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So I've been steadily buying and stocking a few things, I used to have to sneak the odd bag of rice into the house, my hubby for the most part thought I was 'out to lunch' In recent months he's started reading GIM ( not a member)
Hello sweetie if you are reading this !! :36_3_16:


This month I typed a action list that I have by my computer...

To Buy in February

* Seeds for our garden, and also for long term in the freezer

* Sprouting seeds for long term storage :emotions16:

* Supply of Meds for Hubby

* Mylar Bags and O2 absorbers :emotions16:

* Phone and arrange to get 5 Gal Buckets from Tim Hortons :emotions16:

* Sprouter :emotions16:

To buy in March

* Beans for 5 gal pails long term storage 2 types

* 1 box of Mason jars

* Large weevil/ bug proof 'container to store 'in use' flour in for larder

* Bulk white rice flour

* Would like either a Dehydrator or food saver for my birthday. ~~~ I have just noticed my dear hubby has added along side in pen ~~ "You got a sprouter"


Come on sweetie.. Don't you realize this is for both of us ???!!!!!!


TELL HIM Guys and Gals will ya !!

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I feel like Dr. Phil....

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The dehydrator is next on my list right after the Sauna I order this coming month.

Get the lady a dehydrator! She is going to be doing most of the work with it.

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I think he should be impressed with how organized you are.. I was..

The medicine part is very important. Try to have at least a three month extra supply if they are crucial meds.. Tell the Dr you are travelling overseas.

Goldeneye, do you think its wise he read here? I have referred a few friends here who are interested in the board.. They all wrote back that some of the people here were nuts..
Well, yes but that's part of the charm. Not everyone feels that way. :shine:

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It does amaze me how spouses (even mine) will resist such preparations. These can be used even if the world sits down in peace, lions become vegetarians, all corruption ceases, and politicians start telling the truths.

They mean well...concerned about you going "overboard" as if they are on the sure ship (Titanic) and your efforts will risk them losing the choice seat in the dining hall... as you load into the life boat and fix it to actually deploy if necessary.

They will come around... hopefully before it is too late.

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NUTS? How about the people who took out second mortgages to go on a "dream vacation" or to buy a new car that will eventually be a pile of rust? I know people who took out second mortgages to buy ski condos in Vermont at the top of the biggest housing bubble the world has even known. Retired people who put all their money in "safe" bank stocks who are now seeking minimum wage employment. I could go on...

Ya wanna talk about NUTS?:fan:

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Pack away some hot lingerie. He will get interested.

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I actually talked to my husband about this before he left for work. HE brought it up because of Obama's speech last night.. He told me he thought all this was starting to give him an ulcer. That means even though he refuses to talk about it he obviously knows the US is headed to hell in a handbasket.

I told him it would be hard but we would be in better shape then many because our house is paid for and we have preps and metals.. He looked at me and said "you don't get it". I dont want it to be like that. I want the old USA back. :bear_cry:

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I always thought people who spent like that were loony..the thing is they were doing what society told them to do. It never sounded wise to me either..LOL

You have to admit for a newbie coming in GIM can be a bit much.. I'm sure you will admit that we do tend to be a tad paranoid here.. Of course that doesn't mean they are not out to get us.. :111:

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Same with my wife Avalon....she reads here all the time now. LOL

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Psst. Dude. We're all nuts.

One guy even thinks he's a duck.

Run.

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he is a Duck.. :yes:

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sanity is over-rated anyway...

and really who determines what is sane and what is nuts...it seems to be whatever is beyond the general consensus for societies norms in the present...

and societies norms tend to change in cycles...could be we're not so crazy afterall...just on the leading edge of the next cycle of generally accepted sanity...

try telling people on a message board to buy precious metals back in 2002...why they said it was crazy...

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Get your lady a dehydrator!! And not just ANY dehydrator, get her the Excalibur!

I mean, so what if there's a duck running around here? I bet he has a dehydrator, too....

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:23_30_104: Yay, you said it !! Are you listening Hun ?? !!

Spectrism Wise words and great analogies....well said !!

Avalon, RE: Goldeneye, do you think its wise he read here? I have referred a few friends here who are interested in the board.. They all wrote back that some of the people here were nuts..

