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10 Smart Prepper Hacks from Seasoned Preppers
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2021
- Would you like to learn some really cool hacks that seasoned preppers have discovered over the years? In this video, a few of our experienced prepper friends share their knowledge in hopes that it will help you on your journey to becoming better prepared for the challenges in life.
A special thank you to Debbie, Suzanne, and another friend who wishes to remain anonymous. We greatly appreciate all of the wonderful ideas that you shared with us in this video.
You can learn more about self-reliance, provident living, and emergency preparedness at TheProvidentPrepper.org. Here are a few specific articles that might be of interest to you.
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My "hack" is wide painters tape instead of duct tape for labeling 5 gallon buckets. Duct tape lives a sticky residue on the buckets, put painters tape removes cleanly. You can write the contents on the tape instead of the bucket, and then if you decide you want to change the contents of the bucket its easy to relabel it.
Painters tape is also awesome for sealing up around windows if you have issues with wildfire smoke. Buy a quality brand, and 3 or 4 inches wide, then run strips around the window frames and door frames (unused doors). When the smoke is gone, it is easy to remove the tape. If you need to use the window or door for an emergency you can just open it, the tape will rip fairly easily.
I use painters tape to label my home can jars
Yes! I use painters tape too! Prep it!
Excellent
I use it for labeling since I'm a painter and have tons of tape, but it will become a bit of a pain to remove (in pieces) once the adhesive dries out after a few weeks.
Great tip. How long does it stay attached to the bucket? Does it dry out and fall off?
Thank you. I’m brand new to prepping. My husband thinks I’m nuts doing this. However I’m doing it anyway.
@Denise Johnson I'm new to it, as well, and my husband thinks I'm pretty nuts, as well. I just keep telling him he'll thank me IF we ever need it, and in the meantime keep hoping we won't. It does get overwhelming with everything there is to consider, and I wish he'd be a bit more proactive/supportive about it, but he did finally come around enough to at least help me with some heavier stuff. I've been at this for about five months now, and I know we only have enough to get through about a month (with rationing), but it's better than what we had before. The hardest part, for me, is not going into debt to just get everything now. Good luck to you! :)
I’m also new & my husband thinks I’m crazy 😮 but I’m trying to learn. Thank you for the videos.
@@nildamartinez6188 your husband will be thanking you in about 6 months from now...trust me...😉
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I am single but my family/friends think I am bat sh*t crazy lol. I always say I prey to God that I am wrong but best case scenario the crap doesn't hit the fan and I have food at a decent price to get me through my senior years and I will have already paid for now. This is all stuff we will eat/use and we know groceries are not going to get cheaper or healthier than they are right now. Think of it as the biggest investment into your literal future and survival no matter what happens.
I use bay leaves in my dry goods ie flour sugar, pasta, rice etc. This helps to keep the bugs out. I have used this for over 40 years and have not had one bug.
My Mom used to do that she had a big bucket of Lard & 3 big containers of flour & corn meal. We were kids asking why r u putting leaves in our food?😂
@@georgeball8116 lol. To grow organic trees. Haha that is what I would tease my kids with. Lol they would just roll their eyes with the "oh Mom" look on their faces. I did tell them the real reason though. Your Mom is a smart lady.
@@georgeball8116 how many leaves would you put in say a 5 gallon bucket?
How many leaves in a 5 gallon bucket?
@@diamond12k I use 3 or 4
I love the tip for hygiene water in the laundry detergent bottle with the spout on it. Great idea.
I started doing this too. I actually grabbed one the other day to grab and go to the barn to clean up a pig that got a wound that needed washed. Very handy!
Don't dump the water out. Use it in your canner when open kettle canning, in your pressure cooker in correct amounts, in your garden, for your houseplants, in your mop bucket, for hygiene water storage, in your dish pan to clean your fridge or freezer, to put in utility sink or top loading washer to soak whites, to mix sugar water when feeding bees, to soak beans overnite, to water your trees, put in your chicken waterer, or stock water pen, your fish pond or even to top off your little one's pool. A hundred uses instead of dumping it out. Recycle water safely, but recycle. The Earth will thank you and so will us desert residents!
That idea of storing water in empty jars is GENIUS. I have a million jars with nothing in them; what a waste! How silly that I haven’t thought of that!! 🤯 Great tip! ❤️
I agree. Storage space is my biggest obstacle.
Storing water is a waste of space and not practical when the government invades your home, and it's only a matter of time until that happens. You will likely be able to find water in streams, lakes, creeks...etc. Just invest in a water purifying system, like an Alexa or Big Bertha, and buy some aquatabs to purify the water you find in an emergency situation. Also, these people live on land or in a house that the government knows about, ie utilities, deed etc.. What everyone should really be doing is preparing to live somewhere off the grid with emergency food stores in buckets, getting seeds for planting, buy a 4 season tent if at all possible. Likely all the food stuffs they have accumulated will be taken by the government to feed the Covid camp (death camp) occupants in short order. Watch Mike Adams " 50 steps for survival and victory against the destroyers".
@@nahlabella4857 That is moronic. You cannot hide in the woods; they will find you with drones. This isn't the 20th century anymore, grandma.
