11 Items You Must Hide Immediately When SHTF
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- In this video, we're diving deep into the world of survival and preparedness. We’re going to walk you through the 11 items that attract looters like bees to honey, and more importantly, how to hide them effectively.
So, if you want to keep your hard-earned supplies safe and sound, you're in the right place. Let's get into the nitty gritty and make sure you're one step ahead when things go south.
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1st off 🤐 keep it under your hat if you've prepared. The highest threat will come from "family and friends".
"Friends"
People always talk. Even the ones who promise " they won't tell anyone". Everybody talks.
I laugh at these preppers on the net who tells everyone how to prep. And goes as far as showing their staches. They will be the first to get hit.
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Your family & friends will become your biggest liability! But it'll be your unprepared and starving neighbors that will beome the biggest immediate threat! Right up until that point, they'll look at you side-eyed if you suggest they prepare! 🙄
On the livestock subject, everyone should seriously consider meat rabbits. They’re completely self sustainable, take up a small footprint on your property, produce more meat per year if bred regularly than a full sized cow and most importantly in SHTF, They make ZERO noise.
I have an old pre 1973 Ford Pick up. All mechanical with no computer. Keep it simple and hack proof.
Another deturant, stick shift
That is hard to find now
@@user-rn4wo3ci3e Not compared to what they are charging for new trucks. A good ol' truck can be gotten for $20,000+ down to $2,000 restorable candidate. Choose wisely upon your needs.
I have a 73 Ford Falcon, XB GT Coupe. You might know it as Mad Max's car as an American, but to us Australians it's an iconic car. Only downside is old cars require a shipload of fuel, oil, and their parts are harder to find.
If it's a standard, then you've got a built in protection system, most people today can't drive stick.
I don’t think we are going to have a SHTF day. I think we’re watching it happen right now in slow motion. We are getting used to higher crime, corruption in government, higher prices for everything, and shortages of labor, food, etc.
Technocracy is rolling out via the General Albert Pike plan and you are CORRECT, it is fatiguingly SLOW on purpose intentionally.... To drain us of resources and make the misery persistent.
Have you considered that the average USA citizen has been acting this fearful for almost 100 years if not more? All those personal nuclear bunkers, you know? And nothing happened
It is only within the last 100 years that we have had the ability to easily store delicious food. Early American settlers would save and preserve as much as they could, because they knew it would be another year until crops could be harvested. In fact some people would try and have 2 years worth of rare items because they knew that weather could destroy a whole year's worth of crops. I agree we shouldn't live in fear, but we shouldn't be foolish. I can give you example after example of families that I know that have had to dip into their food storage. It was usually because of job loss or sickness, but some have been because of earthquake, flood, or tornado.
You are absolutely correct! I commend you on your discerning heart and wisdom .
This is a "boiled frog" analogy.
A frog is placed in a pot of water, the heat is turned up gradually, the frog is never aware that it is being boiled to death.
This is what is currently taking place worldwide.
The goal is to cull the population of humans by 85% to 90%. The truth is rather harsh, don't you think?
The ones that rule this world don't give a flying fuck about you and your babies.
Crime is actually down like 100% from the 1960s. I was surprised too, it is interesting what the media can do to people if that wanted to. Look at it for yourself, not argue with me.
Had a couple of morons that thought that trying to take my generator after Hurricane Sally would be a good idea. That's when they were introduced to item number 3 on the list.
There you go, keep them at bay.
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@@rome79735Or, better, UNDER the bay!
Be ready, don't talk about your preps, be " The Grey Man " The 1st that are gonna freak out are city people, those are the ones that you need to watch out for.
If you live within 20 miles of a city, specially a large city your toast. Not long after SHTF there will be a mob come though and loot every house along the way looking for food. Unless you have an army with enough ammo your done.
No one left alive.
I live to close to a small city so I am building a kill Dozer with a whirring front side and rear rotating blades powered by hydraulic motors enclosed in steel framing. Will work for ZOMbies also.
It actually more easy then you think there are a lot of old field mowers that are hydraulically powered laying around. Shorten up the blades so a pile of people can't stop the blade.
Told my neighbor and now he's building a bigger one then mine.... maybe that should worry me.... lol
City people are CRAZY
When SHTF your "nice neighbors" will turn against you if they think you have even one can of tuna. Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? Be the Ant.
@@lauratrahan8237 sad but true. It will be every man for himself, kill or be killed. If you have no way to protect you and yours then you may as well kiss your ass goodbye. It is scary to even think about how badly things could go this year. It’s not giving me the warm fuzzies, I can tell you that right now.
In the first wave, they'll mostly be freaking out in the cities, and fighting each other like crabs in a bucket to get out once they realize the lights aren't coming on again anytime soon and the trucks aren't coming with more food either. They'll take time to filter out through the suburbs and into the countryside, and will have reduced their numbers on the way. Your first concern would have to be those in your area, those neighbors who might lose their social niceties in SHTF. They'll be the first ones to reach you if you're in the countryside, not those urban hipsters 100 miles away fighting their way through the mobs. Many will never leave the cities, they'll just scavenge there until they run out of stuff to scavenge, then many will die when they realize it's too late and the suburbs and nearby countryside's already either been ransacked or fortified against them.
The problem with prepping is that there will be gangs of marauders, well armed with previously stolen weapons. They won’t take your stuff, they’ll take your life, move in and use your stuff, regardless of how much or little you have, and when it’s gone they’ll move on to the next victim.
BINGO!!!
For free men that ask no permission, that is the time to shine. One free man can down a group with stunning efficiency.
@@68buicks definitely, it’s disturbing to imagine the havoc that, say, 4 or more people could wreak. They will also be killing the ones that killed you to take the stolen goods for themselves, assuming that the government doesn’t get there first. To end this on a less depressing note, Mr. 68buicks. my first car, in76, was a 67 Buick Skylark custom. And who doesn’t have fond memories of they’re first car.
So, pack some heat. You don’t have to give up, defend your home and family.
I agree that would be a major problem.
But also remember, it’s not some video game where the better armed group just wins and grabs all of the weaker group’s supplies and carries on.
They’re attacking an unknown house, with no idea how much danger they are in or how much reward they will get out of it.
Quickly take out 5 or 10 members of a 50 man group and you are are *not* dealing with that group again. Not saying I could manage it but it definitely can be done.
00:57 11. Supplies
01:47 10. Hand tools
02:35 09. Alcohol
03:30 08. Vehicles
04:37 07. Generators
05:49 06. Solar Panels
06:55 05. Fuel
08:01 04. Livestock
09:09 03. Firearms
09:49 02. Food Stores
10:53 01. Precious Metals
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Don't know that I agree with your priorities (and I've live all my life on 'prepper' principles (beginning with being born in my Grandmother's cellar during one of the last 'Carpet-bombing' raids of WW2).
