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Preppers R Us

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    #62
    weisses
    Registered Users Posts: 9,446 ✭✭✭weisses


    Graces7 wrote: »
    You need to reread the OP

    "This thread is intended to discuss the merits of self sufficiency. Also, any preppers with ideas or suggestions about self sufficiency and general prepping for doomsday type scenarios please post here. "

    Interesting how you misread it.

    Self sufficiency has great merits indeed

    Have you watched the BBC series "Survivors"? On Youtube.


    I have read it,

    Maybe you need to read the thread

    I also posted this
    Nothing wrong with having a veg plot though

    Prepping for doomsday scenarios comes with a bugging out scenario.

    Even the thread title is about preppers ;)


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    #63
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    kneemos wrote: »
    Bugs,birds,fish,plenty of rabbits,cows,deer,the whole place is a virtual open air Buffett.

    When I'm at a buffet, the little canopies and horse doovers sit there on the table with no resistance and I simply put them in my mouth.

    Birds and fish less so.


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    #64
    Benjamin Buttons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    I would recommend a large sliced pan (Brennens Bread), you could squash it down in your post-apocalyptic rucksack, so it really wouldn't take up that much space.
    Also, we now know, following the big freeze, how popular Brennans bread is here in Ireland, so one could use slices of delicious Brennans bread as doomsday barter, the way a convicted felon might use 'snout' in prison.
    You could also use it to feed the zombies if you ever got bored.


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    #65
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    weisses wrote: »
    I have read it,

    Maybe you need to read the thread

    I also posted this



    Prepping for doomsday scenarios comes with a bugging out scenario.

    Even the thread title is about preppers ;)

    Oh dear! Oh dear dear dear dear!


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    #66
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Benjamin Buttons wrote: »
    I would recommend a large sliced pan (Brennens Bread), you could squash it down in your post-apocalyptic rucksack, so it really wouldn't take up that much space.
    Also, we now know, following the big freeze, how popular Brennans bread is here in Ireland, so one could use slices of delicious Brennans bread as doomsday barter, the way a convicted felon might use 'snout' in prison.
    You could also use it to feed;) the zombies if you ever got bored.

    Wonderful idea! Great stuff ;)


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    #67
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    topper75 wrote: »
    When I'm at a buffet, the little canopies and horse doovers sit there on the table with no resistance and I simply put them in my mouth.

    Birds and fish less so.

    And you have to catch them first. I will of course rent out my hunter cats for a fee.. ;)


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    #68
    weisses
    Registered Users Posts: 9,446 ✭✭✭weisses


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Oh dear! Oh dear dear dear dear!

    I know,

    I would be speechless as well


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    #69
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Some will bug out, some will pass on survival and growing skills. room for all.


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    #70
    Kakuli
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭Kakuli


    Besides grabbing toilet rolls are people now wishing they had done a little prepping. If so what have you done or are doing?


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    #71
    the_pen_turner
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    I prepped in the sense of having materials in to keep me occupied doing DIY and such.


    I think this will increase the no of prepers a lot.


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    #72
    briany
    Registered Users Posts: 13,558 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Prepping for a few days without electricity, yes. Prepping for a wider collapse, no. Most people are in no way prepared for the second scenario, and it would likely lead to a brutal existence that probably wouldn't be worth living in anyway.


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    #73
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    We'd always have about a month's "stuff" on hand between batch meals in the freezer and from bulk buying toothpaste/toilet roll/etc. For the wee lad we'd have always had a couple of weeks worth of stuff, that's up to six now. Everything from food to wipes. Tank is full of oil, not so important coming in to the Summer though.

    That covers life's little ups and downs, after that you are sort of into actual prepping.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #74
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    briany wrote: »
    Prepping for a few days without electricity, yes. Prepping for a wider collapse, no. Most people are in no way prepared for the second scenario, and it would likely lead to a brutal existence that probably wouldn't be worth living in anyway.

    Always better to be above ground

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #75
    briany
    Registered Users Posts: 13,558 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Graces7 wrote: »
    You know not whereof you speak!

    The people of this island not only survived the Famine but were able to support mainland communities with the crops they grew. We have fuel .food, water, and can go on indefinitely . A simple life such as was lived here in the past.

    Bees for honey already... renewable food sources of sea and land.

    We live season by season. The men are out turfcutting and hay making, and livestock renews itself


    Don't get me wrong, your lifestyle sounds idyllic in many ways and a nice break from the hectic pace of life in a city, but I also think that people who live a more self-sufficient existence still depend on the current system as much as those who life directly in it.



    What I mean is that if someone is living away out in the woods, or on an island, growing food for themselves and so on, and they say to themselves, "I'd be alright if civilization went awry because I have everything I need right here.", they're overlooking the fact that if civilization did collapse, they'd have to contend with a lot of desperate people encroaching on their little slice of heaven as the populations of towns and cities move out into the countryside in search of food and fresh water. And maybe you could defend yourself from one or two of these types maybe, but not from the dozens, or the hundreds or the thousands.


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