@@iridescentsea3730 So you have a better idea I assume?
@@KRZED If you run, they will chase you. If you ignore them, they gain the advantage over you. If you split up into many isolated pockets of individuals and small groups, you become easy pickings.
So many delusional preppers believe they can just go their own way and be left alone by governments and their jackboots. The establishment and the NWO won't be accommodating to that. If you don't like what they're doing the only winning move is to actually fight back.
I like the reuseable detergent container idea.
That one is brilliant.
Yep, definitely will start saving those for “hygiene” purposes.
We make our own laundry soap and put it in empty laundry bottles
I’m wondering when they’ll mass produce square containers. Round containers waste SO much space!!
My walmart bakery gets their icing in rectangle 9" x 12" 5 gallon buckets. They stack really well. They used to be free, but they charge $1.00 for each one with a lid now. I was told the best days to get them from my store are Monday and Tuesdays. Wednesdays they get sent back to be reused. HOWEVER, with all the shortages, you might have a hard time getting your hands on some. But it doesn't hurt to check. Good luck!!
Right!!!!
Under the box of vinegars maybe put a piece of the no skid shelf liners. You can still pick up the box and slide it out but it will help stabilize it in an earthquake. Dollar tree sells them. They also come in a circle shape for opening jars. I use them under plants on my window sills to keep the wind from knocking them over. Just an idea😄
Such great tips on this channel!
I put bungee ropes in front of my glass stuff and wrap around shelves on the end.
One of my prepper hacks is all the household/family documents are scanned to a thumb drive. It make it easy to grab in the event of an evacuation. Here in southern California, one never knows when a fire will cause an evac. I update the info on the drive every 6 months.
That doesn't give you the original document, just saying
@@RanchGalQuilter No, but having a copy of them will help you get original documents reissued. Like when you travel overseas it is recommended you have a copy of your passport in your luggage to help get another one reissued if you lose the original. It could be a big help if all your documents were catastrophically destroyed. Many originals have registration numbers, phone numbers or policy numbers you would need in contacting a company like an insurance company, for example. Just saying.
I’d keep that drive in a small EMP bag, to help protect it a little further. Nice tip!!
Keep the thumb drive on your keychain; encrypt sensitive info like account numbers, passwords, wills - but leave medical documents unencrypted (the latter will help if you’re on an accident, as the hospital you are taken to will then have contact info for those who can make decisions for you). Having it on the keychain means that it is always with you.. Keep an identical thumb drive in an EMP bag.
I was just thinking about this.
PREPPER PARTY: send out invites to your friends and maybe ask new people to come to watch. The party starts off with the bucket parade. Each person who came with a bucket of their favorite hacks goes to the demonstration table and presents their favorite ideas. Older peppers share while new ones learn.
Have a donation table for extra jars of canned goods or just supplies people want to share or have too much of at home.
The party can be anytime of the year, Serve cake with your favorite beverage. You might learn something new, and meet new people. Use your own idea for your party.
We love what people come up with, some great ideas, and some strange, but it's always fun.
That sounds awesome!
I am envious of your Bottle Room. Simply gorgeous!
If only I had space!
I'm single and I don't have much stuff in food prep but I do have a complete list of what I have and when it expires. I have an _EXPIRING SOON_ list for my regular pantry as well, so I know what needs to be used up first. My other tip is to check the clearance section at the grocery store. I got cans of organic roasted chicken breast for half price. If there ever is a real emergency I'm going to be really sick of eating chicken 24/7, but at least I'll be alive. 🐔 It's good mixed with curry powder, so that's another tip!
Also check out the meats at the dollar stores. They have some good buys too. Not just chicken. If you only eat chicken, you will soon get food fatigue which then leads to starvation. Even if you have plenty of food.
@@joyceterra2265 I strongly believe you are right about this. I also love Archer Farms jalapeno beef sticks and their jerky as well and those sticks are also $2.50. I need to get more of them and some other proteins for exactly the reason you state.
@@lockergr Thank you. I will look for them. I love anything jalapeno. I raise them in my garden and use them for all types of dishes.. I love stuffing them too.
i put the expired date on top of can or front of jars with a black magic marker i get from Dollar Tree for 4/$1.
@@cindybrowning1711 Yep, I did that to mine as well, as those date codes can be printed over the can bumps and _really_ hard to read, especially sans power!
Thank you for providing wholesome, reliable, apolitical, biblically-based advice on how to prepare for what we are now facing.
I've been going through your older videos a few at a time (thank you SO MUCH for all you do! I really appreciate your helpful, common sense videos!) and just got to this one, so this comment is waaay late, and probably not much of a "hack" for any experienced preppers, but:
For the total newbies like me, who also live in a tract-home-style suburban neighborhood with next-to-no storage, one of the challenges we've been trying to overcome is water storage. My hubby is not a fan of building up a bunch of 55-gallon drums (or really prepping at all--he's been a slow convert), which we don't have room for, anyway, plus, at least right now, they're psycho expensive, so I went looking for other options. We have a small stack of bottled water packs from Costco (I think 36 - 48 bottles per pack?), which we rotate through periodically with going on excursions, etc., but that's not going to last too long.
