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Welcome to Practical prepping. Today is September 15, 2025, and this is episode 525. This is the prepping podcast with no bunkers, no zombies and no alien invasions. Just practical prepping where we teach everyday people how to prepare for life's emergencies. And we're here to help you get prepared. Hi, I'm Krista.
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And I'm Mark.
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And there are no expanded notes for today's episode because today we are announcing that we're going to take a break from recording new episodes.
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That's right. We're just going to take a short break through the rest of September, but we'll be back on October 6th with a brand new show.
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This is our fifth year doing the podcast and we love doing weekly episodes, but we need to take a short break and recharge our batteries.
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We will be replaying some of our previous shows from the archives, so we'll hope you'll enjoy some of the best of the Practical Prepping podcast.
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You can still reach us@practicalprepping.info contact. We'll be checking our email daily. You'll still see us in the private groups and if anything breaks, we'll be posting updates on Facebook and Instagram.
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Now here's one of our favorite shows.
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We've all seen the memes of the 400 pound dude carrying a 400 pound bug out bag. Everything he could ever want or need is in there, but that's not at all practical. Actually, many of us probably carry more in our bags than we need and that adds weight, especially in a get home bag we might have to wear for an extended period of time. On today's episode, we're going to discuss how to practice minimalist prepping in our get home bags. And these principles can be practiced in our prepping at home as well.
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Welcome to Practical Prepping. Today is May 6, 2024, and this is episode 465. This is the prepping podcast with no bunkers, no zombies and no alien invasions. Just practical prepping where we believe that stuff happens.
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So.
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So we need to stay prepared and we're here to help you get prepared. Hi guys, I'm Krista.
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And I'm Mark. And if you'd like the expanded notes for this episode, go to practicalprepping.info 465. And if you aren't receiving the Practical Prepping newsletter, go to the website practicalprepping.info, click on Free PDF and you'll receive the free Getting Started in Prepping PDF and you'll be added to the newsletter. Minimalist prepping is a philosophy.
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Okay.
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It's an approach to emergency preparedness that focuses on essential supplies and maximizing our skills while minimizing excess and unnecessary items.
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Well, you know, years ago when we started this podcast, you would say all the time, the more you know, the less you have to carry. And I think this is what this episode is going to really be about.
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It is this philosophy emphasizes simplicity, efficiency and practicality.
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That's great because you're talking about carrying a bug out bag or a get home bag. And like you said, you may be carrying it for a couple of days or a couple of weeks or a couple of months. You never know. So you've got to be able to think ahead and really boil it down to the bare necessities.
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Now, the minimalists prioritize versatile and multifunction items, and we're going to talk about that to a great degree here in a minute. But they're talking about things like compact first aid kit, carrying water purification tablets or portable shelter options and just very basic tools.
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And their goal is to maintain a lightweight and easily manageable kit that they can adapt to different scenarios. And, you know, we have the luxury being able to store a lot of handy things for prepping at home, but we don't have that luxury in our get home bags.
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No. And the principles of minimalist prepping revolve around simplicity, practicality, efficiency, and adaptability.
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We've got to find some kind of balance in what we carry. You know, we need water. You know that. That's my number one. Number one, we need water. But most of us can't carry three gallons of water in our bag. And like you said, the more we know, the less we have to carry. But we do have to have those skills. So let's talk about that a little bit. Okay. Let's talk about some of the key principles of minimalist prepping. And the first one is essentialism.
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Yeah. That's focusing on acquiring only the essential supplies while still covering the major prepping categories. And we're going to go through those categories with some expansion of this water and food. Now, the minimalist may carry water purification tabs rather than a personal water filter.
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Okay, I can see where that would.
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Light ounces lighter, certainly. And so you can easily purify water. You have to plan a little bit ahead because it's going to take 30 or so minutes minimum for that to act. They may carry only calorie dense power bars.
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Sure, yeah.
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Or, and this is in our bags, powdered instant soup mix.
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Okay.
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So we carry those for nutrition.
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Also some way to start a fire. They may carry only a lighter and a ferro rod rather than a large quantity of matches and bow drill sticks and things like that. But you know, a lighter or a ferro rod is pretty lightweight.
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Yeah. We carry several forms of tinder in our bags, including fatwood sticks and commercial tender. Several things there. But the minimalist may not carry that tender. They may find tender in the wild.
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Sure.
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One thing that they'll carry and we all need is some type of cutting tool.
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Right.
