What did you do this week to prepare?

[ibetiny]

I haven't done too much this week. Put up about 10 2L bottles of water for short term storage. I think the most important thing is I have started to network a little, and might be able to plan a BIG garden for next year that will not only benefit my family but also a couple of other preppers. Still trying for those 55 gal drums. perhaps next payday. Oh yeah, paid off the car and I am almost totally debt free, student loans and mortgage is all I have left.

[Fido]

Finally got the wife on board. She has given me the go ahead to get the larder up to where it should be. (I have been making small contributions for a while). Showed her the Lehmans catalog and now I have a list of "must have's". Thankfully she's pretty practical so most of the items make sense.
Did a stock up run today at the local big-box, kept a wary eye out but not a single sheeple noticed what I was doing. Amazing.

[birdseye.2]

Maybe its just me, but I hope they also warned you about that "pool bleach"???

http://www.cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/4481

Requires use of breathing apparatus, reacts violenlty with water releasing chorine gas... Ya, might want to add that to the "this stuff is great" before Joe Smoe tries to "clean" his murky water in his enclosed basement with no ventilation... =)

Yeah, look at your Clorox Bleach bottle, contains chlorine which is a highly toxic and fatal gas by itself... do you use a breathing apparatus when you wash your laundry? http://www.cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/2862


As for what I've done this week, find it funny no one has mentioned, "Read survivalandpreparednessforum.com"(OPSEC)!!! Oh, and I'm selling three vehicles to buy one and moving from San Diego California to the 4 acre northern Georgia Appalachian Mountain home I moved my wife into two weeks ago. Working on getting funds and everything in order for that.

[Klayton]

birdseye, there IS a difference between regular bleach and super concentrated bleach... :)

As far as regular bleach goes, I have seen it used very effectively as a weapon, super blaster with bleach to the eyes!! :(

[Klayton]

Oh and your link is to chlorine GAS, not household liquid bleach. :)

Household bleach is made by passing chlorine gas through sodium hydroxide.
The reaction is not run to stoichiometric completion so there is an excess
of sodium hydroxide in the final product rendering it alkaline. This
stabilizes the product and increases the concentration of
OCL(-1). The operative reaction is: OCL(-1) + H2O + 2e(-1) = Cl(-1) +
2OH(-1)
The two electrons are provided by what ever the bleach is oxidizing. The
residual odor of chlorine results from the equilibrium: 2ClO(-1) + H2O = Cl2
+ 2OH(-1).

[610Alpha]

@Klayton - you just had to go and throw out some Chemistry didn't ya? I have been chemistry free for a couple of years now and then you go do something like this. Now I want to go break out my chemistry books and read them. I can only hope one of my kids will become a chemical engineer :) If I hadn't been in such a hurry to get out of school I would have double majored.

[Klayton]

Probably the best and most dangerous present any parent has ever given... A chemistry set. :)

[610Alpha]

Definitely...I had loads of fun with mine. Then when I was a teenager I learned about rapid gas expansion and old time coal miners head lamps.

[birdseye.2]

You are correct Klayton, Chlorine is used in the creaton of household "Clorox" bleach... And like you say, there is no active chlorine within said product, and Bleach is mostly made of water. However, it also contains a substance called sodium hypochlorite. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), liquid bleach in the bottle is a 5.25 percent sodium hypochlorite solution, although industrial strength products may contain more of the chemical. When this chemical is ingested or inhaled, poisoning can occur.

And straight from the label of "Clorox" - "Wear full-cover clothing and protective eyewear. For prolonged use, wear gloves. Wash throughly with soap and water after handling and before eaiting, drinking or using tobacco. Avoid breathing vapors and use only in a well-ventilated area." My point was just this, do you wear all that is suggested? Are you concerned about the vapors when you're using said product. There are inherent dangers in everything we do, if we lived having to explain to all the people without common sense, they'd have to put on the label of every hammer, do not place hand over nail while hammering or, don't drive blind. People can read labels, don't allow others to discredit his post based on your one comment, as some sheeples actually might. Do we all need to add a disclaimer when posting, or are you going to do that for us?

[Klayton]

@birdseye2 LOL I have seen one of those labels: Do not iron shirt while wearing! I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself.

But the best one ever is by Johnson&Johnson, the information label on rectal thermometers: All thermometers personally tested. YIKES!!!

[birdseye.2]

Lol, That's great.

[crossbow]

dispatched(butchered) 7 rabbits,9 left to do on Sat., I went to a near by small city to a Sams club and Aldies store, picked up a few cases of food that we don't need but the price was down by ten cents a can and we can alway donate the older stuff if not needed later on, At Sams I bought 50 pounds of LG Rice and 50lbs of sugar, a few hundred heavy duty trash bags, the prices have really gone up from a yr ago,17.63 for 50 pounds of rice,31.08 for 50 pounds of sugar.pork loin was 1.98 a lb, a yr ago we bought some for .98 and canned them. I stopped at TSC to get rabbit and dog food, rabbit food is up almost 3 dollars for 50 lbs. and dog food is up almost five dollars for 40 pounds.

[ComputerGuy]

1- Ordered Mylar bags and O2 absorbers
2- Wife got a connection for 5 gal buckets
3- Received Night Vision
4- Received 50 more rounds of buck and shot
5- Ordered 3 more cases of MREs
6- Ordered more water preservative
7- Ordered advanced first aid and medical books
8- Ordered CR123batteries and got a great deal on AA rechargables at the commissary

[LizardKing]

Took advantage of Armalite's sale on AR 10 mags - great deal if you need some

[KirkMcquest]

Well to be honest, I kind of blew it this week. I mention this as an example of what NOT to do; I brought my pickup into up the trail to cut some wood. I spent a few hours out there and had the bed filled with nice dry firewood. Then I jumped into the drivers seat, turned the key and ........nothing. The damn thing wouldn't start in the middle of the woods!

I started to get real nervous about how to get it out. I made calls, no tow people would go into the woods after the truck. I replaced the battery, still nothing. The next day I chained it to my tractor and pulled it out (with damage to the front grill and bumper). I thought it must be the starter and started making plans to buy a new one and replace it. But the auto parts guy threw salt in my plans, telling me that it probably wasn;t the starter. I let him make me doubt myself.

I ended up calling a tow and bringing it to a shop. The problem was.....you guessed it...the starter! So it cost me 100 bucks for a tow and 250 to have the mechanic do what I should have done myself. Instead I threw good money away, money that could be used for food, ammo, farm implements or whatever.

Anyway the lesson is, I think, trust yourself and try to solve your own problems. That's the way to survive.