Prepping for everyday comfort vs. SHTF

[teddy12b]

Comfort items to me are along the same lines as many have mentioned, candy. Yes I think some degree of candy is a good thing, but not if you're getting into it now. I see good solid hand tools as another comfort item to me. Something about knowing I've got some good strong real rope, a good axe, a good shovel, a good saw etc. Everyone spends too much time on guns and & ammo for prepping and not enough on things they'll actually use.

Besides candy, I have a little solar setup that charges anker battery backups. Those are kept charged, but I have LED lights that are easily strung up and run off the battery backup, flashlights, radios, and whatever other electrical device can all be charged off the usb power banks. Those are a comfort item to me. The grid may be down, zombies at the doors, but if the kids haven't touched their I-pads in 3 weeks then the world will likely end soon.

 

[Thor]

+1 on the hand tools. I've kept everything that was passed down to me as well as augmenting with new/old where I see fit. Anvils, hammers, planes, hand cranked cherry pitter, manual meat grinder/shredder/slicer/juicer....whatever. The lights go out and life goes on.

 

[Thor]

I just picked up a manual grind mill. Henry Troemner #7 Star Mill from ~1885. I can grind coffee, corn, bone...whatever you need from coarse to flour. One more tool in the chest.

 

[Leadeye]

A good tool to have.

 

[croy]

Once I get my food, water, medical supplies where I want it I'll start looking at comfort. It's an on going process.