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We need a quality knife and I believe we actually need two. I like having a full tang, fixed blade knife, and I like having a folding knife. Carry the folding knife in my pocket and I carry the fixed blade in my bag. But you do need that quality cutting knife.
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Also some form of shelter and clothing. And we'll start with shelter first. Some kind of cordage and a lightweight tarp. You know, a paracord and a lightweight tarp can actually be structured to create a bit of a tent.
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Yes. And that's what we carry in our car and in our bags. We have paracord and we have. Now we've put in like 6 by 9 tarps. A 5 by 7 would work, but we are both long, tall drinks of water and we.
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And we want to tent together.
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Yeah, we want to tent together, but we really don't want our feet sticking out the end of the tent.
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Now, in talking about weather appropriate clothing, I'll tell you that for minimalist purposes, a person may actually carry the layers of clothing on their body just to prevent having to lose that packability in their backpack. So they may wear a couple of T shirts and an outer shirt and a light jacket. They may wear two pairs of socks. I mean, it kind of depends on the shoes and whatnot. But a lot of times they'll have those multiple layers on their person.
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Yes. But they also have them in the bag because if you're in warmer weather, you don't need the extra layers on your body, but you need to be able to have those available. And the same thing with a lightweight rain gear. And if you pay $0.89 for it, it's not rain gear, it's a bread wrapper. So get you.
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Yeah. May not last one use if you're cheap.
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It's kind of the amusement park, you know, where you pay 995 to get a 99 cent.
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Sure, exactly. Yeah.
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And it's worth what you pay for it. But get you a lightweight rain gear. Doesn't have to be a full rain suit, but you need something and you need a good hat. And for wintertime you need something to keep that head really warm. Not just a ball cap but something like a skull cap or a toboggan, anything like that to keep that head warm. We also need lighting. Now this is where I carry more than the minimalist in my bag.
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Oh yeah, absolutely.
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I'm a flashlight addict.
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He's got a bad problem with the flashlights.
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Yeah. And I even carry like four cell c cell light in my bag.
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He does.
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Now if I had to strike out on coming home and I'm going to have a two day walk to get here, that light's going by the wayside. That that's too many ounces, too many pounds to be carrying. You know, we use our bags a lot like a car bag. We've used it more for that than we have had to have it getting home. So I've been able to go to that bag and get that light when I need a bigger light than what I had on my body.
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Oh, and also don't forget extra batteries.
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Extra batteries, absolutely. Because they will run down something else.
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You can have that's in a minimalist bag would be a compact first aid kit. Now we're not talking about a trauma case here. We're just talking about a couple of bandages, some gauze, maybe a little sample size of antibiotic cream, couple of three band aids, a few butterfly bandages if you actually have a worser cut and even some pain relief, rub or roll on type lotion because your muscles are going to be extra. So from all of the carrying and walking you may also want to put in one of those metallic looking emergency blankets that can fold up really small compact first aid kit.
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Now it doesn't necessarily have to be inside the kit. As Krista was talking, I reached over here inside my EDC bag and brought out my first aid kit.
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And it looks like a glasses case.
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It was a glasses case.
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That's what looks like that.
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This is what actually a nice pair of sunglasses. Actually a pair of safety glasses that are colored. Came from the big box store.
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Sure.
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Actually came from Lowe's and that's what that case is. And I have replaced it with some first aid supplies in there.
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Smart.
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Now I don't have the blanket in there and I don't have the roll on pain reliever. I can drop that into the bag if I want to. But the compact is the operable word.
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And they do actually make fairly small little cases and you can customize your first aid kit. I mean, even if you have to put it in a Ziploc bag, you know, just. Just to save on some space. We're talking about minimalism here.
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Sure.
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The bare essentials.
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Now, when it comes to navigation, Minimalist is going to want to have a compass and a mount.
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Right.
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With those two things, if I have any idea where I am, I can figure out where home is, and I can get there with that map and with that compass.
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And I recently purchased a beautiful hardwood walking stick. And there's a compass that's embedded right in the head of that stick at the very top. So as I'm walking, I can see what direction I am headed.
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I wondered how long it was going to be before you admitted to buying a walking stick.
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Well, you know, you can be any age and enjoy a good walking stick.
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It's more of a hiking stick.
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It's a hiking stick.
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It is a hiking stick.
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Which hiking stick is actually part of the next element of our minimalist kit.
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Yeah, we're talking about personal protection. We like the idea of carrying a firearm.
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We do.
