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Ponce
30th November 2011, 10:36 PM
If The SHTF, Make Sure You Have Toilet Paper!

All kidding aside on this title, toilet paper is an important prep item that many seem to overlook. According to Wikipedia, Americans use an average of 23.6 rolls of toilet paper per year. I think that number should be doubled – a person can never have enough toilet paper. Let’s just say that one person needed 50 rolls per year. Using that instance, a family of 5 should have 250 rolls of toilet paper in reserve!

Sanitation during a disaster is a major concern if a major disaster were to occur. Lack of sanitation pollutes water sources, and creates diseases. Understanding how to properly disperse of waste products so that it does not affect water sources is an important skill to possess. Having an emergency sanitation kit for short term disasters could be very beneficial.

Add a Sanitation Kit to Disaster Supplies
Having a sanitation kit that is ready in times of disaster is essential to keeping your family and neighbors healthy. These kits can fit comfortably into a bucket, are affordable, and will not take up much space. Additionally, being educated on how to properly dispose of waste is a key factor in keeping everyone healthy during a disaster.

Some suggested sanitation supplies to add to any short or long term emergency kits are:

•Disposable bucket or luggable loo
•Toilet paper
•Rubber gloves
•Garbage bags with twist ties ( for liners of toilets or luggable loo)
•Bathroom cleaner
•Cat Litter or absorbent material such as saw dust or dirt
•Baby wipe
•Baking soda can be used to help eliminate odors
•Vinegar
•Shovel
There are many types of toilet paper alternatives to use in case the toilet paper reserve runs out. Leaves are nature’s alternative to toilet paper. Therefore, having a stockpile of tp alternatives may be of help in emergency situations.

Toilet Paper Alternatives
•Phone books
•Unused coffee filters
•Corn cobs (That’s right- Corn Cobs)
•Dilapadated kitchen towels that will not be used for cleaning anymore.
•Cut strips from a worn sheet
•Mail order catalog
•Bank notes
Other Toiletry Items To Keep In Mind
Toilet paper isn’t the only items to take into account when preparing your survival reserve. Anything that you use for hygeine needs to be categorized under toiletries. Some of these include:

•Woman’s toiletries for their needs
•Diapers/baby wipes
•Kleenexes
•Anti-bacterial soap
•Moist towelettes
•Lotion
•Deodorant
•Toothpaste/toothbrush
•Shampoo/body wash
•Comb
•Razor and shaving cream
•Toiletseat and lid cover
To get a jump start on your toiletry stockpiling, don’t be afraid to go to places online that give out free samples of things. The point is to be resourceful in finding those toiletry items. They don’t have to be brand name. They just need to be available to you when you need it the most.

Silver Rocket Bitches!
1st December 2011, 05:44 AM
Whenever I see four packs of TP on sale for 88 cents I load up and just toss em in my attic.

I really don't want to have to use corn cobs.

agnut
1st December 2011, 02:17 PM
Hi Ponce. Your thread reminds me of my father’s advice when I was about 10 years old. He took a piece of newspaper and crumpled it up and then opened it up. He did this several times until it became soft and pliable. It began to feel like toilet paper, soft and absorbent. He explained that this is what his family used during the Depression. In fact, when I was a boy spending the summers at my grandparents’ cattle ranch, they still had an outhouse with torn catalogs and newspapers. That was about 1956 I was 9 years old.

My father also showed me how to cut out cardboard and put it into my shoes when the shoe soles had a hole.

Another thing he showed me was how to wrap newspapers around my arms, legs and body under my clothing in order to maintain body heat in case of being exposed to frigid cold.

He also showed me how to conceal money in my clothing with a diaper pin. It was a common defense against thieves in those days.

My father lived through the Depression in a very small town in the Florida panhandle. His having lived through that era colored his actions for the rest of his life. Looking back I can now see just how scarred he had been by the long ordeal.

I used the word “scarred” on purpose. It may be instructive to ponder whether my father was scarred or instead forced to become survival level practical as the Depression dragged on, seemingly without end.

Working 10 and 12 hour days for 25 to 50 cents per day was all that was available in his rural area.

So who is really “scarred ?

Was it those who struggled through the Depression of the 1930s ?

Or is it us right here and now ? For we have lived with more conveniences, food security, health care, light and heat, clean water, sanitation, refrigeration and air conditioning and societal peace than the richest kings could only envision only a couple of hundred years ago. Additionally, we have such a broad offering of entertainment that we must pick and choose the least boring rather than to turn it all off and quietly reflect upon where we must guide our lives. Television is primarily entertainment. And with our current and future problems facing us, this entertainment should be used sparingly.

So our protected cocoon is an illusion preventing us from seeing the harsh realities of the future. And this cocoon has made us weak and lazy so that when facing the harsh realities of a collapse, many will not be able to adjust. What then ? As Howard Ruff said decades ago, depressions are depressing. Psychiatry would be a booming business in a collapse but nobody would have money so mental illness would go unattended. Maybe that is why some writers describe the “zombies” that will be roaming around after a collapse.

Maybe a retreat in the country would be the answer but only if it is well guarded. Being near a military base would be a good idea; at least I read it being recommended a while back.

We are no longer the guiding light for the world but rather emanate a light from the fires of our destruction.

Here is an article that clearly lays out our future :

How the U.S. Is Becoming a 3rd World Country - Part 2
By Ron Hera

http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/ron-hera/2011/11/29/how-the-u-s-will-become-a-3rd-world-country-part-2


Best wishes,

agnut

zap
1st December 2011, 02:59 PM
Being flexible and adapting is going to paramount when TSHTF.

Dogman
1st December 2011, 03:05 PM
Being flexible and adapting is going to paramount when TSHTF. Those that do not change and adapt to the times/circumstances, will be toast!

palani
1st December 2011, 03:28 PM
TP is over-rated.

When there is nothing going in one end there will be less coming out the other.

Ponce
1st December 2011, 03:32 PM
Whenever I see four packs of TP on sale for 88 cents I load up and just toss em in my attic.

I really don't want to have to use corn cobs.

In the attic they would serve as a insulationg material....one whole wall of my garage is covered with them.

Buddha
1st December 2011, 05:22 PM
Corn cobs.... It's corn HUSKS actually. The early settlers used them as tp, though I guess corn cobs could work too....

Santa
1st December 2011, 06:45 PM
Cobs get places where the husk won't go... :)

Ponce
1st December 2011, 06:58 PM
Try to think OUTSIDE the box and you then would realise that no everyone think as you do......at the end they will even trade a rifle for a pack of tp........if for nothing else to stop the wife from making any more noises.

Dogman
1st December 2011, 07:03 PM
Cobs get places where the husk won't go... :) Also good for polishing cartage cases, and other metals, even rocks.


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