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Stockpiling is an important part of any preppers plans. Having extra food items and other resources on hand offers up answers in times of disaster. How we store those items is of the utmost importance. A preppers stockpile is only as good as the person who develops it. Even the best storage plan can miss some things. Here are 6 items preppers often neglect to stockpile.
Traps
The desire to use those guns often clouds the prepper’s vision and they think hunting is step one. Storing traps and knowing how to use them is the best way to procure food. You can even store live traps and breed food! It doesn’t get better than that.
Sewing Kit
Clothing and other materials will need repair. If you don’t have the sewing needles and thread to make those repairs that can be a problem. This is hard to understand in a time when everything is cheap and easy. It won’t always be this way.
Gun Cleaning
The armory seems to be a big goal for many preppers. They want all kinds of guns. Well, what about the grease, cleaner, and tools to clean all those weapons? This is something most preppers forget to store.
Spare Parts
Whether we are talking about parts for cars, lawnmowers, or the home itself, we all need to focus on having spare parts stored up. These spare parts are critical because we won’t have access to them following a disaster.
Maps
While the bug out is always high on the list of prepper plans, what about maps? Have you ever considered bugging out from the bugout location? It can happen.
Maps will be essential to survival, just as they are in the wilderness, so to will they be in the modern world.
Cooking Oil
This has to be one of the most overlooked prepping items. We store lots of food but we hardly consider the cooking oil needed to prepare it. Cooking oil can act as many other things as well, especially if you stock up on things like olive oil and coconut oil.
Bonus: Root Cellar That Can Be Used as a Bunker
Do you remember the old root cellars our great-grandparents used to have? In fact, they probably built it themselves, right in their back yard.
If you want to learn how to build a backyard bunker like your grandparents had, without breaking the bank, then you need Easy Cellar.
Easy Cellar will show you:
- How to choose the ideal site
- Cost-effective building methods
- How to protect your bunker from nuclear blast and fallout
- How to conceal your bunker
- Affordable basic life support options
Easy Cellar will also reveal how a veteran, with only $421, built a small nuclear bunker in his backyard.
Also included:
- America's Natural Nuclear Bunkers: Find the Closest One to Your Home
- 56 Items to Stockpile in Your Easy Cellar