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And, you know, we're not pushing that on you if you don't want to carry one, if you're not allowed to in the city or the country that you're in. We understand that. But you need to have something for personal safety right now. It could be a firearm. It could be a knife. It can also be that hiking stick. I was walking one day with mine, and friend came up to me and he said, well, is that intended to be offensive or defensive? And I said, yes.
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Okay. All right. So depends on the situation.
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It could go either way. And like I've told a lot of people, I don't actually need it to walk. It does help with the balance because I've got neuropathy.
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Yeah.
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And I can stumble.
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And so it does help you to walk.
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It does. Well, it helps me to stay upright.
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Gotcha.
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And I don't go to my knees as much.
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Okay.
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But the number one thing on personal safety is situational awareness.
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Whether you're bugging in, bugging out, staying home, getting home, leaving work, or just living your everyday life or stopping to get gas, you're just going to want that situational awareness.
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And we've even talked about coming out of the mall store. And as you start out, look to the left and to the right and see what's to each side. Be aware of what's going on around you.
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I heard someone say recently, you need to be a human ring video oh, that'd be nice. That is cool. Because we kind of all now depend on these ring video cameras to record whatever's happening at our front doors and our back doors and around our garages. Well, you need to be the human factor of the ring video in the situation where you find yourself so that you're also mentally recording. What are you seeing, what are you hearing? Is everything okay? And you need to look like you're someone who is aware.
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Yes.
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Just yesterday I watched a young man approach a very busy highway. His nose and head were down, looking into his phone. He wasn't looking up, he wasn't, he was walking forward. And I just watched him for a moment thinking, well, I wonder how long it's going to take him before he realizes that he has wandered out into a four lane city street. And I got past him before I could tell. But the point being he wasn't at all situationally aware, had no clue who was near him.
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And anybody could come up behind you. And like we say in the airplane, keep your head on a swivel, keep it moving, keep an eye on what is going on. All right, for our second point after essentialism, we want to look at multifunctionality.
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Yeah, that's a good call.
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Prioritize items that serve multiple purposes.
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Right.
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And it minimizes the number of items in your kit.
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Totally.
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Now here's one that a lot of people don't think about. And this is a single walled stainless steel wood water bottle. Rather than carrying like a pot to boil water in.
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Okay.
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A lot of people will carry. And I actually have one in my bag. It's a small, probably a two cup, cup and a half pot. Got it at the thrift store for a dollar. But I also carry a water bottle. I can cut down to just that single wall stainless steel water bottle. And I can boil water in it, I can carry water in it, I can make soup in it. And if you want to get one of the large mouth, you can actually put a survival kit in it by putting the bandana, by putting a knife, by putting something fire, by putting first aid. I mean, you can put a mini survival kit in that water bottle.
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And let me reiterate, you're talking about a single wall stainless steel, something you can heat over a fire.
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Yes.
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A lot of these stainless steel water tumblers are double walled. And you can tell when the inside of the container is much narrower and shorter than the outside. And you can also tell if it's single walled because it's going to be identical size inside Exactly. You don't want to heat up a double wall.
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No. If it's insulated, it's double wall and it has air in between. And as you begin to heat it up, that air begins to heat up. That air gets to a certain point and the thing's going to explode.
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Yeah. It could be dangerous.
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So you cannot boil water in an insulated water bottle. It has to be a single wall stainless steel water bottle.
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Now you're talking about multi purpose items. I know that a multi tool is a definite must. You've usually got one on your person at all times. I actually carry two in my work bag for different purposes of course. But I've got a multi tool knife cutting type tool. You can use a multi tool for making repairs, creating shelter or preparing food. You know, because it can do many functions.
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Yeah. I've cleaned a deer and I've cut a stake with mine.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It did get washed in between, of course. Okay. After I, after I cut the stake, I washed it before I cleaned the deer.
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That's funny right there.
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But you can, you can use it for all kinds of things. And it's rare that a day goes by that I don't use mine for something. Another thing that's very, very versatile and multi use is a tarp.
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Yeah, I think we alluded to it before, but having that something to build a shelter with. But you can also put a tarp underneath like a sleeping bag or use it as a temporary flooring type thing, a ground cover. But a tarp is just a good all purpose, multi purpose item to have.
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Yeah, you can use it for wind protection. You can use it for rainwater collection. If you're out there with a little water and it starts to rain, you can set this thing up and collect a lot of water with that tarp. But along with that tarp you need some paracord.
