What have you done this week to prep?

[indytechnerd]

Well, it's not something that I did, but my wife said, during a discussion of the recent EAS 'test' , that she wanted to get her HAM license. Headed to radio shack today to pick up the Tech book. Mine is 15 years old, and I'm not sure where it is.

 

[flagtag]

I heard on the news that the "test" didn't work everywhere. (Back to the drawing board.)

 

[Exodus]

Got my pile of medical supplies better organized. Still feel like I need more but for now it will suffice.

 

[Iroquois]

The winter wheat is up...woo hoo!!! Started building a second raised bed for the wife's
veggy garden. checking the generator this weekend.

 

[teddy12b]

Just bought three more books off of amazon.

Sent a donation to the Ron Paul money bomb.

 

[sbsg2005]

Received the 5 alice packs with frames I won on ebay. All in great condition. Got all for 10 bucks each free shipping. Started packing and organizing them. Still need a couple more for carrying in the vehicals. Added food to my pile in the basement. Working on water storage. Get to live a mini event since my furnace crapped out and the part is back ordered.

 

[sipowicz30]

Been researching diesel generator's and shopping for a pistol for my wife.

 

[JohnP82]

Got a couple more mags for my AR (up to 10 now, still want many more)
Added a few hundred more rounds to the ammo stash.
Doing research and upgrading my BOB and first aid kit
Got 150 feet of 550 paracord

Had a great in depth discussion with a close friend about the survival and preparing topic. Shared a bunch of great info with each other and helping each other out with ideas and planning.

 

[teddy12b]

Last night I started reading reading the book "raising chickens for dummies". Its amazing how much more knowledge can be gained with just a few minutes of reading.

 

[bigg cheese]

Shipped off my crappy backpacks to Major Surplus. Only had them since April and both have been sitting in my truck/car respectively, and each of them had a side pocket that manifested faulty zippers. Hopefully, I'll get better luck with the next ones.. In the meantime, my emergency packs are sitting in piles in a spare bedroom...

 

[jeremy]

Discovered a situation with the John Deere 2840 Diesel this morning. steam in LARGE quantities coming from the Crankcase this Morning after Idling for like 20 minutes. Head is off and looks like a trip to the Machinist is in order to resurface the head and flip a new head gasket on it. Keeping my fingers crossed that this is all I really seen...

 

[Icarry2]

Since last updated I converted some retirement fund to cash to metal, beans and bullets..

We stocked up on some items from Sam's

bar soap
razor blades
shampoo
deoderant
female plugs
vitamins for adults
vitamins for kidos
tylenol
advil
antidiarrhea medicine
antacids
bottled water
gatorade
caugh drops
chapstick
Clif bars
dry soup
rice
fake taters
canned meat

Bought the better half a case of her favorite wine, too bad it's not being left in the stockpile but is being drank... lol

Bought some ammo:

50 #4 buck 12 gauge rounds
2 boxes of TAP 308 rounds
500 surplus 308 rounds, thanks to an INGO member..
10 boxes of Federal Match 308 ammo, thanks to an INGO Member
420 round box of M855 5.56 rounds
6 boxes of cheap plinking 5.56 rounds
24 AR mags
16" DPMS Oracle AR
AR bag
sights for AR
light and mount for AR
light and mount for Shotty
couple boxes of 9mm rounds
more gun cleaning stuff
picked up a new RD-4 long knife

stocked up on favorite soup from Menards.. yeah they sell it cheap..

rotated some food stocks
organized some new purchases into rotation
rotated some water

started cleaning the garage

rotated some fuel
bought some more fuel cans

paid some bills off

replaced 2 tires on better halfs vehicle

i forget the rest, it's been a busy couple weeks.

 

[nemo97]

I stocked about 170 cans of food stuff this week. In the very early stages of preparing the family and trying to catch up as fast as possible.

 

[teddy12b]

Another trip to the range, another drop chart built, and some good practice.

 

[grunt soldier]

attended a appleseed shoot and got my rifleman patch. also took my wife and they had her shooting very very well by the end. great training for a good price

 

[WETSU]

Oh heck, I'll jump in.

Maintained combat conditioning levels, about fully recovered from a foot injury, back running, but still hitting the pool. Putting in some monster workouts.

2 Fight Nites, drills, heavy bag, sparring

3 dry fire sessions. AK, G19, J frame, bolt gun

Went down to Tennessee to help teach Tactical Response's Fighting Rifle class. Teaching is always a good touch up.

Went through BOB and cache contents at a remote cache. Freshened everything up a bit.

Practiced knots and rope work, gear etc.

Acquired a small tomahawk, and a couple knives, bianary fire compound, and some .22 and .410.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

My son and I built a fire in the rain yesterday with just our fire steel and what we could find in the woods.

 

[nemo97]

Started looking for land to possibly relocate if that need arises. Also looking to add to the food supply again this week (good ad prices at Scott's/Kroger) on some can goods.

Took my daughter to the range on Sunday to get in about 40 minutes of range time as well.

 

[JohnP82]

Got some more ammo to add to the stash.

 

[flagtag]

More buckets from the bakery. Rearranged a couple more bags.
Repacked my truck (had to have the fuel pump replaced and removed everything from the bed in order to remove the bed from the frame. Thanks to my son & friends ) My son also replaced the circuit board thingie for the wiper blade motor. (They would stop at the most inopportune moment - OR keep running after they were turned off )

Printed out a list of possible supplies (100 things that disappear first)needed to stock for a co-worker. He seems to be "getting it" FINALLY. (Of course, after hearing his son-in-law talk about preparing. I'm just a "lowly" woman, what would I know? )