Once your preps are completed

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   If your preps are completed, then please consider something else. If you have a little extra money,instead of giving to the church and other causes, put the money toward buying some extra supplies for people.  Go to Costco and spend $40.0 - $50.00 and buy a side supply of rice and beans, or whatever, and designate this new mini stockpile to help somebody.   Just create a little tiny area ,if you have any space still available at all lol, and create a special emergency supply for someone else.  Get a couple of big bags of rice and beans.   $40.00 at Costco  could save lives in the long run.   You would not believe how much you can buy there for $40.00.   LOL.

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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Once your preps are completed Posted: January 21 2006 at 9:22am
	If your preps are completed, then please consider something else. If you have a little extra money,instead of giving to the church and other causes, put the money toward buying some extra supplies for people. Go to Costco and spend $40.0 - $50.00 and buy a side supply of rice and beans, or whatever, and designate this new mini stockpile to help somebody. Just create a little tiny area ,if you have any space still available at all lol, and create a special emergency supply for someone else. Get a couple of big bags of rice and beans. $40.00 at Costco could save lives in the long run. You would not believe how much you can buy there for $40.00. LOL.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 21 2006 at 9:27am
	We have done this. It would crush me beyond words to have to turn someone away.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 21 2006 at 9:29am
	I knew you would have already thought about this.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 21 2006 at 10:10am
	I am going to do up baggies..hand out one..with some flour rice and barley...rotate your items..but the rice and flur and stuff and put into to your supplies and then I am goig to baggie up the older stuff(not that it is bad..I will be using some of this myself also) and you have to remember I have been prepping for 3 years. So it would be good for me to rotate some of the preps...

ps36 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List V.I.P. Member Joined: January 14 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 123	Post Options Post Reply Quote ps36 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 21 2006 at 2:43pm
	If this pandemic hits and if I have to have a birthday party during the pandemic for anybody in my household, I think I will hand out rice, romano beans and a can of tomato soup in the loot bags.

Marjo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List V.I.P. Member Joined: January 07 2006 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 102	Post Options Post Reply Quote Marjo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 22 2006 at 4:11am
	We have had a thread about this before and I still think it is very difficult. I have enough food and things to last me about 9 - 10 months. No need to go to a store, nothing. I know my neighbours and family have not prepared at all (), even though I talked about it with them. Do I share my supplies with them? And to what extent? Direct neighbours plus family makes 10 people. I could keep them all fed for about 3 weeks and then my supplies would be gone. Should I do that when it gets really bad and than perhaps starve with them? Or should I keep my mouth shut and my door closed and pretent I don't have anything too? (they don't know about my stash.) Can I live with myself afterwards if I do not help them....? Or will I just be glad to be alive and think that it was their own fault because they did not prepare when they had the chance? Sigh, these are the things that keep me awake at night.... Marjo

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 22 2006 at 6:38am
	Marjo, When Albert posted about bringing in extra to share, that was over and above what our needs were...truly extra. Your situation is not extra unless you have a garden up and running. I will have thus my years supply of food will be replaced and/or augmented by fresh produce. I would never endanger my family by helping people that chose to ignore warnings. The information is out there, all over the place. If people don't know about BF it's because they CHOOSE not to know. So they will be winnowed early. But I can't fault people for not laying in a years supply, they aren't being told to do that. Heck, maybe that will change on Tuesday. I sure hope Oprah tells people they need more that a few weeks worth of supplies. Anyway, I ramble! Your family comes first. Others only after that. Nothing to feel guilty about. They were told.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 22 2006 at 6:49am
	Thanks SZ. Marjo, that's for people who are way ahead of the game and for people that have a lot of extra money. It's directed at the people who are in a position to do it. You don't want to set aside supplies like this unless you already have around 12 - 18 months yourself. Maybe the people who have more money than others can buy a little extra? In your case Marjo, at the moment, don't plan on sharing your current supplies. I wouldn't even tell anybody. hehehe

halogen601 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Valued Member Joined: January 07 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 33	Post Options Post Reply Quote halogen601 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 22 2006 at 7:24am
	Marjo, I have often thought about the same thing. I have one set of neighbors which have no doubt watched me haul in boxes of canned vegetables and chili from the trunk of my car. They know I take advantage of super sale items and often borrow foodstuffs when they have their big Sunday family dinner. I can't be rude but if things get bad, I will just give them the less desirable canned goods such as carrots and brussel sprouts (no offense to lovers of these vegetables). I'm definitely keeping the chili, oysters, canned hams and powdered milk as a reward for my diligence.
	There is trouble in the forest.