survive... The nnalert was a good practice but we barely barely barely kept the food on the shelves and avoided the chaos that comes next. (Other than toilet paper) If the hordes move into the neighbor hoods and start burning and looting,, firearms and ammunition will be the new gold standard...
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And don't forget the US Gov't under FDR SEIZED all private gold holdings back in the day. Seized them one day, put it int he gov't hands and manipulated the price drastically upwards in the next few days. Gold is no assurance of security.
 
(quoted from post at 00:09:56 08/29/20) I'm 71. What are my chances of seeing it happen?
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See what happens after Nov 3rd. Lets hope all of us with a bad feeling are 100% wrong.
 
(quoted from post at 00:42:15 08/29/20) I don't know the status of your health condition but if you are healthy I'd say pretty good chance.No way the Feds can keep spending the extra trillion$ of made up money with no consequences.
The buying power of the US Federal Reserve Notes has dropped a lot lately.Been to the grocery store,bought new tractor parts? Money continues to buy less.I have tried to prepare for financial collapse or decline
as much as I'm able to and I hope I never have to fallback on any of it but like having fire insurance on my house if I need it and don't have it it'd be a whole lot worse.Really do you think the gov't can keep borrowing/spending with made up funny money and everything will be fine?
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The Fed just changed it's long standing policy to ENCOURAGE inflation! Sounds like they put way too much currency (electrons) into the system to me, but I'm just hick farmer.
 
We have always kept enough food for eating good for a few weeks or a month or so but since the chicomvi (chineese/communist/virus) shortages we are stocking up a bit more. And have some of that freeze dried 25 year stuff stashed for emergencies. And I just checked the re-loading supplies and see that I have at least enough of everything I need for at least a few hundred (in most calibers a lot more) rounds. I don't plan on letting those who didn't plan come and take my forethought.
 
That's why you need to do a real good job hiding things like Gold and Silver.And this is not the 1930's either people are much more harder for the gov't to regulate these days,not the obedient population like back in those days.
 
Never thought of it as "prepping". It’s always been "Plan B, C, D & E to me. I figure if I need ”Plan F" We are doomed anyway.
 
Traditional farmer.
Nope - they live way across the country. If things were that bad, we probably could not make it there... even if we wanted too.
 
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