Best Stuff You'll Need When SHTF

I’ve updated my ways, and thinking on what to prepare, what to have before the big one hits, here’s my list:

Communication:

When SHTF cell phone towers would be flooded with helpless people calling for help, emergency dispatch lines will be flooded and shut down. When the electricity goes out you’re gonna need help eventually, preppers should volunteer in the local community and help eachother out, network with other preppers and don’t just sit in our house and help eachother survive. The best communication would be a HAM RADIO, it’s the only way to maintain communication when SHTF!

Solar or Gas Generator:

You’re gonna need some way to power your stuff, your big stuff, like the fridge, radios, and etc. For your small stuff like GPS, rechargeable AA/AAA batteries, ipads, smartphones, LED lights, radios etc. Get a portable handheld solar charger, one that does not require batteries to operate, is water resistant and can last a long time. Solar will save our butts when the power no longer works due to an EMP or Solar Flare, or what-have-you.

Gasoline and Oil:

This is GOLD when SHTF, you will not be able to escape when you need to if you don’t have it. The world has already hit peak oil, this is just another item that people will be desperate to have.

Water

1) Storing as many bottled water cases I could or filling up empty 2liters with ordinary tap water

2) Hoarding as many grocery bags, rolls of syran wrap, garbage bags, tarps i could find. (for water collection and other things)

3) A few bottles of iodyne 2%, bleach bottles.

4) Buckets and trash cans (to collect water incase it rains)

Food

1) Planting Perennial Vegetables, here’s a list of 20 that once you plant them they will grow forever.

berries, asparagus, rubarb, kale, garlic, raddishio, artichokes, watercress, beans, etc.

2) Planting food trees like:

pecan trees (pecans can last 3-4 months in storage, easy to grow and nutritious)

lime trees (full of vitamin C, lasts a long time)

japanese fruit (these trees product A LOT of fruit and the fruit lasts a long time and delicious)

peach trees (another tree that produces a lot of fruit with very little effort)

fig (when SHTF they are great dried, dehydrated or canned just like peaches)

also: pears, cherries, grapes, and apples are great unlimited producers.

(planting fruit trees are the easiest to grow and provides you unlimited food as long as you care for them, check out survivalist boards for a ton of information on fruit trees and survival)

3) Storing food like; rice, beans, cornmeal, lard, salt, canned meat, canned fruits (from your own trees), canned food, sugar, pasta, peanut butter, protein bars, powdered milk, powdered cheese, game meats (frozen), trout (frozen).. here’s a list of high-protein meats you can start dehydrating and turning into jerkey or freezing them for later.

Money:

Like JP Morgan said: “Gold is money, everything else is just credit”, I tend to agree, things like Silver, Paper Money and etc will all be left in the dust when SHTF, the only real money is Gold, always has been. Sorry silver dudes!

Medical Stuff:

First Aid Kit, Cotton, sutures, butterfly strips, needles, antiseptic, medicine, vitamins, vasaline, tourniquets, cloth, medical scissors, scalpel, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, super glue, syran wrap,

Drugs:

Imodium AD (for diarrhea), Ipicac (force throw up poison), Charcoal (absorbs poison in the stomach), Ibuprofen, pennicili, Amoxicillin, Cephalexin (for infections).

Fire:

Box of Bic Lighters (I’d seal all the lighters in clear packing tape to water proof them and keep the gasoline from vaporizing.)

Wax Candles 

Wax-Coated matches

Flint Rock and Steel

Magnifying Glass

Cattail (the most natural, flammible tinder i found)