Great news! The 17th Irregular rifles outfitted by the Team are shipping now. They’re put out by Working Man’s Armory. (Here’s some background on Working Man’s Armory and the Team’s work with them.)
If you need an AR, check this out.
How to get 100 rolls of toilet paper into one 45 gallon storage tub
Toilet paper will be like gold when SHTF. Ask survivors of the Argentine collapse of 2001, the Russian collapses of the 1990s, and Katrina survivors.
But with that tube in the middle of a roll, toilet paper takes up a lot of space. Not anymore.
I put several rolls in a Ziplock Space Bag, the kind you put the vacuum nozzle on and it sucks all the air out. (Costco currently has them in a package of assorted sizes for cheap.)
I suck the air out of the bag and tap down on the rolls with a mallet. This collapses the tube in the middle and makes the toilet paper extremely flat.
Oh, and a bonus: your TP is airtight and dry. It pops right back up when you let air in. The perfect way to store TP – and save a ton of space in the process.
Hope this works for you.
Keep on prepping’.
Being thankful for being used
Thanksgiving is a really important day for me. Most holidays are “whatever” days where I go through the motions and wonder what all the hype is about. I feel like most of the secular ones are made up and commercialized. Not Thanksgiving, though. Oh, sure, there’s a commercial aspect to it, but I can somehow ignore it and concentrate on the real meaning of the holiday.
Being thankful – and openly saying so on a day like Thanksgiving – is more than just acknowledging that God has done amazingly good things for you. I don’t get preachy, so I’ll try not to dwell on that aspect of it.
So, instead of talking about God, I’ll talk about you. Here’s what’s in it for you: being thankful is good for you. It makes you more appreciative. It makes you think about what’s good in your life, instead of reacting to all the little things that are bad. Looking at all the things you’re thankful for puts things in perspective, and you need that.
Some of the things I’m thankful for that 299 Days readers will relate to are, first, this amazing community we’ve built up. What a stunning array of human beings you guys are. I could write for pages and pages about all the people who have emailed, PM’d, and met me in person and their stories. The books have profoundly affected thousands of people in extremely positive, life-changing ways. Which brings me to my primary thing to be thankful for: God using me to reach thousands of people and really, really helping them. I said I won’t get preachy, so I’ll leave it at that, except to say: what an honor, the honor of a lifetime (eternity, really) to be used like I have been.
Veteran’s Day – a different twist
On Veteran’s Day, everyone casually says, “Thank you, veterans, for keeping us free.” Corporations say this in their ads to make veterans and their families feel good so they come in and buy things. Politicians say this to get votes. It’s sort of like mindlessly saying “bless you” or “gezuntite” when someone sneezes. People just say it. They don’t think too much about it.
Not me.
I have a very clear vision of exactly how veterans keep us free. They do two things. First, they enter the military culture. They take an oath to support and defend the Constitution – not an oath to obey orders from politicians – and they see senior NCOs and some officers who live by that. They see with their own eyes that they, as members of the military, work for the Constitution, not whomever is the President at the time. This keeps us free from a President who would be a tyrant if he could get the military to carry out his unconstitutional orders.
The second thing veterans do to keep us free is that they take take this culture of serving the Constitution back with them to civilian life. There are literally millions of veterans who are now out of the military and living among us who will not tolerate unconstitutional behavior by a President. These veterans have the culture and military skills that allow them to be a spectacular deterrent against any President who wants to be a tyrant. These former-serving veterans are forward deployed in our neighborhoods to pick up the fight for freedom.
That’s what I mean when I say, “Thank you, veterans.”