15 Items Every Prepper Should Hoard

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In today's video, Sootch goes over his top 15 things that all preppers should have on hand - and maybe even hoard.

1. Toilet paper
2. Duct tape
3. Lighters
4. Batteries
5. Flashlights
6. Candles
7. Bleach
8. Plastic bags
9. Tarps
10. Socks
11. Salt
12. Heirloom seeds
13. Propane
14. Lantern, lamp wicks, and lamp oil
15. Cordage

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[jojoe]

I used to think preppers were crazy until this year.

[jeffreywhite]

My personal rules: 1. Never tell anyone what or everything that you have. 2. Never keep everything in the same place. 3. Where possible always buy food and ammo in bulk, other things also.4. When trading always keep someback for yourself and refer back to rule1. 5. Never, ever trust anyone completely.

[autumnsimms]

You are the first person to say that donating socks to the houseless is essential. Thank you.

[ArcherBowman]

Reminder: Liquid bleach has a shelf life of only +/- 1 year. It turns back into water. Instead, find powdered Calcium Hypochlorite. It is a powdered form of bleach that goes a long way and has an indefinite shelf life. Take care!

[MooKau_]

Tarps - Write in sharpie in the top corner facing outwards the dimensions of the tarp... saves you guessing, and you get the right size at a quick glance

[norsen]

Gloves. All kinds of gloves from working gloves to medical gloves to food handling gloves

[MB-wfsi]

A little note from a farmer about seeds/survival seed packs. Don't waste your money on the packs advertised for long shelf life or those with huge numbers of seeds advertised on the pack. 10 000 seeds seems a lot, but they are mostly salad seeds and aren't worth a lot. Plus, those are from the big seed suppliers are are more adapted to India where most of them are grown than to America.

Trust me, I know my seeds! I run a small organic market garden from my little plot of land and it keep us all in food all year round as well as make most of my income from farmer's market.

What I do and advise people to do is hand-pick a few heirloom seeds from a local source or someone you know grew them locally so they are adapted to the growing conditions of your area. It really does matter in the end. Get some seed packs before they are sold out - they always end up being sold out. Put them in your own mylar bags or vacuum sealed bags and they will be as good as those expensive packs full of lettuce seeds.

From my perspective, having a widespread access to food we can grow without mechanical means to give abundant nutrition is key to keep us both safe and independent. Hungry people are easily led astray.

Anyone interested in buying heirloom seeds grown by a farmer and intended to be grown in a non-commercial, organic setting can go visit my store: ethosseed.com. Those are ALL seeds I harvested from my own land year to year to grow my plants for my market garden (except the certified organic ones, those are from another friend of mine who is certified. I don't have the budget to do this).


Cheers and stay safe my friends.

[garylocke]

Baking soda is another great item to have. A lot of different uses for it. From first aid to sanitary.

[jude]

Insert 3 tapered candles into a can of Crisco, all the way to the bottom. It'll burn for a very long time. God bless 💕 🌿

[davidchester]

I very rarely hear anyone mention fire extinguishers in prepping. Especially given candles and fires I'm putting back smoke alarms, batteries, carbon monoxide alarms and an extinguisher for each room. Also a small extinguisher makes a good covert weapon

[OscarHMarble]

I think you missed a golden opportunity to put toilet paper at number 2

[treeskier]

Something to consider is having color printed google earth satellite pictures of your surrounding areas. Having truly localized pictures of the neighborhoods, intersections, built up areas around your primary location can come in handy if you have to find water, ingress and egress areas, etc.

[sonyariggs]

Keep the toliet paper cardboard and fill it with the lint and dryer sheets from the dryer.
It can act as a fire starter.

[susangilbert]

I love all the comments.
I have learned as much from the comments section as I did from the video.

[SensaiMan]

A survival blanket is very helpful especially if living in a cold climate. It can also be used as a shelter.

[Gerard-Red]

I think the best thing to stock on is good will, good neighbours and good friends. Do not just selfishly prepare yourself. Teach your family and your surrounding connections the need to be prepared. If they are prepared too, then they come to help, instead of coming to get help from you. You can also give survival presents, torches, emergency gas stoves with a box of gas bottles, first aid kits, survival books, seeds, garden tools, battery operated or wind up radios, multitools, survival knives, camping gear, back paks, etc.
When you buy staff for yourself also buy more for your friends and relatives. Salt, honey, matches, candles, plastic bags are cheap when all is good and GOLD items when when TSHTF. So you can give it away to the people you love, sell it or exchange in the bad situations.
If you are a good heart person, then you will have a few friends around you, they are part of your shield. Cultivate good will. It can save your life and get you out of misery.

[adamxaiver]

One thing that is critical to your medical kit is a good book. You can get an EMT book for under $100 and it has everything you need to know about emergency medicine. It does no good having a medical kit and not knowing how to use it.

[wtywatoad]

Buy (at least) one pair of cheap condiment squeeze bottles. Should you run out of toilet paper, you can fill the bottles with water and spray your bum clean.

[geminibacasdesigns]

Not sure if anyone mentioned these but, hunting supplies such as wire for trapping, fishing hooks & line, bow & arrows, wild edible/medicinal books, tinctures/meds, toothbrushes, chapstick, tools. Of course some of these things need too practiced and taught to your bug out family.