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Post by wolfstar on Jul 17, 2014 13:45:38 GMT 10
omission isnt the same as bringing them up in the conversation, lol
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 17, 2014 13:41:05 GMT 10
with your talking of lockpicks and nobody even mentioning them i started thinking you didnt! tbh few people even know about them, let alone how to use them
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 17, 2014 13:34:08 GMT 10
hehehehe well i never said i *have* any... i consider it a schrodinger issue, i may or may not, lmao
at any rate, things that could save our lives later are legally questionable now, lol
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 17, 2014 12:33:29 GMT 10
not usually, maybe you had the angle too acute?
this vid explains it well
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 17, 2014 11:05:03 GMT 10
oooh so i have a skill you guys dont? XD buy yourself some key blanks and read up on how to make bump keys, theyre faster than picking, and you can relock after ftr this is exactly why i also latch my doors from the inside! www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bump+keys
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 17, 2014 10:26:26 GMT 10
thing is Nomad, its easy for us members to forget how much money and work actually goes into little features you take for granted in forums. there are cheap n quick ones, and they are easy to tell, because you get what you pay for.
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 7, 2014 15:45:18 GMT 10
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 7, 2014 15:25:35 GMT 10
and his bob seems quite spartan, considering his comment about kids and knives in bob's. kids have slightly different needs, more requirements, and more fragile mental health requiring distractions. i think he needs to make note that not everybodys needs are the same. and what he may not need, may be a requirement for others.
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 7, 2014 15:04:11 GMT 10
taking a look through one of his articles "what not to pack in your BOB", sorry but some of those just arent practical if you have family.
1/ i would ALWAYS have a decent knife in mine. but its not something the kids would even be able to reach let alone rummage through. plus, my girls already know knives are dangeroud.
2/ ipod and other gadgets. again, i think thats foolish in this day and age, especially with kids. in a bug out situation its the fastest way to calm the kids down. earphones in, and music on. close eyes. suddenly the whole scenario is much easier to handle. plus, its good to have things saved on something like a tablet or e-reader. i personally have a few dozen books solely about prepping, and like a thousand of entertainment- good for mental health of the family.
3/ duplicate items. seriously? what if one breaks, or fails? wow, this guys kind of has dropped the ball on the whole having triplicate things huh.
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Post by wolfstar on Jul 6, 2014 11:20:05 GMT 10
Good post Aus! Ive considered taking a barebones survival kit for getting home when on holidays, might work on that next tbh
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Post by wolfstar on May 26, 2014 9:14:18 GMT 10
old school dying usually used plant material, as it would yield the best colours, like leaves, flowers etc, beetroot peels, blah blah blah... and vinegar or salt water to fix the colour
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Post by wolfstar on May 25, 2014 9:00:17 GMT 10
ok, i know we have often talked about clothing here, and the common route is "i'll stockpile clothes, that will do" well, i beg to differ, consider how you wear through clothes now. now imagine that under heavy wear with only limited resources. wouldnt we be better off knowing how to make our own? i hear you say "sure but then youre in the same situation of hoarding loads of cloth and thread". well, i propose to you this, yes, while things are unstable, a quick solution like stored clothes are ideal. BUT. when things calm down again there is an opportunity for even the children in your family to be useful. when most people thing of a spindle, they think of the kind with a treadle etc. nope, with a drop spindle, almost anyone can make yarn. the lighter the spindle, the finer the wool. so, from there, you can make several kinds of yarn from cotton, or wool (other fibres take too much processing to make them wearable and not something you would consider a torture from itching, lmao). from there its not so hard to make a loom. or have knitting needles/crochet hooks (also very easy to make yourself from wood ) so suddenly not only could you have perfectly servicable cloth to make clothes from for the rest of your, and your families lives, also making them valuable to the community on the whole patterns and diy's are easily found online for all things ive mentioned (which is why i brought them up lol, ive already saved them myself to print) even just the yarn itself is a great trade item, and if you know how to dye it with things you find, all the better so even just the drop spindles are worth having stashed away i hope this has given you all some fresh ideas! what do you all think on the topic?
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 15, 2014 21:48:36 GMT 10
Well you all know what dynamic lifter is made of don't you? Lol
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 15, 2014 21:40:21 GMT 10
I'm even making emergency candles from cans and candle supplies from things I make to sell been trying to figure out what other things I could store in cans sealed with wax though :/ ideas?
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 4, 2014 10:08:13 GMT 10
that makes it a little tougher, lol
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 3, 2014 21:06:55 GMT 10
oh, and on the note of social contagion, it does indeed go both ways, people are under pressure from the time they are quite young to conform, to not ask questions. in that case, telling people to get some real information is not a contagion, but the cure.
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 3, 2014 20:39:18 GMT 10
oh! other simple things many have forgotten/refuse to eat, rice pudding, and tapioca pudding! such simple, but comforting foods! im so glad i have such old fashioned tastes in food (inc traditional japanese food!) because i will not have to lose all my favourite foods if the shtf!
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 3, 2014 20:32:17 GMT 10
just a thought, might be handy for you to get practice in making real custard/englaise, from eggs, yolks, cream, milk and sugar! or baked custard (omg i looooove baked custard!) i was taught from a young age cooking this, more by sight than anything, 6 eggs to a litre of milk, like a 1/2 cup, or 3/4 of a cup? i will have to experiment to find the exact measurement, sorry, and a good dash of vanilla extract, or a 1/2 tsp of vanilla paste mmm-mmmmm! lovely if you add some left over rice or fruit bread to it too! for a boiled custard, i am unsure of quantities, but know that its severely overblown as fiddly. the biggest thing is to ensure youre not adding the milk to the egg too hot and that the water doesnt touch the bottom of the double boiler or you will end up with sweet scrambled eggs its not *that* hard. same with strudel, waaaay exaggerated, and pies, such simple yet delicious foods, and not that many people know how to make simple, healthy foods for their families anymore thank goodness my mum was a homesteader, and learned so much cooking from my nan, which i learned some of (would have learned more if i hadnt left home so young :/ ), but honestly, it angers me at how dependent people have become on pre-made everything. >:C
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 3, 2014 20:18:52 GMT 10
awesome idea! what about long life (freeze dried) meals in jar recipes i have found? the sort you just add boiling water to, etc?
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Post by wolfstar on Apr 3, 2014 20:15:22 GMT 10
by the way, ever notice that the mainstream media avoids many very real, very big issues like the plague? never assume its honest. they all answer to big bosses who have agendas, like in voting season, their veils become a little thinner. its all propoganda. and the half braindead masses are so spoonfed that they cant even think enough to say "wait, are we being told the truth in this?"
welcome to what it was like for germans under the reign of hitler. this sort of crap is how it started. media control is a big part of manipulating the masses to support whatever you want to do. and i mean it. look back through history, look at how the dictators always take control with a lot of delicacy, slowly tightening the rope, until suddenly they have you tied so tight there is no way out.
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