But the 'precious metals' is a pop NONSENSE!. ie. Gold has NO USE (other than jewellery) that ANYBODY NEEDS: and lacking USE has NO VALUE. (as distinct from a MEANINGLESS 'price'; a price RECKONED IN DOLLARS (or other currencies) which will have or will soon collapse. When push comes to shove you CAN'T eat gold; nor even wipe your arse with it. eg In Gaza at this very moment you wouldn't be able to buy a BigMac with a bucketful of gold.
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I suggest not buying too much at one time. Im a retired molecular biologist and when covid hit I saw the forest for the trees and I know that pandemics always last two years. Always. So I immediately went to the local store and bought out all the Mason jars and lids I knew I would need to can two years worth of food, and store grains. Now that was 360 jars. 30 cases. Now I'm from a small farming town and EVERYONE noticed. And bc they know my education, they literally started following my lead, and a frenzy started around my farming community, and then all of a sudden a month later canning jars were not to be found. So people do notice what you buy if it's in large quantities and so, if possible, start collecting stuff now, little by little. That way your stock will go under the radar to other shoppers as just stuff
This has been on going trend with Mason jars where I live, everytime they come in since covid they are gone in a couple days. It hasn’t stopped since covid here. They get snatched everytime right away.
The solution is ALWAYS be buying. Pre Covid at least monthly local grocery chain had huge mega roll TP packs were on sale. I would buy 2 to 4 packs. This serves multiple positive things. The store buys more every time, Carrie’s more on hand. So when panic started they had more, had ordered more. BUT I did not buy any TP for a year around home. My sister in big city. *who for Christmas I gave her a LARGE TOTE with squeeze flashlight, 3 pack canned chicken, 16 mega TP pack, and many other samples*
Went to 3 stores to overpay for a 4 pack of small no name TP.
@@larrythompson8630 I never once ran out of TP. I have been aware of things for over 25 years.
Wasn't the bubonic plague a 'pandemic'??
Me, I started collecting Mason jars from thrift stores decades ago when people stopped canning, some for as little as nickle. My collection of lids is downright extreme. I guess my grand children (if I had any) would be canning for years.
Hi from Ireland. When you do your shopping, just add one more item that you are buying. For example. You have one tin of beans on your list, now add another tin of beans and so on. After a few weeks you will see it all adds up. TIP : REMEMBER, JUST BECAUSE THE DATE ON A TIN OF FOOD OR DRY FOOD IS OUT OF DATE, DOSE NOT MEAN, THAT YOU CAN'T EAT IT. REMEMBER, USE YOUR NOSE, IF IT SMELLS GOOD, YOU CAN EAT IT. REMEMBER, WHEN YOU COOK IT MAKE SURE IT'S PIPING HOT.
If you can find an old broken fridge, you can gut it and bury it in the yard up to the lid. You can stash a lot of things in an old fridge.
Mostly mildew.
@koboldsage9112 not if you drill a whole and run pvc for ventilation. Call a root cellar
@@koboldsage9112 bleach it and let it dry in the sun. Freezers, too. It's a neat idea. But the mice will eat the gaskets eventually.
Very good idea. (perhaps with a few adjustments) I have a couple of LARGE old fridges : but they're way to big to run of my solar-system (wrecks the batteries) so replaced them with smaller AC/DC units that have proven VERY effective, and have been using the big units to store quite a lot of stuff. Works well. I've had no problems with rodents, etc., but suggest that if you do then you protect the 'gaskets'? (sealing insulation?) with small slabs of timber metal etc. screwed into place on the outsides of the door and overlapping the gap (obviously only the bottoms of doors need protecting: never seen a rodent who could climb up the outside surfaces of a fridge.
Even a mini fridge too.
Rotate the stored fuel you have added Sta-Bil to. Every 18 months put your stored fuel into your vehicle. Then replaced the now used stored fuel with fresh fuel and add Sta-Bil to it. Mark on the container the date it was stored and Sta-Bil added.
Why not just rotate that fuel (I'm assuming gasoline) every six months and not mess with the stabilizer at all? How much fuel do you think you will store without painting a big bullseye on yourself?
@@rogerjensen5277 that also will work. But using adding StaBil you just don't do it as often. Swapping gas between storage is inconvenient and unless you have a garage or an isolated ho.e your neighbors notice your stash.
Sta bill? Help
@@lisaBledsoe-us5xi you will find it on the shelf in most any automotive department or auto store. Keeps fuel usable for up to 2 years. Gas left in the tank or can gets what is called sour. It starts breaking down, absorbs water from humidity and will foul the fuel system. Saw this in a car that had sat for two years before driven again. That car drove a few miles and stopped with the carburetor fouled and it had to be rebuilt.
@edwardcnnell2853 You can always tell in the first nice days in March who let their MC set all winter with old fuel in the tank when they start it up.
I use galvanized garbage cans in a hidden place and pack them with dry goods in an air tight containers and can goods. Most people will not steal garbage cans. Use bay leaves when you pack dry goods.
Garbage cans would be looked at because people will scavenge for anything
Why bay leaves?
Great idea!!! Thank you❤😊
My grandmother told me to put bay leaves in my cabinets etc . Never had roaches ever, in any residence I occupied even apartments.
@@jessdave3107 Dry Bay leaves repel bugs and larvae.
Secure your ride by pulling the ignition fuse when you park it. I will crank but won't run. Cheap easy solutions
Ill keep that in mind, thanks
Better yet, the humans stop acting like animals that need to be caged for not controlling themselves. They're supposed to be so advanced they should know better by now. No one is going to entertain these thieves. They're already locked in prison planet you can't get out of prison planet stealing lying cheating. Basically acting like animals is enslaving them. They want to be free but do this so they can't get out until they stop misbehaving. Everyone else has to obey the rules, so do they.
Great idea thank you❤😊
Did that on a family member I say no mom say yes
Unless somebody is handy at making cars start without that fuse and without keys
In my area of the country every senior person I know has and is preparing for hard times! At the same time they are arming themselves! There are long lines at the checkouts of the arms dealers and when asked why they are buying at this time of their lives they all say "just getting ready''. Unless I miss my guess the takers are going to have some high attrition rates! POMO
I love how people act like there's only hunker down or go nomad. The truth is when shtf people either band up n in safety n security or band up to get resources. Usually both. But what people also forget is that we can be a holes. Floods, fires, gas leaks, can force you from your fortress. Which means you life may very well depend on your Bob and how well you've trained. Theres three truths, death, taxes, and the shiftiness of people when it comes to survival.
people are food
Be cautious when "banding" up AFTER shtf.
@@USMC6976 correct the show Walking Dead proves that..................
@@conniepitts8392 I've never seen that show. But I know, if you are going to depend on someone, they have to earn that trust.
The three questions asked for banding up on TWD......
I am so glad that in 2007 I left Colorado living in a city of 100,000 plus. Call it what you want but I had a vision dream of things to come; six sense. Anyway moving to the country side was a good idea; especially now!