I also bought two of those tub liner water holder deals, so if we know in advance that the water's going to get turned off, or if we're worried about it after any sort of "event," we can fill those up. Important to note that they hold UP TO 100 gallons each, but that depends on the size of your tub. You don't want to fill it to the point it overflows the confines of the bathtub or you'll have a mess on your hands and serious difficulty getting the water out of it when you need it. Our guest bathtub will probably only hold about 60 gallons, but the master one should be able to hold 100. I don't really include them in my "monthly total" estimation, because there's a chance we may not be able to use them if the water gets turned off immediately or is contaminated. They're more of a bonus backup.
We're saving up for a Berkey or Berkey-style water purifier, we've got some water purification tablets (the liquid that you're supposed to add to the 55-gallon drums has been sold out everywhere for months), a water-bottle-sized personal water purifier, and some purification straws, but I still wanted some actual water storage that would last at least a month or so. I shopped around for the 5-gallon water bottles like you can get delivered from Sparkletts. You can buy them online, but like the 55-gallon drums, they were pretty expensive, like $30 or more each, without lids! You could also get a delivery service, like Sparkletts, but that's pricey, too. Then my husband discovered that you can also buy those bottles and also get them filled at Home Depot (possibly used, but they often have new ones, too), for way less than anyone else was selling them for. I think they were about $12 each, filled. We bought a handful, got a vertical storage tower for them (you can configure them any way you want up to a certain height; I found ours on Amazon), and put them in the garage where they hardly take up any space at all. Perfect!
We still don't have enough for a full month of water for three to four people plus pets, but we're a lot closer, and the purification items we have will help further. I'm definitely going to fill a couple of detergent and soap bottles as they run out for hygiene purposes, as well, to save our drinking water strictly for drinking and cooking--that was a great tip. We'll use the water in our canned goods as cooking water and hopefully only have to supplement it a little bit from the drinking water.
So, long story short, if you don't have a lot of room or money but still want to store up at least a little water, even if you live in a small apartment, grab one of those vertical storage towers and five or six 5-gallon water bottles, stash it in your hall closet, and you'll be set, at least for the short term.
Amazing wisdom! Thank you!
You can use 2 liter soda bottles and Orange Juice bottles. Clean them out with dishsoap and water and fill with regular tap water, no need to add bleach. Store long term and you can filter with a cheap Sawyer filter ($20 Walmart/Amazon) filters 100,000 gallons of water. Just don't store your jugs directly on concrete. Put cardboard or pallets between the concrete floor and your water storage. Free is cheapest option.
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I live in an Apartment for college, but because the pipes in the city are old and boil water advisories are frequent, I keep all of my water bottles and a filter pitcher full in the fridge to give me a 2-3 day buffer during boil water advisories for both myself and my dog.
That hand held vacuum hack is pure genius !!!
Everybody listen, buy some Moringa seeds and grow ur own trees. It's called the Tree of Life because every part of it is amazing useful for not starving. Fond out on the internet and CZcams. I got the powder and ordered 500 seeds coming soon.
Linden Tree or basswood tree is similar (NE US, riverbanks mostly) - it's all edible.
I wish I could grow moringa, but it can't survive zone 6 winter, and I have no room for it indoors.
Moringa trees also take over the yard. They are invasive. It comes up like bamboo which is horrible to get rid of. I know it. I've done it.
Question about the water: Do you just fill the jars with the water as is or do you actually go through the canning process with the water in the jars? Great video. Thanks.
Writing that down in our families recipe journal thanx
Put upside down cupcake paper on top of powdered good before you vacuum seal.
That's A good idea. Round, not the cone, coffee filters work great too.
Compact powdered foods into bricks before vaccing.
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A paper towel can be used as well.
Here's my hack: Socks or fleece? Either works well. If you can use a sewing machine to sew a straight line, you can make fleece “sweaters” for glass jars. One blanket, even a child-size throw blanket can be turned into lots of sweaters. I sometimes buy mine at thrift stores and wash them a couple of times. If the idea of sewing with a stranger’s second-hand blanket bothers you, then go for the used sock method. Hmm. Fleece fabric doesn’t ravel and it’s stretchy. The width stretches more easily than the length. Some fleece fabric stretches more than others, so you’ll need to test it before cutting. Cut long lengthwise strips of fleece that are wide enough to wrap around a quart or pint or whatever size canning jar adding an inch or two for the seam. It doesn’t need to fit exactly. If it ends up being too loose just sew a wider seam. No need to remove the first one. Sew the strip into a long tube. Then, cut the tube into whatever lengths you like. For protection against jars bumping against each other you probably don’t need to cover the entire jar. I often do. If you’re into details; when sewing stretchy fabric, it helps to use a slight zig-zag stitch to prevent the threads from breaking as the tubes are stretched. The sweaters can fit a little loosely as long as they stay in place and don’t slip down. I spend extra time back-stitching the top and bottom of the seams but that probably isn’t necessary. This grandma’s jars are donned with colorful sweaters and even a few with Santa, snowflakes and even crazy little Olaf.
As a little grandma, I thought the same thing..."But I could sew some and make it color coordinated!"
