Prudy Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 If your lawn remains weedy, because you view dandelion, violet, plantain, white clover and wild strawberries as emergency rations or medicine. If you tell your neighbors it's to provide a better ecosystem for crickets and keep dangerous chemicals out of the environment to keep them off your case. If you have transplanted violets or wild strawberries. If you have ever toyed with the thought of making an expedient greenhouse from your children's play set and visqueen. Double points if you already have the visqueen and appropriate fasteners. If you know three or more ways to make an expedient cook stove out of things you'd find in a dumpster. If you get excited when you hear the words "Rocket Stove". Quote Link to comment
HSmom Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Originally Posted By: Prudy If you have ever toyed with the thought of making an expedient greenhouse from your children's play set and visqueen. Double points if you already have the visqueen and appropriate fasteners. Oh my gosh!! That's a wonderful idea!! In fact, it had never occured to me. Hang on, gotta go look out the window at the swing set... Oh yeah! *HS heads off to the hardware store* Quote Link to comment
Cricket Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 If you are making your Christmas wish list from the Lehman's catalog. If your husband is covered in kisses for pouring cement footers around your clothesline poles. If you've measured all the windows in your house for blackout curtains. Quote Link to comment
Cat Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Quote: Oh my gosh!! That's a wonderful idea!! In fact, it had never occured to me. Hang on, gotta go look out the window at the swing set... Oh yeah! *HS heads off to the hardware store* **Show of hands**... How many are making a checklist from these???? Quote Link to comment
cookiejar Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Right here!!cookie's hand shoots up! Guilty! *ahem* If you've down loaded so much prep information from the internet it requires it's own 3 ring binder. If you have enough said binders to stock a bookshelf. If you've *renamed* said binders to keep nosey folks out. If your binders have *levels* like the NORAD security colors (We're at ORANGE!!!). Quote Link to comment
cookiejar Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 If even your relaxation fiction reading has *overtones* (Alas Babylon, Ill Wind, Lucifer's Hammer, First Light). Quote Link to comment
Stephanie Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 You just might be .... if your children come and report to you what other people seem to have a lot of in their buggies. "Mom, that lady just go a WHOLE bunch of bleach." "I think we better get some more toilet paper, a bunch of people are on that aisle." Quote Link to comment
Prudy Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 If the word "expedient" is in your everyday vocabulary, even for non-prep conversations such as: "What's for dinner?" "I made an expedient potpie with some canned venison with leftover vegetables, and a crust made from last nights leftover baked potatoes (mashed) topped with chopped wild garlic". Double points if your kids use the word "expedient" as well. "Mom, Jimmy took one of the sponges I was using for an expedient doll bed, make him give it back!". If you can't leave the dollar store without another pack of 50 sewing needles. Double points if you have tested the kiddie glow bracelet multi-packs they sell at the Dollar Store and discovered they are only good for 3-6m after purchase... but still have a stash in the house and vehicle anyway for rotation. Triple points if you can think of 10 ways to use them besides handing them out to children to play with, and temporary trail or caravan marking is one of them. If you would LOVE to own a live-trap. (or own several). If you have an "if then" list for when the power goes out to determine if this might be "it" or not. If you have tried evaporative cooling with pottery/terra cotta bowls. If you have salt designated for dehumidifier use if the power goes out in summer. Actually, if you even know that this one means... you're bound to be one. If it pains you to get rid of an old fridge, if you've tried to talk your significant other into turning it into either smoker or root cellar before giving in and letting big trash day or scrappers take it. After all, there will be lots of them available "after". If you own the book.. "Where there is no Doctor" (or "No Dentist" etc.). If you have printouts of emergency childbirth instructions in your Franklin Planner.. "just in case". Quote Link to comment
michelle Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 These are too funny! I have some more: -If you desperately try to come up with an excuse to keep a pile of old dry rotting tires that dh wants to toss... one that won't get that LOOK! -If you can't have more kids but still keep a full supply of baby products and emergency birth kits with instructions just in case. -You have a 3 stage barrier around your property -You've stored polypropelene bags to make emergency shelter or a bunker -You can name more than 10 places to hide money or preps like inside a furniture leg, inside the toilet paper holder, etc. -If the UPS man visits more than once a week -If you have more money hide at home than you have in the bank -You have what you need for more than 3 ways to wash laundry -You've decide where to move or not to move based on how close it is to FEMA camps, possible nuke sites, etc. -If you go to more than 2 grocery stores in one trip so the cashier doesn't get suspicious -If the flea market workers know you by name and call you when they get a "grain mill, washboard, meat grinder, fill in the blank" -You've printed plans for more than 3 types of solar cookers -If you're family complains about the kudzu taking over the yard and you can name more than 3 ways to use it -If you analyze everything dh lists for a possible Christmas gift as "oh yeah I can get him that, thats a prep" "nah he's gotta find something else not worth the money when we need a ...." Okay now I need to fill in some blanks on this long checklist. Quote Link to comment