Nah, it's called wisdom. History is repeating itself, there are plenty of examples of these things happening in human history and sadly our tickets bout to get punched. To much of the communist cancer infected our country and now the body is sick and on life support. I miss old america.😢
I’m out in the country, east of the Mississippi River… our newest neighbors as of 2 years ago have moved here from Co. we have other families from Ca, Mi and Ind as well. We left the Chicago area for more peaceful rural life
Read Mathew 24. The books of Daniel, Revelation. You will have even more vision.
We live on the Gulf Coast. We can't have basements and have a concrete foundation. Does anybody have ideas about where to store food?
I've 'been there, done that' over the years (and might move out again, all things considered. But DO be aware that such a move would create it's own risks and difficulties.
That prepper at 0:27 is making sure they stock up in air fresheners because when the SHTF you really need some good air fresheners!! That stuff stinks.
So the answer is always false walls, hidden safes, hidden compartments, and don't tell anybody you have the stuff. Check. Thought this would be more useful.
Most underrated comment, never tell ANYONE your personal business about anything
Don't forget about your ceiling, a lot of stuff can be hidden under the insulation! Perhaps even better would be to bury a lot of small caches scattered around your property in say 5-6 gallon plastic air-tight buckets!
The answer is be as prepared as possible, and have the means to defend it while not bragging about it.
Hidden trumps safe, in my opinion. With heavy pull, rare earth magnets, it's easy to install removable wainscoting and chair rail [for handles even kids could hang off of and not pull them open].
The only problem with false wall's and hidden compartment's is by the time they might do some good Your already Dead !
The timing of this video while the internet was shutting down should be iconic
I finished the video; then Joe Biden comes on asking for money.
@@rlee6503🤣🤣🤣
You sent him cash, right? Unmarked bills!
Shutting down ?
@@rlee6503 of course you sent every penny you have. 😉🙄
#7- The best way to keep a generator hidden is to use a solar power generator. Because unlike a gas-powered one. The solar generator is quieter and can be kept indoors. Plus , it is a cheaper alternative. Due to not needing gasoline to run them. Which in a grid-down situation would be impossible to get.
Where do you hide the panels is the problem. If you have 3 x 100w panels (minimum needed to top off 15amps of usable battery daily) that's about the maximum you can hope to be able to conceal.
My feeling is the exposure of any form of generator is the problem. I got no answers
Unless you live in a place that gets down to just about 3hours of daylight maybe in winter.
Not if you live in a cloudy rainy area
Great if you can afford solar generator(s). They are EXPENSIVE! $2000-ish for only 2000 watts power. They’re great if you can afford thousand$ of investment for adequate solar generating. And then there are the delicate solar panels providing slow charging. But I’d happily add a good solar generator to my current dual fuel generator if I could pull the $ trigger on it.
@@bukboefidun9096be prepared to go 30 to 45 days without electricity. Most people will have hopped aboard the bus to the 15 min city and the promised food by then.
I think you are only half right about "precious metals" being things like gold and silver. I would say that brass, copper and lead would be more valuable in a real SHTF scenario. Without ammo your firearm is just a fancy club... Now it depends on which caliber you're talking about, but 1000 rounds per caliber would be a good start and 1000 per gun even better. For something like .22 LR or .22 Mag I would up that by a factor of at least 5 to 10. I've taken my kid out to the range and popped off 500 rounds of .22 LR in an afternoon...
Also, don't forget that you need supplies to clean and maintain any equipment you have. Things like powder solvents, oil and patches for firearms. Then too oil and filters, grease, coolant, WD-40 and the like for equipment and vehicles. Perhaps fertilizer and other chemicals for the garden, pest control, etc. Duct tape, electrical tape, adhesives, cable ties, cordage, plastic sheeting. A lot depends on if you shelter in place or bug out.
Keep your precious metals. Food, water, ammo, med supplies are more valuable
@@jackdeville7890 Precious metals are supposed to be bought after you have everything else covered. Metals are a store of wealth until after SHTF and things start to settle down to normal again. It may take awhile, but gold and silver have been valuable throughout history and won't stop now.
@@bite-sizedshorts9635 gold, silver, and even coin money. People understand exchanging stuff for money and money for stuff a lot more than they understand bartering one kind of stuff for different stuff. Treasury minted gold and silver coins are denominated with a dollar value.
I just showed two relatively new friends our stash
Our daughters have played bball together for 3 years and we started hanging out last year
A retired marine and active duty air force they realized I had a freeze dryer and asked 3 times over the last year about cost and what they do
I’m expanding my community
Already have 3 close friends/couples in our group, now adding more
Engineer/homesteader
Nurse/trade skills teacher and wrestling coach
Air Force/health inspector
Doctor/professor and army veteran, martial artist who restores classic cars and has a gun range
Marine and fire control expert/stay at home mom
Both husband and wife hunt and process their own meat
And all of our kids who are state level athletes 3 high schoolers volunteer on the local fire/emt squad and get free training
Is a freeze dryer the same as a dehydrator?
@@spoiledwitch82No, they are different products. A Freeze dryer is super expensive, while a dehydrator can be bought at Walmart.
Why?
A community of like minded people is what survives as one person usually cannot do it all.
@leopardwoman38 they look like they work the same way they are just more industrial size than counter top size.
I've tried to keep my efforts on the down low. My mom, who thinks it's a big joke, never misses an opportunity to mock me IN FRONT OF people. Pretty sure all our family and most of our neighborhood knows where to come knocking when the SHTF. I need some REALLY GOOD hiding places.
In your case, you might consider deception. Not SHTF scenario but weather or natural disaster event prep. Develop different types of caches - decoys for public dissemination and others carefully concealed for long-term and personal use. Be prepared to defend your stuff, even from family.
Tell her that letting Everyone know Might Get You Killed!!
Lie to your mom & tell her that you thought about it & she's right, you don't need all that much so you got rid of all your extra stuff. Loose lips sink ships.
Weaponry.
It begins with the ability to say NO and stick with it. The hiding places and defensive weapons are next in line.
The minute the power goes out we’re pretty much screwed
My neighborhood lost power two weeks ago. Tough guy of the house was freaking out like it was end of the World. He will be my biggest handicap. Smh- I am already prepared for basics...
You will. Those with common sense won't.
People can only last 3 days without clean water. After only 24 hours you'll see how bad it gets. The last 24 hours of that 3 day period is a really bad day. Do you have a way to clean your water? It doesn't pay to stay dumb.
All of this sounds prohibitively expensive, so I guess I’m gonna die.
A safe latrine. We all gotta go - and your toilet isn't going to work anymore without a water supply. You need supplies to keep down the smell, and have an area far enough away from a natural water source or garden.
A wood burning stove or solar cooking item. Keeping warm, boiling water, eating cooked warm food. Have some sort of way to cook & sterilize.
Repair kits for eyeglasses, an extra pair, a way to secure them to your head. Some of us can't see without them.
Reinforced doors and windows.
Back up medications and natural remedies. Neosporin is a must.
What makes feces dangerous is the concentration of it! If you must bury it, bury it shallow and spread out. Nature has been recycling manure almost forever otherwise the Earth would be covered in dinosaur shit! Human shit is no more dangerous than any other manure though it's considered to be best to not use human manure in or near your garden area, especially if you're growing root crops like potatoes! Having said that, in many parts of the world people still use human manure to help grow their food!
