Attention Conservative Americans: buy anything you or your family will need right now.

All my kids are getting for Christmas is level 3 body armor a new 308 AR10 and a few thousand $ in reloading equip and supply's.
My sons Spartan armor 3 hard plate already got it, 30 days.

My lovely wife got a Tavor 7 bullpup with a sig red dot and sig4x flip up magnifier a 1000 rounds and 10 30 round mags and a partridge in a pair tree!

My Home Depot still has galvanized trash cans- larger size and smaller (5 or 6 gallon) size.

You have got to be ready for mice and maybe rats. Rats can chew through thin plastic bins. The ONLY safe place is a galvanized trash can or equivalent. I do have some big white thicker plastic buckets with beans and grain from Emergency Essentials so I hope those are OK.

But a lot of your preps can be at big risk. And oh yes- mouse traps and more mouse traps. Rat poison, anything critter related.

Great thread OP.

No to the plastic sacks for human waste. Download an outhouse plan, buy a shovel, some wood, hardware and toilet seat. Dig it deep, its going to have to last a while.

You'll need it but it will be useless after your gas runs out and the pumps at the station are empty.

Get this book NOW:

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Best book ever on technique to grow sprouts all winter indoors, no grow lights needed. You need to grab a couple bags of potting soil for thin layers of dirt. This is not sprouts in a jar, this is way better.

Fresh greens all winter. Get seeds online. Try Sproutman or Sprout people.

Lime for the outhouse.

All good ideas.

20 years ago I purchased books on how to live off of the land if civilization were to fully crumble or be disrupted by whatever forces.

Which local foods were eatible, how to start a fire without matches, how to build a shelter without tools or lumber, how to hunt, trap, and kill wild animals in order to just stay alive, home remedies for injuries and sickness, etc.

Remember, at some point there will be no internet or GLP or Fakebook, there will be no piped-in municipal water, no natural gas for your furnace, no phone service, no police, and no hospitals or Govt services/benefits...and more.

It will beasically be the year 1750 all over again until the wars end and mankind rebuilds from near-scratch.

How long will the power grid be down

Thank you sir!

Mouse and rat poison: excellent idea! I’ll remedy that hole in my plans this weekend. Much appreciated.

Hopefully it will stay up. If things get really kooky the grid is vulnerable. EMP, etc. Then of course we have to worry (I think) about the nuclear power plants melting down... /sigh

Great suggestion about the heavy duty sewing kit. I bought a little travel sewing kit, but it won't do much. Amazon has upholstery kits, and also a sail repair kit would work for most anything (they have a curved needle as well as a leather palm thing that protects your hands).

I thought of a few more things for ladies: Supplies for your ladies days, good sports bras, hair ties / ponytail holders, hair clips, etc. I was down to my last hair clip, and they break so easily.

For everyone: Ball caps, good sunglasses, and backup prescription glasses, reading glasses, and/or contacts. LensDirect does way more than contacts now:

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Have done it most of my adult life...but I did make a check over everything to make sure I had ENOUGH.

I love the replies in this thread!

Great job guys and dolls, I love reading the responses.

We’re looking into the potential of digging an outhouse. Problem is we’re on clay and limestone so it’ll be a chore by hand.

Suppose I could rent a backhoe but I reckon that might be too pricey for me.

shut yer piehole if you have nothing constructive to say, not everyone has neighbors and some of us are able to protect what we have

Yeah sure buddy like things weren't hard or impossible to get just a few short months ago!...

Have heated with kero for decades. The best type of kerosene heaters (because they are safest and use the least fuel) are these types:

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These put out around 10,000 btu’s, enough to heat a couple of fair-sized rooms. The big round ones put out more heat (around 22,000 btu’s), but use twice the fuel. The smaller unit linked uses about one gallon of kerosene per day. Also, they throw no heat from the back and sides, so can fit more easily in a room.

You need to use K-1 clear, or “water-white” kerosene, NOT the stuff with red dye - that will clog the heater’s wick in short order. Kerosene is combustible, like diesel fuel, not flammable like gasoline, so it’s relatively safe to store. Most bulk fuel suppliers can get you a drum of the stuff - 30 or 55 gallon - or you can just get a few of the blue 5-gallon containers (do NOT ever use old gas cans, as even a little gas in kero can cause an explosion in a heater), depending on the level of prep you’re looking for.

Hope this helps.

Toilet paper?

Been doing that for about a year and a half now...soup to nuts and bolts...remember to get a good high capacity water filter...or two....lack of clean water will kill you before anything else does...just remember you'll die of thirst WAY before you die of hunger....

Well you gotta understand that making America Great Again requires the elimination of the communist insurrection first. Only then can we be great Again.

Absolutely it helps!

We’ve got a kerosene heater that’s very similar to that model. I think I’m going to add another 5 gallons to my stores in a couple weeks. We’ve also got a spare wick for it.

Great post.

Isopropyl alcohol.

Can't beat it for shooting down flies and lighting the wood stove.

If you can get it, that is. Seems they turned it all into hand sanitizer. We get it already, we don't need 500 MORE bottles of hand sanitizer.

Yes, they will. unknowingly.

Oh geezzz I didn't think of that!

How about sawdust and a 5 gallon pail. Just in case.

Could be.

Prices sky high too

Thanks! I should add that kerosene, if kept away from light and heat and well-sealed, can last decades. It might need to be filtered a bit if it’s that old, but I’ve used 30+ y.o. kero with no problems.

One thing that is death to a kero heater’s wick is water. You have to make absolutely certain that there’s no water in your kero (it can get into it simply from condensation inside a partially-filled container). Best thing to prevent this is a product called “Mr. Funnel”. It’s a funnel with a built in Teflon-coated filter that removes water and debris from fuel:

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Have used a pair of these funnels for years, and they are the “bee’s knees”. Just be sure, if you use it to filter gasoline, that it is absolutely free of gas before you filter kero with it! Gas in kero, even a little, can lead to explosion and fire in a heater or other appliance, like a kero lamp. I have one funnel that I spray-painted blue and the other red so as to avoid problems.

Get a couple dryer racks in case you have to wash clothes by hand. Outdoor clothesline isn't too good in a blizzard.