Oh he already 'knows' I'm nuts :s1:
Although he's beginning to believe there is something to my 'madness' just like your husband, mine too prefers to keep his head a little buried in the sand, we all want that nothing happens life goes on as normal and we're not entering into as Doug Casey puts it..... 'The greater Depression' Somehow I think both our Hubbies seem to believe if they don't think about it and just want it the way it 'was' then it will be OK...

I keep saying to mine, to think of what I am doing as 'insurance' we have house insurance, car insurance, health insurance and hope we never have to make a claim.. This is food insurance/life insurance and the beauty of this is... Even if the worst doesn't happen we get our money back.. Most of what I am doing we can use.. It all has a long term shelf life..... PLUS the added benefit is I thought that 'food came from supermarkets.. Now I'm learning to grow it from seed. Last year was just a few containers of Tomatoes and some basil... This year I plan on adding a selection of beans, lots of herbs and a few other veggies..... We have 3/4 acre.....

Hey sweetness if you're reading this... A greenhouse next year please :36_3_13:

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We bought an excalibur on special last year and we haven't gone through half the free oyster muhrooms I dried last fall. We used to have a cheap one and I'm looking forward to tomato season.

I am more nuts than the wife but the she does get it. And she likes to dry food and can as long as I help her! She still has upper-middle class taste but nobody's perfect.

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Nuts is licking windows, running naked down the street or killing yourself.

Talking with others about protecting your loved ones in the case of an emergency or catastrophe is the antipode of nuts. Stay the course. You're doing the right thing.

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Uh....what if I just hit two out of those three things?:23_30_104::23_30_104:

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What's wrong with licking windows???

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The Duck:

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...t_guy_ever.jpg

Hmmmmm... on second thought maybe it's TA.

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Survival Forum Mantra:


"When the going goes nuts,

The nuts turn pro."

- raoul scyth

(with apologies to the ashes of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson)

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Confucious say: Man with hands in pockets feeling crazy actually feeling nuts.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ies/0000-4.gif

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Watch out if buying oxy absorbers too far in advance of when you plan to use them. I've read online (but DO NOT know for a fact) that they have a somewhat limited "shelf life". I try to buy them less than 1-2 months before I plan to use them.

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Thanks for the heads up.... I do have enough rice to pack two 5 gal pails.. and I have 'beans' on my March 'to buy' list ..
I have 5 pails that I picked up from a local Donut chain ! I'll wait until I get the beans and do 5 pails.. My order is in tranist from sorbent systems.. I'm expecting that I'll get the bags and absorbers tomorrow or Friday.. (They were send out last Friday)..
I'll get hubby involved in the packing... 'Darn it he'll find out about my 'secret stash' of rice.. Which BTW dearest (if you're reading) now costs 90% more than I paid for ithe bags last May..

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As the board Cajun, French Acadien is the historic term, but we do use a lot of rice and it is grown all over Louisiana as well as an endless supply of seafood in my secret larder in the Gulf of Mexico, however Rice is the Cajun Staple of Life, Potatos come in second.

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I Caught him in the act !!

Get your minds out of the gutter guys .....I've just caught my hubby at the computer with the Excalibur web page on the screen.. :23_30_104:

Earlier today he said, "do you know the shelf life of brown rice is only around 6 months to a year.". When I acted suprised and then replied with, you've been looking at the Survival Prep forum at GIM... his response was ... "Well I gotta keep an eye on where you hang out" !

~ "Is nothing sacred ~ .". But then again ... He did see my post and the Excalibur recommendations by Gimmers...
sooooo I'll take it this way.. I can make comments and 'hints' and he can't respond.. :504:

Darn it he's leaning over from his 'puter and is now saying the 5 tray one is enough and I want the #3926T :4_1_72:

:36_3_12: Hi there sweetie.. In this instance Bigger is better not less is more.. :s1:

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Duck Jerky .... mmmmm.........

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From the Tao Te ching -

"The highest good is like water.

Water gives life to the the ten thousand things and does not strive.

It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.


In dwelling, be close to the land.

In meditation, go deep in the heart.

In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.

In speech, be true.

In ruling, be just.

In business, be competent.

In action, watch the timing.

No fight: No blame."


scyth

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I have the five tray. I do occasionally wish for the larger one, but I don't have space for it, and the five tray is big enough for most of the dehydrating I do.

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Get the 9 tray Excalibur, you won't regret it. When we bought ours we also debated which one to get and luckily chose the 9 tray model, we fill it every time we use it. The 5 tray model would have been a pain, especially when making jerky.