Thanks for sharing all these tips ! (or hacks-lol) The water in the jars is great ! I keep important papers in a small fireproof safe, like the $40 ones at the store. It might be a bit heavy, but has a handle. Inside are maps, photos of valuable items, phone numbers, addresses, cash and important papers. I think y'all have the best storage set- up ever !
“PREPPING IS LIVING INSURANCE” is often said by Michael, the content creator over at the Asymmetrical Preparedness channel.
Im new to this and feel so overwhelmed 😔. But I've never felt like I needed to prep, till this past year. I cant watch my kids be hungry when that time comes in America.
Thank you for the advice. I need all I can get! And anyone else has any tips I would appreciate them.
Stay safe yall 🙏
I was overwhelmed too when I first started. We are raising two of our grands. I watch for sales on things that we eat/use and stock up. Theres a wealth of information on this channel and others that can help you get started. Sending prayers… 🙏🏻
Hi Katie, this is the first video of his that I have watched. I have been watching Alaska Granny and City Prepper. They are very calm, methodical and extremely informative! Stay calm, make a plan and then work your plan. Doing so will help reduce your anxiety. 🏕 👩🌾
How about trying to eat a little less now, so that it wont be such a shock when you have no choice???
Thank you guys as always... after a summer of draughts I fear the floods are upon us
I keep my brown sugar in a canister with several apple peels or a piece of bread. The apple peels are a great snack when you need to replace them and the bread is easily made into bread crumbles for the birds or bread crumbs for topping canned fruit. The brown sugar on the bread gives a nice sweet taste w/o too much sugar.
I do as my mom did & keep a prune or two in with the brown sugar. Also makes nice snack if you don't care for mushy prunes.
We have learned much from you folks and other seasoned preppers and homesteaders. We have only one small room (meant as a bedroom in our floor plan) in a double-wide mobile home. We keep an air conditioner in the window year round. We have placed sturdy shelving all around the walls as well inside the closet. We rotate by labeling everything first as we buy it, then keep things in order by date as little-by-little we add to our "stash." I can and dehydrate from the garden as well as bargains from stores and farmers. I use a jar vacuum sealer, and mylar with oxy absorbers as well. You are right: being very organized, and rotating to maximize the small space we have helps us store enough food for our grown children who live near by and have no space, as well for ourselves. As much as we are able, we are diligent to be responsible to not be a burden on others when there is any kind of emergency. Plus when we can, we build our little 5-gallom buckets for poor families with a good variety of sustenance to give in times of need for whenever that occurs. Thank you both for your consistent advice and tutorials that help people like us be as efficient as possible.
As for apples in my area are tons of apple trees in yards and people are sick of picking them up after they fall so I go around ask for the apples. I get tons of apples that way. I even take the apples on the ground and feed pigs horses deer
I like the way you are "sock"ing away food... :D
Seriously that's a great idea. ( Maybe I could ask my washer and dryer to cough up some of the socks they have stolen to use as jar sleeves. )
Haha. I also have a basket of one off socks. Washers and dryers are way to hungry for my budget. Haha
I’d actually suggest black socks to block out more light and extending the quality of the foods.
There was an old school Garfield episode that had a creature from out of space eating all Jon’s socks! Loved that episode!
Mine's a simple one. Stock up on ammo in calibers that you don't have any guns in but are commonly used. For example, i don't have a 20 gauge shotgun, but a few people around me do and might want some more of that ammo if the grid's down for a long time or shtf.
One hack i use, is instead of the notebooks grab and go, i use a jump drive/flash drive, i scan important documents and keep in a fire brook suitcase, just grab that case and we are good to go. Takes up a lot less room and keeps them a little bit more secure. My children know where they are, but no one else.
Thank you for these great hacks! Most videos like this are full of repeat information, but I got several new ideas out of this one, so that is great!
I'm 21 years of age and this preper comes to the store I work at and buys cartons of pasteurized milk and he told me about this channel and a few others and this is what I need to know too bad I wasn't raised on this information because then I would be better off
But your learning
A milk-crate type of tote can hold 2 dozen cans of soup. Then stack these totes. These cans are good for decades.
You know now! My opinion only most can expiration dates are bogus. A lot of (pill) medications are the same. They may lose some potency. Liquid antibiotics I would go by expiration date. Dollar Tree can be a good place to get food. Canned fish etc
Don't forget seeds to learn to garden. Even if 2 plants in kitchen. Get started. Save seeds. Good Luck.
With the detergent water bottle, I have one I keep outside from Spring to Fall for use near the grill. I place a towel around the carry handle and secure it with a rubber band. This way I always have a towel for my hands, it's not going to fall to the ground after use or in winds and I can easily switch it out for washing. And while I've seen folks attach a roll of paper towels to these jugs, cloth is much more sustainable. Thanks for the great vid!
what a smart idea! i just paused the video and went and put shop towels on my old detergent jugs!
Thank you for such a well done video! It was neat seeing different hacks.
Great hacks! Beautiful shelves for your jars. Love the set up.
Great hacks, thank you for sharing them Jonathan and Kylene. Happy trails!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You are very appreciated!
That brown sugar hack with molasses is glorious.
hard brown sugar can be put into a food processer, or you can put a saltine cracker inside the bag.
