40 Items to stock up on before a SHTF situation

[Lazy Gardener]

Water pitcher method. Pour water on left hand and rub wet hand on bum. Rinse and repeat until clean. Don't contaminate the pitcher.

I guess that's why the left hand is considered UNCLEAN in Asian cultures.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Yeah... I'm going to stick with stocking up on toilet paper... bleh.

I think a suppressor would be a good thing to have. Nothing like announcing you've got guns, ammo, and fresh meat like loud gunshots!

 

[Marianne]

Hubby said when they stopped off in Malaysia or somewhere over that way on one of the Navy cruises that the public toilets were a hole and there was a hose to clean yourself. He wasn't sure how to do that. I explained you use it like a hand held bidet. He said he doesn't know how to use that either.

 

[Marianne]

I don't prep like I used to, either. Like Hinotori, I'm ready for emergencies or winter in case we can't get out or something. Some years back, we didn't have power for 8 days. I learned from that.
My health went down the tubes a few years ago, so our priorities kind of changed.

 

[sumi]

have made simple lard soap, tallow soap, hamburger/bacon grease soap (yeah, really. He saved about 9 pints of it then we boiled it with water/cooled/removed fat/repeat). It's just as good as the tallow soap.

I'm intrigued now. Please tell us more?

 

[Hinotori]

That's how great grandma got the fat for making her soap.

I store my filtered bacon grease in the fridge. It gets used up for cooking pretty fast. We don't eat bacon more than once a week.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wow! My dh would do that if he could, lol. He loves ground beef...

 

[frustratedearthmother]

At first he was eating 4 lbs of ground beef a DAY.

LOL! I'm a meat eater - but that's too much for me to even think about!

I'm telling you, after a few months of smelling that, it's easy to be kinda vegetarian.

So, I can imagine that some broccoli would sound real good after all that meat!

 

[Hinotori]

You're right on that. We keep extra laces for hubby's boots because we have to go to the outdoors store for the stronger ones he needs.