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February 8, 2015

From a Sarajevo War Survivor:

After awhile, even gold can lose its luster.

But there is no luxury in war quite like toilet paper. Its surplus value is greater than gold's. If you had to go without one utility, lose electricity - it's the easiest to do without. Canned foods are awesome, especially if their contents are tasty without heating. One of the best things to stockpile is canned gravy - it makes a lot of the dry unappetizing things you find to eat in war somewhat edible.
Sean Linnane: 100 ITEMS TO DISAPPEAR FIRST

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 8, 2015 1:31 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I'm thinking @ a trip to Croatia. If it's still there in a year.

Posted by: Casey Klahn [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 8, 2015 2:18 PM

Make a list of 10 alternatives, I'll start:

1) Phone book
2)

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 8, 2015 2:35 PM

Paying for and storing toilet paper is silly and wasteful. 20 years ago, a Doctor suggested that we should wash

Posted by: pkerot [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 8, 2015 6:38 PM

I haven't seen this one for a while.

You guys should click the link and read the list.

Many of the survival sites have similar lists and following the advice would be helpful even if we don't go into Armageddon shut down.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 8, 2015 11:09 PM

One thing that disappeared and no one missed: C-rats Ham and lima beans.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 9, 2015 3:29 AM

VW: I'd take the peaches. They were good. And I never smoked Pall Malls before either but they were OK.
The troops today are spoon-fed and feather-pillowed.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 9, 2015 6:09 AM

VermontWoodchuck--Ham and Limas were GREAT if you could heat them up. Warmed you twice. Put them in your jacket when heated, then eat them before they completely cooled off. Wonderful at Ft Devens, Mass in November 1967.

Green eggs and ham were okeydoke, too.

Posted by: OldFert [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 9, 2015 8:54 AM

When heated all of them were "OK", cept them god awful grisly assed ham steaks. Quickly I learned that if you want to eat well on field duty you have to bring your own stuff.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 9, 2015 9:26 AM

BTW, at least 1/2 the stuff on that list is unnecessary.

The most important item was missing from that list: an educated and experienced brain, supported by a fully functioning backbone. Without them 2 things the rest is meaningless and cruel.

Get a 1000 gal propane tank and convert your generator to propane. Thread 2 mufflers together with a 12" pipe between them. Yeah, less efficient but almost quiet. Get the adapters to fill smaller tanks from the large one. Camo paint the propane tank and plant some bushes around it. Sit a 5 gal bucket of petro next to it with a bag of mothball crystals, a couple estes rocket ignitors and a trashphone....just in case.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 9, 2015 9:34 AM

Who in hell ever got to eat those C-rats hot? If they were, it was because somebody left them out in the sun all day.

Most of the time we ate what the 'Yards caught or what we caught. They carries those crossbows; deadly with them, they were.

Hell, those guys could build a 750° fire out of a match stick. Almost no smoke and fast.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 9, 2015 4:10 PM

C-4 shavings if you had some.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 9, 2015 11:32 PM

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