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Buckshot's Article
How To Prepare To Survive
A Disaster Or Economic Collapse
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Buckshot's Article
How To Prepare To Survive
A Disaster Or Economic Collapse
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How to prepare? What should you be buying right now? Think, "What do I need to survive the winter?" A fairly cheap emergency 5 gallon bucket of supplies can be put up right now. Here is a list of things you can put away for just in case. 1- 2 Pounds Of Oatmeal 4 Pounds Of Sugar 1 Can Baking Powder 10 Pounds Of Pre-Sifted Bread Flour 4 Cans Of Tuna Fish 1 Pound Of Dried Peas 1 Pound Of Navy beans 2 Pounds Of Pinto Beans 5 Pounds of Rice 1 Pound Of Salt This cost's right around $20.00 dollars and it fits in a 5 gallon bucket. You can store it in your basement. This is food for 1 person for a week. You have oatmeal for breakfast. You can make pan bread out of the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. The Tuna Fish is for lunch. Pan bread again for dinner with either navy bean soup, or spilt pea soup or pinto beans made up in many different ways. Not the best eating, but better then going hungry. Add Some Snares and Traps to get your meat and you can be eating fairly well. The next month switch to: 1 Cream Of Wheat Cereal 1 Jar Of Peanut Butter 1 Jar Of Jelly 10 Pounds Of Flour 5 Pounds Of Rice 6 Packs Of Yeast (for long term storage store in freezer. Good for 2 years) 6 Store Brand Marconi and Cheese Next Month 10 Ramon Noodles 5 Pounds Of Rice 1 Pound Of Tea 5 Pounds Of Flour 1 Can Of Baking Powder 1 Pound Navy Beans 1 Pound Spilt Peas 2 Pounds Pinto Beans 4 Cans Of Tuna Fish 1 Pound Of Oatmeal As you can see it doesn't cost a lot to put some extra food away every month. Now think about cooking. Everyone thinks you need an emergency cooking stove, but a much better choice for folks that live in small towns or the country is a propane stove. A 100 pound cylinder will last roughly 6 months, and 2-100 pound cylinders put away will last a year. I'm talking about a regular cooking stove with oven even. It is more efficient is an apartment size propane cook stove. There you have food and a cook stove that is covered. Now, what about emergency lights? Most folks talk about candles. Open flames are dangerous. A much better choice is a Dietz Kerosene lantern. A Standard Dietz lantern is roughly 12 candle power, not the best light but pretty idiot proof. 12 gallons of pure kerosene the expensive clear stuff sold in Home Depot or Menards. Don't buy the cheap stuff used for a kerosene heater that stinks when burned and gives me a headache. Get extra wicks and 1 extra globe. That's what is needed and should get you through a year. Another kind of supplement light is the solar charged yard white lights. I have tested the small ground ones. They give you light for hours at night or you can just charge them all day take the batteries out and used them for a radio, walkie-talkies, flashlights, etc... Wait to buy them till the end of summer when they go on sale. A wood stove is great to have for an emergency heat source too. Make sure you have extra pipe and elbows stored. A chain saw, you will need extra chain, an extra bar, 12 sharpening files, a hand sharpening tool, air filter, 2 cycle oil, chain and bar oil, a spare pull rope, and a spark plug. 5 gallons of gas should be able to cut you a winter supply of wood depending on where you live and how long winter last's. A splitting maul, an axe, spend the extra money for the fiber glass handles. After years of splitting wood I can guarantee that when you really need it is when you will break the handle on the splitting maul. Now the big one. Water. You really can't store enough water for very long. I have said this many times before, if I own property before I even build a shed on it the first thing you need is a well. Wells are very expensive to put in but worth every penny. You need water every single day. You can even hand pump water from 100 foot well with a different systems, some use check valves. A friend of mine had a set up like that. He built a small shed around it. Super insulted it and heated it with just a pilot light off an old propane heater. Keeps working even at -30 below zero. I have read a lot about different crisis area's around the world. What sticks out in my head is a hand pumped well is a God sent, food stored and be able to grow more is very important. Do you have your Heirloom (Non Hybrid seeds) seeds to plant in the ground? Soap. I read one story about someone's Grandfather who stored a water barrel full of hand soap during the depression. He traded the soap for food and other things. Extra tooth brushes, some way of washing clothes. One way is a lot of work, use 3-5 gal buckets with lids. The first is step is you drill a small hole just big enough for a toilet plunger handle to fit. Put dirty clothes in the bucket, cover with water, a little laundry soap, use the plunger to agitate the water for a couple of minutes, remove and wring out the clothes into another bucket for next load. Next, is to rinse the clothes. Do the same thing as you did to wash them, minus the soap. Ring out and rinse one more time, doing the same thing, wring out good and hang to dry. You will be surprised how well this works. But it is hard work like everything else folks will learn that nothing is easy when you don't have the comfort of electricity. What about Showers? Well, you can buy a solar shower heater they sell in camping supply stores. Works great. Or you can make your own out of a 5 gallon bucket. Drill a 3/8 hole near the bottom on 1 side. Thread in 3/8 pipe nipple 3 inches long, put a nut on each side. Silicone the heck out of it both sides. Add a kitchen sink hand sprayer with hose to the pipe, check with the hardware store to buy the correct pipe nipple. Paint bucket black and you now have a solar water heater. Warning this water will get very hot in the summer. Might even hit 200 degrees F. Only put about 1/3 full and added cold water before using. Make sure you warn the children and everyone using it. Like everything you are doing it is much easier to do all this ahead of time to test it make sure everything is ready for use for when the real emergency hits. What are the 3 most common medical items used. Aspirin or pain reliever, Neosporin, chap stick. Make sure you have plenty stored away. Doesn't hurt to get a first aid kit. Go to Wal-Mart and spend $10.00 to have some extra supplies on hand. In fact I just used mine the other day. The tweezes inside work great for removing splinters. What else to add? Snares. 3 Dozen Small Game Snares. 3 Dozen Medium Game Snares and 2 Dozen Cam Lock Snares, 4 - #110 Conibears. Do you understand how to set snares? Get Buckshot's Survival Snaring DVD to learn how. Do you know how to clean animals for food? Get Buckshot's Preparing Game For The Table to learn how. Do you know how to tan leather? The list can go on and on. But take care of the basic things, first. Water, food, shelter.
Physiological Needs Safety Needs. Needs of Love, Affection and Belongingness. Needs for Esteem. Needs for Self-Actualization. Safety needs. Nothing like a good ole Remington 870 12 gauge pump shotgun for feeling safe. Have on hand a mixture of slugs, buckshot, and birdshot. Criminal's that have this pointed at them reported the barrel of that 12 gauge looks to be about 4 inches wide. Intimating, you rack a shell in that is a warning shot, every person in the world knows what that means. It speaks in every language loud and clear. As times become harder a new situation will develop. Families will once again learn to work as a family unit. Everyone will feel the love and affection. A well timed hug for the children, or a wife speaks louder then words. It works for husbands too. Explain to everyone you all are family and are important and belong together, and have to work to survive together too. Praise not too much, but enough so everyone's self-esteem is built up and they feel good about themselves. Let each family member know what is expected of them and what the goal for the family is. Something that all family members are working for together. Self- actualization can best be explain on this link http://www.onlypsychology.com/self-actualization-motivation.html Self-actualization refers to an individual’s need to develop his or her potentialities and do what one is capable of doing. The self-actualizes are people who make full use of their capabilities in any field of activity they choose.
Interesting, it's the need to develop to the person's full potentialities whatever they might be. Plenty of room for that in this cash strapped environment, that is for sure.
Bruce "Buckshot"
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