My Dad taught me this. It makes it so the soap doesn't slip out of your hands onto a dirt floor too!

That is so smart!

Nylon tie as in panty hose? Thanks

I was a leader. I took a just of water and put a soap bar in a stocking and held it from the top. I stuck a golf pin in it to use for water drainage.

Very good💡

Zip ties

@@louisevaughan2165 I'll never throw those strings away again. I save the twine that hay and straw bales are tied with. God bless you.

I did that once too

@@louisevaughan2165 lol! That’s resourceful!

I did that with a 63 mercury

Also adds iron to acid foods like tomatoes

I do this for onions and it works great.

How long will onions and potatoes keep this way?

@@kimjefferson5953 I didn't do this with potatoes. The onions lasted a few weeks. If an onion has a bruise don't let that spot touch another onion or that condition can be passed on.

@@doriswhite1348 Thank you so much!

I can keep onions from October through about February in a cool dark basement. Then they start to get soft. Potatoes will keep until the spring when the ones with a lot of eyes get planted, but potatoes can be be stored easier in a cardboard box that you cut holes in for circulation. Keep the potatoes separated from each other with newspaper. Pantyhose works the same, but I have more boxes and newspaper than pantyhose🤣

Put them on the outside or inside? Thank you

@@bubbles3042 on your inside window put the bubble side on the glass, the I scotch tape it to window frame works great

I have 17 windows in my house (that was built in 1951); so I will just try to adjust!! Thanks anyway.

@@bubbles3042 use the larger bubbles bubble wrap, spray the INSIDE of the glass and the bubble side of the wrap with water, and simply press into place. The bubbles go against the glass (the cold air gets trapped in the spaces) Hope this helps. Watch the one minute video of Alaska Granny showing you how.

Thank you!!!!

LOL!!!!!! I need to put those warnings in when Mike is on with me!

Was that at the part where she said to put pennies in the pantyhose to use as a weapon? LOL I would have spewed at that part! :-)

Yes! They put a smile on my face and lifted my heart

They are cracking me up!

@@cherylgriffin9438 pennies or stones are better in a sock not pantyhose. Socks are much stronger, hose tear more easily.

I salute your dad for his service. I used to work outdoors for different jobs in various weather conditions and panty hose make the great wind and cold weather breaker. They do work.

I sent panty hose to the guys overseas the panty hose helps keep the sand away from their body.

This American Navy Wife & Navy daughter thank your Dad …& you for service ! The panty hose idea is well liked by our sailors on ships for standing Quarter Deck Duty too.

We’re men. We’re men in tights. Tight tights!

Definitely. Adding those to my prep supply.

I use them inside and charge them in the windows

Had to do this when my power was out through the snow storm for a week

Been doing it for years..well since they came out. Works great.

I've had to all this during hurricane Maria in Puerto rico also I've had a 50 gallon trash barrel only for water. Also a 5 gallon bucket of lard will keep ur cooked meats fresh. If u have a generator u can always charge up those 💡 that go on when light goes out I've even had the ones with little solar panels on them. Actually I've had lots of things that were solar even a hand held radio

Hence the Dolly Parton song and story, a coat of many colors.

My grandma had a wooden darning egg. I don’t but could substitute one of those decorative onyx eggs.

@@eleanorcummings9699 I have no clue what a darning egg is. I'm 52. I will look it up.

My mom always uses a light bulb to darn socks.

@@JustMe-ig5pn you put the darning egg unter the hole you want to mend. this way you can darn it more evenly and easely. I have a wooden darning mushroom. Same use.

That's a great tip!!!

Lehmans has a "plunger" type device for doing the laundry without the suction on it. Its supposed to be good.

Lehmans has a "plunger" type device for doing the laundry without the suction on it. Its supposed to be good.

We do that all the time in our woodstove. We even take them camping to start our campfires.

I used egg cartons with the lint and wax. You can break off one part of it to start a fire

On a yahoo forum someone asked how to keep her NYC loft warm. I told her to cook soup, to add warm steam in her home. I also reminded her of the heavy bed curtains and canopies in castles. Tapestries on the walls etc. The plastic tarps and tents work but a good blanket fort would work just as well. Ever wonder how the big hooked skirts helped?

I have a pup tent to use inside in case of winter emergencies. Between disasters, it doubles as a play tent!

But make sure it's cold ash..

Excellent idea!

