What To Hoard Now Prepper Stock Up Time hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper do you know what the
difference is between hoarding and prepping it's a matter of a few days while there's still time
that you can go to the store and find things that you want it's prepping if you wait until the last
minute when there's some emergency and everybody rushes to the store and they're scooping up any
single thing they can get that's not prepping that is hoarding because people are scrambling through
the store scooping up anything they can get at the store without any idea of perhaps even how
they'll use it or if they need it so preppers try to collect food prepping supplies things a little
at a time plan for the things that they actually use then use and rotate and replace those items so
that you continue to actually supply yourself with your own store so to speak you have your
own stockpile of the things that you use so you don't have to worry about an emergency
because you can go into your stockpile and get most of the things that you would need
when you have your own stockpile of supplies it gives you a chance to take an inventory and
think about the things that you have how can you improvise with what you do have to make
your things be more useful how can you adapt your stockpile so it meets your needs better
those are the supplies and the ideas and the thought process that allows you to overcome
a lot of the challenges that we might face I've been taking an inventory and trying to go through
and organize my supplies a little better and look for any gaps what are the things that have been in
short supply what are the things that are rising in prices and the items said I really want to make
sure that I have so that if something bad happens I don't have to rush out to the store trying to
find those things if you're a prepper you have your things you can hunker down you can stay
quiet and peaceful at home and use the things that you have you don't have to go out into the mad
craziness of people trying to stock up who just didn't take the time and opportunity beforehand
no matter who you are or what crisis you face on a daily basis you need prepping supplies to be able
to have clean things do you have enough dish soap do you have enough laundry soap do you have your
shampoo and your bars of soap that you would want to use to clean yourself maybe you want to make
sure that you have a new bottle of bleach bleach does expire if you are planning to use it for
water purification purposes pick up a fresh bottle of bleach so that you have that capability if
you're not sure if your bleach is still good open it up and smell it does it still smell like bleach
this one doesn't so it's time to be replaced losing power is a possibility do you have some
candles do you have the fuels the butane propane whatever the fuels are that you would use for your
emergency stoves if you don't have an emergency stove I've been to the store and i haven't seen
any you know quite a while but you can maybe still find the fancy heat at the dollar tree it's a
little can that's like sterno that's like alcohol stove and you unscrew the lid it has a wick and
you can light it and it will actually burn for about two hours so you could use it to do a little
bit of emergency cooking heat things up maybe even warm yourself if the power goes out when it's cold
some of these fuels will require you to have matches maybe you want to look into your
stockpile make sure you have plenty of lighters i was looking for lighters a few weeks ago and they
were very hard to come by i think there's more of them available now from what i've noticed but when
i was looking a few weeks ago they were in very short supply i also like to stock up on the long
utility lighters these are easy to reach into a fire pit to reach into the bottom of a long tall
candle jar you can use these easily to light your barbecue if your clicker doesn't work and they're
also nice to go into just your fireplace and your wood stove if you need to light a fire that way
count up the number of rolls of toilet paper you have do you have plenty i figure for my family
because i buy jumbo toilet paper rolls i want to have about one roll toilet paper per person per
week and i want to have a year's worth toilet paper is something i don't want to live without
lots of people think they don't need it that's fine leave it in the store and i'll stock up
on more and so that's how i figure out how much toilet paper that i want to have for my personal
use then i also like to have kleenex on hand and if you should lose running water and cleanliness
can be difficult get Huggies baby wipes these are great to clean you from head to toe and they're
great for not only having around the house you can also take them camping keep one in your car
i find that baby wipes last a little better if i put them into a ziploc bag seal it up well as
an extra layer in case baby wipes package get a puncture in them i like to store baby wipes
with the lids down because should there be any leakage or any kind of a pinhole
then that's going to help baby wipes not to dry out but if they do dry out don't throw them away
open the lid add a little water filtered water if you have it and close it up allow it to seep
together and baby wipes should be good to go again if you've stocked up on canned food make sure you
