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A DATE WITH DOOM
Who knows when Doom is going to pay you a visit? And will it be just you, your employer, the town, the U.S., or even bigger? It’s not like you’re going to get a letter in the mail requesting the honour of your presence, Sunday, 4pm, wear formal attire. But let’s pretend. Let’s choose a U.S.-wide date with Doom. EMP, crop failures, dollar collapse, name your poison. Be semi-real though, golden hordes are OK, zombies are not. Oh, and somehow you did receive credible warning, Doom will hit Monday morning, about coffee break time.
Our regional one-stop grocery store constantly advertises, “What’s On Your List Today?” So, for your Date With Doom, are you fully ready? What’s on your list? And I don’t mean simply what do you need to spend money on. (But hey, feel free, use Jim’s buymycrap link. )
Information
Is there anything you need to print out from Instructables, other web sites? Books that you need to read and/or buy? Notebooks to be assembled, bookshelves to organize?
Warm Fuzzies
Have you visited with your neighbors recently? Traded for squash, offered to pet sit? And for your religion, have you done anything to support the fellowship? How about your family? Does everybody know that if they lose their jobs, they do not have to commit suicide, there are cookies waiting at home for them?
Food, Water
How is your pantry looking? Garden? And your stash of seeds, fertilizer? Is it time to gather up leaves, make compost? Do you have enough to make it through your particular doom scenario?
Security
I’ve read your comments, you all have guns & ammo skills, let’s just agree that you’re covered. But can you arrange to have someone home most of the day, holding down the fort? Is Fifi willing to tear a chunk out of your local burglar? How are your locks? Does your house broadcast, “Rob me first!”? Is your car secure? Do you have any qualms about swinging a 2X 4 when necessary?
Mind & Body
Are you in reasonably good shape? Have a decent supply of remedies? If you suddenly have to stay home, do you have enough projects to keep you busy? Or know someone who does? What are you going to do for entertainment?
Heat, Lights, Rent, Transportation
Well, there’s nothing like a well-insulated trailer in the desert, with reasonable payments.
And of course there are more categories. So. Pretend our date with doom is next Monday. What’s on your list today?
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seems like ANDROMEDA STRAIN today.... well the schools around here are half empty. now i'll have to get off my butt and make up them batches of colloidal silver.
was reading Ballentine's DIET & NUTRITION and it recommends sifting whole wheat flour and removing about 5%, of the heavy indigestible bran/cellulose and adding a little dal (yellow pea - don't use green peas unless it's st. patricks day) to balance the amino acids. softer and more nutritious at the same time.
there you go, dope up those wheat berries and the little ones are less likely to get damaged by rickets, scurvy, or berri berri.
really, all you he-men are ready to take on the zombie meth hordes from hades single handed with your battle arsenal and yet your afraid of a few escaped dopers or freakazoids might do a tarzan on ya ? pathetic.
http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson1.htm
all meat diet is very healthy
Related to gaboogies note..
If people plan on subsisting on a grain only/primarily grain diet I would highly reccomend two things if they can afford it:
#1) Do not eat all wheat or all anything else for that matter. Yes I know wheat stores forever, but most of these items do too except the oats and rice, however storing white rice and whole oat groats should greatly extend storage time.
The thing to do instead is consider mixes such as eziekel or this one from the Yellow Emporer's Classic on Internal Medicine.
Grind equal parts of:
#1 Red wheat /Spelt
#2 Rice
#3 Millet
#4 Oats/barley
#5 Peas/Lentil
Soak 7-24 hours, drain add more water and cook for bout 5 min.
Using a mix of dry goods lessens the chances for developing allergies and balances out the nutrients on both the macro and micro levels.
#2) Stock up on sprouting seeds.
Buy a few hemp bags and rig up some mason jars and you can sprout almost type of seeds. You don't need the fancy expensive sprouters.
Sprouting seeds need not be expensive. The best places are from the bulk bins/tubs in a local health food store (make sure to look near the bulk herbs and spices thats where they were in mine) or this place:
http://www.handypantry.com/organic_sprout_seed
The main reason I reccomend them above others is you can buy sprouting seeds in 5# cans or 35# buckets prepacked to long-term storage. Buying in the this size results in substantial saving. I would reccomend a mix again, something like the 3 part salad mix composed of Radish, Broccoli, Alfalfa.
Don't forget if you can sprout it you can plant it and grow it, so sprouting seeds provide value as a garden back-up as well. Also, a little sprouting seeds go a long way; 35# bucket should last someone about 1 year.
To close, I think all frugual minded survivalist need to really think about the priciples outlined above. Yes, it will cost more but I beleive the marginal increase in cost far outweighs the benefits provided by such an approach. Plus this way you'll be healthier and stronger than the fatboy with his freeze dried foods and GAYR-15 who's probably going to storke out from too much sodium in his food anyway.
Full disclosure: I put my money where my mouth is and follow the approach I set forth above.
Good post. Sometimes a big conceptual post can get us back to a better sense of proportionality.
If you put grain in a feeder about 40 yards from your window, meaty little freeloaders will come often for the free lunch. You can harvest them with 22 CB Longs which are all but silent from 22" or longer barrel. Subsonic 22LR has more punch and is quieter than you would expect.
Being mentally prepared for a collapse is probably the hardest part.A lot of folks don't want to face reality,they will die,fuck'em.
Guns are good.Big guns are better.I carry a knife with me all the time.I bought pepper spray for my wife and teenage daughters.If my family is threated,I will do what I got to do.
I've just about cut out T.V. nothing worth watching anyway.I check the news everyday when I get home from work,just a quick look.
I really can't stand watching the propaganda on T.V. Seems like they're trying to turn men into pussies.Men should be sensitive and caring,we should listen to others and sympathize with them.Fuck that.
It's a dog eat dog world,always has been and always will be.
I choose to be a man.I'm not going to listen to liberal crap,the liberals can eat the peanuts out of my shit.I'm not going to be politically correct,I believe in freedom of speech.I'm not going to blame others for my mistakes,I am responsible for my actions and I like it that way.I ignore silly laws,if the politicians can do it,so can I.
I am fearless.I go through life standing on my own hind legs,fuck crawling,that's for pussies.
Living has been easy for the last fifty years in America,that's about to change.It's time to get tough.
Josey Wales: "Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."
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