Anyone here Doomsday Prepper?

[VOLKSWAGNUT]

[Enkiel]

it's hard to tell how much work 16 are... at some point, you have to learn to delegate (like our grand-parents did with our parents).

i have 3, and there's no way in hell i'd survive with 16 if the family dynamic was the same.

in another hand.. 16, really? At some point the girl might want to consider closing her legs, or getting neutered...
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[ONEBADBUG]

To get back on topic;
I love to make fun of "preppers."
First I have to give my resume, so you know I speak from experience. When I was young, Ronald Rayguns had us all convinced the Russians were going to kill us, and I bought into that. I wanted to live like Sylvan Hart anyway,
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Mountain-Men-Story-Solitary/dp/0960356665,
so I went to Alaska and tried to live out in the wilderness. After a month or so, I realized being totally alone is not that great.
Later, I had a gal who was into being self sufficient, and we lived like that, one Thanksgiving we served dinner where we grew everything on the table. I even grew the wheat to make the bread.

The main problem I have with preppers is that they have no idea what they are talking about, but somehow think they are smarter than everyone else, and they will be the ones to survive. They won't. You can tell from what they focus on. They think gold and silver will be valuable. No, what would be valuable is shampoo and Tylenol. The idea that anyone could live without the things that society provides is ridiculous. If there is total chaos, we will die, you could live a little longer fighting off the "Walking Dead" , but why bother? The Doomsday these people hope for could only be survived by someone in the very far reaches of wilderness, and that's not something you can just do whenever you feel like it.
To the OP, you are in Virginia. There is no place east of Montana where you could survive a doomsday, don't spend any energy thinking about it.

One last reference for anyone interested, this book was the first post apocalypse story, it's really good.
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/0345487133

[nsracing]

My grandmother used to tell us stories of their experiences during WWII. I remember her saying the hardest things to come by were soap and salt. There were always plenty to eat in the countryside.

Well, she has never experienced winter. When I was stationed in Minot, ND we packed survival gears..food, water, so on.. in our cars for the winter. If you get stuck out there and no gear, you will be dead.

We used to retrieve broken down vehicles out in the middle of nowhere in dead of winter.

Survival skills are a must. Can you imagine if the first few pilgrims just decided it was too hard and why bother?

There is always that human will to survive.

And if anything bad happens here, i will just make my way down to TX -where they have a lot of wild pigs.

[bigdog1962]

People have been talking about the end of the earth/time/doomsday/etc. for many, many years.

I'm going to roll the dice and bet it won't happen in my lifetime. If it does, I guess I won't be prepared.

I'll prepare for my demise in some ways - saving for retirement, one story house, etc. but not for anything major like a zombie apocalypse.

[Spezialist]

[vwinnovator]

[Vanhag]

Burn the bridges and shoot the swimmers. It pays to live next to the Grand Canyon. If any of you fuckers think you're gunna escape California/Nevada/ Arizona and come up into So. Utah you're in for a BIG surprise. At least stay on I-15.


Only by Spit or Blood.
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[enjoyther1de]

[Vanhag]

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[Malokin Martin]

There was some sort of reality show a while back on Netflix where they evaluated preppers and their set up. Some of these people were absolutely insane. Like filling shipping containers with dry food and running around with assault rifles. One guy had a flat-out compound created.

Even the crazy isolated ones didn't "survive" most scenarios. A closet full of water and cereal with a handgun isn't really going to work out all that well.

[bigdog1962]

13 wives?

I wouldn't want to be around when the crap hits the fan. It's hard enough to keep one happy in good times much less 13 in panic mode.

[TDCTDI]

With 13 wives,that's the ultimate doomsday prepping. You can't get away from crazy. But if you can survive that, crawling into a hole in the ground to wait a nuclear winter would welcomed for sure.
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[TDCTDI]

Speaking of multiple spouses, if one demands a divorce, does she get half? or in the case of 13 wives, do they divide by 14 & she gets her share? Or he has his half & the other half is divided by 13 & then she gets her share? No wonder it's illegal.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[vwinnovator]

13 wives??/ thats a lot of tampons to stock up on..

[nsracing]

13 wives is what western men get.

Jihadi John gets 70 virgins when he blows himself up.

Or...maybe it was 70 VIRGILS!

[TDCTDI]

But it doesn't say is those virgins were women. Maybe it's the other bombers before him?
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

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