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Lesson's from the Bosnian War - Top 100 Preps That Disappear When the SHTF (original list)

Updated: Aug 9, 2024

The following list of the top 100 preps that disappear when the SHTF (you can look up the definition online) has been shared on the internet for years. To my understanding, the original list was born out of experiences during the Bosnian war of the early-mid 90's. A few years ago an updated list was offered but I will post that list at a later date as most of the items are the same on both.


We American's are hard-headed, have an enormous normalcy bias bent, and have notoriously short term memories. Once the perceived threat has passed we go back to our beer, boats, and BBQ mentality.


Covid should have changed that!


However, for the most part it seems business as usual as far as my AO (area of operation) and AOI (area of influence) are concerned. I remember during the height of the "plandemic" my mom who has been a produce manager back in Kansas for over thirty years said that people were driving from central Missouri to her small town grocery store in the middle of nowhere (that is well over two hours away) to buy beef and other items. In fact, the Grey tribe drove to southern Missouri in the Ozarks to purchase a third freezer for our storage food since we couldn't find one within a five-state radius...crazy.


The threats are very real and the PTSB (powers-that-shouldn't-be) are resolved to continue their quest for control of all sectors of society, the foremost sector being the food supply...it is just what tyrants and dictators do.


Let's get to work, folks!


Prepare today, prevail tomorrow.


Lee


Psalm 91


"The truth was simple but politicians made it complicated.”


- Naveed Qazi


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Top 100 Preps That Disappear In A Collapse


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1. Generators.

2. Water Filters and Purifiers.

3. Portable Toilets.

4. Seasoned Firewood.

5. Lamp Oil, Lamps, Wicks.

6. Coleman Fuel.

7. Weapons. Guns

8. Kitchen Tools.

9. Honey

10. Rice – Beans – Wheat.

11. Vegetable Oil

12. Charcoal, Lighter Fluid

13. Water Containers.

14. Mini Heater head

15. Grain Grinder

16. Propane Cylinders

17. Survival Guide Book

18. Mantles

19. Baby Supplies

20. Washboards

21. Cookstoves

22. Vitamins and other supplements

23. Propane Cylinder Handle-Holder

24. Feminine Hygiene/Haircare/Skin products

25. Thermal Underwear

26. Bow saws

27. Aluminum Foil

28. Gasoline Containers

29. Garbage Bags

30. Toilet Paper

31. Milk

32. Garden Seeds

33. Clothes pins/line/hangers

34. Coleman's Pump Repair Kit

35. Tuna Fish

36. Fire Extinguishers

37. First Aid Kits

38. Batteries

39. Garlic

40. Big Dogs

41. Flour

42. Matches

43. Writing paper/pads/pencils, solar calculators

44. Insulated ice chests

45. Work boots

46. Flashlights/LIGHTSTICKS

47. Journals

48. Garbage cans

49. Men's Hygiene

50. Cast Iron Cookware

51. Fishing supplies and tools

52. Mosquito coils

53. Duct Tape

54. Tarps

55. Candles and wicks

56. Laundry Detergent

57. Backpacks, Duffel Bags

58. Garden tools & supplies

59. Scissors, fabrics & and sewing supplies

60. Canned Fruits

61. Bleach

62. Canning Supplies

63. Knives

64. Bicycles

65. Sleeping Bags

66. Carbon Monoxide Alarm (battery powered)

67. Board Games

68. d-con Rat poison

69. Mousetraps

70. Paper plates/cups/utensils

71. Baby wipes

72. Rain gear

73. Shaving supplies

74. Hand Pumps & siphons (for water and for fuels)

75. Soy sauce, vinegar, bullions/gravy/soup base

76. Reading glasses and glasses repair kits

77. Chocolate/Cocoa/Tang/Punch (water enhancers)

78. “Survival-in-a-Can”

79. Woolen clothing

80. Boy Scout Handbook

81. Roll-on Window Insulation Kit

82. Graham crackers

83. Popcorn, Peanut Butter

84. Socks, Underwear, T-shirts, etc. (extras)

85. Lumber

86. Wagons & carts (for transport to and from)

87. Cots & Inflatable Mattresses

88. Gloves

89. Lantern Hangers

90. Screen Patches

91. Teas

92. Coffee, instant and regular

93. Cigarettes

94. Wine/Liquors

95. Paraffin Wax

96. Glue, nails, nuts, bolts, screws, etc.

97. Chewing gum/candies

98. Atomizers

99. Hats

100. Goats/chickens


NOTE: Photo credits go to Willowpix & Getty Images.

 
 
 

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In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of

Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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       He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

       He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

       He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

       He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

       He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

       He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

       He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

       He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

       He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

       He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

       He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

       He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

       He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

       For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

       For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

       For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

       For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

       For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

       For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

       For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

       For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

       For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

       He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

       He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

       He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

       He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

       He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

 

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

 

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

 

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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