YoungGunLover
Marksman
So I have been thinking lately, whenever I read post on this forum i always read things like how much food should I have, how much ammo, batteries, guns, ect. The things we always think about that will help us. But I got to thinking, as important as these things are, there are so many more things that are vital to our survival. Or at least will make survival easier.
With this being good ole Indiana, who stock extra comforters/heavy blankets for winter. If we had a prolonged power outage and a winter like we just went through, your going to need extra blankets to keep warm. Fireplaces and wood stoves can only do so much, and when it its the negatives like we had, its going to take its toll on us. Im sure theres some of you who have your house fortified enough to last a winter in Alaska, but some of us do not. To those, do you ever go to yard sales, thrift shops just to buy cheap but heavy blankets to layer on?
Another one I never hear people talk about, or at least rarely is clothing. Im not talking your BDU's and all that, but everyday clothes, like when you need to be the "grey man." Lets face it, clothes wear out. Especially because we will most likely be working harder, wrenching more things, cutting more wood, just moving around more as survival will entail. So who buys extra jeans and t-shirts in order to be prepared for not being able to just go buy another pair? Also, another thing to think about is you might want to buy a size smaller than what you wear to compensate for weight loss. Whether you like it or not, in a prolonged SHTF situation, your going to loose weight from working harder and a more rationed diet. And if not for those things, probably the stress alone will cause you to shed a few.
So who here picks up these things? Im sure there are many of you who do, and for those people what else do you pick up that aren't commonly discussed items that will go a long with in SHTF?
With this being good ole Indiana, who stock extra comforters/heavy blankets for winter. If we had a prolonged power outage and a winter like we just went through, your going to need extra blankets to keep warm. Fireplaces and wood stoves can only do so much, and when it its the negatives like we had, its going to take its toll on us. Im sure theres some of you who have your house fortified enough to last a winter in Alaska, but some of us do not. To those, do you ever go to yard sales, thrift shops just to buy cheap but heavy blankets to layer on?
Another one I never hear people talk about, or at least rarely is clothing. Im not talking your BDU's and all that, but everyday clothes, like when you need to be the "grey man." Lets face it, clothes wear out. Especially because we will most likely be working harder, wrenching more things, cutting more wood, just moving around more as survival will entail. So who buys extra jeans and t-shirts in order to be prepared for not being able to just go buy another pair? Also, another thing to think about is you might want to buy a size smaller than what you wear to compensate for weight loss. Whether you like it or not, in a prolonged SHTF situation, your going to loose weight from working harder and a more rationed diet. And if not for those things, probably the stress alone will cause you to shed a few.
So who here picks up these things? Im sure there are many of you who do, and for those people what else do you pick up that aren't commonly discussed items that will go a long with in SHTF?
