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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
Find a house off of the beaten trail.
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Build a house off the beaten trail yrs before this scenario hopefully never happens in my lifetime.
IF it does.
I am not so sure I would have an obvious fence with barbed wire. Humans have an inate sense of curiousity about what might be behind it that is so worth all that barbed wire. They would not, however, notice blackberry hedges that are thick and encircle the property that apears to be thick woods. The house, sitting up off the ground by 12 feet on piers with stairs that are retracted when not in use or when needed to be up in defense. NO generators... go Luddite..
http://www.lehmans.com/store/catalog?Args=
These guys once shipped me a wood cooking stove and a propane powered freezer, we converted to methane.
Until the 20th century, most people did not have multi sets of clothing. Clothes were let out or taken in according to the individuals size. Clothes were handed down from one to the other and remade or refitted. The buckskinning series of books offers up simple patterns that can be turned into clothes by any novice, with a needle and a bedsheet. Most older, all metal insides, sewing machines can be turned into a handcrank machine or run via a foot treadle.
Not one box of tools, several for each system, electrical, plumbing, general tools.
skils and goods for barter. It is done all the time in the offishore cruising community.
About those in need. I dunno... the child's story "Stone Soup" made a huge impact on me as a kid, that is still with me as an adult.
Jericho was so unrealistic it was laughable. But I enjoyed it anyway.
AM.