Toilets based on off-grid water and a septic tank will work just fine for several years - possibly decades if people look after it right. Composting toilet systems will work forever.
WHAT is the obsession otherwise sane people have with 'purifying' water and dunnies (even in campervans and such)? Every creature which has existed for 10 BILLION years has relied on available water, as-is/where-is, and when it was time to 'go' went to a nearby tree or bush. (or the middle of a busy thoroughfare to warn would-be trespassers that he was in a, er-r, shitty mood! They STILL all do it (including the hairy poodle the old woman a few doors up walks past my place!)
Mind you she's now thinking the poodle is pooping on HER doorstep, because that's where it ends up.
@@dabbbles It's almost like humans live in population densities vastly higher than what the ecosystem could support if we just dump our waste wherever, and we've been living in large high-density communities for long enough to have learned from things like cholera that actually disposing of our wastes intelligently and making sure our drinking water is clean are a good way to keep ourselves and our children alive.
Neosporin? Never used it - here, we use raw honey or yarrow. Yarrow is my go-to, even saved a friend's thumb last year with it when he accidentally ran it through a table saw! The ER doc that fixed it up was thoroughly impressed, and after researching the herb right there, vowed to add it to her first aid toolbox! Honey is also super powerful - I had a chicken that survived a fox attack, but one wound was so deep i could see her lung tissue (I know what lungs look like!). Cleaned it out and drizzled honey in twice a day, and she healed up no problem! We don't need chemical meds - AT ALL - because everything we could ever need can be found in nature, if you know where to look ;)
I recommend reading the novel "Alas Babylon" by Pat Frank written in 1959. It gives a realistic view of a community in Florida that survives a nuclear holocaust. the novel touches on pre-, during, and post-attack situations, the successes and failures of the characters, and covers a range of scenarios that help plan for any SHTF scenario. Note that this particular novel reflects American society at the time (early civil rights movement) and these values may resurface. A modern novel written in 2009 by William R. Forstchen, "One Second Later" deals with the effects of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on the national electrical grid and delves even deeper into society's breakdown and recovery. These may help what to plan for and how.
I read that as a teenager and The thing I remember the most was when a women broke her last sewing needle and started to cry.
I have a copy of alas Babylon by my bed also try earth abides that story gave Steven King the idea to write the stand❤
Every person on earth should read "Alas, Babylon". It's free all over the net, download and print it if you like paper. It's a basic blue print. And books based on journals of the Civil War and the Pioneers, of how average people survived their SHTF Excellent for home schooling, not the crap schools are pushing now.
Forstchen book has follow ups in the series. Highly recommended reading.
Both books are eye-opening.
Oil, trans fluid, brake fluid, powersteering.
Don't count on using a car after SHTF. I don't.
Bicycle
Generator in 2nd story roof when in use, that in mind cycle it to work fridge or freezer. Key is to appear to be in the same boat as everyone else.
In Michigan we have to have at least 3 strands of barb wire and a sign every 16ft. Warning people that you shoot trespassers. Before you can shoot trespassers. Most don't know, but it is still on the books.
You're REQUIRED to have BARBED wire. Hmmmmm. Wow.
@@kathleenwolf8624 thats the minimum. 3 strand barb wire or better.
I like Bluetti generators and battery backups. I can keep them anywhere, they’re silent and can recharge by solar or wall charge if one is available. I keep vegan foods bc they’re easy, fast and don’t go bad…plus nobody wants them lol.
I invest in precious metals, brass/copper and lead🙂👍
in the US keeping your car safe is easy; learn to drive a stick-shift. Less maintenance than a automatic. And almost nobody in the US knows how to drive them
Most of us boomers can drive a stick and tree.
@@tinapage6997 define 'most'. By far the most Americans I know and speak have no clue on how to drive a stickshift. Some families may, but they are rare.
I guess "we" are the country hicks being too poor for automatics.
Been driving 50 years. Had to drive an automatic for about a year and I hated it. Sticks are just more fun and it's easier to maneuver out of snow, mud, etc.
@@tinapage6997many of us learned to drive a Beetle, 😊
I grew up down the street from a Mormon family. They had an entire year of food and supplies in their split-level ranch cellar
More importantly they had friends they could trust.
They were originally supposed to have a seven year supply. They have gotten so slack that most of them don't even have six months. I know some that don't have any storage at all.
The majority don't have anything at all. As society has changed their leaders have recommended different lengths of time. 2 years, 1 yr., 3 months. Now when disasters hit, help can get to you much faster.
If you live near water...having a 10ft.jonboat cam give you an advantage being on the water and having room to haul supplies and stay away from the mass's
Catching fish too. 😃
If you're near a large lake, you could potentially anchor it in the middle as a way to keep away from other people and/or have a safe(r) place to sleep! Personally, I'd want a larger boat that doesn't ride too high!
@@rogerjensen5277yep...going to add another one so I can double my capacity...everyone will be on the roads...I on the other hand will be on the water at night moving and hiding on small islands during the day.
Hiding solar panels is tough. Lots of places you could put them but few places they'd be both out of sight of the street & still get enough sunlight. It's certainly not ideal but even panels facing north, west or east are better than no panels. Depending on the type of glass in your windows or patio door you might even be able to set up some panels indoors to catch a small amount of sunlight. A garden shed with a single slope roof could potentially hide a few panels. The best hidden solar panels I've seen was done by modifying an existing arbor type structure over a patio. They made a few simple modifications to the structure, covered the whole thing with panels laid flat & abutting each other then used chicken wire & fake greenery to hide all the wiring. From below you can only see glimpses of what appears to be a white roof. There's 10,000 watts on that roof that no one can see from anywhere but above. Think outside the box.
Excellent idea!!!
Couldn't agree more. Even in a small villa-unit with (some) overlooking rooftops and some very tall trees along the back I manage to collect about 8 or 9 kWh per day. And have adjusted my usage so that's about twice what I need. Additional back-up are three (670-Watt) panels fixed to my Ford van parked out the front with an extension lead running through the front door about 5 yards away. (and connected to the van's ignition systemIt .has more c onsistent exposure, summer and winter, than the others. An added benefit is that I can idle to motor from time to time toAnd there are even a couple of other useful spots to mount a few panels, but I don't need them.
That sounds brilliant!
Couple suggestions here. Paper products like toilet paper and paper towels: If you do any canning with glass jars, you should NOT keep the paper stuff in the same room. Neighbors found that out when they had a lot of fruit and veggies in glass in their storage. They were gone for two years on a church mission. When they came home, they eagerly grabbed some canned peaches and opened them. The peaches, and ALL their canned stuff, were inedible. Turned out it was from the chemicals used in toilet paper and towel production. They had leached into EVERYTHING. And the experts who examined the mess informed them the glass jars were unusable and had to be trashed. It's not a problem if you rotate the paper products out frequently. Also, think of things you use and normally ignore. Get extra things like matches, good quality ropes, rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide, bandaids, plastic storage bags, lighters, lighter fluid even if you don't normally use it, pencils and writing paper, pocket knives and sharpeners. Put a heavy plastic storage box aside and throw things into it as you think, "that would be nice to have." There are many things besides food, water, first aid and clothing, that would be useful.