Unless 1- you can't get out of your house for some reason. --( Tornadoes, hurricanes, ect. in the case of the Eathquake that hit here in Salt Lake march 2020, it ended up being best that i stay home that day. Traffic was a mess due to power outages/ streetlights being out, and aftershocks. Unknown damage anywhere. Emergency services needing to use the roads, ect.). and/ or you (or someone near you that you are helping. speaking from personal experience on that one) physically and/ or mentally can't do much. yes, cooking, ect will take up some of the time, but not all of it.

@Skittles Skittles you are correct! No one should be bored, but the truth is humans have become accustomed to 24/7 entertainment, and consider it boring to not have constant distractions. We as a race have forgotten how to enjoy silence.

If you can sew, knit, crochet etc no one should be bored and you're adding to your "stash" = no boredom 😉

@@mrsducky3428 Some of my favorite times have been when we were getting deep snow and hardly any cars on the road and watching it snow and enjoying that silence.

Some may have children that may need distractions and can still learn from playing.

Yes been doing this.

How do you store them and how long do they last?

@@starrynight1329 I've read as long as 10 years, but most only last a year or two...maybe 5 yrs. But each year you can get new ones from the ones you planted.

​@@josephbnd974that is if they grow to maturity.

Get a ketchup bottle bidet -

@@miriam43899 wow what a good idea. No one has addressed how to clean our rears after the deposit. A guy who lived in Tibet for a year said one hand for wiping and the other hand for everything else...even after cleaning it. No Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs anymore.

Yes we have done that also in outback of AK.👍It works. Also carry Duck tape when traveling.

I heard of a man using the waistband from his underwear for a fan belt replacement.

Interesting wisdom from someone's g-ma.

Thanks. I will be using that term now. B.M (Beautiful Moment). :)

“A poor man’s BIDET!” 😉

Nancy Hjort you are the 2nd person to suggest that in these comments. I'm assuming a 12 to 16 oz bottle for ease of handling...?

@@josephbnd974 I did it last year for 6 months, using cut up squares of towel to wipe with-I used a plastic pop bottle to rinse but anything will work. I put the used squares in a large plastic container with bleach and water and when ready to wash, drained the water, filled with water and detergent and shook them clean. Rinse, drain, rinse. It was a social experiment. It worked. I found out I was the tp hog in the family.

Great idea!! Added that to tomorrow's shopping list! Not going out today, we are experiencing a wonderful rain storm in the drought stricken West!!!

Hey, yes… HI! I bought 2 dozen of the light

They r absolutely a awesome I have one in each room. I gave some to family & friends

That are great! It’s so nice to have a light in the bathroom,kitchen etc. when the power is out! I love them and have used them several times already…

Where did you buy them?

@@bettyc.parker-young1437 Amazon, I think. There are lots of brands now and all seem comparable, so go with what's more reasonable, I guess. We're moving to France and I plan to buy a few boxes to take along. Kids (now grown) all got a few boxes for Christmas and my son called me one night from college to say everyone was hanging at his apartment because he was the only one with lights on (and a camp stove to cook on outside). 🙂

Yes - Arizonan here - miss the autumn foliage to enjoy.

Great idea!!

Plus extra supply of meds. Extra pet food & kitty litter & water just for them. A LOT of extra sanitary/pee pads. Eyeglass repair kit.

Local churches have a lot of these things & will them out for free.

We live in the country, sort of. I told my husband we can dig a hole, remove the pot on the handicap potty chair and sit it over the hole in the ground. We can throw up some kind of wall for privacy. A 4x4x4 frame would work by throwing a sheet over the sides.

The Walmart bags fit the commode bucket perfectly

PS.. there's something about putting them in the bottle of water that magnifies the light they put off.

Brilliant! 👏👏

Very illuminating idea

What are you going to eat when the lights go out?

@@alanoliver9956 i will eat things I've stocked and things I cook from scratch. Found a wild persimmon tree by the pond in my neighborhood recently.. I gathered a large bowl of very ripe ones yesterday... going to make persimmon wine if I can stop eating these long enuff to do so. Lol I have a wood stove inside, a rocket stove outside. How about you ?

We had tons of books and I slowly gave them all away. Crafting books is all I have😆 I'm old what can I say.

We keep books as well, during a recent blizzard I lent out mystery novels to my neighbors, they were amazed how wonderful it was to just sit and read!!!

You can also boil rain water and then filter it to use for bathing and washing hair also. Boiled rain water is the healthiest method to wash and rinse hair in.

