Prudent Prepping: 2016 in Review

The dust has settled and the First 72 Hours have passed. Follow along as I build a long term plan via Prudent Prepping.

The past year went well for me, prepping-wise. I filled many needed items, shifted some supplies into and out of various bags and bought new things.

In no particular order, here are some of the highs and lows of the year.

The Highs

• I replaced an old water reservoir with a nice new Camelbak that's adaptable to my day pack or GHB! 
• I am no longer Ahab searching for his impossible find: I finally have a tent, purchased from a friend! 
• For sleeping in my tent, I found a new air mattress to replace my old, dead pad. 
• I tested an Esbit stove, one of the more popular compact stoves on the market, with a very nice Sea to Summit cook pot that was a birthday gift. 
• I followed a recommendation to try a different instant coffee in my GHB which also turned into a great addition to my lunch box.
• The EDC bag I use updated its contents with very minor changes. 
• Following the damage to a flashlight, battery storage boxes were ordered. 
• The first of several First Aid kits were reviewed by me, all of them perfect for my needs. 
• And due to the outstanding PR skills of our talented Editrix here at Blue Collar Prepping, I was able to do my very first Test and Evaluation of a product!

The Lows
Well, there is only one real gear low point but several slightly disappointing things:

• An expensive (to me) flashlight was ruined because of neglect. 

The things that are minor irritants are:

• Needing to find real hiking boots. I did not go on any extended hikes, so there wasn't a rush to buy them in 2016. 
• Buying food designed for long term storage, and in a more compact form, just wasn't in my budget. 

The Takeaway

• Keep looking at your gear. I seem to be able to tweak and change things for the better on my budget a bit at a time, and so should you. 

The Recap

• I really have the best friends, co-bloggers and editor, all of whom tolerate me and my various quirks. I am truly blessed. 

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Running on Limited Water

In the past week, the southeastern part of the US has been hit by a major snowstorm. Where I live, the snow that they got wouldn't have meant more than getting up a couple minutes early for work. But in places like North Carolina, they get these funny things called ice storms, which are way worse than most snow storms.

Last year, friend of the blog and host of the GunBlog Varietycast Sean Sorrentino talked about the problems he had with his water supply during Hurricane Matthew. In short, he's on a communal well, and when the power goes out, the pump for the well shuts down, leaving his neighborhood with only the water they have pumped into their service tank -- which isn't much.

Knowing that a major storm was coming, and under the influence of 125 episodes of Erin's evangelism, he planned ahead this time and had some water jugs filled this time. This is a smart move, putting him far ahead of the average Joe.

There's only so much water that he can reasonably store, though. When your supply is minimal, you need to maximize what you get from it. There are several ways to do this.

Drinking
Don't scrimp here! Water is key to life and health. Fortunately, cases of bottled water can be bought cheaply and stocked for drinking use. Not only does this remove any worries about contaminated water, it also make it easy to keep track of your consumption to ensure you're keeping hydrated.

Cooking
You have to eat, and many of the most popular "survival" foods are dehydrated, requiring quite a bit of water to reconstitute. While I love my dried soups, rice, and other easy-storage foods, they are not an efficient use of resources when water is limited.

Also, do not try to eat snow or ice to get water. You'll expend a large amount of body heat and energy thawing it, while getting little water in return. Instead, melt snow or ice over a heat source to yield drinking water. Keep this in mind for winter storms that otherwise restrict your water supply.

Washing
In emergencies of short duration, you'll mainly be concerned with washing yourself and cooking utensils. To minimize water waste when washing yourself, use a camping technique sometimes called a "spit shower": wet a washcloth, wipe yourself down with it, and dry off with a towel. It's not great, and it only works short term, but it will get most of the dirt and funk and uses very little water.

For cleaning your cooking and eating implements, use as little water as you can, and don't send it down the drain when you're done. Instead, do your dishes in plastic tubs instead of the sink, and leave the water in the tubs when you're done. This works better if the tubs are between 2 and 5 gallons, for reasons we'll discuss below.

