Good advice, especially the salt in a no refrigeration long term situation. I would add people always forget dental floss and toothpaste....your teeth don't last long if you aren't taking good care of them. One bad tooth and you're done. Plus floss can be good cordage in a pinch. I like that big fat walgreens brand kind. Tough stuff.
that's how my grandparents and great grandparents lived. Salt cure or brine everything. Smoking hams and such as well. Most stuff grown was to feed animals that you ate. Root cellars and smoke house. Cut ice blocks in the winter and pack in salt and sawdust in the cellar. Amish still do this. salt pickling with brine. Easy to do...just add salt till a raw uncracked egg floats and your good. Just make sure to put something to keep whatever submerged or it will rot. Can everything. Veggies, meat....shit way to live but doable. Hell we did not have running water till I was 13. Had an outhouse down below the house. Learned quick to adapt in the cold months or at night. 5 gal bucket with a lid. Then you got a toilet seat to put on it. Try to sit on a bucket and shit and you will see why we bought a seat for it. Dump it in the morning if used. Also a bag of lime in the outhouse for the summer months. Gets pretty rank when trying to use it. We heated the bathwater on the stove and shared it. Just how it was.
I like it.
It's good info. I will say not all paracord is equal. Premium paracord will outlast the cheap knock off stuff by about 3x in terms of usability. Quality paracord lashings are good for probably 7-10 years of high strength lashing before the material is sun compromised. The cheap stuff is good for maybe 2 or 3 years before it gets hard and unworkable.
I have what for me is probably a lifetime supply of really good paracord. This paracord is definitely not that. The only draw for this stuff is the firestarter and the fishing line. I wouldn't use it for typical paracord activities other than in an emergency situation.
Which paracord ? The stuff with the fire starter and fishing line I got off Amazon.Just saw this somewhere else and thought it was relevant. I like the whisky and antibiotics part for sure.
"So my opinion it depends on why you need the cash. So to me there are 4 main types of emergency situations.
Basic natural disasters
Human related, government
Illnesses or pandemic events
Larger natural or unexpected
Also most have short term effects but no long term. The larger ones like asteroids, killer pandemics, nuclear wars etc would be full blown disasters for long term effects vs short term disasters.
For short term disasters or weather conditions $2,000-$5,000 should be fine for gas, food or medicine. Anything more than that would be better spent on supplies vs cash.
Long term events cash would basically be worthless after a few months. You would be better off investing in gold coins or gems but you would still need a buyer so in a real world scenario whiskey, medicine, antibiotics, ammo would all be worth more than cash. It also depends if resources are scared or abundant. Food and water could be worth more than cash. So long term food storage and water purification tablets could be worth more than cash or gold. Just depends. If you have it $50,000 or $100,000 could be enough to get you out of a country if that’s possible so who knows."
Floyd - where did you get your paracord?
Upvote on “chips”.
