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Post by remnantprep on Jun 19, 2016 10:31:28 GMT 10
For me Red Wine of course! Especially an Annies Lane Cab Merlot! Attachments:
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Post by Frank on Jun 19, 2016 13:27:08 GMT 10
Nice choice Rem.....Annies Lane, very nice.
Mine......Peanut Butter!!
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 19, 2016 13:51:46 GMT 10
Snickers Bars, but my family rotate my stock pretty quickly!
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 19, 2016 13:58:48 GMT 10
Apparently for my wife it would be champagne. Noticed a case with my preps in the basement the other day. Convenient storage space? Or maybe she's coming around to prepping. Either way, I just smiled to myself and mentally added the bottles to my list of alcohol and the calories to my running total.
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Post by Ausprep on Jun 19, 2016 14:56:25 GMT 10
Nice choice Rem.....Annies Lane, very nice. Mine...... Peanut Butter!! Peanut butter ice cream. |
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Post by remnantprep on Jun 19, 2016 14:58:14 GMT 10
You don't like red wine Ziggysdad??
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 19, 2016 16:05:30 GMT 10
No wine - red or white - for me. I try it a few times a year, but have no palate for it. I enjoy Whiskey (Scotch and Japanese) and legends have been written about my beer drinking, but I prefer to drink competitively, so don't do it often...doesn't usually end well for the ones I'm with. These days I prefer to eat my calories.
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Post by remnantprep on Jun 19, 2016 16:07:37 GMT 10
Ahh ok! Hahaha
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 19, 2016 16:36:14 GMT 10
My wife is the red wine drinker. I buy it, she drinks it. I asked her about Annies Lane and she would like to give it a go.
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Post by thereth on Jun 19, 2016 16:40:28 GMT 10
coffee, sweet beautiful coffee, i dont care if it is home brand instant, just giv me coffee when SHTF and everything else will fall into place
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Post by Peter on Jun 19, 2016 16:40:40 GMT 10
A good Cuban cigar for me. Particularly a Punch Punch.
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Post by Peter on Jun 19, 2016 16:47:17 GMT 10
... legends have been written about my beer drinking, but I prefer to drink competitively... Were we separated at birth? |
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 19, 2016 16:53:13 GMT 10
Brother from another mother? My dad was a milkman after all...
(No offence intended to your mother!)
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Post by Ausprep on Jun 19, 2016 18:59:04 GMT 10
I just had a nice hot shower, after a nice baked dinner. Brushed my teeth. Put my fresh, clean trackie pants and tee shirt on.
Everything we do, big or small, is a luxury
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Post by remnantprep on Jun 19, 2016 19:32:56 GMT 10
For sure Aus!
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Post by SA Hunter on Jun 19, 2016 22:01:01 GMT 10
After all the preps are gone....................and there I find it, a tin of Spam!!!!!!!
Life is Good!!!
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Post by Ammo9 on Jun 19, 2016 23:26:25 GMT 10
Not a prep at all, but Captain Morgan rum.
Prep-related would be peanut butter or ammunition.
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Post by shinester on Jun 20, 2016 0:34:10 GMT 10
I wonder about this a bit, because if I'm hungry enough... it would be food, of any kind. If I can go months without 'morale' items now during dieting phases, I can't see it being much different in an austere situation. Perhaps good friends around would be the best morale prep.
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Post by Peter on Jun 20, 2016 0:38:15 GMT 10
Perhaps good friends around would be the best morale prep. On the other hand, maybe a time of blissful solitude (ie peace & quiet) may be just the ticket. |
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Post by remnantprep on Jun 20, 2016 10:33:23 GMT 10
There are many reasons for preparing and its not always in times of extreme shortage! One of the reasons I began preparing was the idea of war time rations eg UK style! Even the Spam meal of the week (which often was a part of their meat ration and for which you needed 12 ration points to get) was relished by the Brits! I read of one woman making her bottle of sherry last the entire war! For the duration of war oranges were rare and were given to small children as a priority ration, bananas were not seen, and onions were often raffled as prizes! Its not just food items either, paper was rationed so newspapers were limited to a certain amount for print!
"Newspapers were limited from September 1939, at first to 60% of their pre-war consumption of newsprint. Paper supply came under the No 48 Paper Control Order, 4 September 1942 and was controlled by the Ministry of Production. By 1945 newspapers were limited to 25% of their pre-war consumption. Wrapping paper for most goods was prohibited.[35]
The paper shortage often made it more difficult than usual for authors to get work published.
In 1944, George Orwell wrote: (Wiki)
In Mr Stanley Unwin’s recent pamphlet Publishing in Peace and War, some interesting facts are given about the quantities of paper allotted by the Government for various purposes. Here are the present figures:
Newspapers 250,000 tons
H. M. Stationery Office 100,000 tons
Periodicals (nearly) 50,000 tons
Books 22,000 tons
A particularly interesting detail is that out of the 100,000 tons allotted to the Stationery Office, the War Office gets no less than 25,000 tons, or more than the whole of the book trade put together. [...] At the same time paper for books is so short that even the most hackneyed "classic" is liable to be out of print, many schools are short of textbooks, new writers get no chance to start and even established writers have to expect a gap of a year or two years between finishing a book and seeing it published.
— George Orwell, As I Please, Tribune, 20 October 1944[36][37]"
Lots of things become hard to obtain in this situation and thats why we store them now! Luxury items are really those things that we would not need to survive but we like to have them! Even in a dieting situation you still have access to other foods and things like the computer and being able to drive anywhere you like etc
So I see the following in the above posts!
Luxury Items
Wine
Cigars
Rum
Whiskey
Snickers bars
Champagne
A baked Dinner
Coffee
Necessities (depending on what your priorities are)
Peanut Butter
Coffee
Friends
Hot water
Clean Teeth
Clean clothes
Ammunition
SPAM!!
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