What have I learned from this pandemic?
1. I'm glad I am a prepper. Food and supplies are not problem.
2. I'm glad I am a reloader with a big supply of components.
3. I like my own company.
4. I love my dog.
5. Liquor stores deliver ............
I should have checked the current market before my post on silver bars. The last time I purchased silver bars they were readily available for $ 1 over spot price with free shipping with a minimum purchase. I just checked several on line dealers and the problem currently is not price but...
During the late 1960's I was working in then West Germany for the DOD. I was a civilian employee and had DOD sponsorship, meaning military housing, medical, PX, and commissary privileges. Cigarettes, booze, tea, and gasoline was still rationed and we received ration coupons each month...
One once silver bars are readily available. Some come prescored to break into 4 pieces for small transactions. Current spot price of silver is a few cents over $ 15 an ounce. This means shopping around the many competitive dealers you can probably buy silver for about $ 16 an ounce. Break...
I live about 30 miles south of Dripping Springs. A local here built a house with the intention of rainwater capture for all water requirements. Three large storage tanks and some really fancy chemical water purification equipment. That was about 10 years ago. Unfortunately, the...
Some have only a single gun, perhaps a .22LR. Some have many large gun safes chocked full of guns of various types and calibers. I imagine that most are somewhere in between. Each has different plans for what they intend to do in a SHTF event. Some want to bug out to the woods and live off...
The minature Tabasco sauce bottles, like those that were in MRE's, are available from Amazon, currently 30 bottles for $ 20.48, free Prime delivery. An alternative is the small 3 gram packets of Tabasco sauce like those little packets of mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise, etc. found in fast food...
I live in a semi rural county in the Texas Hill Country and unfortunately the beauty and attractiveness has caused a boom in new residents flooding in during the past decade. The county is currently the second fastest growing county in the US. When I moved here over twenty years ago the...
Watching Tucker Carlson on FNC. He just finished a segment on US entities sending medical supplies in short supply overseas in this time of crisis. Several American entities, such as the ultra liberal USAID, have sent multiple shipments of critical medical equipment, such as masks, gloves...
Netflix is currently airing the complete season 2 of the History Channel's "Doomsday Preppers". Episodes from other seasons are available on a individual pay for play on several platforms such as Amazon.
Thanks, I should have mentioned that I had found alternatives, mostly dehydrated foods from Mountain House, Costco, Augason Farms, Harmony House, My Patriot Supply, Wise Food Storage, Northwest Fork, Legacy Food Storage, and others. Then there are can goods from grocery stores such as Walmart...
I bought a couple of cases of MRE's in preparation for Y2K, lol... I obviously didn't need them for that non event. Tried a couple of them just to see what they were like. Was gonna keep the rest around, just in case. When I was diagnosed with Celiac disease (food allergy to the gluten in...
During a tour in Germany in the 1960's, my family did a lot of camping in our efforts to see as much of Europe as we could. Canned bacon was a food staple in our camping supplies. I believe we were able to buy it off the shelf in the commissary.
I didn't really explain that part very well. The gloves I use for this activity are those cheap thin plastic gloves used by food workers. I bought 500 from Amazon for a few bucks. Keep some in both vehicles to use for things like getting gas, although I am no longer going out of the house...
No, I don't have a pre-filter before the captured rain water enters the cistern. I am afraid the pre-filter may clog with debris and back up into the downspouts and eventually when water backed up high enough, burst the downspouts. It is a three story house and downspouts are 30 feet high...