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Plywood (not cheap) board up windows, repair roofs, create shelter
Plywood (not cheap) board up windows, repair roofs, create shelter
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Good stuff! How about shingles? Pick them up at garage sales cheap? Even if the wrong color, better to have something rather than nothing.Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
JOSEPH WAS A PREPPER!
NOAH WAS A PREPPER!
I'M A PREPPER TOO!Comment
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Duct tape, cheap Harbor Freight tarps...Comment
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Originally posted by JUSTIFIED View Post
You can go on jobsites where new construction is going on (which these days is a rarity, weird huh) and get the scrap shingles from the roofers. It helps them with the cleanup of trash and there are always plenty of scraps. When we were building my brothers dogs mansion a few years back we did this and that joker was shingled on all side but the door.You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this?Comment
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Batteries
Solar powered and wind-up radio and flashlights.Comment
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I'll remember that one. I'm also going to see if I can talk to a few restaraunts who may just get rid of their 5 gallon buckets. Pretty cheap at Lowes but free is better!Originally posted by WiseOwl View PostFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
JOSEPH WAS A PREPPER!
NOAH WAS A PREPPER!
I'M A PREPPER TOO!Comment
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I'm thinkin' solar Kathy. I'm seeing those pop up in stores.Originally posted by Kathy D View PostFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
JOSEPH WAS A PREPPER!
NOAH WAS A PREPPER!
I'M A PREPPER TOO!Comment
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Gorilla glue/Super Glue - I fix lots of things with Gorilla Glue. Love the stuff.
Hand sanitizer - This can also be used as lighter fluid. Need to warm up cold hands quickly, Squirt some on a ground or large rock, light it up and thaw out your fingers. Not going to last long, but better than nothing.
Wintergreen alcohol - Not only good for disinfecting cuts and scrapes. It works great to relieve itching of mosquito and other insect bits.Comment
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Diesel Fuel, 5-10 gal. Can be used as penetrating oil, gun cleaner, fire starter, it can be used as a dirty burning kerosine in most lamps and heaters though it smokes and stinks when burned but far cheaper than kerosine.Comment
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If you go to a commercial sewing supply site, you can get extremely strong thread in polyester and kevlar in any color. I bought 1 pound spindles of a variety of camo colors in poly as well as a spindle of kevlar in natural (pale yellow). You can also buy prewound bobbins in dozens which are small spools wound to fit on the bobbin holder of a commercial machine. These are extremely compact, and I wrap them up with some shrink or kitchen wrap to keep them from unraveling in my small kits. Thethreadexchange.com has a complete selection of threads, kevlar, polyester and nylon as well.III We are everywhere.Comment
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With all due respect to gorilla glue, that stuff goes bad too quickly and costs too much. I ended up getting probably 40 packages of two part epoxy meant to be used for anchors in construction, with a mixing tube system. The combined weight is probably 28 ounces, and the hardener part is hardened in the tip. I got them for about a dollar total, and I just cut the end off the pack and extrude the whole works into plastic deli tubs like they serve potato salad in. This stuff can bond about anything and though it is messy to work with, I expect that there will be demand for it in the future. I have given away a lot of the packs to friends who are preppers already, but I still have quite a few.III We are everywhere.Comment
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Grantmeliberty:
Store you superglue in the refrig. It will last for a long time that way.Comment
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I go through my glue pretty fast so never had the problem. Glad to know about the epoxy mixture though. Always nice to learn something new.Comment
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Glue is good. Me personally think that having tons of duck tape would be nice , why because you can do everything with it. AlsoTp would be a great one. Also tampons will be good lots of medical uses, fires, filters. So many uses out all of these items and all cheap and available everywhere.Whats the point of having and not knowing how to use? You dont have a car and not know how to drive it do you? Having the tools for the job is worthless with out the knowledge of how to use it!Comment
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Pencils, shapeners and paper. These were items that were noted to be of value when Argentina crashed. I read a blog that stated that several people would make their living bartering bytrading paper and even carboard boxes cut into useable pieces. Although not directly related to survival, could be very helpful in planning logistics for plans C,D or E.
Zip ties- a million uses from handcuffs to makeshift repairs to simple construction.Comment
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