The NEW PRACTICAL PREPPING IF POOR - protocols for penny pinching tightwad who want to be prepared

Dollar tree has fuel dry for removing water from gas.
$1.25

Get some good solar landscape lighting.
Dollar lights are ok.
Flagpole illumination or security lights are better.

Dewalt makes a USB adapter for their batteries. Buy 1w usb lights and they run for a very long time and are bright enough.

Financial tips are welcome.
Car dwellers and other wheel estate please join in.

what happened to the old thread?

Baking on your woodstove is easy. Buy a large turkey roaster with a lid. Put 3 ball jar can lids in the bottom. A small 8" square baking dish fits nicely in their and bakes or roasts food. Not as nice as gas but it works just fine.

I am keeping an eye out for a Dewalt 12v, 1/2 inch impact driver, so I can run it off my car. An old one with a bad battery would work great.

TIP - READ LEARN OUT TO MAKE THINGS YOU NOW BUY THAT THE STORE.

COST - ZERO

Can't find it either. It was a bit unwieldy at that size, but still a great resource.

The first eight pages were about medications, if I remember correctly.

Last Edited by Swamprat on 01/01/2023 03:23 PM

"fuel dry" or "heet" is just "denatured alcohol"...

$11.00 /qt. at home depot

Here you go, OP. Thanks for starting a new one.

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Exercise is free.

Here's another. Look at a map before you need it for evacuation routes out of town.

For a nearly steam-free bathroom run about one inch of cold water in the tub. It works great and will keep down the mildew.

Cleaning vinegar is good for killing mold and is very cheap.

Last Edited by Judethz on 01/01/2023 03:42 PM

Here is the MILKCRATE (milk crate) POWER SYSTEM from Lance. It is not cheap per se, but is very cheap in comparison to other systems that do the same thing..
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Last Edited by Swamprat on 01/01/2023 02:40 PM

Walmart has a butane, one burner stove for 20 bucks.
Just search. The ignitor gives out sometimes, but they light fine with a match, bic,or BBQ lighter.
The butane canisters are now more readily available. They are about 2 or 3 bucks, but I just found 4 for $7.30.


A stove is a wonderful comfort when the power goes out, but truthfully, you can get by. A stove also helps you to eat the food in your house that would spoil without one.

Last Edited by Swamprat on 01/01/2023 02:13 PM

Best and most proven power prep

Nightlight plug-in flashlights.

You will not regret having continually charged flashlights by your door for firewood, finding out what animal is in your driveway or getting mail.

When the power goes out, you have them right at hand.
These often have rechargeable AA batteries inside.

Rice and Beans are cheap. (At least they used to be - lol.) And they don't need refrigeration for storage. Beans can be sprouted too.

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its a tad late now

Learn to make your own cheese and butter.

Butter is a good project for small kids 6 and up.

We had fun the other day with the grandkids making butter.
Pour some cream in a jar with a marble and let the kids shake
it till their arms are falling off.
I played KC and The Sunshine Band Shake Shake Shake.
They liked the song so much the 6 yo. probably played it 50 times. (I had to finish the project with a mixer and strain the buttermilk off.)

Biden is President. Now is the best time.

Vienna sausage is a great survival food. Easy to store, lots of hard to get fat and protein, no cooking.

Get Mississippi Purple Hull Pea seeds. They grow ANYWHERE! Are very tolerant to draught. Good source of plant based protein.

Turnip seed. Super easy to grow. You can eat the greens when young. The roots are also tasty. Also, great forage food for farm animals and deer.

Inverter and a car battery. 750wt will run a chest freezer, or laptop charger and router when the power goes out. Charge phones, cordless tool batteries...

Thread on what NOT to do.
Thread: This Thread is about PREPPING FAILURES AND PITFALLS! Things not to do. Post your hard-learned lessons here.

A very comprehensive Video on what books you might want to have in your library should you not be able to get to the internet in SHTF scenario.




Enjoy!~

Get a small pressure cooker particularly for tenderising and cooking meat in a fraction of the normal time

Building a physical library on the cheap means looking for used books and being open to what you find. The single best place to look is library sales but yard and rummage sales can surprise you.

When I started building my library it was clearly with a goal of being a complete resource in a grid down situation. With that in mind I included books that would be useful beyond the near term. This means that while I was looking for texts on survival I was also picking up stuff like the Foxfire books, old technology like steam engines, weaving and spinning, woodworking, blacksmithing, etc.

At the same time I was looking for references and textbooks like mathematical tables, engineering manuals, strength of materials, chemistry, electronics, microbiology, computer programming, dictionaries, history and a host of other topics.

And then there's literature. One thing that I've been concerned about is the attack on the classics that formed the thinking of our culture so I've been picking up old books that haven't been abridged or 'modernized'. And these are the cheapest of them all because no one else seems to want them.

I used to live just down the street from a local library and never even got a library card for them because my collection was far superior to their glorified collection of romance novels. Public libraries, in their zeal to cater to the woke culture, have become less and less relevant to practical knowledge. So if you can spare the room, please consider forming a library of your own. Even a 3 shelf bookcase can house an enormous amount of information that can provide you and those around you with the ability to not only survive but even thrive in a SHTF environment.

Pookas thread, Miss you, much love!
Such a positive person.

Food storage
Food insurance for less than my car insurance!
It depends on you finances, We stacked a lot of food on a budget over the last decade or so, some long term freeze dried from Y2K properly stored @65d that still has a best by date of 2030, Every decade we more than matched or doubled that. calories with best by dates into 2050!

Some freeze dried entrees are a great deal today!
Wal mart online has augason farms black bean burger mix gluten free for $13 with 38 servings of 120 calories [link to www.walmart.com (secure)]
Less then 50 cents a serving.
Freeze dried real butter milk fruit and sugar adds apx 50 calories each to my feed store grains like whole wheat berry, oat groats ect as alone are apx 100 calories a serving.

100 calories a serving is what most basic food has.
Basic foods are rice beans grains and pasta.

Required adult calories for good health is 2000 calories a day, apx 500,000 a year.

20 servings of rice or beans is not going to do!
Rice is apx 10 servings per pound, eating a pound of it and a pound of beans everyday that is 25 pounds a month, that big bag of rice and beans will not last very long at all!
Experts at BYU 400 pounds per person per year of basic food.

Use it to extend your pantry store bought canned goods.

Your pantry can be your store.
We eat on average a can a week of chicken so we keep like 40+ of them and rotate it and replace it monthly or as needed.

Right now if I was just starting
Pantry full of what we eat plus canned meats oil very few comfort foods but some and several hundred pounds of beans rice oat meal and flour, Feed store whole grains and seeds most will sprout and can be grown and cost penny's a pound.

For a little more LDS or providentliving.org/food storage for long term basic food packaged in a #10 can with a 25 year shelf life for apx $700 for a years worth of basic add some onions carrots salt sugar apple slices milk mashed potatoes for about $1000 the price is a case of 6 cans, it is cheaper to pick it up! You can just buy a can or 2. They have a monthly box for apx $50
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You're cheap? But you want a solar flashlight? And it has to be cute, right?

Dollar Tree has these cute solar powered critter lights for a buck twenty-five.($1.25)

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Ours looks like a badger. We will be getting more.

I never would of known about this had I not seen this video.

Worth paying attention to in my opinion.