Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN
2161-5543
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (Quote by -
George Bernard Shaw)
From The Smiling Dog Saloon Files
In
This Issue:
1. USPS Tips for using Dryer Sheets
2. How much food should you store?
3. Looting vs. Scavenging, More massive surveillance
on citizens
4. Make it Yourself energy bars
5. The Modern debt slave-History of
consumerism
The U.S. Postal service sent out a message to all letter
carriers to put a sheet of Bounce in their uniform pockets to keep
yellow-jackets away. Use them all the
time when playing baseball and soccer. I use it when I am working
outside.
It really works.
The insects just veer around you. All this time you've just been putting
Bounce in the dryer!
1. It will chase
ants away when you lay a sheet near them. It also repels mice.
2. Spread sheets
around foundation areas, or in trailers, or cars that are sitting and it
keeps mice from
entering your vehicle.
entering your vehicle.
3. It takes the odor
out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.
4. It repels
mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during
mosquito
season.
season.
5. Eliminate static
electricity from your television (or computer) screen.
6. Since
Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television
screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling..
screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling..
7. Dissolve soap
scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.
8. To freshen the
air in your home - Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang
in the closet.
in the closet.
9. Put Bounce sheet
in vacuum cleaner.
10. Prevent thread
from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce before
beginning to sew.
beginning to sew.
11. Prevent musty
suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before
storing.
12. To freshen the
air in your car - Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.
13. Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and
sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food and the pan..
13. Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and
sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food and the pan..
14. Eliminate odors
in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the
wastebasket.
15. Collect cat
hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the
loose hairs.
16. Eliminate static
electricity from Venetian blinds..Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to
prevent
dust from resettling.
dust from resettling.
17. Wipe up sawdust
from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect
sawdust like a tack cloth.
18. Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
18. Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
19. Deodorize shoes
or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.
20. Golfers put a
Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.
21. Put a Bounce
sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them. It will
keep them smelling fresh.
22. Wet a Bounce sheet, hose down your
car, and wipe love bugs off easily with the wet Bounce.
PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
DEMCAD shares with us his top 10 underrated barter items.
IMO, most any of his suggestions could be desirable but I always suggest you do
your best to avoid the need to barter. Here’s his list and his opinion on
scavenging……
The age old prepper question: how much to store? The
following article gives some guidance on the issue: “This question is a bit
like asking ‘How high is up?’. Clearly, the more food you store, the better you
will be able to withstand a Level 1 or 2 event (Level 3 events assume, more or…
What is
Money? 5-Part Video Series w/ Bonus
5 Overpriced Items You Should Never Buy In
A Grocery Store
- Bottled Water: 4,000% average markup
- Name-Brand Spices: 100% markup
- Household Specialty Items: Up to 60% markup
- Name-Brand Cereal: 44% average markup
- Precut Produce: 40% markup
A Grocery Store
- Bottled Water: 4,000% average markup
- Name-Brand Spices: 100% markup
- Household Specialty Items: Up to 60% markup
- Name-Brand Cereal: 44% average markup
- Precut Produce: 40% markup
Who doesn’t enjoy making lists? I know I do! The problem
is that they can get out of hand, never get followed-through with, and more.
Here’s some ideas to keep that from happening: “Getting started in prepping
seems a simple task – at least until you start looking at all the things you
might need.…
Continue reading How
To Create Your Prepper Supply List (link)
Related post:
There are many useful items you can get that don’t cost
much. Here’s a few suggestions and the first part of the post: “…While
being prepared is important for many reasons, I do not believe…
Continue reading 24 Useful Preparedness Items Under $25 (link)
Make-It-Yourself
Energy Bars
They’re easy, nutritious—and delicious!
It’s late
afternoon, and your get-up-and-go is gone. So you do what many of us do—you
reach for an energy bar. These bars sound healthy enough. But the problem is
that many are not.
They often
are short on fiber and protein and contain way too much sugar and too many
“empty” carbohydrates and calories.
