Survival4Chicks

The following tips are especially for women.  These tips were created from real life experiences.

• Always keep your cell phone charged and with you.  (This is so vital in case of car accidents, breakdowns, school lock=downs, weather alerts.)
• Keep a flashlight in your car and pocketbook at all times.   (I was shopping in a very large mall store when the power went out, and it was complete darkness.)
• Do a visual 360 look around you when getting money from a teller machine or pumping gas. If you don’t feel safe, do not get out of the car! (Recently a co-worker shared that her friend was robbed by gunpoint in the middle of the day at a busy self-serve gas station.)

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1. Wash your hands thoroughly before handling any type of food.
   
2. Rinse the raw food thoroughly before processing and storing it.
   
3. Use clean food processing equipment.
   
4. Always wash the utensils before using them on a different food item to prevent a problem of cross-contamination.
   
5. Use clean storage containers.
   
6. Examine the food carefully and discard any food that has mold or bruises or slime or insects or other problems.
   
7. The shelf life of the food will not be extended forever, but it can be increased by a few weeks to a few months (or longer depending on the food item and the preservation method).

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Some consider survivalists as throwbacks to a lost era.  In this episode I will discuss some character traits of survivalists and why I think that we are one of the last hopes this world has, to survive long term.  I discuss things like confidence, skill building, relationships, what happens when people loose their “dependency lifeline.”

Highlights:

• Why people are wired for self preservation.
• Survival is instinctive.
• Why people are prejudice against survivalists.
• Why balance in your preparations is critical.
• The anti-gun sentiment.
• How non survivalists put everything they have into a sinking ship.

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Take a SHTF scenario such as a hyperinflationary collapse. The traditional monetary system may become worthless, transportation systems may come to a halt, the utility grid may go down and the populace panics.

For any beginning prepper or those on a budget, the below list may be overwhelming. If you have not yet begun planning and preparation for an emergency or disaster, consider the basics first.

A simple breakdown of our needs was put to paper in Maslow’s Hierarchy:

In a disaster, your physiological and safety needs will be the most important, thus begin your preparations accordingly.

These are the 100 items that will likely disappear first.

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Interview with Suzanne who is the President of All In One Preparedness.  We talked briefly about her dehydrated food products meant to save space, taste good and store for up to 27 years!  After the interview, I also discuss some common mistakes people make when storing food.

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Locking up his station wagon, the one with the scratched paint and unpaid bills covering the floor mats, Cam Slocum crossed the parking lot and stepped into the kitchen of the swanky French restaurant Mélissein Santa Monica.

A cook set down his knife and walked over to greet the stranger. Slocum held out a Ziploc bag filled with lettuce.

“Hi,” said Slocum, 50, his deep voice straining to be heard. “I grow Italian mache in my backyard. It’s really good, only $8 a pound. Would you like to buy some?”

A few feet away, chef de cuisine Ken Takayama glanced curiously at the lanky stranger in jeans and a worn plaid shirt. He’s heard this sort of pitch before.

“Every day, every week, it’s something new,” Takayama said. “You name it, they have it.”

Since the economy took a dive three years ago, Takayama and others say they’ve seen more and more people showing up unannounced at restaurants, local markets and small retailers, looking to sell what they’ve foraged or grown in their backyards.

No one keeps track of the number of people selling their homegrown bounty, but scores of ads have cropped up on Craigslist across the country, hawking local produce, home-filtered honey and backyard eggs.

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If the proverbial you-know-what hit the global fan, would you be prepared? The answer to that question is most likely a big, fat no.

After all, it’s hard to develop life skills (e.g., growing/storing your own food, filtering water) while playing myriad video games or scrounging the Internet for funny videos to post on Facebook.

Turns out, though, that while you may not be concerned about mass chaos and world destruction, a growing number of people are.

Meet the Preppers
Asylum readers, there is a posse of self-sufficient men and women out there who make it their goal to be prepared when disaster strikes. They call themselves “preppers.”

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Monty Pelerin
That the US is going broke is no longer a moot point for many. The signs are everywhere; the mathematics too obvious. To understand the latter, see The Continuing Spiral to Bankruptcy, Spiraling to Bankruptcy or Welfare States R.I.P.

The timing and the manner in which this plays out is not easily forecasted. The key point in trying to forecast this particular problem is when and how the politicians respond. No politician ever wants to address a problem that inflicts pain on his/her constituents. Unfortunately, the possibility of solving this problem without inflicting pain is impossible. That option disappeared years ago.

Based on the universal political characteristic — cowardice – politicians never take painful actions until forced to do so. Markets will eventually be the force that causes action. The ensuing events will not be neat and tidy. One way or another, the welfare states will be dismantled. Whether this dismantling is partial or total is moot.

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Think Katrina on a massive scale, or the riots in Greece and Bangkok. How about Zimbabwe?

If you’re a prepper, you know that when the SHTF or it’s TEOTWAWKI that the government isn’t going to show up in any sort of relief capacity.

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Stereotypes and Myths about Preppers.  Some are true and some are not.  In this episode I’ll cover 10 myths and stereotypes about survivalists and why they exist.  It’s  interesting to note that the survey’s of people who call themselves survivalists are much more likely to spend money on books as they were on weapons and ammunition.  Furthermore, that spending is mostly on what  are considered basic supplies.  This show is inspired by the posted written by Dan B on The Survival Blog.

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