Items You Should Buy Duplicates/Triplicates Plus for TEOTWAWKI Ongoing List Besides Food/Water

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What items besides food and water should you buy Duplicates/Triplicates Plus to have on hand in the event of TEOTWAWKI and retail stores no longer exist? Obviously this depends on your budget and space to maintain them. To simplify things for this thread, let's exclude cars and other high priced items. After your input, I'll probably start another thread asking to rank these items by importance/necessity. If you think some items are a luxury rather than necessity, feel free to say.

I'll...

Items You Should Buy Duplicates/Triplicates Plus for TEOTWAWKI Ongoing List Besides Food/Water

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June 3, 2017, 3:27 pm

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Today I started tearing apart the wall around the front door and window. The single pane window had to go. It was letting water leak in, spent most of the day cutting out rot under the window, plus the old window was letting dust blow in, allowing too much heat to escape in the winter and heat to get in when the air conditioner is on.
The wall was uninsulated.
All the electrical was that 50+ year old obsolete 2 wire, 14ga no ground stuff.
So then there was the front door really nothing wrong...

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June 5, 2017, 6:35 am

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So you are working on your supplies ehh? What are you doing for long term food, medical, first aid type products and what holes do you still need to fill. How are you storing your supplies and do you have any methods to your plan that may be good nuggets for others.

In my case, the above pic is one of my containers with some of my long term storage for medical. I mark each case with a letter so I can quickly identify what category the contents are. I live in...

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June 5, 2017, 9:18 am

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Something to consider including in the emergency repair kit.


Essential for Powerful Emergency Fixes, Plumbing + Otherwise - Improvised Life

X-Treme Tape TPE-XZLCLR Silicone Rubber Self Fusing Tape,...

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June 6, 2017, 12:04 pm

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I'm sure there is some of the old "playing with fire" curiosity pushing this, but I'm using my lanterns so much as reading lights that the neighbors probably wonder if I have power. (I met a neighbor kid the other day that thought my house was vacant, so I must be doing something right.) I would love to be able to sit outside with a silent Aladdin mantle lamp on the table, but the slightest breeze is troublesome to them.

After using Coleman gas lanterns outside for so long it's become as...

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June 7, 2017, 7:20 am

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Preface: Though many of you may disagree, for myself I define SHTF as when Law Enforcement stops existing throughout all of the United States and I don't have to worry about legal ramifications about shooting someone who is breaking into my apartment or trying to attack me. Thus for myself personally, I wouldn't consider Katrina, SHTF, not that having a gun or rifle on hand during Katrina wouldn't help.

I have never really fired a gun, rifle, shotgun, etc., and totally realize that a person...

Best Weapon to Keep on Hand for SHTF/TEOTWAWKI for someone living in the City

A DIY disaster kit. A twelve part series to make your own kit.

June 7, 2017, 8:13 am

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Introduction and Overview:
Before I lace this into my WoC book set, I'm posting this series here to ask for feedback and suggestions to improve what is a more than a draft, but still not quite finished. I am seeking your suggestions (and brickbats) on this 12 part series.

A DIY Disaster Kit
Table of Contents
1 Water
2. Shelter and protection from environmental elements...

A DIY disaster kit. A twelve part series to make your own kit.

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June 7, 2017, 8:59 am

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People were complaining that I was posting too many threads, so I figured, OK, I'll slow down. Well nobody seems to Post any new Threads here so I will resume! If you don't like it, blame others for not posting threads!!!! If you don't like my threads then go ahead and you post a new thread!

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How Much Clear Space is Around Your House

June 7, 2017, 12:22 pm

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I live in a coastal rain forest. The native flora here doesn't just grow, it explodes. One day it is neatly cut back, a month later it has intruded two feet into my clear space.

We have a "Green Belt" between residences here of 10', but I keep things pretty well trimmed to that "Border".

I have a plan for placing deterrents into the Green Belt, but cannot implement that until a SHTF event occurs. There is only twenty feet between my home and the Green Belt behind me. Not much of a...

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June 7, 2017, 2:48 pm

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Land Navigation
INDEX: (Click links to browse directly to the subject within this thread)

• Determine the Grid Coordinates of a Point on a Map (you are here now)
  
• Determine a Magnetic Azimuth Using a Lensatic Compass...

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June 8, 2017, 10:30 am

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What is the best way to clean one of these tanks? I bought one (plastic tank with aluminum frame, 48" x 48" base. Looks like there hasnt been anything stored in it, but was stored without a cap. It has a couple inches of rainwater. Any ideas?
(Would like to clean it for drinkable water, in a pinch)

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June 9, 2017, 11:42 am

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Woman falls into sidewalk...

Listening to Katrina...long read

June 9, 2017, 12:02 pm

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A very nice read on Katrina
Listening to Katrina
HURRICANE KATRINA

Listening to Katrina...long read

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June 9, 2017, 11:42 am

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Random Cool Tricks

June 9, 2017, 4:30 pm

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Hair dryers work great to thaw out a frozen car in the morning. Hang it from rear view mirror or ? Crank it on high and go do your thing for a bit. Off you'll go. (Caution. Females get angry if they can't find theirs. Always return it)

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June 9, 2017, 6:07 pm

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So I have sensors around my house pretty much tell me if unwanted persons come into my yards.
However I would like to find a way to protect the fence without spending a huge amount of money, I would like to have some kinda trigger device that birds, cats wont set off the fence is wood so attaching a sensor to it wont help so looking for inexpensive ideas to detect the fence area without getting a million false alarms.
Due to the nature of my yard sensors they wont pick up cats or dogs just...

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700,000lbs of food recalled!

June 11, 2017, 1:20 pm

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Recall: Over 700,000 pounds of Chef Boyardee products pulled from shelves

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June 12, 2017, 2:51 am

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Denial Explained - the Normalcy Bias

June 12, 2017, 9:14 am

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We've all had friends who refused to look at reality, but leave it to shrinks to come up with a nice clinical sounding name for it: The normalcy bias!

(a.k.a. denial, the ostrich response, etc...)

Normalcy bias is why most people can't face a large crisis. Large, as in a real-time economic collapse or peak oil. Here's a perfect little blurb on normalcy bias I found at THIS site:

"Normalcy...

Denial Explained - the Normalcy Bias

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June 12, 2017, 11:46 am

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Over the last few months I have pretty much withdrawn to the farm and gone all hermit like. In part due to some lingering health problems left over from last year near fatal Sepsis. In part due to the general population disgust me. In part because the outside world is just getting to damn crowded. I have not even been to a Farmers Market in two Months because I was getting more than a little annoyed with the average market shopper. When you have pasture and woods raised pork that is...

Return of the Gray Man???