Those wide rubber bands are great to put on your canning jars to keep them from clanking together. That is a great way to use those old socks.
We found that you can make a fajita veggie marinade and freeze onions, bell peppers, squash, and zucchini and you'll be able to keep that produce for longer.
They go great with breakfast burritos, any Mexican cuisine you're craving, they also mix well with rice for just a filler meal.
My hack is getting people into it. Start with a few inexpensive items that don't take much space or effort and talk about common emergencies, such as earthquake or power outage. Then slowly build up to apocalyptic lol
I use a lot of vinegar that I buy in 1 gallon plastic jugs. After I use the vinegar, I clean them out and fill with water and store. Also grow my own herbs and dry them.
Don’t keep all of your emergency food in one place. Hide it in several different rooms if possible.
“Undo” cabinets that might have held other things like pillows and blankets or Knick knacks. We’ve filled out cabinets with all sorts of items to the brim. No one would know the wiser!
I pick up items like cupcake liners to keep in the house. Mostly so that if I wanted to hand out snacks, like candies or fishy crackers, I fill the little paper and they eat from those. No dirty dishes. Little waste. If they are dry snacks, that can be used all day but most importantly is that they are good measure of a serving. Rather than sit with a whole bag. Conserving what you have is important. I’ve trained my kids on them and even as teens now, they have a better idea of a a serving size. Similarly, we use cake size paper plates, not full size, if we are using those. Again, it’s about serving size tricks.
This was one of the most helpful videos I have watched on good organization and storage. Thank you so much
We take a sharpie with us when we go to the grocery store. All of the boxed canned or jarred items that we purchase when we read the date on them we write the year in large letters on the front and top of each. This allows us to quickly navigate our pantries. If we need tomatoes for instance we just reach for the tomatoes with the smallest number on them. It is kept us from throwing out a lot of food I’m sure.
Your bottle room looks a lot better with those brackets up to keep your canned good from falling off the shelf. You should point that out out because I know a lot of people never thought about it. You can take credit for doing it!
Love the sock sleeved and water storage in empty jars...genius!
I use two-gallon food buckets to store sugar instead of using five-gallon buckets. The two-gallon buckets of sugar are light enough that I can lift them and not risk straining my back. I just pour the sugar directly into clean buckets before pressing on the lid and keep the buckets in a low humidity storage room.
Put my brown sugar in ziplock bags in original bag. I put a peice of white bread inside my ziplock bag , which keeps sugar from hardening. I change the bread as it starts to dry. This will also soften a bag has gone hard. You can also use marshmellows the same as bread.
Wonderful hacks. I wrote down how to make brown sugar and soy sauce and teriyaki sauce. I have a small collection of cooking hacks like substitute this for that. Eggs come to mind, many substitutes for that.
Thank you! The binders is an excellent idea
I suggest buying dried beans. Since we started buying dried beans we started planting and harvesting our own. Since then, we have never bought beans sitting in a can of water ever again. And you get sooooo much more for the money. Plus, you can store them in a 5 gallon bucket. We store ours in metal trash bins. Because we have that much 🤣
Good stuff. I also have the grain mill in storage for grinding amaranth seeds.
Those shelves are so well designed and built that you could be selling them!
Thanks for an actual how to video. Gamma lids may or may not seal. To make sure, pull out the rubber seal and trim/scrape/sand off any plastic flashing left over from the molding process. There may be three or four of these. Put the seal back in and it should be waterproof.
Good to know since I ordered some of those (Wallaby $14.99 apiece) Gamma twist-off lids for my walmart ($4.28) 5-gal Food Grade buckets. Then found the tight-fitting press-on lids at another walmart for only $1.98 apiece! Already have the Wallaby oxygen absorbers in the 2000cc size. Nice to have the discount from Prov Prepper!
I used my freeze dryer to FD whole milk. The medium tray holds 1 qt. Then I pulverized it and put it into a qt. jar sealed it up. No measuring, just add water and stir/shake well. I have 3 gallons of milk stored this way and it is nice for camping as well. No worrying about a small refrigerator.
You can do the same with eggs. Beat thoroughly and FD one dozen to a tray. Place each tray in a jar and there you have a dozen eggs. Add back water and they are good for scrambled eggs, baking etc.
@@lorenstribling6096 yep! We have added milk and eggs to our stuff over the past year.
Another very helpful video, thank you! I am still waiting for the Be Ready Utah Expo to happen again, it was so sad that it was scheduled for the weekend after shut-down AND the weekend before the earthquake- the irony of that has not been missed by me, a pandemic and an earthquake all in one week!! Take good care and prep on!
I represented my employers at a state-sponsored conference when we were preparing for H1N1. As New Englanders, we were told, "Plan for the epidemic to occur during a blizzard." We discussed gas and food shortages, difficulty getting the power restored, and problems getting folks to shelters, especially with coastal flooding. It seems like it took a while for local governments to get those plans out of mothballs.
"Be Ready Utah Expo" sounds like a great idea. I wish they had that near me.
Thank you so much for All your information
Excellent
If your brown sugar goes hard you can slip a slice of bread in the bag and seal it up and leave it for a few days. the moisture in the bread will soften the brown sugar and the bread is still edible when you pull it out.
