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What *don’t* we know about online safety?
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Hi,  Those are some great habits!! I often have oats for breakfast as well with flaxseed, fruit, and peanut butter mixed in. I’m trying to balance prep-friendly food with fresh fruits, veggies, and eggs, but I’ve got a ways to go.  The 2 in 1 out method sounds like a great plan. I haven’t quite gotten the family on board with it yet, but I’m trying. Intermittent fasting sounds like an amazing prep, and I’ve heard great things from friends and family who do it. I’m not to that level–if I ever will be–but I am trying to be mindful about what, when, and how much I eat.  Cooking and mending are two areas I’m trying to improve in as well. I can sew… kind of, but I’m far from where I want to be. There’s a few recipes I can make, but I’m not to the place where I could easily make dinner every night. Mom is adamant that I learn how to feed myself before I head to grad school and has been teaching me, so that skill I’m pretty confident will click with more time.  Oooh, good question. When I have a more permanent adult home (maybe grad school, maybe post grad school), I’d love to garden. Even if it’s just a few vegetables in a window, I love to get my hands dirty, and localizing food production is great for prepping and the environment (those often seem to go hand in hand). I also want to learn basic car maintenance. I’m not going to invest too much time into the ins and outs of a combustion engine because I’m not sure how much longer those will be standard, but knowing how to change a tire or how to jumpstart a battery both seem like important driving skills. 


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Sample Excel Prep Sheet Formulae
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What *don’t* we know about online safety?
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Hikers caught in a wildfire
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What are your softcore preps?
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Hi,  Those are some great habits!! I often have oats for breakfast as well with flaxseed, fruit, and peanut butter mixed in. I’m trying to balance prep-friendly food with fresh fruits, veggies, and eggs, but I’ve got a ways to go.  The 2 in 1 out method sounds like a great plan. I haven’t quite gotten the family on board with it yet, but I’m trying. Intermittent fasting sounds like an amazing prep, and I’ve heard great things from friends and family who do it. I’m not to that level–if I ever will be–but I am trying to be mindful about what, when, and how much I eat.  Cooking and mending are two areas I’m trying to improve in as well. I can sew… kind of, but I’m far from where I want to be. There’s a few recipes I can make, but I’m not to the place where I could easily make dinner every night. Mom is adamant that I learn how to feed myself before I head to grad school and has been teaching me, so that skill I’m pretty confident will click with more time.  Oooh, good question. When I have a more permanent adult home (maybe grad school, maybe post grad school), I’d love to garden. Even if it’s just a few vegetables in a window, I love to get my hands dirty, and localizing food production is great for prepping and the environment (those often seem to go hand in hand). I also want to learn basic car maintenance. I’m not going to invest too much time into the ins and outs of a combustion engine because I’m not sure how much longer those will be standard, but knowing how to change a tire or how to jumpstart a battery both seem like important driving skills. 

Great topic!! The pandemic really illustrated how quickly medical stockpiles can run out. I’m by no means a medical professional, but this is what I’ve gathered from my own research and experience.  Bandages have historically been made with torn up fabric, but the reason we use gauze instead is because it’s a) sterile and b) designed to not have bits come off in the wound. While you could probably improvise decent bandages with cleaned cloth in a long term emergency, gauze is always a better choice if you have it on hand. Also, gauze is cheaper than a new shirt.  I’d really recommend you don’t use paper or non-medical tape. Toilet paper is designed to break up in water, and blood is mostly water. I’ve definitely used it to press on a cut that’s bleeding, but even for a small cut, it breaks up after a few minutes. Most tape does not stick to skin well, and stronger tapes run the risk of pulling up skin and leaving a bigger wound than before. (To be fair, my family has fragile skin, but duct tape on any wound sounds bad.)  In a long-term disaster, our best bet is probably going to be traditional medicine. They’re not usually as effective as modern medicine, but medicine was not invented in the last few centuries, and a lot of traditional remedies have legitimate effects. Some modern medicine is even made from artificial or purified traditional medicines. There’s other threads on here- I think even a starred one rn- that have recommendations with books for grid-down medicine.  All that said, there’s a lot of medical supplies you really can’t make well yourself. The human life expectancy used to be much shorter than it is now, and modern medicine has been a huge part of that. We’d be returning to a time where injuries or diseases we hardly notice today could easily cause death or disability. Accepting limitations to prepping is never fun, but with medicine, you have to. 


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