@@country_roadsWV Just don't drink it, even though it's boiled. There are chemicals in the roof shingles, draining down the gutter downspout into the barrel.

@@ericclaeyborn3600 are you sure as I've seen videos that suggest using rain water for consuming after it is filtered? Perhaps we should pass it thru a distiller. Heavy metals & chemicals may not rise thru the tubes. I duuno. Maybe someone with expertise could answer that one.

That’s what we do! Works great!

Oh that was a bad one. Was our of my house for 5wks. Awful. I lived on the area of direct hit. My cousin lives in Ohio, she got it too.

I'm from Cleveland Ohio 😊

I grew up in Bridge City, TX. We had 7' of water in the house down here from Ike. I did not realize y'all had gotten some of that mess up there too. 😳 Hurricanes down here are why there are a lot of old school peppers. Covid-19 is why there are a lot of new peppers. God Bless!

I was in ohio for Ike too. No power for a week! House was sooo hot!

I think we'd all survive the tiny amount of poison that would come from an ounce of dryer lint that contained those polyesters, etc.... Besides......I don't think those fibers shed lint to begin with.....

Do polyesters & acrylics give off lint??

True!! I only keep lint from my cotton towel cycles.

@@briannab5296 I don't think they do....

I only use my lint fire starters outside in firepit and rocket stove.

That's sweet.

@Chris B lol he did. Till about 9pm

Very nice!

It's a great way to share a book with the one you love.

Ladies could eliminate the toilet paper use for urine by using old flannel shirts or nightgowns cut into the desired size. They are washable making them reusable. I have not graduated to flannel for my beautiful moments yet.

That's correct. It's the ammonia in the urine. That's why composting toilets have 2 chambers to separate.

You can cover your feces with with wood ash or just a shovel of earth. That will not only cover the smell, but increase the speed of composting. If you add straw or grass clippings later on the pile outside, it makes great compost. Let it mature for a year. But not put it next to your drinking water supply!

We also discovered that if you can simmer a pot of boiling water it helps to heat the house & also keeps the fire in your fireplace or wood burning stove from over-drying the air & causing respiratory stress.

for heat overnight...fill one or two 2Litre pop bottle(s) with hot water and then put the bottle in a thick sock and throw it under your blanket...It acts like a big hot water bottle and will last through the night....reason for the sock is so it doesn't burn you while sleeping and also releases the heat from the hot water slowly.

@@kaleidoscope8743 It is good to know the old ways. A lot of people are going to be in for a shock they may not recover from if things go completely wrong. We used to sleep with our school clothes under the blankets with us, and change before we got out of bed. I used my coat as an extra blanket. Since our house was so drafty, Mama would put our shoes on the over door to warm them, and we hustled into the kitchen to put them on and get a little warmth. I've been through some rough times, and never thought I'd be worried it would come around again this late in my life. Oh, well. At any rate, I do know how to do things, and can improvise, scrounge and make do.

@@kaleidoscope8743 What sweet memories you shared. It was heart-warming to read.

@@Luleeable But, it might damage the wallpaper, as it did with us a few years back, It makes the wallpaper moist and it buckles

Vitamin D must be created within your living body, it can not be stored in fabric. It begins when sunlight is absorbed through your skin directly.

Buy a jackery with solar panels,,,

Better yet, get equine pellets, pine pellets. You can buy a 40lb bag for around 7 dollars, if they can neutralize horse pee smells can you imagine how well they work for humans? We used them when camping and they are compostable, they expand into sawdust when the pee hits it and no smell. Used them for my two cats and after they passed, I have about 25lb in storage.

Clumping kitty litter is never cheap.

I have all of those and like you never regret it. I also recently found light bulbs that charge while the pier is on and work for hours after the power goes off. I absolutely love them and they actually work. The ones I got have a little hook that you can screw in them and use as a flashlight or hand them somewhere else. It’s great to have a working light in the bathroom,kitchen etc. when the power is out. I’ve never ran them all the way down either.

Can you use butane cooking stoves inside the house?

There are many places to find good food grade buckets, for the asking. Some will charge a minimal fee, still cheaper than buying from online sites. Used to get mine free from a school cafeteria, also restaurants, fast food places... Most are throwing them away.

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Lol...but seriously how do you make homemade soap; laundry, dish or hand soap ?

@@josephbnd974 Alaska Prepper and others have great videos on how to make the laundry soap.

@@357Addict thank you.

