What are you going to need to survive?

[cntrydawwwg]

  I'm from northern Wisconsin and it has been in the negative degrees for sometime now so a good house with backup heat would be on the top of my priorities. 

  We get plenty or the negative degrees here. Some areas of the state gets regular power outages especially in winter. So some people have started wiring a switch in with the power to their furnace. Power goes out-- flick the switch and fire the generator up and you have heat. It's not a hole house power source mind you, but sounds like pretty economical way to keep from freezing until the power comes back on. This is for a minor disaster mind you.....


     

       

[Skookum]

I try to make sure we have enough beer and wine to weather any temporary disruption of supply lines. We bought 12 cases of wine just before xmas, and have brewed about 25 gallons of beer since the first of december.

I always keep at least 4 bullets (one each for us and the dogs) in case we run out of beer and wine before order is restored post-apocalypse.

An excellent and well thought-out survival plan.  If you do run out of adult beverages, be sure to fire those last four bullets in SA ? you wouldn't want to miss.  ;-)

[jameslovesjammie]

I don't know if any of you follow Sootch on Youtube, but this is something I am definitely going to make.  They take up next to no space or weight and should be in every survival kit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBOUOqkK9I

[Skookum]

Mutiple use.  Babybel cheese ? food and firestarter:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MWJFZLiGhU

[1SOW]

I try to make sure we have enough beer and wine to weather any temporary disruption of supply lines. We bought 12 cases of wine just before xmas, and have brewed about 25 gallons of beer since the first of december.

I always keep at least 4 bullets (one each for us and the dogs) in case we run out of beer and wine before order is restored post-apocalypse.

Now there's a workable PLAN and is pleasing to practice, ... up to a point.

The good thing about wine,  is you can reuse your left over beer bottles and make it with most vegetation;  but for champaign you need a small stock of high-octane yeast.

[NRA1945]

One of the biggest overlooked and least talked about things one would need to survive is good health and fitness. It's both amusing and sad watching people going nuts storing up on guns and ammo and survival gear but yet are in such sorry shape, always lying around watching TV, eating terribly and drinking all the time. My stepdad is like this. I doubt he'd last long in a real SHTF scenario if there were any serious hiking or outdoor activity involved while carrying the needed gear. I myself have been guilty of this to some degree but am much younger then he and in better shape, and I'm working on improving my health and fitness as we speak.

[TF135Sierra2Xray]

I would love to see century build a micro Vz. 2008 pistol like they did with their C39 AKM.  I really want that gun for a wrol/shtf environment, but don't want to have to buy ask mags.