buffalo_girl wrote: ↑August 28th, 2010, 7:16 pm
... We probably need more manual wood cutting tools. ...
These curved saws rock
Great for defense against feral dogs and humans too.
Year supply prepareness poll
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BeNotDeceived
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Great for defense against feral dogs and humans too.
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gardener4life
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Re: Year supply prepareness poll
Well if you say it like that then you are on the wrong forum with this post. This obviously should go on the mutant zombie forum with that post instead. XDBeNotDeceived wrote: ↑December 28th, 2017, 4:40 pmbuffalo_girl wrote: ↑August 28th, 2010, 7:16 pm
... We probably need more manual wood cutting tools. ...
These curved saws rock
Great for defense against feral dogs and humans too.
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Re: Year supply prepareness poll
Food items are the basics because we eat what we store.
Lots of wheat, oats, rice, beans with seasonal produce/plants. We have found the 3 month supply really lasts a year if you use it to make the long term stuff taste better.
As for non-food. We try to store what we would need for the most basic health and survival. Sanitation is on that list so yes, toilet paper. But it is important to research what people did in the past and even try them out so you have options in the future if this is not just a situation of unemployment.
For example: toilet paper. You can actually use cloth and wash it. If it is hard to get your mind around, just think of cloth diapers. You have a pieces for each family member (color coded cloth would work well) that hangs on hooks and you don't mix the pee cloth with the other cloth. Pee cloths may be re-used for a short time, the other must be washed after each use. (Haven't done this myself, read it on a blog from a family that was ACTUALLY homesteading and using this method.)
Feminine hygiene. Options include: storing sea sponges that can be rinsed and re-used. These are actual sea sponges and are available for purchase at many health food stores. (Tried it, not my favorite option.) People would collect both actual cotton and the wisps from cottonwood trees and sew them in fabric. These are stored in a bucket of cold water after use and until washing time. They need to be replaced with some frequency.
If you do put in an outhouse, I read that you need to regularly dump lye water into the hole to keep the smell and germs down. (If I remember, it is monthly.)
Learning about water filtration and purification would be top on my list since you can only store so much.
Lots of wheat, oats, rice, beans with seasonal produce/plants. We have found the 3 month supply really lasts a year if you use it to make the long term stuff taste better.
As for non-food. We try to store what we would need for the most basic health and survival. Sanitation is on that list so yes, toilet paper. But it is important to research what people did in the past and even try them out so you have options in the future if this is not just a situation of unemployment.
For example: toilet paper. You can actually use cloth and wash it. If it is hard to get your mind around, just think of cloth diapers. You have a pieces for each family member (color coded cloth would work well) that hangs on hooks and you don't mix the pee cloth with the other cloth. Pee cloths may be re-used for a short time, the other must be washed after each use. (Haven't done this myself, read it on a blog from a family that was ACTUALLY homesteading and using this method.)
Feminine hygiene. Options include: storing sea sponges that can be rinsed and re-used. These are actual sea sponges and are available for purchase at many health food stores. (Tried it, not my favorite option.) People would collect both actual cotton and the wisps from cottonwood trees and sew them in fabric. These are stored in a bucket of cold water after use and until washing time. They need to be replaced with some frequency.
If you do put in an outhouse, I read that you need to regularly dump lye water into the hole to keep the smell and germs down. (If I remember, it is monthly.)
Learning about water filtration and purification would be top on my list since you can only store so much.
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