have a manual can opener if you have number 10 cans i like Swing Away can opener Swing Away opens
way up it has extra long handles and the big crank goes all the way around so when
you're opening a number 10 can it's not one of those crank it like Swing Away can opener
excellent to use on your big number 10 cans they really do the trick getting those open i'll put
a link to the swing away can opener down below in case you're interested in getting one for yourself
if you've been storing foods in five gallon buckets make sure you get a bucket lid opener
the lids are so hard to pry up with your fingers you place this over the rim of the bucket and then
you pry up on the rim of the lid and then it comes off easily so that you can access what's inside
without harming your fingers unnecessarily figure out what batteries you most commonly use and have
extras of those on hand batteries are becoming smaller packages much more expensive and i don't
know about you but double a AA and triple aaa AAA are very common at my house and with my prepping
gear and the things that i like to use and so i like to have extra AA AAA batteries on hand
store batteries in their original packaging and then store them with the little tips
up and try not to let them touch each other because that can shorten the life of batteries
make sure you have plenty of bottled water it's a good idea to just pick up another
container water every time you go to the store if you remember last summer when there were massive
wildfires and summer heat was just ridiculously hot you couldn't get bottled water stock up now
while you can it's always good to have on hand at least one gallon per person per day for as
many days as possible anytime you can find canning or preserving supplies jars pick them up canning
supplies are becoming almost impossible to find i've been looking for canning supplies every time
i go to the store and many times there is nothing and recently Walmart did have three boxes of the
small jars the pint size with the regular mouth lids which is not my favorite canning jar but like
i said before if you can't find the jars you love love the jars you can find because they are so
handy for storing all kinds of things yes they're great for processing your meat your vegetables
from your garden but they're also good for storing dry supplies i bought canning jars and i
what i bought canning jars and i filled the jars dry foods i have tea bags in some of them
i have split peas in some of them i even have boxes of macaroni and cheese i poured in the
macaroni into the jars added the little cheese pouch cut out the directions and stuffed it inside
and then i just tightened the jar lid and put them down you could use a vacuum sealer on this if you
have the foodsaver vacuum sealer jar attachment you could add a oxygen absorber if you have them
but we don't all have those things and some of them are just becoming too hard to find or too
expensive so you are still preserving your food much better if you put it in an airtight container
and then if you have the opportunity to store it better later go ahead and do that but for now
i know that i can set these aside and they're going to last for many years and i can go to them
when i need them and use the food from them and that's part of what you need to do is be rotating
the foods that you're storing don't store foods that you don't know what it is you don't know how
to cook or you don't enjoy eating it this is for a reason that you are preparing to take care of
yourself and your family no matter what the future holds having the idea that later on anybody will
eat anything is false security because in a real emergency situation the last thing i want to do
is find food that i hate when i could have used that space and money to store food that i like so
think about that when you're shopping stock up on things that you want and those are the things that
are most useful to you if you're not sure if you like something buy one take it home and try it if
you don't like it you learned and then you don't buy more and you don't have a whole stockpile of
things nobody wants but if you do like it you can go back and get more and that is sensible prepping
the thing to remember it's always wise to stock up on prepping supplies food things that you need
and you use store them so that they will last the longest and then you'll have food supplies things
when you need them We're living in an increasingly scary world. prepping isn't hoarding prepping
is preparing we're not taking things from the store that anybody else couldn't come in and buy
but if they choose not to that's an opportunity for preppers to continue to add to your stockpile
so when people leave comments of stop taking everything leave it for somebody else i've
gone to the store there's always more anybody can go in and do what i'm doing and what you're doing
of buying more food but if they choose not to that's an opportunity for me to still
find the things that i want before there is an emergency and people do rush to the store
and clear out whatever they can find we can stay safe at home sitting quietly enjoying
having the things that we prepared for these exact events so that we have what we need
and we're safe living the best that we can and that's all we can ever hope to to have
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