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prepping how?

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When we prep how do we do it?

One person that I know decided that he ‘deserved’ to have ALL gourmet, freeze dried foods in his food storage program. He had enough ‘servings’ to last him 2 years. It cost him a LOT and when I added up the actual calorie count only gave him enough food for less than a year. He did not want to store any corn, beans, rice nor oatmeal as he considered that peasant food… he also refused to put in a garden as he was not going to slave in it. He also refused to get a part time job while he complained about how much he “needed’ more money to pay for his hobbies. BTW I am not bashing freeze dried foods in general as they are nice to have and can fill in what is lacking in a basic or expanded food storage program. Nothing replaces fresh foods though for taste and nutrition as well as sustainability as stored food eventually runs out unless you have a way of production. By now you should have decided what you are going to plant in your garden this year.

Focus first on the actual NEEDS that you have, then the nice to have only then maybe the luxuries.

OK, what prompted this post?

Well I was going through some old stuff and came across the following and thought that it would be a good thing for us to ponder.

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.
During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives.  Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups – porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.
 
When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:
“Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.  While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.  The cup that you’re drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate.  In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.  What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups…  And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
 
Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups.  They are just tools to hold and contain life.  The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us.  God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups. 

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything.  They just make the best of everything that they have. 
Live simply.
Love generously.  Care deeply.  Speak kindly. 

And enjoy your hot chocolate

Cross ref

http://www.preparesurvivethrive.us/comms-part-1/

http://www.preparesurvivethrive.us/convalescent-care/
and some books that explore the topics in more depth
http://www.preparesurvivethrive.us/ready-or-not-things-will-happen/ This is book 1 the quick start guide to preparedness.

http://www.preparesurvivethrive.us/ready-or-not-fun-things-will-happen/ This is book 2 about traveling and evacuation planning.

http://www.preparesurvivethrive.us

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History lesson

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*** Over the years my wife and I have taken care of several survivors of the camps [in medical settings], you know the ones with number tattoos on their arms… The stories we have heard were upsetting to say the least. Look to what Congress is DOING right now, LEARN from history or repeat it – your choice***

Always remember that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance….

On this day, April 11, 1945, at 3:15PM, the U.S. 9th Armored Infantry Division arrived at a place called Buchenwald. It would be the first Nazi concentration camp discovered…and the smallest.

As Captain Fred Keffer describes the scene, “we came upon this large concentration camp and, above the entrance was a German sign that read ‘you get what you deserve’. What we found there scared us more than a hail of machine gun bullets…thousands of human skeletons walking around…we had never seen such horror…not even the horror of war could surpass it.”

The Jewish prisoners, despite their skeletal bodies, were so overwhelmed with joy that they made frantic attempts to lift their liberators into the air, shouting with joy at their survival. 56,000 did not survive; they were used as human “lab rats” to test typhus injections, enduring white phosphorus poured over their bodies, then timed to see how quickly they died. Some of the dead were skinned, their skin to make lampshades for the Nazi elite. Over 1100 were shot in the back of the head, a thousand Jewish women were peeled off and sent to the camp whorehouse. The vast majority just died from overwork in Nazi factories.

As the Americans moved through the camp they found one building, meant to house 12 horses, occupied by over 1200 prisoners, mostly those so starved or sick they could not rise from their wooden slat beds. At first the Americans were horrified, even scared to look on these remnants of human beings. Then they became quite angry. Captain Keffer ordered the Mayor of a nearby town to free up all the food stored in store rooms, and all the food in local markets and bring that food to the starving prisoners. The emaciated prisoners ate like wolves, then, unused to such generous meals, threw it all up, wiped their mouths, and began eating again. Many were too sick to eat; American G.I.’s would spoon feed broth to these wretched folks…until they could once again tolerate solid food.

Despite the horror of Buchenwald, even greater horrors would be revealed as the Americans began liberating all of the Jewish concentration camps. Tragically, for nearly 7 million Jews that liberation would come too late.

As we watch events unfolding in the Middle East, and here in our own country, as we see rising anti-semitism and hostility to Christians from our liberal elite, we should never forget the capacity to destroy by those who believe “their beliefs” are the only beliefs and everyone else can go to hell.

Sorry to rain on your morning parade this morning…but we should never forget these things.Deathcamp 1

http://www.preparesurvivethrive.us/survived-hitler/