I doubt that chemicals from paper products leached into their sealed jars, the most likely answer is that they were improperly canned and/or sealed! If you're going to store both liquid and solid/dry items, then keep them in separate boxes so that if one of the fluids leak it doesn't ruin your dry goods! Also, don't store items that are reactive with one another in the same tote/box! Dry canning (in canning jars) is a very easy way to store long term but make sure that you don't have any packaging in the jars because not only are chemicals used in the paper-making process but the inks are chemicals as well!
Wow! Thanks for sharing that info about the paper products. Who knew?? Do you think they can be kept in the same area just not on the same shelf??
@@evaallen9728 In this case, they were only in the same room. The toxins in the paper products need no direct contact to permeate things via the air. I don't know if good ventilation would have prevented it.
@@lonepop1Eep! I may go back to old-school knowing that now - because what are our bodies absorbing by using tp, or wiping up messes with a paper towel??? Our skin absorbs everything we touch, so if glass jars with metal lids can be affected, well, that's pretty potent stuff! Gonna screenshot your post to share with the hubs - like, we KNOW there's chemicals involved in the processing, but this is definitely extreme! Thanks for sharing!
give a man a 12 pack of beer and he can drink for a day , teach him how to make it and he can drink for a life time . same goes for hooch .
Before I retired to Florida I made 15 Gallons of my own special hard cider every October. I would drive to my favorite Apple orchard in upstate NY. I bought 15 gallons of fresh pressed unpasteurized apple cider. The Orchard sold local raw honey. In each 5 gallon fermenter I added 5 gallons cider, 3 pounds of honey and some very vigorous Champagne Yeast. My Cider came in at 12%. I bottled it in reused Snapple bottles. Making your own good hooch is easy, but you need the base materials.
If you have the materials, the equipment and of course, the knowledge to do that!
I thought the beginning of Covid was the start of it all. Every dollar the government gave us we put towards ammunition. Now we have go bags for everyone in my family emergency food for two years, portable RO water filtration. And every survival item you could imagine. at this point best decision I made.
we didnt get any covid money, found new jobs etc
It’s happening/has happened all over the world so we Americans are spoiled.
its because those people arent capable of building civilization--whites have created massive civilizations in under 100 years, i.e sydney australia
Survival alone is far more difficult than someone that has close connections with neighbors, having a close knit neighborhood where everyone is prepared and work together for survival is key. If you are lucky there is a wide range of skills and knowledge among the group.
Most solar panels turn off when the grid goes down. Having them on a house doesn’t guarantee that you’ll have power. You need a battery backup and an automatic disconnect too.
I live in Florida. I prepare for a major hurricane every spring. That means I have enough supplies to last me 3 weeks to a month. I don’t have enough for 6 weeks, I’m only prepared for a short term outage after a hurricane.
What will be the effect of an EMP (whether man-made or natural) upon your solar panels especially if they're connected to the grid?
@@rogerjensen5277 I’m not prepped for war, a collapse of civilization, etc.. If one of those happens I’m done unless something happens relatively quickly to restore civilization.
I’m prepped for a hurricane where I need to survive for 3-4 weeks without access to civilization. I’m also prepped for riots that last for 3-4 weeks, although I live in an area where there are more guns than there are people so things are naturally safer here than they are in major cities where it’s difficult to own a gun. I live in an area where the joke about someone trying to hold up a bar that cops drink in only to be met with a couple of dozen guns pointed at him applies to every public venue other than bars. It’s illegal to carry in bars here in Florida.
My disaster preparation is completely different than yours is. Mine is for something that’s guaranteed to happen every few years. Yours is for the worst case scenario.
Solar panels do no such thing. They can function off-grid. THAT'S THE WHOLE EFFING POINT OF A SOLAR PANEL + BATTERY. What part of off-grid do you not understand?
Maybe you meant solar panels stop working when the sun goes down. That is true, but it's only remarkable once in your life: somewhere around 3rd grade when they first teach you about it.
@@TheRealJBMcMunn Read what I typed again. I said that for solar panels to work when the grid goes down you need an automatic disconnect and a battery backup.
@tscoff Try writing it again in English. You started out saying panels go down when the grid goes down. That's only if you're tied into the grid. Off-grid solar panels are independent of whatever the grid does. All the rest of your gibberish looks like you were trying to put forth that concept but you failed miserably.
Meanwhile, billionaires building fortified bunkers.
All it takes is one person to find the air vent to the bunker, and they're screwed.
Bunkers and farmland
With today’s economy, I seriously don’t know how anyone could prep.
Of course you can.
You can get garden seed for $1 a package at Dollar seed.
Free canning jars, go to any small grocery store and put up a piece of paper asking for canning jars. I had a little old lady give me all hers and it was a lot!
Look around for free garden seeds. A lot of gardeners share seeds for free.
You can also forage, even in the city. There is always a park that has a nut tree. Many older houses or businesses often have fruit trees or grapes growing on them.
Learn to forage, even in the city for wild lettuce, herbs or medicinals.
Have stash spots, keep less as possible, dont hide much in your house, toughen up, get use to cold, hot, wet. Keep it simple as possible, have friends, be prepared to fight.
We have cement pillars on our home. A good thick tow chain and lock keeps our generator in place. THAT plus the sign on it.
Chains and/or locks can be cut!
Grain grinders, wheat, food, food, food, water, water, guns, good shoes and clothing, toothpaste, wet wipes, scissors, shaving creams.
Food and other basic hygiene necessities are valuable than gold or silver.
you can dig a spiderhole in one night. In a day, you can cut the shoring logs, 2 ft long, 3-4" OD, split them.and treat them vs rot. Then, at night, wrap then in a couple of drum liners and bury them, so you can create your 18" square, 10m long tunnel in a week of nights. Buy a 1" OD wood auger bit and weld it to the 4 ft of 1/2" pipe, with a T connector and handles Then you can test the ground where you THINK you can dig the tunnel, holes for the 20-gallon drums of food, etc. Then you'll know if there's rocks, etc, in the way of completing your intended digging and change the site of such things
Why not use 2x4 and plywood lumber to build with? First I would build the box to your required size, then you can char it with a torch and then rub it with linseed oil to help waterproof it and discourage insects. Then dig your hole to the required size, you only need to be have about a foot of soil over your box. Stock it with a BOB and at least a week's worth of extra food and water; if you don't use the extra, just leave it! Covering the box when a sheet of plastic will help make it water resistant! I would make both ends of the box so that they could be pulled inward to allow you to have two exits just in case; Murphy's Law! I would make it wide enough to be able to turn around in as trying to dig out with your feet would be quite tough! Also, make sure you have at least two pipes for ventilation and a way to force air circulation if necessary, a set of bellows should work. Your entrance hole needs a strong framed and hinged door with a upright 2x4 to reinforce it and local vegetation or rocks/gravel glued to it. Your ventilation pipes need to have a 180 degree topper with wire screen pushed in to stop insects and rain. Finally, you must camouflage the pipes, perhaps with brush or bushes or piles of trash! Remember that this is a last ditch hiding place, not a long term one, that would require a proper bunker!
