What have you done this week to prep?

[2in1evtime]

2 more water storage units at 55 gallons each, more dried and canned foods rotated with new added, and ammo!!!!!!!!!!

 

[churchmouse]

I've seen battery caddies but I don't use them. I'm too lazy I guess. I leave some in original packages and rotate through them.

Now, most of our AA and AAA are the Eneloop rechargeable. We have a charging station with a box on the left for depleted batteries and on the right for recharged; this process gets good cooperation from the kids.

I bought a few of the lithium AAA and AA for long term storage, especially in the 72 hr car kit, and they are still in the package.

All of my reserve stash is still packaged until they come out and go into rotation.
I buy the bulk packs at Sams Club and keep enough on hand for any situation.

 

[dusty88]

So . . . pancakes and maple syrup at dusty88's house . . . when?

You come over with a big kettle, build a fire outdoors, cook down all the sap this weekend and I'll make all the pancakes you can eat.

 

[Zoub]

If you are not pulling a tank full of sap with a tractor, you are just making it for the "fun" of it. You might want to look at using a gravity fed tube system. Your woods will look like a cross between a CSI crime scene and a bunch of marked trails but you can collect more using less containers.

As a lover of all things stainless, I suggest you find a couple 4 gallon dairy buckets.

 

[dusty88]

If you are not pulling a tank full of sap with a tractor, you are just making it for the "fun" of it. You might want to look at using a gravity fed tube system. Your woods will look like a cross between a CSI crime scene and a bunch of marked trails but you can collect more using less containers.

As a lover of all things stainless, I suggest you find a couple 4 gallon dairy buckets.

It pretty much is fun and trial. Like most things it would require either time or money investment to go into more scale.

We do have enough trees that I could see a potential alternative income stream here to sell locally. (There again though you are either limited to home-based vendor amounts or you get into food sales bureaucracy which I want no part of).

I actually like my day job so it's not worth implementing a lot of time. DH and the kids aren't interested in anything like this. So I'll do it for some quality syrup, for learning of a new skill, give a few jars for gifts, and have the skill ready to implement if SHTF or if food just gets more expensive (both of which are real possibilities IMO).

The nice thing about the antique buckets is they stack together and really take up little space when not being used.

 

[Zoub]

My friend who does it for himself, they only do it every other year and make enough for two years. They all get together and pitch in to do it. They do it at their hunting tract which is maybe 1000 acres. So I think they work, drink and clear trails the entire time. There is 3 or 4 generations out there too. I see why they skip every other year but they have fun doing it. I drive by a couple for profit operations just from my house to his. No two are alike in taste or consistency.

 

[rhino]

All of my reserve stash is still packaged until they come out and go into rotation.
I buy the bulk packs at Sams Club and keep enough on hand for any situation.

If you have a Costco membership, their Kirkland alkaline batteries perform very well in tests compared to Energizer and Duracell. And the 50-packs are a good bargain.

You come over with a big kettle, build a fire outdoors, cook down all the sap this weekend and I'll make all the pancakes you can eat.

Do you really want me playing with fire and boiling hot tree juice on your property?

 

[littletommy]

Kroger is running a 10% off all kroger brand items thru tomorrow, stocked up on canned vegetables, Kroger brand ravioli, and peanut butter. They have their 16 oz jars 10 for 10 right now, so $0.90 for a jar of PB is hard to beat!

 

[Vigilant]

Watched the Watchmen video in the other thread!

 

[OkieGirl]

Took a minute to pull out the GHB and was amazed at the age of the food items in it. Did a quick rotation to pull out the old and replace with new. Sad to think I had let it go that long without refreshing.

What I did realize: I need to be looking for an alternative to the standard bottled water, something BPH free? I need to have spare mags and didn't see any in there today. I'll get that fixed asap. Have some other notes on stuff to work on but all in all was pretty disappointed in myself on this one.

 

[Trigger Time]

Took a minute to pull out the GHB and was amazed at the age of the food items in it. Did a quick rotation to pull out the old and replace with new. Sad to think I had let it go that long without refreshing.

What I did realize: I need to be looking for an alternative to the standard bottled water, something BPH free? I need to have spare mags and didn't see any in there today. I'll get that fixed asap. Have some other notes on stuff to work on but all in all was pretty disappointed in myself on this one.

Try the us coast guard approved water packets. They store really well in bags. I have a few I can give you to try out. Gonna be seeing indyJohn this week anyways.
i use them in all my caches too.

 

[223 Gunner]

I've been ordering ammo, ammo, and more ammo lately.
5.56, 7.62x51 and .22lr, aim has been running some decent deals on ammo lately.

 

[OkieGirl]

Try the us coast guard approved water packets. They store really well in bags. I have a few I can give you to try out. Gonna be seeing indyJohn this week anyways.
i use them in all my caches too.

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to research that one! I think he looked at me sideways when I started fussing about the plastic the water is in. I'll have to check on how they package their water. There is another vendor who I had seen that has small pouches (about 4oz each if I remember correctly) and I'm trying to decide what will be the smartest move given the likelihood of having kiddos with me if/when there is a need for the GHB.

 

[Ballstater98]

Ammo. Always ammo. Problem is, what is the fine line of prepping and hoarding?

 

[indyjohn]

Ammo. Always ammo. Problem is, what is the fine line of prepping and hoarding?

You're fine. Proceed.

 

[Vigilant]

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to research that one! I think he looked at me sideways when I started fussing about the plastic the water is in. I'll have to check on how they package their water. There is another vendor who I had seen that has small pouches (about 4oz each if I remember correctly) and I'm trying to decide what will be the smartest move given the likelihood of having kiddos with me if/when there is a need for the GHB.

Most of the water packets I have used and or seen were a Mylar/aluminumy (my own word)type material kinda like MRE retort pouches!

 

[OutdoorDad]

Ammo. Always ammo. Problem is, what is the fine line of prepping and hoarding?

Store your ammo in cans. If you can pick up your entire supply of one single calibre with both hands, its prepping. i.e. two 50 cal cans full to the brim with .22lr ammo lifted from the floor to your waist. Good to go. Rinse and repeat with 9mm. Rinse and repeat with .308 etc...

If you can't pick it up, it MIGHT be hoarding. i.e. six pallets of 5.56 in your garage... you still might be reasonable... but maybe not. Take what you plan on shooting this year, set that aside. Can you pick up the rest? If "yes", you're golden! If "no" plan on shooting more.

 

[223 Gunner]

Ammo. Always ammo. Problem is, what is the fine line of prepping and hoarding?

There is no such thing as too much ammo.

 

[rhino]

There is no such thing as too much ammo.

. . . unless you're trying to swim.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Ammo. Always ammo. Problem is, what is the fine line of prepping and hoarding?

If the average person saw your ammo storage, and wouldn't think you're hoarding, then you're probably not prepping.