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Originally Posted by Poopadoop
My grandparents kept a lot of tinned food stored but they went through the Depression and two WW, so it didn't seem that crazy or anything.
Yeah I feel you on that. I grew up in an incredibly rural area (I'm talking a 15-20 minute drive to the nearest stoplight) and around a lot of family members who were in Vietnam and that sort of thing. I grew up hunting, trapping, farming, canning and all of that kind of stuff on a pretty regular basis from a really, really young age.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
I've got a shelf full of food I'd only ever eat if I had to, like instant noodles and tinned potatoes, but that's the extent of my prepping.
If I was a millionaire, I'd have a bunker stocked up with at least five years of supplies.
My prepping, like most people who aren't total psychos about it, is based primarily around the most likely situation I could face that would be a problem. For me, it's being snowed in without power for a few days. Along these lines, I have food, water, entertainment, heat, a means to charge our phones, etc. for three people for seven days. It's all on shelves in my basement just out of the way, and I cycle the food and water out throughout the year so that nothing ever really gets close to its expiration date.
Added to that are a few other supplemental things. If our power goes out in the summer, it's hot and humid as fuck here, so I have a portable AC solution that runs on 9V batteries (a 5-gallon bucket with a couple of holes in the lid a PVC elbow for directional AC, a battery-powered fan, fill it with ice and turn the fan on etc.). Our septic line has the potential to freeze as well, so I have a toilet seat that attaches to a 5-gallon bucket along with small baggies and that kind of thing so that we can poop.
In the early days of the pandemic, I was making my own masks too. I'll try to find a picture.
Edit: https://i.imgur.com/3HxIGXV.jpg, based on this model - https://twitter.com/LivingCrimson/st...86293676040193
And of course, I have a shitload of toilet paper.
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