Practical Prepping Protocol even if Poor

Write this one down guys...

I was making some pancake batter & I was out of vanilla extract so I used almond extract instead.

HOLY JAMOLLY is it delicious

You've got to try it!!!

Wowee - that with butter - the real thing - oh my - sounds like heaven for the tastebuds!

With maple syrup & butter...it was better than an almond danish!

It was even better than

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Well, no...but it is being well taken care of.

So let me twist your brains for a bit...how would one prep for this scenario?

Buried caches in a few different places?


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I had a source for sterile saline online (i.e., IV bags) but the vendor recently announced they can no longer sell it to anyone without a medical license or a prescription.

Oddly, you can buy sterile saline in small syringes on Amazon. They are the type used to flush IVs. I believe they are available for people who are on IV therapy at home.

I bought a box of them, I think they come 30 to a box and aren't very expensive. I have a few in each of my first aid/trauma kits. They are handy to have around. I use them on scrapes and cuts. Since they are syringes, they are 'pressurized' and helpful in flushing dirt out of a wound.

I should note that is not buffered saline, just sterile normal saline...so it does sting a little LOL.

How about the saline solution you use to rinse your contact lenses with?

I don't have contact lenses. I can't stand poking myself in the eye.

I imagine lens solution would be buffered. Is it sterile?

Ofcourse...you put it in your eyes.

There is cleaning solution that you soak your contacts in overnight & before putting in your eyes you rinse them with the saline solution.

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I can't even handle putting eyedrops in my eyes.

Just thought I'd mention it as a source of saline solution just incase you crackatoe(ah).

Actually, I slammed my toe in a door about 6 months ago. Hurt like hell and bled like crazy.

And I was outside just a few minutes ago just after sundown and the sky was red and black due to all of the fires burning here. I thought, 'Wow...this must have been what Krakatoa looked like...

Just a passing thought...
Getting a magnifying glass is a helpful tool in case you need to start a fire.

Most peeps probably know this but putting it out there just because~

Good Idea! And so is mentioning it again! A newbie may not have read that page (where ever it may be).

I have 3 in my BOB...plus lighters (bic and zippo)...matches, char-cloth, fero rods, just about every imaginable way to start a fire :)

- MC (having trouble signing on) :(

I took one of my nephews thru the whole circle of fire.

We started with a magnifying glass & a piece of charcloth. Once that was glowing we put it into a nest of dry grass & blew it into flame.

Then we started little sticks on fire & then bigger sticks. Put some cut up squares of blue jeans into a metal can with a lid with a hole poked in it for the smoke to escape.

We put the can into the fire & let it smolder until it stopped emitting smoke...and we ended up with a new batch of char-cloth

He thought it was big fun! He didn't even know I was teaching him something.

- MC

Fresnel lens. Like a magnifying glass on steroids. Used in many classroom overhead projectors until a decade ago.. Many school districts are disposing of the old projectors en masse. Might even find one in a dumpster.

Many actually have two lenses glued together at the edges. Separate them and you will have two very capable fire starters. Just keep them out of the sun if you don't want to burn your house down.

Great suggestion!!! Wonder if that method is easier than the things we buy to start fires. Anybody know? I haven't the time to test them right now.

Thanks, KTee and a hug!

Exactly the way to do it! Little ones have no idea they are being taught, that they are working *GASP* and that they are likely to remember these things for a lifetime, especially if you repeat the same lesson once or twice more. Good job!!

They are easier than a bow drill or hand drill...but harder than a lighter or match.

A magnifying glass will work when wet, will never run out and last forever with proper care. But they don't work when it's cloudy...you need DIRECT sunlight.

They work great with charcloth!

- MC

You need sunlight.

Even here in Michigan we get sunlight once in a while. I even keep a magnifying glass in the car's prep box just in case.

Thought the joke was always about WA state, or more accurately Seattle, that there is never sun here - hadn't heard it about Michigan. We are supposed to rain 13 months per year here or so I've heard.

Just wrote this in another thread and it belongs here for sure, as well.

{someone suggested buying candles in thrift stores and followed with this:} Buy the funky partially-burned candles, melt in foil pie pans, etc in your vehicle with windows closed on a sunny day, and pour into a ceramic or other holder into which you have placed the "string" with a little old washer tied to the bottom end. Hold top end of string in place until wax begins to set so it remains in place.

If making a large candle, measure cotton candle wick to fasten old washers on two ends, wick is bent in half one to three inches apart, depending on the radius of the candle holder, because large candles with double wicks burn very bright, above candle holder. Lay a pen, straw, stick, ice pick across top of candle holder to hold wick in place. Pour melted wax.

This uses up crummy candles, waste wax, etc, and makes cheap and great candles.

Recommend not using scented wax - don't want to advertise to anybody what's happening in your house.

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You could wait until the melted wax starts to set up and push a few birthday candles down into it for the wicks.

- MC

I have some of those...I think I may just have poured concrete on top of one of them...DOH!

Not sure that is very workable. Birthday candles are short, among other issues. I'd rather see the proper substance used as wicking, for more successful candles, but it was an idea, MC!

Surely you jest !?!?!?!?!?

Well THAT wasn't too bright

But the original question remains...how would we prep for asteroid strikes?

If it hits you you're done...but that's a 1 in a billion chance.

More likely it would start a fire that would take out your house/apt...or vehicle.

You live but all your worldly possessions (preps) are gone.

So I was thinking of how one could prep for such a possibility.

- MC

If you buried caches of preps...what would you use? What would you bury?

I was thinking a small metal garbage can with a lid...inside you'd need a tarp, rope, knife/machete, metal pot, fire starter, bow saw, & shovel. (maybe a pick axe).

Unfortunately, no. I thought I had buried this cache under a particular round 'stepping stone'. I poured some concrete forms just to the right of that. Then I pulled up the 'stepping stone'. Nope.

No big deal, I can still get to it if need be.