10 Questions- Are you Prepared

Sanitation:
No one talks about stocking lime, sawdust, cedar shavings or just peat moss to keep the odor down in both your buckets and outhouse if you have to dig an out house.

I think one of the cheapest preps is stocking up on one or more of these items to keep odor down

• limestone (dolomite in the garden section)
• peat moss
• sawdust (they sell big bundles of these at feedstores for horse stalls)
• cedar shavings (if you live where you can get them)

these are all inexpensive and will certainly save your nose

if you add some lactobacillius (digestive enzymes from healthfood store) to wheat bran and add some sugar, you can ferment your human waste in those 5 gallon buckets that @Motomom34 posted. You just have to put a lid on them and layer the peatmoss with the enzymes and don't open for 2-3 weeks. Then you can add the results to your soil, don't plant anything in that area for 2 additional weeks.

It isn't pretty but its doable.... so to speak.

 

Before toilet paper, a little water was all that was needed; poop don't stick to water.

 

so practical @Seacowboys

 

Don't forget wood ash...which is good for so many other uses too.

 

Yes that is a good one as well and I think wood ash has lime in it? not sure why wood ash works tbh.

 

Could it be that burned wood provides needed minerals to plants more readily?

Wood ash can be useful in yard if used with caution | Oregon State University Extension Service | Gardening

 

We get a couple of dump truck loads of wood ash(potash) from a source locally every year for the gardens. They are more than happy to get rid of it.

 

I have a serious concern for fire prevention and putting out fires.

 

I'm in a similar situation here. It's an extreme wildfire zone and every fire season has entirely too many holding my breath moments.

 

Nothing beats prevention most of the time, but if one is ready for intervention the moment trouble strikes, a lot of damage can be averted.
Often people stand paralyzed ,be it a fire or some other calamity , like deer in head lights .____________________________
It's ok to be scared, but it's suicidal to do nothing.
Knowing what to do, the tools and the practice doing it, are the muscle memory of survival.

 

Do you mean me or Mama?

 

I made a bug out /get home cart, I can configure to suit my needs .
Initially it is for having in the car/truck, and assembling post EMP/CME in the event the car is disabled and away from home.
I can use it for an injured party and gear ,will handle 300+Lbs.
It can be reconfigured as a shelter, a bed ,all steel tubing and sockets.
For practice I haul heavy and bulky stuff around the property that need moved any way like brush and fire wood , just to prove it ,and see just how capable it is.

 

LOL! debated on answering this. YOU not her. Most women I know can organize, click off a list in seconds when dealing with an emergency. Whoop! feel a thread coming on....

 

I'm not touching this....