Prepping After 60: Being Older Doesn't Mean Our World Has To Come To An End - We Have As Much A Right To Survive What's Coming As The Next P

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I used to be able to lift fifty pounds of feed or move a bale of hay easily but now it gets to be a real trial. But, since I am alone, I have to do it anyway I can and I usually do.

So, I took inventory and started my first list of what I had in the way of survival gear, food, water, clothing, medications, tools, and a second list of what I needed to get. If I did bug out, I could not begin to carry what I would need to travel to an unknown destination. I would be a moving target for those who would like to take what I had. And, what would happen to all my animals?

I have a pretty good start on being self-sufficient here with chickens and turkeys for meat and eggs, dairy goats for milk, butter, cheese and, a horse for transportation, a llama for packing, sheep for meat, wool and milk and in the spring I will be starting to raise rabbits, one or two cows for meat and milk and guineas for an alarm system. I have all I need here. Why leave it? I am comfortable here and feel a modicum of safety and I know some of the people and the area. That is a big thing to consider in deciding whether to stay or go and how you will get there. It is not very safe for older women to go out alone now so just think of how it will be if things get rough?

I made a third list of things I needed in the way of tools for survival, building supplies and weapons for protection. I bought a few power tools and two small gas-powered generators to run them and a little chest freezer. I bought that so I can freeze meats, cheese and butter and make gallon sized ice cubes to use in the antique ice box that was used by the previous owner for a liquor cabinet. I have tried it out and it works like a dream. I have also made a list of things I want to learn to do and can now scratch off such as learning how to can with a pressure canner, use a chainsaw for cutting firewood, and I turned my front porch into a greenhouse so I will have tomatoes and lettuce in the winter. I had to learn how to butcher the chickens and will have to learn how to do the cute fuzzy rabbits. But, if it means I will eat then so be it. We all have to do things that are distasteful but will do them to survive. I do believe that the older generation is better at getting it done than the younger and we don’t need a cell phone for that....read...

Anyone over 60 should just face the fact that they are FUCKED.

Especially if alone.

The best you can hope for is a quick death.

So when looters come...and they will...take as many as you can with you.

If someone wont die for SOMETHING...they will die for NOTHING.

rabbits are easy.

2 long nails on the side of the barn. put their head in between and pull the legs down. humane way to kill em. They are sweet animals but they know that they are prey.

And they make new bunnies every 30 days... thus breed like rabbits.

If you want to survive when the world goes upside down, right now you need to learn how to prep. In a situation like your, you need to find like minded people. Go and walk around your neighborhood and see if there are folks who "look" like they might be preparing for the worst. Walk up to them and begin a conversation. Gotta get out there and met folks lest you go it alone.

Don't get depressed. Get inspired and read a bunch on the interwebs. Good information there and you won't have to spend a bunch of money on prepping classes or subscriptions to magazines.

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Start here and click on links which interest you. You won't go wrong by learning. Also YouTube has a gob of good information.
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Beckys Homestead is a good launching point.

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Eating only rabbit can lead to malnutrition called "rabbit starvation" or "caribou starvation" because rabbit meat (and caribou meat during certain times of the year) is very lean and doesn't contain much in the way of nutrients or fat, just protein. You have to eat a huge amount of the meat to get enough calories (since it's low fat) but your liver can't process the huge amount of protein involved effectively, leading to ammonia buildup in the blood.

The Arctic explorer Vilhjamur Stefansson wrote about rabbit starvation:

This trouble is worst, so far as North America is concerned, among those forest Indians who depend at times on rabbits, the leanest animal in the North, and who develop the extreme fat-hunger known as rabbit-starvation. Rabbit eaters, if they have no fat from another source—beaver, moose, fish—will develop diarrhea in about a week, with headache, lassitude and vague discomfort. If there are enough rabbits, the people eat till their stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied.

Of course your generation will want to hog as much resources as possible and guard it to the very end of your miserable existence.

You completely missed the point of life.

As far as medication goes...I order mine 2 weeks early every time and keep a list and date it.

Built up a 3 month stock pile already so if I can't get my meds for 3 months...I'm good.

Old people with skills are highly useful in training younger survivors. Old people without skills, as long as they can be peaceable/non-difficult, can still be useful in watching small children in a SHTF scenario.

I'm over 70 and have been prepping over 40 years. Back then it was called survivalist.