I remember growing up in the 50's we had a small washer with 2 wooded cylinders, that used a hand crank to remove the excess water from clothes. We called it a ringer.

Yup! Have some ready !

Cat litter also for icy sidewalks.

@@suzybailey-koubti8342 bird seed is better for that. Clay litter gets slippery.

90%

@@karenking5357 The "hat thing" has been proven wrong .

I found a plunger less work, and the washboard really ruins your textiles. If you have serious stains, let it soak for overnight in soda water or lye, and do spotcleaning with a bar of soap. Baking soda or washing soda works good on smells. If you want to bleach white laundry, you can hang up your clothline outside in the sun. If it dries before the stain is gone, just spray it with water and repeat. Special tip: bloodstains should be rinsed with cold water first.

Great Depression aside, if you live anywhere that it snows, floods, or there are tornados or hurricanes, you need to have supplies on hand in watertight containers. If you survive the onslaught, you have no idea when services will be restored or goods will become available again. Look at what happened in TX this past winter when the grid collapsed in the storms. My friends went over a week without power and had to move across town to a hotel just to keep warm. That assumes your whole city isn't affected... California got used to having rolling brown-outs during their power shortage years. And it will get worse as our national grid is aging badly and they just keep adding more and more electric things onto it... My mom used to live in the sticks in CO up in the mountains about 35 miles from the nearest town. They had built a lovely storage under the house crawlspace for their winter food supplies. When it snowed, you weren't going to town for any reason for sometimes a couple weeks at time... Forget Doomsday, make sure you have stuff on hand for everday disasters!

It would be even more disheartening if we didn't think of these possibilities....did you learn nothing from the grasshopper and ant stories in your childhood?

I live in rural Canada on the Prarie where it gets nasty quick! With temperatures that get as cold as -50 ad blowing whiteout conditions leaving travel out of the question for a few days at most. This is exactly what people around here do or used to do. We have or most people used to have "cold rooms" Where preservatives and caned goods were stored in their basements, a few homes around still even have root cellars in the backyard. The older generations and my folks always had their cold rooms or cellars stocked up, "in case of hard times".

I'd like to learn how to cure meat. Do you smoke it?

@@goodintentions1302 I started from the recipe on the internet, then using method of “trial and error” I change it a bit. It is simple. People make it very complicated, but truth is, it is not. I live in Costa Rica, lots of humidity, temperature is between 66F and 78F and still I come up with delicious cured meat every time. Sometimes I would put it in the smoker for a little bit, just to get this smokey skin around it. I usually use pork lion, but I did also ham. Take a piece of meat (must be boneless), wash it and dry it using paper towel or kitchen towel. Put it in a slightly bigger container and cover with sugar. Make sure, that all sides of meat are covered with sugar. So for example, for 2 lb of pork lion I may use up to 2 lb of sugar. According to most recepis, you should live it for a 24 hours in the fridge. I flip it in the container after 24 hours, and live it for another 24 hours in the fridge. Then you wash the meat, dry it, and do the same with salt. I use about half a pound of salt and mix it with my favorite herbs: thyme, oregano, basil, marjoram. Dip meat in the mix of salt and herbs all over, make sure it is covered, put in the container and leave it for the next 24 hours in the fridge. Next step, wash meat very well, dry it, prepare the mix of salt and your favorite spices. This time use a little bit of salt, (may be just a 1,5 - 2 teaspoon) and spices like: garlic (fresh pressed or powder), red pepper (sweet, smoked, or spicy), herbs (one or all of the above). Honestly, I use my nose making those mixes - if it smells yummy, it will taste yummy :). Put the mix all over the meat, rub it on. Now you carefully put the meat in the pantyhose :) , so the rub stays on the meat. Usually I need less then one leg of pantyhose (I know it sound ridiculous) for this size of meat. Now you stretch panties so they are sitting tightly on the meat, make a knot, flip it to make another layer, make a knot, flip it again, make at least three or four layers of pantyhose around the meat. Now hang it in the kitchen to dry. I hang it from the ceiling above the countertop, at my eye level. Leave it for at least four days. Wrap it in the cheese cloth or kitchen towel and put in the refrigerator. It is ready to eat.

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I was thinking of using a layer of kitty litter

I remember those latrines. But we didn't use the lime, which is a good idea. Use lime in the horse and cow barns though!

Lime like the fruit?

@@melissaohlrich2418 Barn lime- it's crushed limestone, makes a white powder that prevents ammonia smells (and has other benefits)

I had a hard time finding lime a few years ago. I found it at a brick factory after swearing I wasn't burying bodies. Unbelievable but true.