Hi, I cook pasta and then dehydrate, and vacuum seal. Eliminates bug possibility s opposed to freezing and can rehydrate with cold water if need be. I prep with grid down possibility.
We also have a file “If Something Happens To Me” for immediate things to care for and a brief rundown on bills, banks and insurance.
grease the lids when closing the water jars. will help to open later and keep rust down
Very good on the mason jars with water in them. Your right they take up the same amount of space. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
a piece of bread in brown sugar helps or use a clay disc soaked in water in your container
Great tip about making brown sugar!
I liked the hygiene water and brown sugar hacks, recently we had the water shut off here, so was a good test of water /sanitation preps. I have a soap container like that one so when its empty, ill use that. One thing that was interesting was how habitual it is to try and flush the toilet, or use the taps, even when you know its off XD
Molasses is very popular around here, so that's a great idea to add to the white sugar i have on hand for barter, etc. One "hack" I use is totes vs 5 gallon buckets for long term storage, they hold twice what a 5 gallon bucket will, I use the 2 or 3 gallon size mylar bags, they will hold a 8kg bag of rice, the standard size around here, and oddly a better deal than the bigger ones, and if you get the heavy duty ones, theyre stack able and support a lot of weight, so you can run them up a wall as high as youre comfortable with given your local seismic conditions (luckily we're very calm here) to keep them out of the way. Great video, Many Blessings XD
Also the light switches! I reach for them every time I go in a room.
I was using totes too but had to discontinue. We live in grain country and the rats get into everything. The mice and rats chew through the totes. I went to 20 gallon metal trash cans. Lol several traps and the cats are working wonders. But I do nit take the chance any more.
@@joyceterra2265 Yeah, a lot of the storage options would be location dependent. In my case, luckily for this issue, i'm in a building that has rodent control, its a small city by US standards, but not rural/ag country, so most of the vermin here are looking for other sources. Then in my place, I have two T-1000 mouse terminators on patrol 24/7 XD. So far so good, and i have a mix of bags that have been frozen, waiting to be packed, some packed in mylar, and some already toted at any given time. Now, if I was out in the country and near farms, like you are, and say if my preps were stored in an out building, that gets rarely visited, etc. for sure, I wouldnt be able to get away with just totes.
My main reason for the toes, is to avoid the cost of shelving/ pantry building I would need/want to do if I was in a permanent house. My preps need to be able to be (relatively) easily moved (seems about every 4 yrs a move comes up) & when fully completed, the option to have more decentralized storage, so I can grab a tote or two in a real crisis and most of what i need will be in there (food cell) & not one tote of fats, one of grain, one of dried meat, etc. As they say, your mileage may vary, so a lot of factors go into it. What works for me, may not work for others. I'm glad you mentioned it, i never thought of the apartment as a plus, but in this case, it sort of is, thanks XD
Thank you. Yes that is why I mentioned it. I have always lived in the country. I have always used totes for specific items a d shelving for home canned goods. I never had so much as a mouse in my home. When we moved here to the farm, I was appalled at the rat population. It seemed like they all lived in my basement. It took us a little over a year to eradicate the infestation. Now I get maybe one or two every other month. Bit in the meantime, I lost a lot of food that were in totes. The totes are easier to maneuver and stack though. I like the hefty totes because they are of a higher quality construction. The cheaper walmart totes, for example, are great if you do not put anything on top. The lids collapse almost instantly, defeatging the purpose. I used the totes mainly for storing my mylar bagged dehydrated foods. Between the rats and the humidity, I have had to learn a whole new way to store, preserve and package all.foods. I love farm life but like with anything in life, we learn to adapt. Your totes idea is a great tip though.
I keep reading about totes but have no idea what they are. Please ignore my ignorance and educate me..
Thank you for these tips! Your family is such a wealth of information.
@@TheProvidentPrepper so true! The viewers add so much!
Thanks for the nice video! I made copies of my documents, also paper copies of my bank card and credit card. I sent a set of copies to my sister's family, who lives in another country, and to a friend, who lives nearby. So I'll be sure, that my documents will not get lost easily.
stick a slice of bread in the bag of brown sugar, leave it sealed up and the b s will absorb the moisture and go back to normal.
Or just sprinkle some water into the brown sugar, it will go back to normal and loose. Maybe the next day.
That didn’t work for me
@@CinderellaCoach me either..I kept a damp paper towel on top of my hardened brown sugar for about a week..that seemed to work better than the microwave method (So CA, not a lot of humidity)
I soften hard brown sugar by putting it in a container with half an apple or orange and make sure the lid is tight. The next day or so the sugar is soft and ready to use. Remove the apple or orange of course.
@@KeepLookingUP115 I've used about a 1/4 of an apple with good results.
Beautiful pantry. Priceless information on how to keep you'r important paper's in binders love it. Thank you so much for sharing. God Bless all of you for sharing you'r thought's and idea's 💡 with us.
Great idea on water in empty jars. Ty never have too much water.
Those binder are a good idea but they would be easily found and taken.
Also, buy oxygen sensers to add to your rice and pastas. Will help it last much much longer.
