Can we have just ONE useful SURVIVAL THREAD?

Dear Sister & Brothers, Dear GLPRS, after 20+ years I am confused.

(If you don't feel like a lot of reading - skip to "start here".)

We have follow-up threads for WARS, CODIV (sic), USED CAR PRICES, US ELECTIONS, even for things like POLE SHIFT, ICE AGE, and small things like FAMINE, and then just like pure, golden, old-fashioned, DOOM.

But even when the topic surfaces here and there, and whoever addresses it gets labelled as a LARP, or even worse, a SHILL, it NEVER STICKS. Is that because we want to "keep our secrets to us"? "We don't want others to REALLY know how to survive" - "because it reduces MY odds?" All in all, I don't like that, I don't follow that, I WOULD like to change it though.

The internet is full of "Canadian Preppers" (no pun intended) who like to broadcast their own face in their own car after a good meal, who speak wise words when their belly is full, but those people are typically the ones who starve to death when TSHTF.

So I'm a relatively late-born prepper, given that I've known I need to do that since 1998 or so. I only started quite recently.

Start here.

So HOW ABOUT some actual hands-on instructions for your fellow man/woman? Is that too much to ask?

For example;


We all get instructions on how to pack your bug-out-bag, how to prep, what to prep, how to store your meal, but how about the ACTUAL PREPPING? YOU?

I've done my learning. I have good quality hiking boots. They are REALLY good, new and shiny. What happens when you walk for 5 hours in them? You get HORRIBLE blisters. You need 2 weeks to recover! What if you don't HAVE 2 WEEKS?

So - you need to wear them out a bit up front. Walk 100 miles in them - then you're good. Money can't buy you that you know, no matter how much you want it to.

Then your "bug out bag". It's good quality, you have EVERYTHING you need in there, it weighs 20kg / 40lbs, and it kills you after 2 miles. YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO CARRY IT. For WEEKS. The ONLY way to do that, is PRACTICE.

And how about the distance? What if electricity is gone, all combustion engines are gone, all roads and rails are gone? HOW DO YOU GET "THERE"? What if you need to cover 1000miles in a month? CAN YOU REALLY HANDLE THAT? Even 500?

What about your gazillion WATT military-grade flashlight? You know the specs, but CAN YOU USE IT? Especially in a hurry? How to make it last as long as possible?

What about your all-round-belt-tool, that has a compass, GPS, 27 different blades, 129 plyers, 157000 scredrivers, CAN YOU USE IT IN THE DARK? Under pressure?

What about when you're out in the open, it's cold, you're hungry, AND it starts to POOR RAIN? Can you handle it? Can YOU REALLY cook your meal?

How about you're bugging out, you have ALL your stuff there, but suddenly there's 1 mile of water you have to cross (for whatever reason). CAN YOU DO IT? In the summer? What if it's November? February without ice?


I mean MOST of these things come BEFORE you get to your PLANNED BUGGING OUT location.

Can we talk about something like this for once?

DON'T COPY/PASTE LINKS - RATHER SHARE YOUR PERSONAL LEARNINGS and feelings - PLEASE!


Ta.