Comments on: Not Preparing, Living my Life

By: Disaster Preparedness: Making room for guests in small spaces « hawthorn + rosehip

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:45:01 +0000

[...] Astyk also makes the point that you don’t have to have tons of extra money lying around to stock up on these contingency [...]

By: Jere Michon

Jere Michon — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:32:52 +0000

Exciting post. I have been searching for some great resources for solar panels and found your blog. Planning to bookmark this one!

By: Friday Favorites 8/29/08 « Two Frog Home

Friday Favorites 8/29/08 « Two Frog Home — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:15:07 +0000

[...] Is it really preparedness or just day to day living? [...]

By: risa b

risa b — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:29:26 +0000

Matt, we went with a lantern that holds four D cells, we use rechargeables, and we replaced the incadescent bulb with a LED, which you can find nowadays. It’s not a brilliant light, as my poor eyes can attest, but the batteries last FOREVER on it, and the bulb seems indestructible. We’ve replaced all our flashlight bulbs accordingly. Suddenly we’re not buying batteries.

Sharon, et al., it’s all true. You’re simply building resilience, and teaching this as a skill. When is that ever fringe or a bad idea? It’s fun seeing Survivalist News taking clippings of all your stuff, since most of my experience with that crowd echoes the funniest line in Tremors: “Broke into the wrong _____ rec room, DIDN’T cha!”

By: SandPine

SandPine — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:00:51 +0000

FOR SUSAN IN LA -

Check out this for a water filtration system, cheap & almost foolproof -

http://www.pwgazette.com/gravity.htm

These are good people to deal with.

SandPine

By: Matt Savinar

Matt Savinar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:39:15 +0000

One note regarding the solar lanterns: they will (eventually) wear out. I used to use mine all the time for pretty much everything but then the bulb burned out. Now fortunately they’re pretty cheap to replace (the bulbs that is). But the point is you might want to save it for when you need to use it or perhaps buy a second one. Another option – albeit expensive in the short term – is to get a battery powered light and then some rechargeable batteries and one of those solar chargers. I have a foldable one myself and it is quite nifty.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:04:00 +0000

I could underline everything you wrote. Thanks for this great post!

This is so true – it doesn’t make sense to buy everything you need for canning “just in the case of…”. When there is an emergency, you have to know how to use this stuff. And not only in theory.

So the last weeks I was stocking up on canning equipment and glass jars (the WECK system, as I live in germany), a hand grinder, a good bike, and the last purchase was a food dryer – although an electric one.
And I USE them every day, or at least every week.

My husband is still sceptical about my expanded garden activities and about me buying all this stuff, so I have to prove him they are all useful and saving us money.

I still have to convince him of chickens in the garden…

Best wishes from Bettina in Germany!

By: Susan in Los Angeles

Susan in Los Angeles — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:50:39 +0000

Thank you to those who posted advice and links — I am very grateful.

By: Shamba

Shamba — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:09:26 +0000

Correction for Susan in LA; I think I gave the wrong link. http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net is better. sorry.

shamba

By: Shamba

Shamba — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:06:50 +0000

FOR SUSAN in LA:

I got my solar lantern at http://www.latoc.net. They have a store there with books and all kinds of products, solar ovens and solar lanterns and solar generators, etc. they also have access to many different food items.

I bought my solar lantern from them but there may be other places to get them as well.

Looking out for preparedness and a new way of life in Phoenix,

shamba