There is,
however, an easy solution—making your own healthy (and delicious) energy
bars! Even better, these bars don’t require any baking.
Recipes for
energy bars that are not too sweet and packed with important nutrients and
protein…
Related:
Cookies for long term storage
Never seen cookies canned in a mason jar before but she
says they good even after a year and apparently tasty as well. Oh, and she
makes some cookies too……
Continue reading Long Term Food Storage Cookies (video)
The Nanny State-We love our government
This morning we have yet
another article detailing a warrantless surveillance program by the National
Security Agency that contradicts representations made by President Barack Obama
and members of Congress. You may recall how Obama has tried to get citizens to
embrace a new surveillance-friendly model of privacy after the disclosure of
massive surveillance of citizens, including programs acquiring every call made
by citizens. Various
Democratic members came forward to admit that they knew of such programs and not to be afraid . . . they have
our backs. Yet every story that has surfaced as contradicted claims that such
programs are limited and do not involve the content of communications in emails
and messages. The latest program
being reported is called XKeyscore and
is described as scouring emails, chat rooms, and browsing histories . . . all
without a warrant. In the meantime, citizens in polls are
saying that they are more concerned
with the threat of their own government to their privacy than the threat of
terrorism. Once again, citizens learned of this program not from their representative
or their media but largely from
the foreign press and the disclosures of Edward Snowden.
Long-standing assumptions built into our medical system deny
virtually all Americans the right to affordable dental care, which is available
in most other developed countries, while an antiquated and Puritanical attitude
toward mental illness has been exploited to deny them adequate care for these conditions.
The
Parting Thought – Not to worry in the land of the free!
The Making of a Modern Debt Slave
In the ancient world,
when people got themselves into debt, they were often forced to sell their
daughters into prostitution and their sons into slavery.
Sometimes,
the weight of debt broke up families... Sometimes families fought back. Writes
anthropologist David Graeber in his book Debt: The
First 5,000 Years:
"For
thousands of years, the struggle between rich and poor has largely taken the
form of conflicts between creditors and debtors -- of arguments about the
rights and wrongs of interest payment, debt peonage, amnesty, repossession,
restitution, the sequestering of sheep, the seizing of vineyards and selling of
debtors' children into slavery. By the same token, for the last 5,000 years,
with remarkable regularity, popular insurrections have begun the same way: with
ritual destruction of debt records -- tablets, papyri, ledgers, whatever form
they might have taken in any particular time and place."
Pity
the children. They often paid for their parents' mistakes. Of course, the
parents paid too. They suffered the dishonor and humiliation of having their
children taken away and put to someone else's service.
What has changed? Today, the U.S. lumbers into the future with total debt equal to about 350% of GDP. In Britain and Japan, the total is over 500%. Debt, remember, is the homage that the future pays to the past. It has to be carried, serviced... and paid. It has to be reckoned with... one way or another.
What has changed? Today, the U.S. lumbers into the future with total debt equal to about 350% of GDP. In Britain and Japan, the total is over 500%. Debt, remember, is the homage that the future pays to the past. It has to be carried, serviced... and paid. It has to be reckoned with... one way or another.
Two-thirds
of the American economy depends on Americans being jazzed enough about
something new to go into terminal debt slavery to own it. But there hasn't been
anything new that really changed anything for most Americans since the first
iPad and most Americans can't even afford one of those.
America has
run out of ideas. Not surprising since it ran out of literacy a long time ago.
The only decent jobs that are left are in banks where the rich figure out how
to rob anything the poor and middle class might still own, and lawyers who are
getting excited about haggling over the ruins. The rest are baristas, hotel
maids, bartenders and prostitutes, and even the world's oldest profession has
hit hard times.
America has
more obese people than any other nation because they consume so much fast food and spend so much time in
sedentary activity (TV and computers)…
We also have the most
illiterate and stupid people. According
to Newsweek:
Americans are Stupid Because: We Don't Spend Enough on Education, but
the truth is the U.S. spends more on education than almost every other nation
on earth.
Read my article on the history of consumerism:
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