Flushing
Yes, I mean the toilet. Modern toilets use between 1.2 and 1.6 gallons per flush (older toilets can use up to 2.5, but those are getting very rare). That adds up very quickly, and will consume water that can be better used elsewhere. There are a few things that can be done to reduce the waste dedicated to your waste.

• While the more civilized readers may balk at the notion of "if it's yellow, let it mellow," flushing only urine expends water that doesn't need to be used. 
• However, feces should still be flushed immediately. When flushing the toilet, don't use the lever. Instead, use the dish water that you saved earlier. Pour it directly into the toilet bowl. Water pressure will cause the toilet to flush as if everything was normal, typically using less than a gallon of water.

Water shortages are rough. Planning ahead and keeping to that plan will make these rough times far more bearable.

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Guest Post: Survival Security

by George Groot
George is a member of our Facebook Group and has written for us before.

The Security Mindset
I wanted to write a post about what sort of military training could be useful to a prepper, and it isn’t learning how light infantry kick in doors and shoot people. If anything, it is the security mindset of someone who has had to live in a hostile environment and realize that they are surrounded by thousands of people who hate them and want to kill them and will literally glean through their trash looking to put together just enough clues to pull off a successful attack.

If you think that you’ll never experience living surrounded by thousands of people who hate you and want to kill you, just imagine being the one non-starving person in your community three weeks after the balloon goes up. It ill make living on a combat outpost in the backside of nowhere Afghanistan seem quaint--  at least the locals there weren’t on a timetable set by their stomachs.

The good news is that there are plenty of people out there with military backgrounds who know these things. The bad news is that they don’t offer classes on how to develop "professional paranoia" anywhere near as frequently as other veterans are offering classes on how to pie the corner a fraction of a second faster in CQB classes.

The security mindset is thinking about what could happen and how to prevent it from happening. Having an analytical mind helps in this regard, but anyone can increase their security mindedness simply by focusing on the subject.

Physical Security 

Physical security, or PHYSEC, is the processes and procedures that you implement to protect something from being stolen or damaged. What are your most valuable assets in a survival situation? How are you going to keep them under your control and not someone else’s?

No matter what kind of security you use, you need to think of it like a “fire rating” for a safe. More security buys you more time against a determined attacker, nothing more. (If you take away nothing else from this post, let it be that security = time,)

Alarms buy you time by alerting you to a threat before you detect the attacker with your own senses. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money on a centrally wired redundantly powered system, you can go as cheap as you want. Even dollar store door and window alarms are better than nothing as far as giving you a heads up.

Obstacles rarely deter intruders; they usually just buy you time to respond before your perimeter is breaches.  An abatis obstacle can be burned, wires can be cut, ditches filled, and berms flattened, but the amount of time needed to do that will give you options. You can stay and defend; you can displace and counter-attack; or you can bug out completely. In short, physical security allows you to have a chance not to be rudely awakened by someone shooting you in your sleep.

In your average human dwelling there is little in terms of cover (that which will stop a bullet), but lots of concealment (that which will prevent you from being seen). If you want to fortify your defenses, remember these rules of thumb:

• A single stack of sandbags won’t stop anything. 
• Obstacles that you don't observe aren’t obstacles. 
• The harder you make it for someone to get in, the harder it is for you to get out. 
• Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man, which means "know when to get the heck out." 
• Your base doesn’t have to be impregnable, just a harder target than the others.

Barricade material can be bricks, five gallon buckets filled with sand, quick-set concrete mixed with local earth, thick planter boxes (don’t underestimate the defensive advantage of a concrete planter), or even just a berm of dirt formed high enough to stop a bullet. Avoid using flammable materials as much as possible, although tires can be quite useful for making a concealing smoke screen if positioned properly to burn. Old tires can also be stacked to make an impromptu wall, and if you have time to pack dirt inside, can be quite the barrier to bullets.

If you plan on fortifying your defenses, having a friend with a bulldozer and backhoe is ideal. Short of that, any mechanized engineering equipment is great. If nothing else, please invest in some decent hand tools such as D-handled shovels and picks. It is possible to dig a fox hole with an entrenching tool, but it sure isn’t any fun.