Thanks for the great tips and tricks. I'm already doing most of these, but there are many who are going to benefit greatly from this video. I can tell by the look of your house that you live in Suburbia.....all those amazing preps are GOING to be taken from you by the hungry, violent hordes when SHTF. So I hope that you are part of a network of people that are going to help you protect that stuff. Please have a lot of ammo and weapons to protect all that stuff, or you WILL lose it. Or maybe, have a Very Good plan to bugout with all your preps. Maybe have a bugout location preplanned where you can store half of your preps? Maybe a place where there is a water well so you don't have to store water. Everyone thinks about storing up food to survive SHTF, but fail to think about protecting it.
Fear much?
I wonder if hair ties would work just as well as socks. They make larger diameter hair ties that are easier to get out of your hair and might work quite well.
food-grade moisture absorbers for salt and sugar, bi-carb etc
I keep a running spreadsheet of all my long-term food storage, that way it is easier to keep track of what I have in stock, what I still need, and what I have plenty of. Also, because I don't have a hidden place to store my 5 gallon buckets, I keep a black sheet draped over them in the garage to keep them out of sight.
Perhaps put your Christmas decoration bins in front of them? Even if this means building a shelf in front or something? I’ve told my kids in the event of something real going down, we put what we can in the Christmas bins (we have many) and they are labeled Christmas, and we bury other stuff. We made a bridge out back in the yard during Covid (one of our home projects) to connect two areas in the yard. It’s like a sidewalk, pretty with lights and rocks down the side. But underneath, should we need, in one night we could hollow out under that brings and quick let move many of our buckets underneath it. NO ONE WOULD KNOW! Put the cardboard back over them, currently underneath the pallet bridge to keep weeds from coming up, and replace the pallets with eh bridge boards on top. If you don’t know how we built it, you wouldn’t know it was basically modular. We did t build it to do this, but damn it, it’s an option now!
I list everything in a bucket, and label the bucket with 2 didgets for year, 2 didgets for month, and a letter. Example: 19/06/F means June 2019, 6th bucket. I can find what I need from my list, get the bucket number and go to that bucket. I take the removed item off of the list.
Ditto. I also have a notebook where l have written down everything l have and in what quantity!
We label buckets with painters tape on the gamma lid. I put like items inside of those. So flour, rice, we store loads of packagers like knorr’s add water meals (one bucket so far, maybe 75 packets in there? All processed through the freezers and left in the original packaging.). We also started loading into another add water baking items like biscuits, muffins and cookies that we found the Dollar Tree carries. That way we can use the mic in small batches and we can take those camping or whatever. Those are also frozen before hitting the bucket. We have beans and pasta as well.
I use any glass jars that did not have oil ingredients in them.Depending on either dissent or O2 obsorbers inside.iput electrical tape to help seal the jars.
Hi, I'm in the UK, over here you won't find dry food products "loose" in cardboard boxes, all items MUST be packed inside a plastic or mylar or foil sealed bag inside of the cardboard box! These bags are usually packed in Nitrogen NOT air!!
This is basic UK food standards!!
I find it wierd that the USA still put food into unprotected cardboard boxes! Even our spaghetti comes in sealed packages... Not loose in boxes!!
I don’t think that this is necessary a thing to brag about. That’s a lot of, mostly unnecessary, waste.
@@thelfensdrfer point is.... It doesn't need re-bagging!, You were saying?
And you probably pay twice as much as we do for the same products.
That's interesting, because I don't like to buy pasta in boxes. I think the cardboard can harbor bug eggs. I only buy pasta in cellophane bags.
@@richardmillican7733 I was saying that the climate catastrophe is one of the things many people are preping for. When you think about what happened e.g. with the deepwater horizon...i wouldn't want to live there.
I love your intro. Most people have annoying intros!! Great channel btw!
As a santitation and food safety specialist...do not leave scoops in your buckets, unless, you handle with a clean pair of gloves each time. Cross conaminatuon from your hands on the handle that then lands on the food, can and will cause issues. I am impressed by your rotation policies. We call it fifo..first in first out
My pantry looks slightly different. The supplies are all in tin cans, the cans in cardboard boxes, in the cheapest wooden racks I could find. The cardboard boxes each contain six cans and I wrote on the boxes what they contain. When we would be forced to leave our home, we can quickly load a big part of our boxes with supplies into a trailer. When SHTF and our supplies shrink, we can use the cardboard boxes and the wooden racks to fuel our wood stove.
We bought most of our supplies in tin cans. Canned food has several advantages; it is ready to eat, contains it's own liquid and requires no fuel to cook. We even have bread, potatoes, rice, beans and pasta in cans - when SHTF, we might soon run out of water or fuel to cook - and rice, beans et etera are almost useless if you cannot boil them. The remarkable thing is, that exactly these basic items only are available in small quantities in the stores in our region, so it takes a long time and many visits to the stores to collect them in numbers.
We only buy canned food that can be stored almost indefinitely. In normal life, we eat almost all our food fresh. So we hardly rotate any canned food in our pantry. We started four years ago, everything in our pantry is still in good condition and we expect it to last much longer without it becoming bad. At the moment we fear that the S will HTF much sooner than we like.