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um, let me get this straight.

1) you are prepping, not your husband
2) you are spending cash on preps, not gucci bags or shoes
3) your husband, in theory, will not have to cook if TSHTF
4) if nothing happens you will still have not spent money on shoes

wow, if i were him i'd give you the credit card and say GO NUTS!!! $2,500 of preps is worth a lifetime, and if nothing bad happens, well, that's what insurance is for - you hope you DON'T need it!!!

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I second that , or maybe time for a newer model

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:111: Thank you sooooo much for that, it's given me bed time smile... Ummmm I do have a confession ...I have about as many pairs of shoes as Axstone has Gold bars !!
Although, on saying that I haven't bought a new pair in over a year !
H'mmm I lie.. I bought a couple of pairs of trainers and a sturdy pair of hiking boots when we were in AZ last year and the Cdn$ was at par ...

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um... someone please help me... I doubt that I will ever be able to read GIM again... I have been blinded!

Someone PLEASE get that picture out of my brain! I will never be the same again!


Oh, and my dear Goldeneye... let us know when you get that birthday dehydrator!

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LOL! I feel your pain too! What a way to ruin an appetite eh?

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I was going to say the same thing. I think TA might do that, or rather scratch at them and chew the curtains. Perfectly understandable reaction.:yes:

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People can have guns at the ready and still maintain sex appeal.

Hmmmmph!!!!

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Now that's better.

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QWAK,MagpieFairy,I got my dehydrator back in 82!:yes:

I been CRAZY :confused_ma: SOooooooooooooo long -- I am NOW the NEW NORMAL :yes: -- either I got BETTER :questionm or EVERY body else is just CATCHING up with ME!:yes:

Don't know IF I should just -- RUN FASTER -- or -- STAND STILL and let the rest of you CATCH UP?:questionm:questionm:questionm :4_1_72::shine:

the DUCK

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Watch out Goldeneye's hubby, the nuts have caught up with this thread!

So is anyone going to post a link to the Excalibur thing?

By the way, I KNOW I'm a GOOSE :4_1_72::

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Thank you, I feel so much better now!

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As a followup....

I contacted Multisorb Technologies, a Buffalo area maker of FreshPax oxygen absorbers. Their "Type D" packet seems very similar to the oxygen absorbers I've obtained in the past from ldscatalog.com. The Type D packet is meant for use with dehydrated foods.

I asked them about the usable shelf life of an unopened package of their FreshPax Type D. They replied:

Multisorb certifies the type D FreshPax� product with a use by date that was on the original packaging. It is one year from date of manufacture of the product.

While a number of websites (such as Walton Feed) say that the shelf life is 6 months on oxy absorbers, it may be even longer (in an UNOPENED package). Good news!

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OK, I used to think my hubby was a little nutty doing the prep thing although, all my life I had been taught to do it. He was stocking up on things and cluttering the house. It was driving me nuts.

Then came his garden obsession! OMG! Who was going to be managing all this? I was... well he helps but still this is what I was seeing.

Then came the stocking up on other things like medical supplies and other things...the list was growing and I thought he was paranoid. Then I started paying attention to what was going on in the world. All the things I had been taught when I was younger was happening. Our food, medical and other kinds of storage is falling into place and now it is just a matter of making sure it is all organized... a little crazy making at times. I am grateful that he has done this.

Do not think your wife is crazy. If nothing else, look at it this way, if you fall into hard financial times you will have something to live off of. If it is a matter of the world having crisis, again, you are not in as bad of a situation as everyone else who is less prepared.

Relax, work with her...it will work out!:553:

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Emergency preparedness is not nuts, ask the former Katrina victims.
Or the victims losing 40-50% of their investments.
Or the people losing their homes/cars/credit/jobs.
Or the people standing in food lines.
Etc.

What is NUTS/irresponsible to you, your family and loved ones is NOT preparing for the unexpected.

You can always eat food, plant a garden with your supplies, this is an investment any way you look at it. Even if only from further inflation on down the road.

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:banana: Phase 5 is done. Sealing all dry goods and bulk foods in mylar bags and sealing them in pails and totes, that is. Now comes canning meats, then veggies, if we get a summer.

Goldeneye, we have mylar bags, some desicants and oxys left over. please pm me if you are interested in acquiring same.