Your prepping should continue, even at a higher cost!
I decided that as long as I can get supplies, I will prep what I can find.
Friday I took a carload of food and air venting for my container. After some barter work, I added five vents worth about $200 (no I didn't pay that much) to my container! I need the venting, because soon I will be parking my Gator just inside the doors, and it has a gas tank...fumes!
This is part of the food shipmemt:
There were three cases of canned goods already in the car when I took this shot. Here is about 80 pounds of dry packaged food, that have lived in my freezer for three days. That kills any insect eggs, and I tape them up to avoid condensation inside.
There are several bedsheets here, plus some microwaveable Salisbury steak dinners, and a case of tamales.
Here's 4 gallons of milk:
Vacuumed packed, for long term storage! These were $2.50 each gallon, and the vacuum packaging offers the long term storage angle.
My storage in the travel trailer is filling up:
24 containers that hold about 7 pounds in these two cabinets for about 170 pounds each.
These are two cabinets with 2 deep:
For another 24 containers each.
I had to move to the linen closet in the bathroom, for additional storage space. It promises to hold a large quantity of these containers, but I'm running out of space pretty fast. But now is Not the time to slow down on prepping, it is smarter to speed it up today! Soon the fiat currency 💲💵 will be worth-less due to hyperinflation; so buy while you can!
There are stacks of 20 gallon sealed containers in the kitchen area towards the tongue of this unit, containing bulk food. Once I have time to skirt the trailers, these 20 gallon bulk storage willove under the trailer for dry storage. I will tape them to seal out ants first, but they seem to seal well enough without the extra seal.
I'm still scrounging building supplies, and have been moving those into homestead storage as fast as I am able. Have enough for a fuel shed already, except for the metal skin...it will have an orange 1/4" thick plastic roof! I've had to break down and pay retail for some building supplies ( I'm So ashamed, LOL) that I know I'll need. If the material is there when the SHTF, I can transfer the flag, and hunker down and get some repairs finished; while the cities burn! I pray I've read this totally wrong, but time will tell....
Keep gathering in supplies that will help you after the economy crashes. Strike while the iron is still hot 🔥🥵 things will cool off soon enough!
Stay safe, and out think them...just to piss them off, LOL!
Have you got an aquarium or thought of farming aquatic animals?
Yes, I plan to use aquaponics for my food. Planning 4 parallel systems in a wallipini greenhouse. I also have a 50 gallon tank for a test system in the house possibly.
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I wonder how good the milk will taste after a year or so frozen.
Frozen milk is okay, but will need to be shaken before use, as it separates. I've avoided freezing for long term storage just in case power becomes rare!
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Hi @smithlabs
You are so spot on about the currency dipping and food and fuel prices going up with hyperinflation. It's great that you've added more to your store and running out of storage space when you're prepping is a good problem to have because it means that you're doing it right and packing in a lot!
Best of luck with the building supplies, don't be ashamed - we gotta be grateful of what we get from wherever we can get it and if you have to resort to retail, well then better to have it that way than to not have it at all.
Go well, stay safe
Sadly it's true, hyperinflation is here; so get what's possible, and we'll have to make the rest!
Trading fiat currency for hard assets is wise right now, while there is still some value there! We are in the first stages of economic shutdown (denial), that will inevitably lead to economic chaos.
Storage has been a problem for a while, but I'm working on it, LOL! The SHTF will limit this soon enough....
I'm planning to mill some lumber soon for building supplies, to avoid retail. It should help a lot, and my new framing will be oak instead of pine! But I do buy some retail....
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It's the same here with prices skyrocketing, especially on food. If you buy something today, in six to twelve months you'll look back and be glad at the amount you saved on it.
Storage can be tricky, but it needs to be prioritized or all the other stuff that's currently taking up that space won't mean very much if you aren't at least semi-stocked up. So it's worth the investment to shuffle things around.
I like oak, it'll do well for you and will outlast pine by years!
Some prices have doubled already, but I'm still buying, for when things go ten times higher! sadly, you're right on the direction things will go.
Safe storage is hard, but these smaller containers won't allow large quantities to be lost if something happens to one! It's more expensive that way, but easy to store smaller amounts.
Storage is a real problem, as I have been prepping for decades; and I still have a lot of supplies to move!
The oak tree I had to cut down (it died) is about two and a half feet in diameter, so it will make a lot of lumber.
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Shame, that poor oak, sounds like it was a beautiful tree. At least it's going to be used nicely and not go to waste. Around here they fell trees and just leave them to rot, quite sad really.
I think smaller storage containers is always wise because then if something does happen, you might not lose your entire cache of goods, you might only lose some of it (to spoiling or pests for example), although looks like you are taking everything into account. I wish I was as organized as you are. I'll get there eventually.
Everyone preps at a different rate, so you're doing fine! Just keep working at it, you'll get there....
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Thanks for the curation my friend! Hoping to help someone that reads this.
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