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Must Read Survival in The Worst of Times
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I’m reading a book about survival. It’s fiction, but it really hit me how most of my generation failed our children. The reason I say that is my parents and grandparents worked hard on educating us on real life needed skills. I pushed all that aside and focused on being a good citizen and going to college. I failed in many ways to pass so many things along to my own children. My knowledge and skills had diminished.with the passing of time. The only good thing is that I began relearning skills and adding to them about 10 years ago. My children, THANK GOD, took it upon themselves when they were younger to learn needed skills. And they are working hard now to gain new skills.
Who else feels this way?
Who else feels this way?
Not here Georgia, I was already teaching my two how to read the stars and find the Big Dipper, Cassiopia, the North Star and The Southern Cross. They always got to make the fire when we went camping, went fishing, tied knots, got to sew, cook, bake and shoot in archery, crossbows and pellet guns. Each of them has a small BOB and enough food and flashlights, candles and such for the "normal" emergencies in life like blackouts and storms. My granddaughter also spent weekends with me at my survival camp when I was training for money and learned lots. She could make a fire with a magnesium bar when she was 10 and made the older boys look bad when they could not get it right and she did it right away....
nine things to do with baking soda...
Danil54grl
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Think everyone should have a dog like this. Sorry the K-9 vidweo was attached to the other.
BTW Jojo got her start on Dance Moms, not Nickelodeon. My daughter liked the young kids dancing.
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One of the properties I looked at had a hot tub in a hollowed out stump. Too bad the property would have been like living in a rain forest with trees and ferns.
I like a little sun
At BOL1, we have a cypress with a hollow large enough to set up a cot in and spend the night. The opening is not yet large enough to get inside though. Even in the most brutally hot weather there is a cool draft of air blowing out of the opening. I have sat a little ways away from that tree with a 22 and hunted all morning for squirrels going in and out of the holes up high in the trunk. For the squirrels it is like a skyscraper condo building, LOL
simpleman
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My Granddaughter also got into camping and watching me practice making fire and things. She is 25 now, has a BOB, get home bag, still loves primitive camping, grows herbs and a garden, got a good little homesteading thing going. We joke with the rest of the family that when tshtf, the 2 of us are splitting without them because they don't care enough to be prepared!
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Jojo was on the boot camp to the stars, or whatever the name is, and was impressive! She shocked me how tough she was, level headed and no where near the person my Wife and I thought she was!
Great article with valuable advice!
The human body can survive for three weeks or more without a single bite of food. My suspicion is that initial panic over potential hunger is the thing that causes the most violence during famines. People encounter starvation and lose their minds within the first three days. First-stage stomach pains and fogginess causes them to react without thinking and this leads to the widespread riots and other crisis events we are used to seeing in history during food shortages.
Fasting is a way to educate yourself on what it means to starve; it’s not as bad as it seems as long as you have some fat stores in your body…
The goal of course is to avoid famine altogether. Food stores are the foundation of any survival plan. Anyone who claims that jumping right into agriculture and hunting and wild edibles is the solution has never actually had to survive off the land in their lives. The reality is, finding enough food and growing enough food to live on is difficult for most people even in normal times.
During collapse crops are often difficult to plant safely. They can be stolen or destroyed easily and require large communities of people to maintain and protect. Even smaller gardens can draw attention from undesirables and are hard to hide.
Hunting might be useful initially if you live in a rural area, but you won’t be the only person with the same idea and animals will move out of a region quickly if they are being hunted on a daily basis. You’ll have to go further and further out to find them and that’s risky during a crisis.
Growing food, hunting food and foraging food are all supplemental measures, especially in the first years of any crisis event. Without a primary emergency supply most people will not make it. Food storage has been a mainstay of civilization for thousands of years for a reason – It works. When larger secure communities are established then agriculture can return and self sustaining production makes food storage less important. Until then, what you have in your basement or your garage is the only thing that’s going to keep you alive…
Read entire article here
https://www.infowars.com/posts/mass-starvation-heres-why-most-of-america-is-completely-unprepared/
The human body can survive for three weeks or more without a single bite of food. My suspicion is that initial panic over potential hunger is the thing that causes the most violence during famines. People encounter starvation and lose their minds within the first three days. First-stage stomach pains and fogginess causes them to react without thinking and this leads to the widespread riots and other crisis events we are used to seeing in history during food shortages.
Fasting is a way to educate yourself on what it means to starve; it’s not as bad as it seems as long as you have some fat stores in your body…
The goal of course is to avoid famine altogether. Food stores are the foundation of any survival plan. Anyone who claims that jumping right into agriculture and hunting and wild edibles is the solution has never actually had to survive off the land in their lives. The reality is, finding enough food and growing enough food to live on is difficult for most people even in normal times.
During collapse crops are often difficult to plant safely. They can be stolen or destroyed easily and require large communities of people to maintain and protect. Even smaller gardens can draw attention from undesirables and are hard to hide.
Hunting might be useful initially if you live in a rural area, but you won’t be the only person with the same idea and animals will move out of a region quickly if they are being hunted on a daily basis. You’ll have to go further and further out to find them and that’s risky during a crisis.
Growing food, hunting food and foraging food are all supplemental measures, especially in the first years of any crisis event. Without a primary emergency supply most people will not make it. Food storage has been a mainstay of civilization for thousands of years for a reason – It works. When larger secure communities are established then agriculture can return and self sustaining production makes food storage less important. Until then, what you have in your basement or your garage is the only thing that’s going to keep you alive…
Read entire article here
https://www.infowars.com/posts/mass-starvation-heres-why-most-of-america-is-completely-unprepared/
Let me add to the article above that I totally agree with TESTING yourself and your resolve regarding fasting. I consider it part of my Mental Preparation. A clear and non panicked mind will be necessary in making possibly life saving decisions. I’ve fasted for 3 full days and nights several times with no problems. Drank lots of water though.
Yep! Agree, I can go on one small meal a day for many days...and/or 2-3 days w zero food, hydrating sufficiently, of course. Is it tough? Yes! Can I do it? Yes! Doubting beyond 3 days of course, might hurt someone if I have strength to do so. Fasting is good IMHO.