@@rogerjensen5277 cant have anything much in advance of shtf. Somebody will find it and return to it post shtf. They wont bother to return to a mere spiderhole. Everything has to be done at night, showing no light , leaving no "sign' and be finshed before dawn or you might as well not bother to do it. all that is much, much too elaborate. It's feasible to do it that way inside of a shed in your back yard, tho
They forgot to add Emergency Communications. Even hand held radios will help a neighborhood watch monitor and then alert when the bad guys come looking to steal and plunder.
Thumbs-up! Thanks for sharing!
Rabbits are not noisy.
They also breed well…like rabbits
Exactly! Ssssshhhhh🤫🤫🤫! My apartment building did a sneak move. By renovating our building, they got into our whole personal belongings! After a temporary move to an apartment 1/2 or less in size to my regular apartment, I have been told to totally downsize on the the products I worked diligently to acquire for a safety net or I would be evicted!!!😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬How Dare they! 😡🤬😡🤬 I passed their inspections and now because of their disruption I am out of compliance! 😡🤬😡🤬
Maybe get a storage locker temporarily?
@@Frank_in_Iowa Maybe get a house....
The last thing I would worry about having is precious metals. You can't eat them, drink them, heal wounds, protect yourself, drive them, burn them for fuel, or any of the other things that the others can provide, even for a trade. Most traders are going to want something that benefits their current situation. I've been around the world a few times and been in places that were under desperate situations, so I'm speaking from some experience. If anything, save your 'gold' for when civilization returns to normal.
Even if you have your own water source, it should be secured to prevent 'contamination'...
Thanks for telling the looters what to look for and where...👍
Do you really think looters are watching a video about "Prepping"??! C'mon let's be real. 😅😅
If I wanted to be a looter I'm going to watch videos like this .. that way you do know what to look for.. out of sight out of mind is what you have to do
@@KarenLee-bs5msBut lazy "looters" who are looking to steal want instant gratification.
They didn't prep, and most like,y do not have the skills to unhook and take apart things like solar panels, transport them, and reassemble them to use.
Of course they could just steal in order to resell them, but without the internet or wireless available, they won't be selling on Craig's list or eBay anytime soon! 😂
In fact, as terrifying as looters and their ilk are, they will need gas to fuel their vehicles in order to look for and drive off with the loot and the sources they steal.
I doubt they are smart enough to think all this through.
@@pat4005 you are right I have no idea what they're going to do with the stuff.. nothing is going to work when this happens.. we all know that it's going to happen we just don't know when.. like I said I don't have anything worth taking.. everything I pretty much owned is garbage because I can't afford anything nice.. even the camper I live in is old.. it is a 1983 it should be around 40 maybe 41 years old.. they might be able to get a handful of stuff out of here but it's not worth anything.. but I was not joking about the rape being passed around from one man to the next.. before they kill me that is just how people are now.. it is every man for themselves literally.. people are acting like Savage animals right now.. I am going to see thousands of people dead within the first few weeks..
@@KarenLee-bs5ms ==> Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)
===> "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. (John 14:1)
==> Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.…(Matthew 10:28-29)
==> So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him (2 Peter 3:14). There is no once saved always saved.
We are in the Great Tribulation now. (Distress of those days) Mark 13, Revelation 6, Luke 21 , Matthew 24 and 25)
I'm a woman your age. I will pray for you.
before I watch. POWER. if you are the only one on the block with lights.
you might have a problem... food ii number 1
black out your windows
@@jeanpresley1220 YUP... but be discrete.
not a good idea to just foil the windows.
only cover certain windows, and only at night. let em see the rooms with candles.
another thing. DON'T COOK ON THE GRILL, hungry people can smell food.
this after about 4 days without power.
Thank you. Eva
A possible way to store fuel is a metal 55 gallon drum with sealed top. It should have 2 bung holes- a 2" and a 3/4", opposite each other on the top. Use solid copper wire to ground it. A 3/4" ball valve to drain w/street el, and fill through the 2". Store upright, and use a "tilter" to lay on it's side to drain. McMaster-Carr or Grainger carries all the supplies. A vent can be easily assembled and screwed into the 3/4" bung, then removed when needed. Rotate it into portable cans for use in lawn equipment or vehicles, but don't leave a "trail" to the stash.
Because I use my tools a lot, I'd have a separate set of the necessities stashed away. Habitually going into the stash will lead a "path" to the stash, and/or end up using the stash and be empty when needed.
So if you're in an apartment or don't have a large yard you're basically screwed...
Or elderly, and physically or medically challenged.
@@ThePyramidonesucks but your saying the truth
If you’re in an apartment, you need a Glock handgun and a good quality 12 gauge shotgun. 9mm Glock (common caliber) 00 Buck shells for the shotgun. One pistol. One shotgun. Lots of ammunition.
Get a bird load not 00 buck shot. You will kill all your neighbors when it passes thru the flimsy walls. Turkey load is good mix of 8s and 4s. Plus at close range use a more open choke at really close range the wad will turn the shot into a slug
If you are not growing your own food, you are the people preppers are preparing to shoot when you turn up at their house starving and desperate.
Vehicles... drive old rusty vehicles and know how to fix them, also pay cash. Keep quiet about your preps even if you don't think they will be needed very soon. Learn to live without electricity then you won't need solar so badly. like Noah keep at least two of ea. animal or keep small animals in flocks make sure you know how to care for you animals.
All mechanical pre-1973 trucks are the best.
One thing you forgot to mention is your medication 💊
1 month max
Alcohol can also be fuel.
& used to make medicine & extracts.
I stocked up pretty good with the last stimulus check
Even you suggesting hiding places, gives people information on where to look, even though you mean well. But I still like learning useful information. So keep it up Hun.
Good reminder, Thanks
No one has mentioned dental hygiene or necessary procedures. Wouldn't it suck to get an abscess and no way to cure it with antibiotics for dentist ? Keep your teeth in best as possible condition
"It's something that smart people do" .
Man did that hit me the wrong way; I can't even count how many times I want to prepare my home for a disaster (weather it's another hurricane or an actual collapse of at least the local society) and having to contain that need to feel safe or get ridiculed by my Mom for worrying over something that'll never happen, and my Mom's one smart cookie, so I don't know what to feel about that line. Before anyone asks, I'll answer some question; 1: I'm 19 years old but I'm choosing to stay with my Mom for several reasons and all of them are personal for both me and my Mom. 2: My family as such a noticeable history of being head strong that we literally consider being more stubborn than a bull as a key way of knowing if someone's indeed from this family. 3: I have talked to my Mom about this a few times, and while getting solar panels is one thing we agree on. . everything else. . . man did things not go well.