Short of “end of the world” earthwork fortifications, there are some things you can do to improve the security of your dwelling right now that don’t look out of place:

• If you have a covered porch area, consider enclosing it with external walls and adding another heavy security door. This will let the porch area serve as a choke point, as attacker must breech the first security door and then the second, giving you some time to respond. Remember,  more time to react to an attacker means you have more security!
• You can get security bars for the exterior ground floor windows. 
• You can install thick concrete planters along the exterior walls of your home and plant thorny bushes in them. With this setup, going prone will give you some good protection against bullets and the thorns will deter people from getting too close. 
• You can set up motion-activated lighting fixtures on a DC circuit powered by batteries and solar panels, but instead of light bulbs activating outside, you remote them to activate inside giving you a visual clue when there is movement in a sector (Personally, I’d leave exterior security lighting as-is during "business as usual" and remote the lights inside when the security situation deteriorated).
• If you do nothing else, fortify your door frames.

The extent of your defenses is limited by your imagination and resources. Two cheap locks are better than one, and two really good locks are better still.

You have enough obstacles and alarms in place when you gain enough time to deal with a serious assault on your dwelling. Good defenses ensure you have a 3-to-1 advantage against attackers (the attackers needing three people to every one of your defenders to achieve equal combat power).

Operations Security

Even after the fall of civilization, you’ll still be a person with personal things to do. If your plan is to stay sheltered in place for as long as possible, you want as few people to know about that as possible. Don’t tell people what you have, where you have it, and what you plan to do with it. There is only a thin veneer on civilization, and starvation strips that right off.

To figure out what is really important to you as a prepper, ask yourself the following questions.

1. What is my plan, and what does it need to be successful?
2. What about my plan is vulnerable to attack or exploit, and what can stop it from success?
3. How can I keep that information about my plan safe?
4. What is the attacker’s plan/motivation?
5. What is the most likely way that an attacker can gain information about my plan?

Once you have those questions answered, put them into a list form and then teach yourself not to talk about the stuff on the list. How you go about your life is key information that someone who see you as a resource wants to have, so don’t let them have it. 

• Buy a cross cut shredder and shred everything. When a hungry non-prepper starts digging through your trash, you don’t want him or her finding a receipt for a pallet of food with a date stamp indicating you still have some left. 
• Don’t post pictures of your awesome stash of preps on social media. 
• Don’t “check in” to places using social media apps on a mobile device. 
• Don’t share what doesn’t need to be shared. Just don’t do it. 

Personal Security

This is the good stuff, where I tell you how to Chuck Norris the hell out of people and come out of any situation a shining hero.

Well, not exactly. Personal security isn’t about winning or killing; personal security (PERSEC) is about “not dying.” If you want to train to be a warrior there are a lot of former military and law enforcement personnel who will be happy to teach you CQB tactics or even Light Infantry tactics. You can even sign up with Blackwater and get a defensive driving course out of the deal.

But what I think you should do is learn how to recognize the difference between cover and concealment in your surroundings and avoid confrontational situations as much as possible. If it comes time for me to kill someone because I have to, I want as much distance between them and me as I can get while I do that. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t also train to draw from your holster (concealed or not) and fire -- you should -- it just means that you should be more focused on avoiding rather than reacting. The people I’ve worked with on Personal Security Details (PSD) have to know when to tell the primary “Sir, you are leaving now” and then get him the hell out of dodge. Always leave before you can’t leave.

The best thing I can tell you here is “Don’t look like a target.” This is as simple as not looking wealthy or out of place. If you can’t avoid that, then look as tough as you can.  Predators feed on the weak; they only attack the strong if there are no weak left to feed on. But looking tough means you attract the type of predator that wants credit for knocking other tough guys down a peg or two. If I have to choose between being forgettable and being the baddest looking mofo on the block, I’ll choose forgettable every time.


I wish that this article could pass on years of experience in learning to be professionally paranoid, but it can’t. However, you can become mindful about your security, and that will get you started down the path towards ensuring that what you have stays yours. Even if you find yourself away from your resources with no plan for the situation you are in, being security conscious will help you maximize the time you have to come up with a plan and execute it.

