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Post by jo on Feb 6, 2018 19:47:15 GMT 10
Doesn't the Commonwealth Government guarantee bank savings up to $250,000? Sorry frosty knowing from experience when Australia is in deficit your"government guaranteed" investmests are worthless as the government does not have "reserve cash" to cover these.. the government is broke so how do you expect it to keep your investments afloat? Hey you just have to remember Christopher Scase ... he was "government guaranteed" lol not
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Post by jo on Sept 5, 2017 15:59:49 GMT 10
I have three types of cooking in my house - electric, gas, and wood stove, so I always have some way of heating up food or water.
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Post by jo on Jul 15, 2017 22:42:19 GMT 10
Rather than having a massive yield of turnips hows about planting swedes, parsnip and carrots as well, ... Of course, in hindsight..... well was just thinking if you wanted to barter it might be a more useful item.... most people these days look at turnips and wonder WTF would i do with this whereas if you have the magic four the peeps would be like ohhh soooup ok in fact I will be your first customer I will trade you a hypothetical sandwich bag of amaranth grain for a soup bunch.... thanks <3
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Post by jo on Jul 15, 2017 12:38:03 GMT 10
Rather than having a massive yield of turnips hows about planting swedes, parsnip and carrots as well, then when harvested turn some of them into a veggie stock and bottle, you can then use it as a base for soup, stew at a later date. If these veg are planted at the same time they generally are ready to harvest at the same time. Another idea is to sell/barter some with neighbours or at the local market so you can then buy some staples that you might be low on.... let some go to seed so you will have a supply for next year. You can store some, but they are no where near as good as the fresh veg!
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Post by jo on Jul 15, 2017 11:31:28 GMT 10
Have we got power back yet or are we still eating random things like lentil pikelets, 12 year old tins of creamed rice, and eating jelly made from scrounged fruit, water boiled on the camp stove and the out of date gelatin out of the back of my folks' pantry? i for one have trained my killer chooks to retrieve human flesh for my other slack pets.... been eating dirt and have girt my loins with the hide of a few random dogs... pity it is only day two.... maybe the lack of info mimics the real situation
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Post by jo on Jul 12, 2017 5:59:41 GMT 10
I love fishing but haven't done any for about a year.... I have a large freshwater dam a leisurely 5 minute stroll from my front door.... I haven't tried to fish the dam yet (on private land) luckily it is tucked away behind my house so not seen from the main road and not many people know it exists! I grow veggies and have lots of unusual fruit trees but due to the 40 degree summer most of the fruit cooked on the trees this year. For protein I have eggs and chickens, as much as I would love a cow or two I just don't have the room however the farmer at the bottom of the hill has jerseys and I'm sure in a SHTF situation I might have some items to trade
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Post by jo on Jul 10, 2017 19:47:02 GMT 10
No it is probably a dehydrated dog... ewww
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Post by jo on Jul 10, 2017 19:44:09 GMT 10
I agree with Token, I too am considered a "fatty" however I can outlast and outwork a girl who is half my age and she is considered fit... yes she starves herself, yes she can run 5k and push weights etc.... the big BUT is that she can only do physical stuff for about an hour then she is stuffed for the rest of the day, has to have a nap or rest for 48 hours.... meanwhile back at the ranch I have just spent the whole weekend digging over a large veggie patch, walked around several markets and spring cleaned my house and still ok to drive for 3.5 hours then work for 8 hours today. Don't asume that overweight people are less healthy as where I work we see just as many "fit n healthy" people coming through with serious illness as overweight people.
My prepping journey has had its ups and downs but I am being as prepared as I can.... thinking how I can feed myself without power.... how i can supply myself with food in a years time...... yes I bought a house that I can clean without power, yes I bought a house away from people, yes I can do physical work from daylight to dusk, go to bed then get up and do it all over again day after day am I less a prepper because I am overweight? Am I any less healthy than my friend who walks 10k a day (considered healthy) who had a heart attack 3 months ago?
Phew rant over lol
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Post by jo on Jul 8, 2017 16:05:48 GMT 10
My tomahawk is sitting very innocently on my window sill ;0
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Post by jo on Jul 7, 2017 21:33:51 GMT 10
Eating dinner, grab my chooks - found out yesterday the are very effective rodent control, (yes it was gross) even better than my cats.... and they can feed me
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Post by jo on Jul 7, 2017 21:26:42 GMT 10
Funny had that exact same senario yesterday (without the looting and pillaging) home power was down so no phone, water, internet or mobile for 8 hours - a day off from working at home luckily as work had no internet for the first few hours they were open, local shop had no power either so no petrol, eftpos/atm, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, loved every minute of it.