So, um, Motherland, if you're reading this and feel like saying something. . . what am I in this situation? Am I a smart person for wanting to prepare for at least the possibility of another hurricane knocking out the power system like Hurricane Sandy did or am I really just overreacting?
You aren't overreacting. Be safe!
Listen to your gut, feelings of uneasiness. You're the new generation soooo do what you can without being right in her face about it.
Try to get her to see what's going on without fear mongering. My wife understands the need for some extra food. We just adjusted that outward over time.
@rosyrose4620 , @nancyhanscom1374 and @coldwarrior78 , thank you all for your reassurance that I'm not overreacting, I honestly needed that.
I'll also admit that I always try my best to not be in her face about it nor a fear mongerer. . however I don't exactly have the best conversation skills when it comes to face-to-face (or just voice-to-voice if it's a phonecall) conversations with anyone, so my execution of what I wanna say never pans out correctly (And before anyone asks, *no* , I did not grow up with smart technology in my life; I didn't discover the internet existed until some time during the height of Angry Bird's popularity, I watched pretty much every form of movie and TV show out there from the 1930s and beyond, and I've *ALWAYS* been behind on what's trending with those of my age group. . hell I got my very first smart phone earlier this year. I'm just naturally very nervous whenever I talk to someone.) and that causes a bit of a mess.
Anyways, again, thank you, thank you all very much for the reassurance about how I feel, I really needed that. =) Have a wonderful day everyone. ^ ^
You might get a couple of large storage bins to put in the bottom and top of your closet. Then you can quietly bring in supplies and store them in your closet. Then you have some items stored in case there is a natural disaster or a health lockdown. You can also start giving your mom cast iron pots and pans as presents to replace the other pans in the kitchen as they wear out. They can then be used on a BBQ or fire if needed.
As a mechanic I will share something they don't tell you. Ethanol fuel does not last more then a few months even with stabilizer. The ethanol causes the fuel to separate chemically. Learn to use or produce hydrogen. All gas engines can run on much less hydrogen and its easy to produce. Simply feed it in through a vaccume line on the intake. No other mods are needed, and at a minimum needs only 2 volts of electricity to produce from water. I have already tested this. And yes even tiny yard solar lights can give you enough to make hydrogen to cook, power car,generator, and other things.
That is decidedly false, ethanol fuel lasts at least a year
@@jamesharmon3827 "decidedly" interesting word. Do what you feel is right , but from my experience 9 out of 10 fuel systems experience issues with this after only 6 months old and in some cases as little as 2 months. I have replaced fuel injectors as well as many small engine carburetors due to these issues. But do as you feel is right. I simply thought I would share my own experiences over the last 20 years.
Agreed! Dude can huff his fuel for a year all he wants. But good luck starting your generator after a year of it sitting with ethanol in it
Sounds good but isnt that dangerous?
@@marylim381 it can be as hydrogen is volatile so it's difficult to store but if you use it as you make it Bob Lizar figured out a way to store it safely back in the 70s but it has been suppressed.
#10 Tools. That includes having a few 10mm sockets
So Wise , So True .
Do NOT enclose a gas generator!!!
I'm hiding my playboys and lotion from grandpa
Playboys? You *are* grandpa! :)
Yt tonylamb
Now trying to figure out where to bury my stash of Febreze air fresheners.
I think this video is geared towards Rich people. Which of course will be the ones to survive an event like this. No one I know could afford a place to store all those supplies.
not necessarily rich as such, but definitely not poor. There are plenty of places still where land isn't expensive, but you need to have a portable income to support yourself and pay for materials to build yourself a home there - and then to pay the bills when you're living permanently in the back end of nowhere.
0:24 "Life" isn't gonna throw us a curve ball. But corrupt politicians and billionaires will!
Get your eyes tested now and get two pairs of glasses if you need them. You don't want to end up like the guy in the Twilight Zone episode who loved to read but broke his glasses after he survived a doomsday bomb!
FIRST CLASS. thank you ever so much. WISE WORDS INDEED!
If you need a vehicle to "get out" when things go bad, you're living in the wrong place. Work out where you would feel comfortable living without things like a car, mains electricity, mains water, or the availability of food for purchase, and move there now.
If everyone set themselves up to support themselves, you wouldn't be worried about looters, because nobody would need to loot to survive.
The MAIN thing is "DON'T LET THEM IN"!!!! Hiding stuff in your home only effects you if you let them in! Come on, man!
Right! Who's going to leave their stash unguarded after SHTF anyways?
Nobody had better not steal my beer.
Where is it stored at?
Never will I tell@@WillieMakeit
Great video
Interesting topic ❗🔥💯🏆👍
You forgot salt. I'd say it's more valuable than gold when shtf. From disinfection to food preservation.
Salt will be gold
Canned goods
Don't have the prettiest house in the neighborhood, either. If the yard looks overgrown and the place looks like a dump, it will be less appealing.
Monday through Sunday. Keep at least one in use and one on the shelf. Add it to the shopping list when you pull from the shelf. Day to day, it's annoying to run out. Emergencies it can be life threatening. Medicines, first aid kits, etc should be in a kit and you should restock that kit on a regular basis.
Tools. There shouldn't be just one set in the garage. Most vehicles only require a small handful of tools to do 90% of the jobs. Build a small kit of those tools and put it in the trunk.
Water: bulk filtering systems and a swimming pool means you will never run out of water. Make sure you stock up on chlorine tablets to keep the water clean.
Yes
The one "big thing" you didn't mention is camping gear. Tents, sleeping bags, campers, cooking gear, etc.
You can survive a very long time easily in a camper setup, even if it's still in your backyard.
Some who is homeless will find a new home with your camping supplies
How do precious metals work? What are they worth in SHTF? You can't eat them or do much with them and how to do get change from a gold bar for a chicken? Everything else seems like it is worthwhile getting but I don't know how to use metals or how to tell if it is pure gold or just gold covered lead or tungsten.
Well, the precious metals thing is like....Some people think that SHTF means back to the stone age. That simply doesn't happen. Look at WWI/WWII. No matter how bad things get, there's still economy and the prospect of spending currency somewhere. Bartering is not as efficient as a well-defined currency, but precious metals can still get you things, even if you're not getting exact change. On telling the difference between real and fake metals...Well, that's a tricky business.
It's worth what someone will trade for it. Until food is truly scarce, then it's not really worth anything. Trying to trade it when things are bad bad is asking for trouble. It's a good way for people with a lot of $ to store wealth, as it won't loose all over it's value, but it's not a good investment to make profit. You'll have to bury it or hide it until things go back to norma when things go really south. And you can't do much with it but wait. For your average Joe tools and commonly needed/wanted items are better for trade/survival.
A little silver/gold is a good thing, but booze, toilet paper, and coffee are more practical for trade. The thing is that there will never be enough stuff if things go really bad, learn to get along with out it now.