Gun Blog Variety Podcast #125 - Forbidden Thoughts, Lack of Sleep, and Voicemails

It sounds sinister when we put it like that, but anything can seem threatening if it's written tersely. Example: "The last gun owner on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door..."

• Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens have nothing on the Glock 43 and Springfield XD-S for Beth and her husband. What else are their favorite things? Listen to her segment to find out. 
• What kind of idiot robs his neighbor who is sure to recognize him? Sean takes a closer look.
• Barron is on assignment and will return soon.
• In the Main Topic, Sean and Erin get a voicemail from Joshua in Arizona challenging our listeners to set their goals for 2017. What are YOUR goals? Send us your voicemails and we'll play them.
• Tiffany  is on assignment and will return next wee, but in the meantime check out her guest appearance on Ballistic Radio. 
• Fatigued? Erin has some tips for you.... when she wakes up.
• "Loaded Conversations" is back and they've let the hate come out to play. Weer'd is ready with his Patented Weer'd Audio Fisk™.
• And our plug of the week is for the ebook "Forbidden Thoughts". 

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Blue Collar Prepping Transcript:

Fatigue

Like I mentioned at the top of the show, I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night and right now I feel like a member of the Walking Dead. However, in a disaster or emergency situation, you may not be able to sleep well either, and odds are good that you’ll have to be functional the next day. 

These are the tips and tricks I’ve learned regarding how to get to sleep at night in strange or uncomfortable environments, and how to compensate the next day for not being able to sleep the night before. 

In order to get a good night’s sleep, you need to have as few distractions as possible -- but post SHTF you might not have the luxury of a quiet bedroom. Provided it’s safe for you to do so, soft plugs in your ears -- the squishy kind, like you see at shooting ranges -- will mute most noises, and a bandana or shemagh across your eyes will cut out most bright lights. I slept like this in college for many years. 

Eating right before going to bed may be terrible for your weight, but it’s a great way to fall asleep. The sensation of being full is a great tranquilizer, as we can all attest from eating Thanksgiving dinner, and the heat from your body digesting the food also helps to warm your sleeping bag.

If cold weather is keeping you from sleeping, a nalgene or metal bottle filled with hot water and brought into your sleeping bag can also serve to keep you warm at night.

But if you still couldn’t sleep and have to be up and working like a normal human being the next day, there are still preps that will help with this. I of course am a big fan of coffee as my caffeine delivery system of choice, and I talked about this in episode 31. Other people prefer tea, which is actually easier to carry in a bug out bag and easier to make. But if you aren’t able to make a hot, caffeinated drink at breakfast -- you don’t have the time, or it isn’t prudent to make a fire, then caffeine pills are your friend. 

I think most of us flirted with No-Doz in college or the military, but I discovered a similar product  on Amazon called “Jet Alert”. I haven’t tried it -- yet -- but a box of them costs around $6. That’s half the price of No-Doz, and you get a great quantity for your money: a box of 100 mg regular strength pills has a count of 120, and the double strength box has a count of 90, compared to No-Doz’s count of 60 per box. Those are good savings, and the brand has a good reputation on Amazon, so look into getting some for your bug-out bags. 

Also, using checklists -- discussed in episode 65 -- are a great way to get work done even if my brain isn’t fully engaged. Following a list reduces the amount of horrible thinking that I have to do when I’m tired, but it keeps me productive. If you’re in a disaster situation and you expect to be fatigued the next day, before you go to bed write down a list of all the things you’ll need to do in the morning. Just the simple act of making a list can help people sleep better because it’s one less thing to worry about, and then the following day you can just read the instructions to yourself instead of having to go “Now, what was I supposed to do today?”

Finally, it’s been my experience that fatigue from lack of sleep mirrors a hangover in a lot of ways, so I treat it similarly. I drink a lot of water when I wake up, then I force myself to do some mild exercise -- walking, stretches, etc -- in the sunlight. My body hates it and wants to crawl into a dark place and sleep more, but the sunlight helps wake me up and the exercise releases some endorphins that make me feel somewhat better. 

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Guest Post: Conflict Resolution, or Post-Apocalypse Politics for Survival

by George Groot
George is a member of our Facebook Group and has written for us before.

