Prepping for a long crisis situation!

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I love watching online content, YouTube videos, etc that have to do with prepping. I’m of the opinion that everyone should be prepared in whatever way possible for unforeseen events and emergencies!

I was reading an article online which spoke in regards of personal prepping. Having enough water & food stocked away is of course important but what about other things? Items like personal medications, spare eye glasses or contact lense supplies, etc and the list of possibilities was endless and then I started laughing but then I thought…

Yah, ok but wait a minute! I stopped because there was a serious part of that whole, “be prepared!” mantra that got me to thinking.

What about ab/dl items? A medical expert in this article made reference to the fact that a huge contingent of the populous take medications for psychological issues and how important it is to keep an emergency stock of those items. If one is dealing with significant stress due to a stressful situation that could be long lasting (i.e.) S.H.T.F. for folks in this community it certainly raises an interesting question doesn’t it?

We may take for granted that we have fairly easy access to those specific items we want or need, things which we have a strong need or desire to possess, that we can get ahold of by placing a quick online order but what about after a serious widespread crisis has unfolded?

No, I am absolutely not a Doomsday Prepper! There has to be more to life then constantly sitting around waiting and wondering how life as we know it might end but I for one never ever considered what would happen to paying attention to or satisfying that specific state of mind when you have absolutely nothing to regress or play with!!

If for instance one is dealing with real documented or potentially upsetting psychological or psychiatric issues in their life which require medication to maintain their health then of course that would be needed regardless of whether it’s a normal day or a massive grid down, societal collapse kind of thing. The need is still there! Not that I’m attempting to make a comparison between the whole spectrum or mental and emotional issues and the whole ab/do thing but as I was sitting there reading the article, I thought, it raises an interesting issue. Some people who struggle with these types of issues find great comfort in ab/do activities because it helps to provide balance and stability. …

Doesn’t it mean that whilst one preps with aspirin, cans of spam, water, first aid and an assortment of other items, that we’d want to prep for a shortage of ab/dl specific items as well?

I guess it’s time to find a good hiding spot, stock away a few 12 packs and other goodies, seal the box with tape and label it “GRID-DOWN – EMERGENCY USE ONLY! ….and plenty of canned goods!

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We already learned from the morons who wiped the shelves clean of TP, PTs, soaps, diapers, wipes, meat, etc. And the biggest, most satisfying laugh amid it all is when said morons tried to take it all back to the stores…and got told “no”, cold in their tracks. Trying to return health items that could be, by nature, contaminated? It’s their fault they can only blindly react without thinking, so we see how that works now while other families went without and were forced to scavenge. Zero mercy for panic-hoarders.

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Should always have a slight stash of any objects you think you might need incase of a crisis just to be safe.

If you believe it be diaps and wipes go for it.

Or if you’re bullets and body armor kinda person.

It’s always better to have extra and not need it.

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Because of the Virus and empty shelves at my grocery store, I have been trying to stay one or two items of the same thing ahead so if they don’t appear one week, I can still have said item and look for it again the following week. I don’t believe in stockpiling for the simple reason of what we recently experienced. It deprives other shopper of buying necessary items. That only applies in an emergency situation like the one we’re now in.

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I ‘soft-hoard’, meaning I take only what I need and when stocks start returning I grab one…after determining if this is something I will need for a long haul of 6 months, like alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, soap. And that isn’t much. Paper products…only as-needed, especially seeing Karens & Kierans pushing carts towering with TP mega-packs. 8 to 10 of them. There’s the trouble.

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The basic premise of ‘Prepping’ is to do everything possible to be prepared against future lack of re-supply, and having the ability to protect/defend against those trying to take them from you. You extend the principle by also adding elements that will ensure you’re ability to grow your own food, or hunt for it, allthewhile maintaining a semblance of a safe and healthy life.

So, pretty much everything is needed when you take prepping into account. Don’t overlook the major things (food, shelter, protection). Small things (like sewing needles, thread, salt, bolts of sturdy fabric, etc., etc., etc..).

Diapers. Holy, sheet. The only viable option in a ‘SHTF’ scenario, is cloth, because you can at the least wash/reuse them (stock up on that detergent/bleach folks!), but even they will eventually wear-out, and then what?

We live in a consumer based world now. Scant few of us are truly able to go ‘Tribal’ and survive for any length of time. Surely not long enough to have kids and carry on the family lineage.

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Years ago I would get the Foxfire books as Christmas presents (my request). It’s not that I ever expected to be a survivalist but it was fascinating to me to be able to do all these things that our forefathers had to do. I remember the one scene in the beginning of the Mel Gibson movie “The Patriot” where he was trying to build a chair. The minute he sat down in it, it fell to pieces proving that doing these things can be very difficult.

For those of you not familiar with the Foxfire books, they started out as a high school project taught by a history teacher in Tennessee if I recall correctly. They were learning how to do the things necessary to survive in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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panic panic panic

Doomsday Prepping is back in fashion after taking a break for a few years ^-^

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Well, considering the country which makes most of the things the world uses, from mundane-seeming paper products to exalted electronics, is under the stink-eye of every country’s government, we might very well just have to make most of our own things…or make them in our own countries. It could very well go that way. Just my .000000002 Bitcoin.

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I would like to see that as well. I find it unnerving that much of our pharmaceuticals come from China, the same country that was selling us toothpaste that had lead in it. So what’s in our meds?

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