Poor Old Dude

Another one of those things you very seldom hear the experts talking about stockpiling is soap. We use soap so much in today's world we hardly even think about it, what we use it for and what it would be like to do with out. We use soap on out skin, hair, clothes, dishes, wounds, etc.etc.etc. and to do without it would be less than pleasant... without soap to clean wounds infections can take hold in even the smallest injury.Without soap to clean our eating and cooking utensils food born illness can spread. Without soap to clean our skin and hair we stink. One good thing soap is pretty much soap, the same soap can be used for multiple things, so your really don't need twenty different kinds of it. What you need is a good, solid unscented bar of soap and a lot of them, because while my grandmother knew how to make soap I doubt many people today still have that skill. So remember guys prepare to be clean in the apocalypse, your friends and family will thank you...

Wow, actually have had visitors to my blog from Romania, Germany,Turkey, Russia, UK, Poland and China. pretty cool since I never expected anyone to read it. Thank you very much.

Saw the first episode of Fear the Walking Stupid, don't know that it's a good thing that within the first 20 min. I was tired of all the dysfunctional modern family clichés and wanted all the major characters dead. Also please, please all you zombie screen writers stop writing characters who act like they have never seen a zombie movie.

Bug out bags, the fallout shelter of the 2000's according to common wisdom you have yo have one and if you get everything they say you need it'll cost more than your first car, not to mention your get home bag, get to work bag, your while you're at work bag etc.etc.etc. Now bug out bags are nothing new as a kid from the Midwest we always had them, but they were called emergency supplies and kept in a orange crate in our trunk, and they weren't survival they were common sense. They were pretty basic and fairly cheap. Usually they contained a couple blankets, a tarp, garbage bags, candles and matches, rain jackets in summer, extra coats and boots in winter, cat litter, folding shovel, hatchet, electrical tape, rope and a couple throw away charcoal grills, a couple jugs of water more for the car than us,and  that's pretty much it. We all carried pocket knives including Mom, and had a basic tool box in the car. Nothing fancy but it did the job. We didn'

While it's always good to keep a stash of cash at home, historically when everything goes asses over elbows  currency is more than often devalued or eliminated and replace with some other script by the powers that be. So what are you to do, my suggestion is buy precious metals. They tend to loose less value and sometimes even increase in value... I personally prefer silver over gold. Buying everyday items in a SHTF situation with gold is sort of like walking into a 7-11 with a hundred dollar bill one of two things will happen they wont be able to break it or you'll get robbed. "But how" you ask "I don't have the money for that" well really yes you do. First the cheapest way to get silver is check your change, any coin dime or larger that was made before 1964 is 90 % silver...OK you aren't going to be able to get much this way anymore but it's a start. You can also buy silver online from reputable dealers right now it's selling between $17 and

To my loyal readers, both of you :) I have to apologize that I haven't posted in a while, don't know if I had too much heat or what, but haven't had much energy to post or anything else in the last couple of weeks. I seem to be over the hump now and hope to get back on track soon.

With the advent of the cell phone, internet and other forms of mobile communication the once noble and somewhat ludicrous CB Radio has become little more than a footnote in the history of the 1970's. For those of you who don't know CB stands for Citizens band radio, a short to mid-range communication system used in days gone by. The CB was a fairly inexpensive, required no license or registration...a true citizens radio system, and while it did have it's short comings it was very useful for communication while on the move. Now to the reason for this post, in a SHTF or Martial law situation communication ie. cellphone, internet etc. will be suspended, limited, and/or heavily monitored. The grid goes down, you loose all of those handy dandy devices we have become so dependent on. Martial law takes effect news agency's, radio stations, television and all the rest will be in the control of what ever government is left.  Short wave systems (what few are left) are licensed an