The water in the laundry bottle is a new one on me. Will use that and the document organizer.
I keep brown sugar in a jar and put marshmallows in and it never hardens 4 yrs.and still like the day I purchased it
I need to organize my pantry and inventory .
What a cool hack vid! Loving the hacks in the comments too!
Great video
As we continue to prep for the uncertain future, one thing that's isn't uncertain and that is the return of Jesus for his saints. This is the most important thing you should prep for. If you are not 100% sure that you are one of those saints now is the time to be prepared. It is also the simplest thing you can do. 3 simple steps. 1. Acknowledged we have sinned against God and ask for repentance.2. Ask Jesus to come into your life. 3 make him Lord over your life. It's that simple. We sinned as per the 10 commandments (God's moral law) Jesus died and paid the price for our sins that we might be seen right with God. Will you mark that off your to do list and make it part of your done list. You won't even need a mason jar. God bless those who prepare.
Amen!
Best prep advice ever, the Holy Gospel. Praise our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Good lord, you must have a huge family. I’m a single women, so can foods are best for me. My pantry is organized like yours, but no buckets. And, I’ve trained myself to eat once a day….a nice meal for dinner. If I get hungry, oatmeal is a great filler, or fruit
I eat twice a day because of meds. I am training myself to be fugel.
Why have you trained yourself to eat one meal a day ? For health or prepping? I’m asking because this is something I have been feeling called to do for a while. Any tips I keep trying but I need breakfast as my blood sugar is a bit low when I get up .
@@Divinefemininemiracles I was a bedside nurse for 38 years. I rarely had a breakfast or lunch during the 12 hours I worked. I'd put gummy bears in my pocket to pop in my mouth for sugar energy and breath freshness...that trained me. Now, as i said, oatmeal is a filler and then I make a nice meal. I'm 68 now, and dont need a lot of food. I don't feel hungry until the evening around 4-6pm. I eat then because I feel hungry. I'm not advocating this, it's just how I've ben since I've been 28 years old. Fruit too if i feel hungry. I never eat just to eat, only when hungry. Idk...worked for me. But be careful if you have issues like that. My weight hasn't changed since Ive been in my 30's. I weight 135 pounds at 5'61/2, and I have yearly physicals and blood and overall health is excellent. God certainly blessed me so far. I give all to him...✝️
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@@Divinefemininemiracles i eat twice a day, and a handful of nuts in-between. I also reversed my meal type. I eat my heavy meal about 10 am. Stretch as long as you can after you get up. If you have low blood sugar drink 4 oz of a non concentrated juice, cranberry, tart cherry, blueberry or grape when you get up. I drink 4 oz of kombacha tea or 4 oz of Keefer. Both have small amounts of sugar and lots of probiotics. No sugar food.
Breakfast: Protein with lots of vegetables (no starches). OR Starchy food with all veggies. (No protein)
In about four-five hours, 1 oz of raw amlonds, walnut and pecans, OR 1 oz of pistachios. About 6 pm oatmeal with chopped apples, blueberries and caco powder. OR Eggs with lots of veggies.
Veggies base: always chopped onion, peppers, garlic, kale, swiss chard, shredded carrots. Then add whatever is in season; cauliflower, broccoli and shredded cabbage, etc. It usually makes enough for 3 days. Seal tight in zip bag, squeeze lemon. Then saute just what you need for your meal. Like pasta or baked potato with butter and saute vegetable on top. OR scrambled eggs with sauted vegetables. Sometimes a piece of chicken or fish, salad and veggie. Like a steamed artichoke, (don't forget to eat the heart) OR mix of cauliflower, carrots broccol. OR grass-feed beef or bison AND turkey mix burger. PUT ON lettuce, tomatoes onion, mushrooms and avacado, eggplant and peppers. No bread. Side of asparagus saute in butter and onion and garlic. I eat till im full. Never starve myself but dont over eat. Once a week i eat one meal and fast most Sundays. I dont mix meat with starchy food because your body does not digest well. That usually equates to sluggish metabolism. (Energy)
I try to eat mostly food that has value. If I get hungry i just drink a full 8 oz glass of water. I have 2 oz of complete liquid vitamin each day. (Twice if i fast)
I'm 70 years young and 115 lbs., and grow all my own vegetables and berries.
This works for me but not saying it works for everyone. Soon I think we are all going to have to cut to one meal and also learn to fast. If you can start a garden do so, no matter how small. Just start, and add to it, it is not as easy as some think. Learn now, order seeds. Going to be harder to get soon. God Bless.
Great idea getting this input from others. Please make it a regular
I have found that if brown sugar or sugar gets hard you can put it in a plastic bag or a jar drip multiple drops of water in it close it back up for a few hours or a day and it will soften right back up! I even do it in the original bag it comes right back
May look into pool noodles cut thin bands for jars. And color code them
Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 WHAT should I add to my water to prolong storage time
I freeze my dry goods except sugar for several days to help kill off any bugs. With flour I freeze it then after it reaches room temperature again... I put 5 cups in a paper bag, fold bag over snugly and tape shut... Then I vacuum seal. The flour doesn't clog up my vacuum sealer that way.
Thanks for the water idea on the jars. Very good point!!😃
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