I need to look that up.

Omg how morbid

It is something that should be planned for. Many times the deaths have made others in communities sick.

@@pennylaur7687 probably where are you from? I am in the US we take a lot for granted. However there is a funeral home in my small town.

Now that’s being prepared!🤣🤣🤣

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I thought when she said "for elimination" she meant eliminate people with the shovel

That's what the Kabota is for...

Me too

Add Vasiline for great fire fuel

Hey! That was my idea...lol...

Be sure it’s very deep. A man in Venezuela warned because he didn’t have his waste hole deep enough & far enough from living quarters and his little daughter died from disease.i can’t remember what prepping site I read his comment on. Even though it’s been several years, I will never forget his earnest plea to others. I thought it was so brave of him to warn others of the danger.

Good luck getting Peat moss right now. It's be unavailable for a year and a half now.

Good to know!

Boys I know use for fish bait, not sure exactly how

Is it not a normal practice in America to hang your clothes outside? Most people in England hang their washing outside.. It smells so much nicer and course much cheaper. I Use clothes racks(maidens) when it rains . I even have a heated one which uses little energy but dries very well.

@@alysonbuckley6125 - sorry! The app just told me that you responded. Anyway, I live in a very windy area, so although clotheslines are somewhat common in rural areas (which I do live in a very rural area), I don’t hang up my clothes outside. They’d end up in the next county over! But for the most part, people use dryers. Hanging clothes up on a clothes line is looked down upon as something a poor person would do, basically. Which is too bad, bc it’s better for the environment and for the clothes!

@@alysonbuckley6125, Actually folks in America have been drying clothes outside for ever.....

I have Luci Lights for hurricane season, when the power goes out.

So the solar power bank-just put in the sun and it will charge phone!!? 🤯!! I had no idea!

Or better yet, drop $70-$80 on a hand-crank AM/shortwave radio/flashlight/etc combo. If you're mainly prepping for disaster, don't worry too much about your cell bc the towers will likely be down anyway. I favor solar when possible but sometimes the sun don't shine.

@@frostyfrances4700 You can store useful books in a cell or table when electricity is down, use it as radio,listen to music.

A bit pricey.

When my power goes out , I keep my fish tank filters going by using 2 battery powered air pumps to keep my fish tank going. Used then twice in recent months.

@@ellenlaurence6559 Thanks for the tip. I have a 55 gallon but had no idea you could get battery powered filters. I use a auto feeder if I have to leave for a while though….

LOL

That is hilarious. And a good idea 😆.God bless you.

I hear you! I never thought

Of using dog treat bags

Save water in your laundry soap jugs, no need to rinse first, you'll have some already soapy water to clean with.

Junk mail starts my fires

Use the toilet paper first!!!

Yes us too! It's just a way of life for us after growing up without being able to get some things at any moment that you want.

We did also live so far out if you were not prepared you suffered. But Mom and Dad did their best, we never suffered. When the electric would go down months on end, it was my job to haul water from the spring house. I remember chamber pots, and heating water on the gas stove so we could bathe, canning and putting up food and smoking meats for storage and hanging hams and bacon in the attic so they would freeze. We had chickens, ducks, god awful geese and dairy cows. I still do much of the same things today. Wash dishes by hand hang laundry, put food up from the garden. BUT I refuse to hang hams and bacon from the attic! LOL. And we are well past the dairy cattle, by the grand children want to learn so here we go again. Oh and yes the electric still goes out pretty regular. It is so good to hear from someone who has had similar experiences. May your days be blessed and happy.

😄 my water broke with my first baby while i was sitting in the dark one night on a 'slop jar' as we called them. 😁

My granny also used a "po", used mainky for pee. She carried water from her nearby well. People are so posh now. I reuse water from the bath to water plants. Being as independent as possible is more important than ever in this era of control.

@@briannab5296 oh,no!

Don’t forget to pick up a roll of wicks!

@@suzybailey-koubti8342 good idea

And a little baby powder in one as needed helps too

Double bag

When shopping ALWAYS double bag, keep bags light! Then sort bags that have holes vs non holes (bags w small holes can still be used for non liquid trash or even a convenient "donate" bag or to keep soda cans that have a deposit on them (5extra bucks over a month or 2 worth of can deposits is a great in the car reserve for those !!uhhhooooh!! NEED gas station antidiarrheal on a road trip