With this senario I would just "drop off the radar" - no need to make heaps of noise or drive around having a sticky beak, time to sit tight and see how the situation unfolds, if it is a pandemic best to not mingle with people, if it is just a cyber attack I can't do anything about it and if it is anything more serious like war etc best not draw attention to myself by using power tools etc, it is amazing how quiet everything is when the background noises stop
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Post by jo on Jul 5, 2017 4:21:22 GMT 10
Sad to hear about your tree.... I have never had one of these before and it is amazing how much fruit I get off one little tree
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Post by jo on Jul 4, 2017 16:30:47 GMT 10
Hi all just thought I would share this recipe as I made a few jars the other day and it is really tasty (no not bitter like marmalade), plus it uses up a fruit that I have in abundance at the moment.
The recipe calls for a ratio of 1kg fruit to 2kg sugar which you can do if you want the jam to be a bit sweeter, but I cooked it this way:
Ingredients: 6 cups Kumquats, 9 cups of sugar, Water to cover fruit + 1 extra cup of water, Juice of 1 lime.
Method: The night before you want to cook the jam slice the Kumquats into 1/4 and remove seeds. Place fruit in a bowl and cover the fruit with water.
In another bowl place discarded seeds and cover with 1 cup of water. (Overnight this will turn into a jelly like mass with the seed intact - natural pectin).
The next day put water/Kumquat mixture into pot, use some of the juice that is with the fruit to thin the mixture of pectin/seeds, strain seed mix into pot and discard the seeds.
Boil the fruit for 30 minutes covered. Stir occasionally to make sure the fruit does not stick to the bottom of the pot.
Remove lid and cook for 15 minutes on medium high this will reduce the liquid by 1/3.
Add the sugar and cook for 15 minutes (the mixture will foam). The sugar will dissolve fairly quickly.
Bottle into sterilized jars.
I love this recipe as there are very few ingredients and apart from mucking around with cutting the fruit and separating the seeds it is a fairly simple process.
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Post by jo on Jun 27, 2017 17:11:12 GMT 10
Spent the day digging a new patch for veggies and moved some spring onions, verigated chilli, naranjilla, taro and brazillian spinach to the new garden.... the soil is nice and soft as it is the patch I pulled the sweet potato out of ( I have clay soil and it tends to get hard and compacted) had my chickens helping to dig over the soil as well (one nearly ended up with a spade through its neck) oops
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Post by jo on Jun 13, 2017 18:37:13 GMT 10
Don't worry everyone I just bought a heap of buttons (for $20) so if anyone on this site needs a hand financially I have a pile of buttons to share lol
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Post by jo on Jun 13, 2017 18:28:38 GMT 10
Ripped out a patch of sweet potato the other day... some great to eat others not so much due to bugs....my neighbour is eying off my plantain (green bananas) hopefully if I give her enough she will give me banana pudding and banana bread yummo
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Post by jo on Jun 13, 2017 18:08:34 GMT 10
Buttons.... everyone's granny or great granny had a tin of them so they must be valuable.... granny made it through the Great Depression with two tins of buttons so she must have been rich
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Post by jo on Jun 7, 2017 12:13:16 GMT 10
wool for knitting blankets/beanies/socks jumpers
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Post by jo on Apr 20, 2017 0:46:43 GMT 10
I have gone with option 1.... cheaper place about 1 hour from where I work, have dropped my hours at work and say I am "semiretired" I still earn enough to live but have the space and time to live the good life and there is an option of getting a job closer to home (large country town about 20 mins away) just waiting for the right one to come along!
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Post by jo on Apr 18, 2017 3:52:24 GMT 10
I was a little shocked and said 'why didnt you light a fire in the backyard and take the pot out and boil some water? It was then that i think many other people in the same boat hadnt considered just how easy that really was.
So there is a real life example to confirm your comments Jo. Never the less, it was a great weekend and a loooot of new NZ preppers have begun their journey. [/quote]
Scary isn't it.. sad thing is a lot of these people are "highly educated" but wouldn't think to put a bucket outside if it was raining to collect some rain water for drinking and hygiene needs... they just want a rescue team to turn up with bottled water
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