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this article.. "Call it nostalgia. Call it recession-era thinking. Whatever the reason, more people are interested in simpler living." It goes on to list acitvities green activists are interested in now, like, canning, butchering, home birth, cheese making. It pissed me off. You know why? I do NOT like being lumped in with a bunch of ecological green douches because I know or want to know a few common sense things. I do not want to be called a crazy prepper, I'm not. I am barely prepared for storm damage lasting a month. But, I'd get through because I'm not a dumb ass. If you don't know how to feed your family without electricity or keep them warm without gas, then you might die. FEMA is not going to help your ass. I don't think for one damn minute that saving pop cans will help the Earth. Or that using energy efficient light bulbs will keep our planet spinning. The Earth has been here a long time and it will keep on truckin' until it's Sun burns out. I despise the green people. I think they're mostly idiot urban air suckers. Oxygen thief yuppies who will bite it first when the shit hits the fan. Retro-green my fucking ass. I am sick to death of their big mouths and their dumb advice and idiot articles like this one. It's called saving money and common sense. Something the world is sorely short on these days. That's my geezertude two cents for the day and I'm not wearing a stocking hat. Punks.
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I'll have to check with The Kid. Before the bee sting incident, she had come home to can tomatoes at her father's house (been doing this for at least 5 years). Is she green? NO, she likes the taste of home canned tomatoes better. He took all of his mother's canning equipment after she died. I like home canned better also, but don't have the equipment & can't lift the heavy canning pot. While she was off doing the 'maters, I was home freezing fresh sweet corn. I'm not Green, but I'm also not wasteful.
There ya go. And you don't need to lecture people on riding a bike to do it.
i gotta say some of those preppers are quite frightening....they're prepping for a war---i mean seriously---i saw a picture on a friend's fb page that was interesting and then started going thru this groups pictures and was just shocked....this woman had over 4 TONS of flour, 2 tons of rice, 2 tons of dried kidney beans, 500 tooth brushes, i mean it was beyond insane.....and she was STILL getting more of these items....dozens of 5 gallon square tubs in closets, underneath beds, under the couch, and at first i thought they lived in a hurricane area or an area where the winters cut them off, but no, they lived in texas and some of the comments mentioned the apparently oncoming civil war....dafuq???? they are preparing for that....oh and they can things in massive massive quantities....i've been on amish farms that didn't can as much as they had......
I totally agree! They are a royal pain in the ass?
No question about it, lol!
I agree!! Oh my God, stupid modern hippies. Next week it will be some other fad and they'll forget about canning and recycling. Are these the same people that claimed 'they were the 1%' a few months ago while they slept in tents in city parks to protest who knows what?? Probably.
RIGHT ON!!! The greens make all their decisions based on emotion and fads and can't be bothered to think anything through or consider that the policies they favor might have consequences they never thought of. They love technology but hate every single step involved in the manufacture and distribution of technology. They think their iPhones landed fully formed at the end of a rainbow farted out by a magical unicorn.
I'm such a nincompoop - when the Big One hits I'll be wandering around with a swim fin and a spatula. Can I come stay with you, DD? : )
I am tidy and courteous.
LOL Mary Mary! I love the mental image!
Honestly, I feel like there is a war coming, too, but I don't know any more, other than that I feel it coming (civil unrest, rattling of sabers in all directions, etc.).
I stock up, and prep the best I know how, and I can A LOT, but that is partially because I find it to be very soothing during periods of high stress. I currently have a 25 pound bag of yellow onions, an over-filled crate of tomatoes, two crates of pears and one of peaches, to deal with in the next couple of days. Not sure how I will fix it all, but found all of it for half price at the end of the yearly boxed produce sale at Wilco, so there ya go. I have my work cut out for me. As far as canning goes, I also like the idea that everything (except the sugar and pectin) that goes into it is locally sourced, and that I know exactly what is in there. No poisoned wheat from China, etc.
