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Cleaning! You need soap and you need to know what gets certain stains out better.

For the most part, everything I know you can not make outright, but they are cheap and store for a long, long fucking time.

Scrubbing: baking soap

Degreasing: vinegar, baking soda, and a soap you can make (castille, a liquid soap)

Bathing: Old Fashioned Lye soap that you can make from fat, water, and lye. I made some and its pretty good. It doesn't suds up or lather but it does get the grease from work off.

Blood: peroxide

Ink: alcohol.

Stock up on borax. You can make laundry soap with it and other stuff: https://www.thespruce.com/diy-laundry-products-2145722

Get stocked on bleach. Its handy and you never know what you'll need it for.

Vacuum cleaner: i have a ProTeam backpack vacuum and its the fucking best. I would recommend any bagged canister vacuum over a dirt devil or other cheapy brands. Down side: bags. Upside if you learn sewing you could probably make bags (future idea to self).

Make your own cleaning rags or grow your own loofahs from gourds. I think im gonna try gourds next year, they make very nice wash cloths and pot scrubbers.

Buy a little singer sewing machine. An electric machine can go a very very very long way. I would recommend the treadle but only for experienced people. Its a bit of a learning curve, but if you find one BUY IT BUYBUYBUY.

Make curtains, or sheets, bed covers, t-shirts, work pants (that will probably aggravate the shit out of you. I made sleep pants and that was fun.) Make washcloths or towels. Stock up on fabric. For real, little rags around the yard/garden, kitchen, garage, guns, and wounds. Cotton is the life and soul of prepping, imo.

Last thing: lightbulbs. Planned obsolescence has crept into the led bulbs. Better to just buy a dozen while you can.

p.s. @Null im growing potatoes and wish you the best in metokur vodka drinkung
 
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I've been thinking a lot about this recently and here are some general points I'd like to add:

Find like minded people in your community and grow with them. You'll be amazed at how many people are out there and how many of them want to train, prepare, homestead etc. Whether that means finding people at a common area (church, etc.) Or finding people online near you, it can completely change how you plan.

Things I've looked into recently involved trying to keep my home as disconnected from the grid as possible. After Jersh mentioned it on the stream I looked into Starlink and ended up pulling the trigger on it. It allows me to run my home off a generator or solar with no physical outside connection.

There are more tools now to make us self sufficient than ever. Look forward to seeing people's thoughts on everything from basic food to water plans, etc.
 
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Bill Elliot said:
Things I've looked into recently involved trying to keep my home as disconnected from the grid as possible. After Jersh mentioned it on the stream I looked into Starlink and ended up pulling the trigger on it. It allows me to run my home off a generator or solar with no physical outside connection.
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I remember (through generational knowledge) that phones used to be awesome. You could use them with no power and torture people.
 
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i was going to start a general youtube thread, but most of the stuff i was going to start off with was more historical and survivalism based or too adjacent to what this subforum is for

someone who autisticly watches homesteading and gardening videos etc should make a youtube channel recommendation/discussion thread though
 
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Are the guntuber cow threads gonna stay where they are or be moved here? I need my daily fix of making fun of Karl Kasarda for being a tranny chaser or Mike Glover beating up his wife.
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all the more funny... getting the snip jic he might get a troon pregnant

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Would a thread on just random 'make it, not buy it' stuff work? Not prepper shit but everyday stuff

I end up going down rabbit holes and try making random things, either from historical recipes or tbh random stuff I see on YT or websites, +1 to the brewing stuff also a fan favourite as gifts.

Making books isn't hard, and a physical copy is something that amazon can't memory-hole like a digital copy, varients also being making paper or bookboard from old paper(re-watching an old mati made me want to try research war bonds and how they are made for Kiwi-bonds lol), and then from there you can get into making light gauge boxes for storage or for gifts.

Making cosmetics is also kinda fun, I was making body scrubs from used coffee grounds I had dehydrated and oil, gave them out as gifts and people where happy af to receive them, been looking into making shaving oil(cause shaving cream is just slop lol)

There is tonnes of stuff like that that that don't really fit in the prepper stuff, but are fun to make and would be useful to have even just to be a cheapskate and re-use stuff into gifts.

I take the view that if some pre-industrial serf can make something we should be able to as well lol.
 
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Would a general carpentry thread fall under home improvement or be its own thing? I'm increasingly annoyed by the shit quality of modern furniture, and by their nature antique items are becoming harder to come by, so I feel like at some point I'm gonna have to learn how to build my own if I want anything that is going to last more than a year.
 
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RV solar power.

Tip: LiFePo batteries don't tend to catch fire the way other lithiums do.

A well provisioned and maintained RV can be a great self contained emergency shelter with fridge, stove, toilet, bed and most importantly wheels to bug out in case of an emergency desire to go camping or actual disaster. Hell, you might even decide to downsize and ditch the landlord / mortgage entirely.

You can successfully live in anything from a Prius to an old U-Haul box truck. http://homesonwheelsalliance.org/ will tell you how, and they have a fun convention every winter in Arizona to help you learn how.
 
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TETRABAX said:
Is that still true with a puncture caused internal dead short? I'm assuming you still end up with a metal fire but I've never tried
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These are generally the same form factor as car batteries because they're meant as a drop-in upgrade, though somewhat lighter. Strap em down and protect them from random everyday hazards.

Any punctured battery this size is going to bring a host of problems. I await your report on the comparative downsides of shooting holes in lead-acid vs LiFePo car batteries. For reasons I'm not going to have the resources to try this experiment myself.
 
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Is it possible to have a thread shared between two boards? I think of using Linux as a form of going off-grid. What about FOSS, does that count? Open source software is all about getting away from mainstream software and becoming self sufficient in way.

Also, what about a law category? Law stuff could go in deep thoughts but deep thoughts is treated like a shitposting board and not a real discussion board. One would think that knowing the law is essential to going off-grid since the government doesn't like it when you try to distance yourself from them.
 
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