So what did you put away this week?

Discussion in 'General Survival and Preparedness' started by melbo, Aug 9, 2006.


  1. stg58

    stg58 Monkey+++ Founding Member

    My tomato seeds sprouted and are a few inches high.

    No fertilizer, herbicide or insecticide.
     
  2. Motomom34

    Motomom34 Monkey+++

    Lots of hydrogen peroxide. A local chain was clearance their stock, I think they are changing the label. Since there are so many uses, you can never have too much!
     
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  3. JtotheP

    JtotheP Monkey

    More silver--I'm clawing and scratching, nickel and diming any silver I can get.
     
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  4. stg58

    stg58 Monkey+++ Founding Member

    At a local gun show a guy was selling Silver rounds a spot $19.85, went to an ATM for a second purchase.
     
  5. Yard Dart

    Yard Dart Vigilant Monkey Moderator

    More barrels for the rain-catchment system....
     
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  6. stg58

    stg58 Monkey+++ Founding Member

    Is that "your" rainwater?
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    Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water

    (NaturalNews) Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else.

    As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from "diverting" water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use.
     
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  7. SemperFiSkye

    SemperFiSkye Monkey+

    Makes sense. I don't know how/why I was never backhanded as a child for tilting my head back and opening my mouth to the rain. My parents never corrected me; it was obviously very wrong of them.

    Put back six 9 oz. baby bottles, about 40 lb of baby clothes in varying sizes, one baby throat/nose plunger, 10 cloth diapers, 16 baby spoons (don't ask...$1.87, I had to say yes), a gargantuan bottle of head to toe baby wash, and NO rain water...;)
     
  8. BTPost

    BTPost Stumpy Old Fart,Deadman Walking, Snow Monkey Moderator

    You are WRONG in the above Statement that Collection of Rain Water is not Legal in Washington State. In 2009 the State Department of Ecology published a Policy, that states individual Collection of Rain Water is to be encouraged, by the State, and there is No Limit, or Restrictions on uses, of collected Rain Water. You can read the Policy Statement by Googling " Washington State Water Rights Rain Water"...
    . ..... If you want to understand Water Rights, which are a State by State, Issue, you MUST go READ the State Statutes, Specifically, and then sometimes hire a Local LawDog, for the interpret them for you.
     
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  9. VHestin

    VHestin Farm Chick

    Lots of good sales today. Got 2 blueberry plants(unknown variety) for $2 each. A (12pack) 'case' of canned diced tomatoes, 2 (plastic) 48oz containers of EVOO for $4.48 each, mom got some clothes at the K-mart that's going out of business in Klamath Falls(also got good price there on some fluorscent bulbs we needed), BiMart had cans of Hills Bros coffee for $4.99, our cat food brand for $3 off, and a friend is getting us a 25lb bag of sugar on sale, in exchange for all we've done for them lately. There is lots more I can't think of right now, was 7-8 hours out and about doing shopping today.
     
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  10. Troy brownrigg

    Troy brownrigg How my next home will be constructed!

    Sure is a lot of places closing down and laying off people. Heard somewhere today everything coming from the white house is backwards , so when the say the economy is getting better it's real bad.
     
  11. Troy brownrigg

    Troy brownrigg How my next home will be constructed!

    Rain collection :What the hell is that, you put out a bucket to collect rain in Arizona it will be filled with dirt along time before it ever gets wet.
     
  12. Troy brownrigg

    Troy brownrigg How my next home will be constructed!

    Maybe some of you should research what the old chuck wagons that crossed the wild west carried! I would think flour, salt, beans, coffee, ammo, beef jerky, or meat that was cured to withstand heat, water, blankets, horse shoes, some tools.
     
  13. VHestin

    VHestin Farm Chick

    Oh pork chops, that was another deal, got a 10lb box for $10.
     
  14. BTPost

    BTPost Stumpy Old Fart,Deadman Walking, Snow Monkey Moderator

    You need to get out more... Rain Water Collection as a Potable Water Source has been around as long as Man has, and it is used in Aridzonia, among other places in the USA, All the time. There is a Monkey Couple who live in Aridzonia out in the desert, that use it almost exclusively to fill their 3000USG Water Tank. (Actually it is a 6000USG Tank...How to Make a 6000 gallon water tank) Those of us who live in a Rain Forest, find that Rain Water Collection is much easier to accomplish than laying pipelines, and building Stream Intakes, and getting Water Rights and Permits, or drilling Wells. It also frees you from having to deal with a lot of the water born pathogens, that are in Surface Water sources. Having lived on such a system for a few Decades, each winter, I speak from experience.... .... YMMV....
     
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  15. wastelander

    wastelander Bad English, bare with me

    Everything I own + the dogs, kids and a very skeptical wife. (Out to a BOL for vacation and to listen to what russia is up to on the radio for a few weeks)
     
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  16. Motomom34

    Motomom34 Monkey+++

    @VHestin clearance fruit plants, I am so envious.
     
  17. Troy brownrigg

    Troy brownrigg How my next home will be constructed!

    Aridzonia, I like that one, Problem is rainfall here has been less then 3" a year for the last ten years. Sometimes we've went an entire year without rain.Phoenix and Tucson with like 8 million people are in trouble real soon if this drought continues. I don't believe a collection system would work here.
     
  18. VHestin

    VHestin Farm Chick

    Well I am concerned that they aren't marked as to variety(so I would know cold-hardiness), so I will grow them in BIG pots and keep my fingers crossed(and pray).
     
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  19. BTPost

    BTPost Stumpy Old Fart,Deadman Walking, Snow Monkey Moderator

    If you do NOT collect whatever falls, on your Roof, then you have no way of knowing, just how much is available.... The thing is, where you live you get ALL that Rain in one or two dumps a year, so if you do NOT collect it when it falls it is lost to you, immediately. However if you can store the Collected rain, in Barrels it can be used, over time, until it is all used up... Like I stated above... There is a Monkey Family that has a 3000USG Tank that they run their whole outfit on, and it gets input, any time moisture happens, even Dew is collected. They do have to supplement their water source on occasion, but a lot less, expensive than doing that 100% of the time....

    Ok, My memory of the Tank size was off by 100%.... Here is the Thread....
    How to Make a 6000 gallon water tank
    See their other posts, here on the Monkey.... They LIVE the Lifestyle.....
     
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  20. -06

    -06 Monkey+++

    Just saw a nice set up in rural S.Carolina. It has three cisterns, geo thermal heating/cooling, ponds, chickens, horses, excellent FOF, and well off the road. Lots of passive solar and energy. Was very impressed.
     
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