The really big time preppers are creepy, no doubt. But small-time for your own family, is common sense.
absolutely, small time preppers make total sense....even buying things in bulk at an awesome price if you can store it properly, but when you have TONS of an item, that's just going into the realm of bizarro (unless of course you live on a farm, have farm animals, live in the woods, etc)....city folk with tons of food and 500 toothbrushes....i don't get that....
i would concur i feel civil unrest too---this country is getting more and more divided it seems by the day....but i don't see the need to start stocking up....perhaps they will have the last laugh?
the problem with mega preppers haven't thought of is once the Apocalypse comes, people who don't prep for shit will be fighting tooth & nail to get hold of their stash. lol
I really want a box freezer to be one of those people who buys bulk meats, makes gallons of home made stock & sauces, then freezes for later use but if I come home with another large electrical item my husband will probably divorce my ass. hey wait a minute, just running out to get a box freezer. :D
Well, I guess you need those 500 toothbrushes because you sure don't want to have bad breathe when the end comes.
These people will die from their own stash. Everything, EVERYTHING, has an expiration date. I'll end up a zombie..I just know it :)
well Jane, they might have 500 toothbrushes, but i saw no mention of toothpaste or mouth wash!!! maybe they'll make their own with baking soda?? wonder if they have a good stash of underwear too.....
Miss Tia...you don't need underwear, but you do need 500 toothbrushes! Any survivalist would tell you that!
hahaha what i love more than anything is going into those so called green shops and checking out the prices well paid guilty consumers (read paltrow) are prepared to pay for something like a sugar bowl made out of an old tyre. it totally cracks me up and provides me with unlimited entertainment. its as though they are re-inventing the wheel and then putting a capatalist spin on it by selling this recycled junk with a 500% mark up. you know what they say... a fool and his money
~Looks around~ Says quietly..I hoard seeds.
Mary in a swim fin and spatula? Sounds sensible to me. You gotta have protien.
I am on a small scale, someone thats prepared for bad weather or w/e. My son is ready for a civil war, however. We don't even hoard, we have a food cellar and we use out of it, cuz you have to! Then you replace it. Stuff will explode eventually if you just leave it there. We have some of that freeze dried food even, my son and husband say it's delicious. But hey, somebodys making bank on that fellas! But we have just a few, nothing to feed us for months and months. Remember to pack candles, lanterns, lighters and can opener! LOL...I still say water is of the #1 importance. I do think this country is heading for trouble. But thats for another day. We always freeze plenty of corn and we use it in the winter in soup. Its the best. We dont can tomatoes, but we share our harvest with some that do. I just dont know how. But I love home canned tomatoes. I used to have friends that had canning parties, they'd work all day making ketchup, chili sauce, canned tomatoes, soups...and they'd can them all. Thats not being green, thats just doing what people used to have to do and it just tastes better! I think those swirly lightbulbs are emitting something from them that bothers my vertigo too. I can't explain it but they make me feel ill. But thats what somebody decided we have to use and hell no, they don't last longer!
rox
hoarding seeds---especially heirloom ones---is a good thing!!!!!
you are right rox, those swirly bulbs DO affect vertigo, i've read about it!!! it's the mercury and/or the brightness or a combo of the two....they do emit an almost undetectable humming too but if you are hyper sensitive to sound, which i bet you are with your vertigo, that could also affect you....
I like the twisty bulbs for spots that are hard to change, but, they don't fit in some of my lamps.
I have water stored. I could make it drinking water, but, it's actually emergency flushing water. The whole back of my desk is water and under my sinks. During a main break that lasted 4 days, guess who's toilet didn't stink? Uhh huu. Mine. I could make coffee with no trip in the am too. I would have killed someone if I hadn't had coffee.
Tia! I knew it! I just knew it. Yes, I am very sensitive to light and sounds. I have bad hearing but I can pick up something and it will bug me till I find it's source. Now this explains alot! I'll be dam&ed! Thank you! Now I dont feel like a crazy tin hat wearer. Even tho thats probably what I am.
rox
nah, you aren't a tin hat wearer!!! but they emit a very very low hum....if i'm in an area with a lot of florescents it starts to bother me.....same as those swirly bulbs....no fucking way i will EVER use those swirly bulbs....i have been stockpiling 60 watt incandescent bulbs....but i don't have like 500....i have a couple dozen so far....i need to buy more as they are gonna stop making them i think next year?? a lot of people have problems with the swirly bulbs....and hey, you know where the majority of them are made because they have no regulations?? china!!!
FUCK CHINA!!!!!!!!!
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