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clarionite wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:00 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:51 pm Questions like "how much water should I store" are very good reasons to COOHMP. Personally, we have a LOT of bottled water stored, but it’s nowhere near enough. There can never BE enough, for the 6 of us who live here and and being located in suburbia, without there being a steady source that’s independent of the water grid.

Our next step is to buy a couple (to start) of 275 gallon water tanks and connect them to our rain gutters. We'll then run them through a Berky filter for drinking. Otherwise we'll use it for taking spit baths and watering the garden.

But ultimately, we still need to "come out of her my people" and find a rural property with its own well.

I'm looking for rural land currently. And garden water is part of the planning process. I've been pricing storage tanks. Part of what I've been wanting was a french drain into a tank burred for use as a cistern. I hadn't worked out the specifics of making it potable yet.

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clarionite wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:26 am I am curious about your calculations for water though. Having spent time in the desert. I have a water cooler for our drinking water. Slowly I've been increasing the number of 5 gallon refils we have. My Fiance noticed when I got to 8, and wondered how many more I was going to get. I explained that having more gave us a longer cushion if things got bad. I'm thinking with 15 or so I should be ok for a while.

Questions like "how much water should I store" are very good reasons to COOHMP. Personally, we have a LOT of bottled water stored, but it’s nowhere near enough. There can never BE enough, for the 6 of us who live here and and being located in suburbia, without there being a steady source that’s independent of the water grid.

Our next step is to buy a couple (to start) of 275 gallon water tanks and connect them to our rain gutters. We'll then run them through a Berky filter for drinking. Otherwise we'll use it for taking spit baths and watering the garden.

But ultimately, we still need to "come out of her my people" and find a rural property with its own well.

Get yourself a Patreon account, and subscribe to these four content providers:
- Viking Preparedness
- Bear Independent
- Mountain Guerrilla Blog
- Intehrative Preparedness

Then go back and watch or read ALL of their content from the beginning, before you start spending money. I wish I had done so.

Buy all the ammo you think you’ll realistically need for the guns you have, but keep this at the front of your mind: you can’t EAT ammo......so make food your priority. If you’re thinking of ammo in military quantities, then you’re doin' it wrong. The idea is to have enough to train with, and to hunt with, and for self defense. But if you’re thinking of having tens of thousands of rounds for each of your guns, that’s a poor use of your resources unless you’re a very rich man. The whole idea of survival is to avoid a big fight in the first place.

Stop thinking of storing food that you’d like to eat (because that’s expensive), and start thinking instead of storing calories. FOOD IS FUEL. Nothing more. Then make the bulk of your food purchases in "maximum calories for lowest price" format. That will mean sealed buckets of wheat, rice, corn, beans, etc.

Plant enough garden and raise enough livestock to feed yourself independently of your food stores. Ideally, the stored food is only to get you through until you’re self sustaining, in the event that the bad juju happens before you’re fully prepared. Your goal is to not have to significantly alter your lifestyle when TEOTWAWKI happens. If you’re already self-sustaining food-wise when the bad juju happens, you’ve met that goal. THEN your stored food becomes something else entirely. It enables you to help the widows and orphans. It gives you what amounts to political power.

Read up on COOHMP.