I have weapons I was lucky enough to buy for several hundred dollars back then even a couple of a couple thousand for 2 of them, and now I couldn't afford ammo for them let alone rebuy them. That's why I have hundreds to thousands of rounds of ammo for them. I have 22's from the late 70's still packed in their factory containers and they have been stored in closets or bedrooms over the years.

As for food or water, I have a minimum of 3 months of food for me and my family. Same with water. Push come to shove, we could last 6-8 months without doing anything else to supplement the food. Water could be had also if needed.

The real key for me is I know my neighbors and we will meld as a community if a bad situation occurs. We've talked about weapons and they have an assortment but I've never said what exactly I have. But my weapons along with my comms equipment and night vision gear would be very useful in a bad situation calling for this stuff to be broken out.

I'm probably the guy you want to know and kinda be around in a bad situation.

I’ll be 60 this year. My motivation is my kids and grand kids.

In my doom scenario,great flood,the canned food will be like the tinanic and strewn in a fan pattern from store location.it must be found and recovered before salt water erodes the seal.
You are on a clock.
Same for shelter and water.hit the ground running.
You will not land at homestead but you can map out your food stockpile search locations as you make voyage to homestead.

Find oil.you will need it to get a fourwheeler running and some kind of fuel like canned chainsaw gas.
If you dont fuck around,saltwater ruin can be avoided and some small luxuries accumulated fast before mother nature consumes it all.
The best survivor will have metal and wood stockpiles.stockpiles of everything.
Dont worry about raiders.lol.everybody died.you would be lucky to find one live person every ten miles.
Because i know what the elite dont know.they overshot the depopulation mark.

My dear friend. I was just thinking of you the other day. If by chance you still read here, know that you are missed. My French is still bad, but we usually understood each other.

booby traps are a manpower multiplier.

so is poisoned food.
just make sure you mark the cans for yourself.

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god DAMN some people just know exactly how to say it

The great depression produced survivors with mental ferocity.
Reality can turn a woke fucker into a conservative almost over night.

Dont dog a hoarder but celebrate their wisdom.

don't worry.

there will be plenty of man-meat left for you.



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I'm 63 and have been prepping since 2000. Slowly building up supplies and inventory. I have enough BP meds for 2 years...

When prepping for food, you have to have enough if your planted veggies don't make it. That means at least a years worth of food or more depending on when TSHTF. We would be lucky if it occurred after the summer harvest and everything has been canned and/or frozen. Imagine if it occurred in May when the plants have not produced. It would be extremely dangerous to try to harvest veggies in a SHTF scenario...

For the people with land and acreage, I'd recommend a water cistern. Mine is 1550 gallons. That's at least a 3 month supply for 2 people. I have well water, but it wouldn't be wise to run a generator in the early months after TSHTF...

A backup stand alone solar power system is very useful. It can power a few chest freezers, lighting, fans, coffee pot, and other things...

For me, I have no reason to bug out. If I had too, I do have a plot of land close to a nice size lake that is about an hours drive from me...

I'm 67, and in pretty good shape. I wonder if the younger people might not be mentally fit and emotionally balanced enough to survive a crises. Many seem pretty useless and goofy to me.

What a sniffling little putz you are. The older generation Does not bogart resources. Most of what they have they earned over the course of a long life. Try it instead of bitching and moaning with your hand out. Ain't nobody giving it away. Never have, Never will.

Keep voting democrat too. This will guarantee you never have shit.

Typical boomer comment. Young people make up the military, police, fire departments and EMT's. Do you sit around thinking every young person is some screeching pink haired BLM-supporting transgender?

OP in this scenario do hikers cross your path, do dirt bikers ride near by ?

I mean alot of you preppers might be bugging out too locations that are a little to close to roadways, trails, perhaps railway tracks etc etc.

Here's a good for you OP. Say I've rode by your rural house a few times and shtf and I decide that the older lady can't stop me , what are you going to do ??

IN a shtf scenario there are going to 10s of thousands pouring into rural areas looking for food and shelter.

Until you start hobbling.

I'll bet you walk funny after your Tinder date.

She's 63 they were in their 20s during the 80s, they aren't boomers. All the boomers are 75 plus.

Preptards have this weird fantasy where they gun down hordes of unarmed people like some kind of real-life tower defense game.

No necessary brah. Your old your joints aren't going to last forever and your health will decline.

My dad was pretty active up to age 85.

The point of life is survival.

Get over yourself