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Absolutely.
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And that's very, very versatile. You can use it for lashing items to a backpack, building a shelter or making traps. You can take it apart and use it as fishing line because you know, it has that outer core and then it has 5, 7, 9 or 11, depending on what strength of cord it is of smaller cords in there. And I use paracord as anchors for my wire antenna for the ham radio.
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Exactly. It's very versatile.
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It goes from the end of the wire to a tree to where it's mounted or anchored.
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Something else that you southern boys love, and southern gals too. That's good old duct tape, you know, because it's got a Thousand uses. You can lash things together. You can stop a leak in a tent or your tarp when you've got a few pieces of duct tape on there. You can repair your boots, you can repair your shoes. You can even fashion a water container for drinking. I've even seen someone make a wallet out of duct tape.
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Now that would be wild.
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It would be.
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Yeah. I saw the water container made on the program back when you used to watch Naked and afraid.
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Oh, yeah.
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And the guy built them two cups out of duct tape.
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Makes a lot of sense. Yeah.
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So many things that you can use that. The number three in our principles is we want to select quality over quantity.
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Yeah. Especially when you're having to pare down. You're going to want to make certain that your resources and supplies are of good quality and will be durable.
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We have this saying in prepping that 2 is 1, 1 is 9. So we tend to carry redundancy. But when we're looking at minimalist, we need to cut that down to some degree. And going with a quality knife, quality durable gear and quality supplies, they last longer and they perform reliably when needed. And that applies to your fixed blade knife. You want that to be a full tang knife with a strong grip. And it really doesn't matter what the length is, whatever your preferred length is for that. But also in name brand lighters rather than dollar store lighters. We've proven this on our own. You can buy at the dollar store a pack of five lighters for the cost of what two really good lighters will cost, if not less. And what we have found is that the Bic and the Scripto work great. They will outlast the cheap ones. So go with quality over quantity.
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Now I think we can set some goals when it comes to minimalizing the gear in our bags and also maximizing the skills that we would need to use that gear. So some of those goals would be versatility. And that kind of refers to the items and the skills that can be adapted to various scenarios and emergencies rather than trying to prepare for a single specific and extremely unlikely event. And it has as much to do with our prepping generally, and not just our bug out bag or our get home bag.
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Yes, the get home bag is really designed to get you home regardless of what happens. The same things need to be in there regardless of the scenario. But too many preppers at home get caught up in preparing for specific events.
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Yeah. Like in our area, some very dedicated preppers may really start focusing on just tornadoes to the extent that they Forget all about flat tires, dead batteries and power outages, loss of job, prolonged illness, or lack of food in the house. Now, they may be ready for any tornado that may come their way, and they may be ready if their house gets blown to bits. But they have focused every bit of attention and energy and monetary resources on an event that isn't so much unlikely, but is less likely than some of.
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These other things or the folks that prepare for pretty much exclusively an emp, right, or coronal mass ejection or a nuclear holocaust. Now, our nuclear preparations here where we live, probably about five miles straight line off of what is a known target for foreign countries. Our preparation from that is to make sure that we're right with the Lord, to make sure that our relationship with him is good. Because there's no way that we can survive a nuclear holocaust right here where we live.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Now, somebody said, well, it could hit the west coast or it could hit the Northeast, sure, okay, I personally don't want to go through a nuclear holocaust.
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I don't want to.
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I'll be ready to just go on home. So that's our preparation for that. But now when we get back to the things that we will face and that we could face, we need to look at skill development. And this is even more important when we are talking about minimalism. And the emphasis needs to be on developing practical skills. And like you said a while ago, and we've said many times, the more, you know, the less you have to carry.
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True.
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So these skills necessary for emergency situations can be first aid. We need to really take a look at that. We need to make sure we have some of that first aid in our bag and a lot of that first aid at home navigation. We need to be able to get home from where we are.
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Also fire making. You know, if you're having to get home and like you said, some of us work far enough away that it may take us two or three or four days to make it all the way home. So we're going to be overnighting it somewhere. We're going to need to build a fire any time of year. Even in the hot summer months of.
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August, if you're heating water, if that's your method of purification, you're going to need that fire.
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Right.
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If it's in the colder months, you're going to need that fire for warmth. You need that skill in starting a fire. And our top three or four methods are lighter matches. Ferro rod, you know, we're not getting down to bow drills no, we're.
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The failure rate on a bow drill.
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Is high, especially on those of us that have never done it.
