I miss the day's I was making over 10% on my CD's. Now the banks
do not pay any interest.
Time to brush up on your disaster/survival skills
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do not pay any interest.
drop_point
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I'm more concerned that there are help wanted signs everywhere and a large portion of the workforce has chosen to sit out. Meanwhile, people are buying up because there is a shortage of most nearly everything secondary to supply chain interruptions.
hogpatrol
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I'm still living with a 42" plasma I bought thirty years ago for $3500. I really need to get one of those $800 65" LCD units at Walmart. The picture is a lot better but I miss the days when TV was black and white and we had to adjust the rabbit ears to get a better picture. Sometimes you had to tweak the channel selector knob in between channels too. My buddies living in rural areas had sky high antenna towers with electric rotors to get that better picture but usually there was still a little "snow" in it. It was still cool to watch Superman with them.
joshb
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We bought one of those new smart TVs 8-10 years ago. The mother board fried within a year and woulda cost $800 to fix it. Two weeks out of Warranty! Go figure?!? I bought a new tv, but it was a Sony.
Cloudrepair
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Nick Caprinolo
Gold $$ Contributor
If the SHTF, most of the world and its inhabitants will die in six months. Those living in cities will become a group of killers and those who were so called preppers will die trying to protect what they have. Even the best of us will resort to doing things we never thought we would. Watch your family slowly die of starvation and you will do anything to feed them. Your neighbor will be your first enemy. If he or she does not get you first, you will turn on them. Killing for sustenance will be the norm. In the first month, many will die from ingesting contaminated food and water. Without medicine, anyone needing it will die very quickly. Especially seniors.
Forget gold and silver. You can't eat it. The most important commodity will be ammunition. With ammo, you can hunt and protect your loved ones. People will trade food and other necessities for ammo and weapons of any sort.
If you are Amish, your only enemy will be man. The Amish have survived off the grid their entire existence. While they are non-violent, pacifests, they have weapons and will band together to protect their own, no matter what their religion teaches.
Those who think they can survive in their bug out location are kidding themselves. Gangs will quickly overwhelm your defenses. If the location is far enough away to be somewhat safe, it is too far for you to get there safely and in one piece. It will only take minutes for the riots to begin. When the grid goes down, so does you transportation unless you have old non computerized cars and trucks. Even then you way will be blocked by newer vehicles and those intent on taking your means of transportation.
We are for the most part, ill equipped to survive, either physically or emotionally, in a SHTF situation. We are mostly sheep. Our life experience has been soft and non violent. Except for military experiences, 99% of us have never pointed a weapon at anyone with the intent to kill.
End of rant.
Forget gold and silver. You can't eat it. The most important commodity will be ammunition. With ammo, you can hunt and protect your loved ones. People will trade food and other necessities for ammo and weapons of any sort.
If you are Amish, your only enemy will be man. The Amish have survived off the grid their entire existence. While they are non-violent, pacifests, they have weapons and will band together to protect their own, no matter what their religion teaches.
Those who think they can survive in their bug out location are kidding themselves. Gangs will quickly overwhelm your defenses. If the location is far enough away to be somewhat safe, it is too far for you to get there safely and in one piece. It will only take minutes for the riots to begin. When the grid goes down, so does you transportation unless you have old non computerized cars and trucks. Even then you way will be blocked by newer vehicles and those intent on taking your means of transportation.
We are for the most part, ill equipped to survive, either physically or emotionally, in a SHTF situation. We are mostly sheep. Our life experience has been soft and non violent. Except for military experiences, 99% of us have never pointed a weapon at anyone with the intent to kill.
End of rant.
Just paid ~$200 for a 43" TV. It's got "smart" apps, is 4K/UHD, has lots of control over the picture/color quality ... and it connects to everything.
I've seen 75" sets (though not the 4K/UHD type) in the sub-$500 range.
Amazing, what prices have done this past 15+ years. Hitachi's original 42" HD set was just north of $4K. Now, such stuff's under $200, and faster/clearer/sharper. The pace of computer tech changes has been great, but this price/performance improvement has been ridiculous. Lots of choices out there, right now. Everybody seems to be making the newer TV's their "loss-leader" items to get people into the stores. Fine by me. Great deals.
Of course, all I can say is that in a disaster that bad boy's stayin' on the wall. It's the "go" bag, the cash/ID/keys, the "go" guns+ammo, the packet of photos, and the tablet. The zombies are welcome to the TV, if it comes to that.
I'll tell ya' that when the grid goes down, people so enamored in the
use of the cell service and wifi will be lost. Not many of us left who
never owed one. I do however have wifi for internet, and still have
a capable active land line. In storage is 2 CB radios, 4 FRS talkies,
one Heath Kit Ham Radio and a vintage AM / FM transistor radio.
All of course are useless without access to some type of power.
Small chargeable units with voltage selectors to go with a solar
unit would be a good thing up in the hills.
use of the cell service and wifi will be lost. Not many of us left who
never owed one. I do however have wifi for internet, and still have
a capable active land line. In storage is 2 CB radios, 4 FRS talkies,
one Heath Kit Ham Radio and a vintage AM / FM transistor radio.
All of course are useless without access to some type of power.
Small chargeable units with voltage selectors to go with a solar
unit would be a good thing up in the hills.
drop_point
Silver $$ Contributor
Nick, I'm not so sure I'd plan on hunting being a thing. In the great depression, whitetail were hunted near extinction within a few years. Nowadays, we have lots of toys to make that even easier.
RE: wound repair
A 4oz travel bottle of optic saline solution. Sterile and great for washing wounds.
Have the non-gel super glue. It works faster and sticks skin better.
Exacto blade for cutting out splinters and embedded material or reopening closed wounds that aren't healing right.
Clove oil for topical anesthetic for when suturing, but oh how it hurts when you first put it on.
IV tubing for providing wound drain when you glue or sew a big one shut.
I use thin, waxed dental floss packets for my suture thread. The packets keep it clean.
Make sure your suture needles are sharp. It always surprised me how difficult it is to push a needle through skin surface.
Hemostats (fly tying equipment) to handle needles.
Nick Caprinolo
Gold $$ Contributor
During the great depression there was no mass death toll. In a SHTF situation, the population will be devastated in the first 30 days. Every day will multiply the deaths exponentially. In six months 90% of the population will be gone. Rim fire and AR type rifles and ammo will be the hunting rifle of choice as well as featherweight hunting rifles. Most of the population is in populated areas and they will have little chance to hunt and die out quickly. Farm animals will go swiftly and further hasten population death.
R.Morehouse
Gold $$ Contributor
With any luck, maybe we are just a space alien experiment down here and if the SHTF they won't let us start setting off massive EMP's. That would most definitely be the easiest thing for the nuke-powered bad actor to deliver......That would put us back into the stone age, like right NOW............Don't Worry Be Happy...
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. It will usually be somewhere in between.
I remember watching Superman when I was 6. He was my HERO!
Couldn't believe it was possible when I heard he died.
Oh...The MAGIC of the TV set.
Maybe he's still around disguised as Klaus Schwab.
drop_point
Silver $$ Contributor
I believe our population in the great depression was 120,000,000. They were hard people. Less than half of what we have today. We have better tools, but are far softer.
drop_point
Silver $$ Contributor
Right now you can get the good stuff! No reason to improvise.
Don't need to buy anything in the belief that it will perform better than what I have used to satisfactory result.
CharlieNC
Gold $$ Contributor
Except in NCY where the public service announcement says go indoors!
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