Self Reliance - Self Sufficiency - Self Self Self

[Illini Warrior]

here's an article that's probably one of the better that I've seen in a year or two - 100% on target - and it just happens to preach my mantra ....

your preps are just a stop gap - a hedge - until your self sufficiency plan can kick in and then help fill gaps on those lean months ....

when a SHTF hits - no matter how minor or serious - don't take it at face value - it can and most likely will get worse by other SHTFs adjoining and compounding together ... an initial 1 month predicted longevity suddenly is more like 6 months or longer ...

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/when- ... nt-enough/

[bacpacker]

Exactly right Illi. No one can prep enough to sustain them forever. Must better to plan to get self sufficient as soon as possible.

[Sniper-T]

Wait... so the 500 bags of beans and 500 bags of rice I bought aren't necessary?

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/agricultural-machinery-bag-weath-seeds-16562840.jpg

;)

[gm2]

Anybody else get a little excited looking at ST's picture?

[Illini Warrior]

Wait... so the 500 bags of beans and 500 bags of rice I bought aren't necessary?

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/agricultural-machinery-bag-weath-seeds-16562840.jpg

;)



nooooo - only if you think that prepping ends there - that'll be where the trouble erupts down the road - 50 pounds or 500 pounds - that sack can empty out ....

don't know if you saw the latest sage real life advice from Selco about food ....

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/selco-what-we-ate-and-how-we-got-food-when-the-shtf_03132018


"At the beginning of everything, most of the people did not have any significant “stash” of food in their homes.

In other words, the majority of common folks had food a or couple of days in their pantry and that was it. There were exceptions to that because the process of collapse did not happen in a few hours (in terms of suddenly there is no food in the stores).

When the chaos started, people looted stores after a short period of everyone buying things in a panic. Still, the majority of folks did not manage to get a decent stash of food from stores. Some did not want to believe that they were gonna need a stash. Others did not want to go out and participate in looting because it was dangerous. But I think the most obvious reason was that all food from stores was taken very fast.

In beginning period of SHTF, events unfold at a very fast pace. Actually, events go one after another so fast that if you find yourself lost in one event at the end of several events, you ask yourself, “Why in the name of God I did not go out and buy a whole bunch of food while I still could do that?”

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

I was thinking that was a pretty big sandbag........I see barricade. :rolleyes:

[Sniper-T]

Actually it is a seed bag. That's what farmers around here get their planting seeds in. They are typically around 2000#/ea

[bacpacker]

Thats a shit pot full of seed!

[Domeguy]

If you fill it with corn, throw in another bag of sugar, add some yeast, and I can use it. I have a bright, shiny, new Stainless steel “essential oils” refiner coming by UPS next week. Just another essential tool for prepping.

[eagle326]

If you fill it with corn, throw in another bag of sugar, add some yeast, and I can use it. I have a bright, shiny, new Stainless steel “essential oils” refiner coming by UPS next week. Just another essential tool for prepping.

DAMMIT' Domey!!!

Now I gotta go kill those bears who are a hankerin' for your big ole head. But that's okay critters messin' with a man's elixir mixer need killin' to begin with.

I'll be taking B.W.R.R. ; Backpacker and Stormy with me . And everybody knows how crazy these 3 are. I'll try to keep them under control. :eek:

[Domeguy]

Well doggies...I gotta thank you eagle for watchin my back...um...and my big ole head too. You will have to get one of my jars of rumatiz medicine...once I get it down to a science that is.

[eagle326]

Well doggies...I gotta thank you eagle for watchin my back...um...and my big ole head too. You will have to get one of my jars of rumatiz medicine...once I get it down to a science that is.

Well that's mighty kind of you youngin'. Probably need some for my crew also. They're gettin' a little long in the tooth. ;) Plus will need some in case of snake bites and mental stability.