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And if you're under enough stress from the situation, you don't need to add more stress to your situation.
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Add a good commercial tender and lighter and I'll get a fire started here in a minute.
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We totally believe in trying to make something easy on yourself if it can be done.
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And that wet fire, it'll start when it's wet? Yes, it will, and that's why it's in the bag. We also need basic survival techniques that are invaluable in these emergency situations. And some of those can be obtaining food. Now that can be foraging, it could be trapping, it can be fishing. It's definitely water purification. That's a skill that we must have and we need to know several options to be able to do that.
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You've got to think about your mobility, your aiming for that minimalist, lightweight, portable kit that you're going to be packing into your backpack. Something that's easily carried, something that's easily transported. It allows for your mobility and your flexibility. You may have to dump some things along the way. So you've got to be very flexible and only let go the things you know you're just not going to need.
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Now one of the things that I think about here with the mobility and flexibility, can you go down an embankment easily with your bag or up, up the other side?
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Exactly.
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You could wind up doing both.
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Can you scale over a wall or a fence?
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Exactly. And I cannot do that with a 60 pound pack on. I just can't do it. Not going to do it.
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Yeah. So I mean, you may face a tremendous amount of unknowns out there. A map may not tell you all the things you may be encountering when it comes to barriers and that sort of thing. So maybe have a plan to scope that out and figure out what your route might be if you needed to get home.
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And we need an attitude or a mindset of resourcefulness. We need to cultivate that mindset of resourcefulness and adaptability. A lot of times things don't go as they were planned. No, doesn't go that way here at the house, doesn't go that way out there in the wood shop, the barn.
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You mean things go according to plan all the time?
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They don't always go to according to.
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Plan, even if there's not an emergency.
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Exactly. And that's why we need a plan. A, B, C, D, E, F and yeah, there's 26.
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And then you start doubling the letters.
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Yes. And. But we need to learn to make the most of the available resources.
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Right.
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What can you find along the way to repurpose?
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Yeah, you've got to become a pretty.
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Good scavenger and learn to improvise solutions when it's necessary. This is where that good old redneck engineering comes in.
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It has saved more than one hind end.
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Oh, yes. You know, find you a good old country boy and get him to teach.
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You redneck engineering, because that's what built this country.
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Yes. And it works. It does work. We'll find a way to do what needs to be done. And along the way, when we've got these things built, we've got these skills learned, we need to be doing continuous improvement.
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Okay.
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We need to regularly assess and improve our preparedness plans.
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And a lot of times you actually have to go through some stuff to know what that improvement needs to be.
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I saw in the group yesterday that someone said that if you want to know what it takes to survive the weekend, flip the power off and go all weekend without using any of the power.
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Oh, basically living on your preps.
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Living on your preps without electrical power.
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With no power, cook your meals. That's a great prepper training skill. That's a great idea.
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And we've not intentionally done it, but we've spent the weekend without the power and we got by fine.
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Sure we did.
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If you want to take it a step further, don't use the commercial water for washing dishes, for drinking, for bathing, for anything.
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So, okay.
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Depend on your prepping supplies, but regularly review and streamline your stuff.
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Gotcha.
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That also includes your gear. With your gear, you need to check on a regular basis that it's in working order.
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Right.
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Things break.
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You don't want to wait till you need it to find out that it's not working.
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Exactly. And especially metal parts can rust, so it might become unusable. Check that on somewhat regular basis. We need to assess the skills to maintain a lean and efficient setup.
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Okay.
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Also, we can have changing circumstances.
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Oh, sure. You know, your family dynamic can change. You can have children can be born, and family members can move away, and you may actually bring elderly family in for care. So your life situation may be adjusting. You need to make sure that your plans adjust as well.
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Exactly. And you also, and you alluded to this a moment ago, and that is to take the lessons that you have learned. Now, we've gone through quite several power outages and such as that, and each time our plan has worked. But we found where we could improve things we could make it better. So we take those lessons learned and we incorporate those into our prepping plans.
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I think that's very smart.
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Thank you very, very much.
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And definitely check out some of the featured items that you put on there as well. There's some really awesome gear on there and some great specials and deals that you can check out. So absolutely do a little bit of Amazon shopping. You know, Mother Day is coming up, so maybe your mom needs some prepping gear.
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Well, I think probably my. My sister needs some prepping gear for my mother. My mother's 91 now, so I think my sister would need the gear for my mother. But there's some gift ideas on there for prepping as well.
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