As a prepper, you have the stuff needed to survive. But however romantic the idea of “doing it yourself”, at some point someone has to crawl out of the fallout shelter and begin the long and tedious task of rebuilding civilization. Part of that unpleasant task of surviving is dealing with other people.

Dirty, nasty, selfish, arrogant, lazy, horrible people. People who can’t even contribute to the survival needs of their group. But no matter how tempting it is, you're not going to cast your kids out every time the going gets rough.

That joke aside, the conflict resolution strategies you have in a Parent/Child relationship are fundamentally the same as when you have an Adult/Adult relationship: one party has power (usually the power to withhold something) and the other has a grievance (the most common grievance, even among adults, is “it’s not fair!”).

Rational People Can Behave Rationally
When the conflict is relatively benign, two people can usually resolve the issue between themselves, generally through a negotiation strategy where the negotiating skill of the participants dictates what they will give up to get what they want out of an outcome. Ideally this is the best way to resolve conflict.

But when one party holds a disproportionate amount of power in the equation, one-on-one negotiating may not be a desired outcome: the powerful party would gain little to nothing, and/or the weak party wouldn’t gain enough. In this situation, the conflict is either going to go unresolved or more people are going to get involved.

When society is operating normally. this resolution can take the form of mediation, arbitration, or even a lawsuit. There are functioning systems in a society that focus almost solely on conflict resolution. After “the big one” (or whatever your end of the world scenario of choice), these sorts of services will be less than robust.

As a prepper, in a survival situation you will have plenty of “power” in the form of skills and resources. Other people will want your resources and services and have very little to offer you in return.

So What Do You Do? 
There are several options, from social to anti-social, passive to active, violent to pacifist. Each has it's place, but it is important not to limit yourself only to the ones that make you feel good about yourself.

Remove One Party From the Equation
This is called “murder” if done by force (this could possibly be called  “Cain and Abel Conflict Resolution Method“), but quite often in a functioning society the corollary is “Charge him with something and get him convicted so that we can confiscate X.” Removing one party to a conflict essentially removes the conflict.

I know, I know: your parents likely told you “Violence doesn’t solve anything”, but killing someone who wants your stuff is a viable conflict resolution strategy for survival.

Become Professional Mediators
Another method is to build a group or tribe that will provide the conflict resolution services that a world without law would otherwise lack. Every group has some sort of leadership and some sort of followership. As many “rugged individualists” may balk at this, the group will need to provide services to members in order to maintain members. The strength of the pack is the wolf, the strength of the wolf is the pack; sometimes having the strength of a group on your side is enough to deter conflict before it starts.

Avoidance
Avoidance is a great strategy because it saves on the cost of valuable bullets, time, and energy that could have been spent doing something more constructive than dealing with dirty, nasty, lying, backstabbing people. Avoidance is a great strategy when you have enough power and resources to do it. But if you don’t, you had best hope that you’ve surrounded yourself with a good group.

Tribe
What should your group look like? Ideally your group shares your values, your ethics, and your goals. People don’t have to line up 100% on everything to form highly effective and resilient groups, but the more culturally aligned you are in terms of group norms, the easier conflict resolution as part of group membership will be. However, sometimes we just have to accept that our party needs a healer, and that a medic, nurse, or doc will get a pass on behavior because of the skills they bring. Your value to the group is a source of conflict resolution power; if you don’t have anything but unskilled labor to offer, odds are you’ll have less in group influence.

I don’t want to get carried away down the rabbit hole of organizational behavior. I just want to get people thinking about how to negotiate their way into better survival outcomes, because after the balloon goes up, we won’t be the only survivors. I guarantee that not only are some of them going to be unpleasant, but that you will also find it necessary to interact with them at some point.

New Year, New Goals

Many people create lists of things that they want to change about themselves with the beginning of a new year. These resolutions generally have a poor track record of success, but the idea has some merit.

I prefer to spend this time reflecting on the past year, and trying to figure out what I have to look forward to so that I can make plans. I don't make resolutions, but I do try to set some goals for the next year based on what happened previously.

