• foofiepie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    My grandmother had her own vegetable garden, and kept a full pantry, rotating out canned, preserved and dried food properly, had candles, water collection, all sorts of stuff.

    What they call prepping nowadays was once simply common sense.

    I feel this will become more mainstream in decades to come.

    The mallninja knives and other such fluff are bizarre though.

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      That’s because these people do not want to actually live this way. They are cosplayers. They want to buy $50 worth of freeze dried food and go to McDonald’s.

      Your grandmother learned to live like that because she had no choice. That’s what growing up in the Depression will do to you. No grandma would ever have freeze dried ice cream. Better learn how to milk a cow! Free milk, cream, and butter every day. But it’s not easy.

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        I plan on protecting my local library to preserve all knowledge that can help us stay alive and grow a healthy community.

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          Yeah my goal will be to wipe out all knowledge so we can maybe do something different… we are already at odds friend

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            There’s a lot of knowledge about raising farm animals, agriculture, fishing, foraging and how to process those things not only into foods but medicine as well. That stuff is vital.

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      It will become more mainstream as people in the west become poorer. Most rich people don’t know how to preserve food because they can just buy it made for them.

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      we garden, hunt and keep a pantry of canned goods because the food is better. self-sufficiency is just a nice perk.

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    As someone who’s actually learning how to do things to actually survive I appreciate them collecting supplies in one place so I can use them after they starve to death.

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    Ha! Here in Australia we don’t ‘prep’. But I reckon I could comfortably survive in the bush for a good year with what I could throw into my ute with 5 min warning.

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      Yeah i live in the Territory, plenty of empty space thousands of head of cattle no one would care about once global trade collapsed.

      Hell i think pur biggest problems would be other countries trying to take over.

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          Ohh yeah it was a really accurate documentary too, i enjoyed howbthe director didnt fictionalise anything or try push their own agenda in the documentary. 10/10

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      I could do alright for a few months if I found a remote enough place with a nice stream. I’ve got a garden and my tackle box is already in the truck for reasons unrelated to the apocalypse. I’d be living off fish, a small variety of veggies, and garlic.

      If I could reach back far enough in my memory I could make a bow, fletch some arrows, and go hunting. I have the woodworking tools and with a bit of trial and error could probably remember how to make a string from animal gut or hide. Bonus, more fish hooks.

      I would really enjoy that until it stopped feeling like a vacation and started feeling like work. I love hunting and used to love making tools for it.

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      I’ve been thinking more and more about Australia as a safe haven, but I’ll have to learn to be an Australian to live there. Lots of things that will kill you there.

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    I think it’s smart to have some emergency supplies on hand, but building a whole ass bunker like it’s gonna be Fallout is where it gets crazy. I think for a lot of these people it just becomes a hobby lol.