michelle Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Oh another: -You might be a survivalist if you spend all day planning, stocking or organizing you preps, go to sleep dreaming about getting ready, and wake up with yet another prep idea. .... ahem hsmom! Quote Link to comment
michelle Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 And yet another! If you go through the grocery store, your pantry or fridge finding items you need to figure out how to make ATSHTF... like yogurt, ketchup, mayo, etc. Quote Link to comment
Cat Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Quote: ...finding items you need to figure out how to make ATSHTF... And you obsessively collect recipes for the aforementioned foods... Quote Link to comment
michelle Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Now Cat I don't think any of us would do THAT! Quote Link to comment
HSmom Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Quote: If you would LOVE to own a live-trap. (or own several). I have two. One for rats & squirrels. The other was supposed to be for a raccoon, but caught a (nasty) oppossum. FYI, the rat/squirrel trap is currently set. Any critters caught will be named "Bubbles" and deposited -still in the trap- in the large trash can out back (that happens to be full of water). Quote: If you've measured all the windows in your house for blackout curtains. What if you already have plywood cut for each window? Quote: -You might be a survivalist if you spend all day planning, stocking or organizing you preps, go to sleep dreaming about getting ready, and wake up with yet another prep idea. .... ahem hsmom! Quote Link to comment
Cricket Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 If you do the chicken dance in the WalMart paint aisle in front of the 5 gallon buckets. If your DH asks for a can of mushrooms, you tell him it's in the pantry, and he has to ask "Which one?". Quote Link to comment
Cricket Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 If you are on the way to work and have to brake to avoid hitting deer, then spend the rest of the drive figuring how you would have gotten the meat home if you had been unable to avoid the collision. Quote Link to comment
michelle Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Oh my... you might be a survivalist if: You catch your 3 yr old playing with her toy backpack going down a checklist - "paper, light, water, water, water, Okay!" Oops! Might better think again about stocking and planning BOBs in front of the little ones! That just cracked me up. I didn't think I was that bad. Quote Link to comment
chefddr Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 You have food in your pantry for people you rarely speak to.. including things you know they like to eat but you do not. You like estate sales because the elderly tend to have canning jars/kerosene lanterns/hand tools/wool blankets/sturdy utensils etc. OH WHAT A WONDERFUL IDEA!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT AND WE ALWAYS HAVE ESTATE SALES HERE IN THE LANCASTER PA AREA, WHAT A GREAT LESSON YOU JUST TAUGHT ME!! Quote Link to comment
cookiejar Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 If you started out on these post for the humor and ended up creating a new list of ideas and things to buy/try Raise your hand if your guilty! If melted candles/candle wax would never make it to a trashcan (so many other uses!!!). Add points for Birthday candles saved. If you exercise by walking in case of TEOTWAWKI Add bonus points if you use the *exercise* to spot possible medicinal plants, edible critters, good field of fire and/or any other useful item. Double bonus if you smile and wave at the neighbors in a I'm-just-harmlessly-working-my-gluts way. If you've dempsty dumpster dived (Oh hi Officer, I thought I'd recycle for the environment!) Quote Link to comment
michelle Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I'd like to state for the record that I DO NOT have saved birthday candles and have NOT made a list of things to do/buy/try from this thread. *michelle eats the list and tries to remember the last time she actually bought birthday candles for the cake* Quote Link to comment
Cat Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 **Cat finds Michelle's second copy of her list on the floor behind Michelle and hands it to her...** Quote Link to comment
michelle Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 And ya'll told me to make copies of the lists and printoffs so I wouldn't lose them.... Note to self: Don't listen to them anymore... they're using it against me. :spider: Quote Link to comment
Cat Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Uhhh, *yes*... But not to EAT 'EM!!! Quote Link to comment
onepoormomma Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 If you've never thrown away lint. If you can't bring yourself to throw away a jar of any kind and anything with a lid has a potential storage opportunity. Quote Link to comment
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