Last year I did make some progress:

• I started replacing the incandescent bulbs in my house with LED bulbs. Looking at my power bill, I can see that his one action cut my electricity use by a third over the last 12 months. The prices of LED bulbs are coming down, and the better ones last a lot longer than regular bulbs.
• I picked up more supplies which let me set up better (or more complete, at least) back-up kits for first aid, water treatment, and lighting.
• I was able to help some other preppers with their preps. That's important to me, so this one is a big positive.

Some things are beyond my control. I accept that as a fact of life and not as a personal failure.

• I have no control over the timing of births and deaths, both of which I dealt with last year. Some things are easier to prepare for than others, and those two are not on the "easy" list.
• I have no control over the weather, so I need to prepare for what it can throw at me.
• I have little to no control over what others do, but I can prepare to deal with the consequences of their actions.

The things that I can control fall into two categories: those that I need to work on, and those that I can live with as-is. If I can live with it, I'm not going to stress over it. The things I need to work on are generally personal in nature and I won't go into details, but here are a few of them:

• I need to get off of the nicotine. I've used tobacco off and on for the last 35 years. Cancer doesn't run in my family so my risk factors are lower, but I still need to work on breaking the addiction -- the money savings alone make it a no-brainer.  I have to quit smoking. I'll write more about this if I have any luck with it.
• I need to spend more time at the family farm. Since I stand to inherit it, I should start taking care of it, and there are always fences to mend, trees to be cut down, garden plots that need to be improved, and a house that needs a lot of work.
• I need to start telling work “No, I will not” when they ask too much of me. I enjoy helping people, but there is a point where I draw a line and say,“No more”. I won't bore you with the details, but my efforts this year have not been appreciated beyond my immediate supervisor, so they shouldn't expect the same level of effort from me next year.
• I need to roll my writing schedule back a couple of days to give our editrix plenty of time to go over my posts. Her other endeavors are taking a bite out of her free time,  and I can do my part to relieve some of her stress. (Yes, thank you very much! -- Erin)

With a new year comes new opportunities. I don't expect all of them to be good, but I will do what I can to handle them as they come. Maybe this year one of us will win the lottery and make some dreams come true.

May your year be filled with good preps, and I hope that we never have to use them.

Prudent Prepping: Low Cost First Aid

The dust has settled and the First 72 Hours have passed. Follow along as I build a long term plan via Prudent Prepping.

I'm always looking for a bargain or a low-cost way to add to my preps. Since I'm in a different Home Depot every day, I start where it's easiest: at work!

I have previously found inexpensive flashlights in the Christmas area and also in dump bins scattered around the store. The period after the holidays is prime bargain hunting for close-outs and discontinued items.

My latest find is a Special Buy: a first aid kit brought in for Christmas.

First Aid Essentials kit

Close out item sku #1001 788 644 - $9.99

I saw this and compared it to the standard Home Depot kit from 3M before buying  -- and I took this one home! I looked for assorted band aids, and to get 100 I would spend almost $8. The kit started at $12.99, but just dropped locally to $9.99! There is no way I could pass this up for the lower price.

Just be aware that your local Depot may not keep a large first aid kit on the shelf, and the kit I'm reviewing is a Special Buy, so call to have your local store check stock before going to get one. Alternately, you could combine the kit with another order and have it shipped to the store for free.

• Looking closely at the contents, I can see over 100 assorted band aids, sterile wipes and the other typical items found in a first aid kit. 
• What is not found on all kits are the mounting 'ears' which allow hanging the kit on a wall. 
• The kit has actual hinges instead of a molded continuous hinge that (in my experience) breaks well before the contents are used up. 
• There is no gasket or seal of any kind to the box, so storage in an area likely to bet wet or very humid for extended periods is not a good idea.

The Takeaway 

• Shop for bargains everywhere you go, you might be surprised what you find 
• I can never have enough 1st Aid supplies, especially the small stuff

The Recap

• One 200 piece First Aid kit from Home Depot: $9.99 at Close Out pricing! 

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NOTE: All items tested were purchased by me. No products have been loaned in exchange for a favorable review. Any items sent to me for T&E will be listed as such. Suck it Feds.