Most people don't have a farm or a large parcel of land. It's the cities and
suburbs where the majority of people live, especially "in" the cities and in
close adjoining neighborhoods, so we would basically be screwed. The
preppers I've watched are pretty much the same as this video.
Try quail and rabbits for quiet meat sources.
Rabbits are very easy keepers but you must protect them from predators both two-legged, four-legged and winged!
Sounds good in theory but poses the how to feed them problem.
@@sherrybee111 Before you think about meat animals, you need to be growing your own vegetables. Once you've got that sorted, you grow as many meat animals as you can support on the non-edible-portion of your crops.
I was listening to a radio church program, some big name Calvary Chapel guy, talking about a SHTF situation. He said why worry, just go raid the Mormons! Yeah nice joke, Jerk. So think about your delivery habits. That guy dropping off your Amazon packages of long term food storage knows where you live. If people deliver feed for your animals, or you go get it, people know you have animals out there. People say, Bitcoin, and I laugh. Yeah right. But I know what I'd kill for in a zombie apocalypse, (like Portland or Chicago), coffee. Coffee in vacuum sealed packs. Bricks and bricks and tins of coffee. Sealed up where rats can't get it. And anything people had to do without in the wars, is going to be what people will still hurt for. I know everyone wants to hide gold, but what are you going to buy with gold? Your life? Bullets and seed packs are much more valuable. And as a side note, the Mormons have stopped that one year supply thing. 😂They don't want to look like peppers! 🤣
What can a widower living in a rent subsidized unit do to prepare for shtf. Lots of neighbors, no garage , cant run a generator.
Make friends with your neighbours. That will be the defining characteristic of people who survive - the communities where neighbours liked, supported, respected, and trusted each other.
If you're able and have time, finding a neighbour who will let you grow vegetables in their back yard is the next part. If you're growing enough for them and yourself, you become an asset to their family and they will want to keep you around.
@@tealkerberus748 Remember, the greatest asset you have is who you are. Your character and what you know. We all have something we can teach.
1. Tell no one about your preps and that includes friends and extended family. We all have friends or family members who would sell us down the river for a hot meal.
2. Do not raise any red flags with your behaviour. People are largely unobservant in general but if they know you, their radar will go off if you act out of character. They might not be fully aware that something is up but they will press you for information if they think you’re hiding something .
3. When you go bulk shopping like at Costco, be conservative with how much you buy in each trip. Even though it’s a bulk supply store and they encourage you to spend heaps of money, other shoppers watch what you have in your cart and how much. If you can, go multiple times to the store with a few days in between and go at different times of the day. Go to a checkout with a different employee serving you. They will remember you if they serve you multiple times and you’re buying lots of the same few things.
Case in point: in my country, there is a wholesaler like Costco where you can buy in bulk. I went there a few times and the same girl served me each time. I was building my stash and was keen to get at least 3 months of preps in the least number of visits as possible. One day I went there and she said “oh hello, you’re back again. You’ve been here quite a bit lately, haven’t you?” I know she was just being friendly but she noticed me and that shocked me a lot. So I stopped going for a few weeks. And then I’d deliberately go at random times on random days and when I saw her, I would actively avoid her every chance I could.
Keep your business to yourself and prep for the worst case scenario and you should be fine.
I don’t have the space to make all of these secret hiding places…good luck to me🤪
I know someone with acreage. They have buried barrels all over their land, each with a different combination of foods that have been suitably prepared.
People like myself who live in an apartment, are very limited in what we can do. My lease states that I'm not allowed to make any alteration ( that means no false walls, or anything close to that) to my apartment. Wish I could afford a place of my own that I could do whatever I want with it.
@@Steve-og4ii There is already space under your bed. Hollow out decorative candles for a place to stash cash, jewelry, etc. Bookcases can be built with hidden shelves on the sides for canned goods; same with desks, side tables, etc. Closets can appear smaller to conceal storage and don't have to be permanently affixed. Sealed ammo, coins, documents and such can be buried in the soil of houseplants. A can of soup fits into most sneakers. Your stored luggage can hold toilet paper, first aid, hygiene products. Pull out the bottom drawers of your dressers and you'll find enough room for storing useful preparedness items like sewing kits, Paracord, extra small hand tools, an address book or maps.
Get creative with the space you have. It may not be ideal, but there are ways!
@@lynrossi8409 thanks for the tips! Appreciate the effort!
You can make a false wall an apartment without modifying anything.
You just build a wall in front of existing wall.@@Steve-og4ii
@@Steve-og4ii If you can't get out of that living situation, stock up on skills. Plumbers, electricians, nurses, and motor mechanics are my best guess for who will be most welcome in rural communities in a collapse situation. I'm sure if you spend some time on it you'll think of more skill sets that could make you a valuable acquisition to someone who has enough food to support you in exchange for what you can do.
1 oz silver coins any day over gold. I not want to pay to much for something but in a desperate sitiuation you will do. And many will most likely accept a silver coin over nothing when barder.
I agree with some, if not, all the postings here. IF you start preparing for anything, you do NOT tell anyone and anything WHAT you are doing at all. The reason is that people will actually and willfully FAIL to be prepared for anything and will actually ridicule those that do prepare for anything. If and WHEN something DID cause a real SHTF situation AND you told people WHAT you have been doing, these idiots will, to put it politely, will come looking for YOU, to steal what you have, even put you 6 feet under. This is outright FACT. I have several "General" magazines, like Popular Mechanics and several "Pepper" magazines, and this is also mentioned in several places on this site, related sites as well.😱😎 One other thing, do NOT forget any and all useful skills that you will need. IT skills will NOT be as useful in a post SHTF as security work, gardening, hunting, medical skills, making booze - for fuel and medical use, making candles, torches for example.😇😎👼😎
A boat to escape gives ....
let's back up, a "sailboat" to escape gives many advantages over sitting on land. Fresh seafood every day, no need to buy and feed livestock, sailing to island or mainland areas with little or no people, giving you an abundance of free fresh fruits, most islands have multitudes of fruit options growing wild/freely.
It's called fishing not catching for a reason! Fishing might help extend your food supplies but you can't rely on it! Also, if you'll be 'at sea' you will need a fresh water supply, a means to purify salt water and/or reliable resupply places! And don't forget about pirates!
Pirates. A boat could be helpful. But not all boaters will be “friendly.” Even on a US lake or river.
@grgustafson3777 I'm not planning on being on any lake or river. And of course, there is a set of plans for any ... unfriendly sorts
@@commonsense8012 Good to know your screen name is more than decoration! Comment was mainly for those with little to no experience who might read your post and think it would be easy to do. A ski or fishing weekend is far different than living aboard… on open water. We sailed for years; met tons of great people. That was then. No telling what the future will bring out in desperate people. I hope you (and anyone who might read this post) has put your higher trust in Jesus Christ. Shalom.
@@grgustafson3777 that's 99% of surviving
Happens every hurricane.
Prescious metals: Start with Brass & Lead. Gold & silver will be valuable after things have had time to settle down. In the first days, weeks, and months you have to have a way to be safe and secure.