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OK's avatar

I will save the box of thread I was going to throw, or give away!

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Thread (like cotton) does have a shelf life, but I've been using 30 year old thread just fine.

I think the reason they popularized shows on hoarders getting rid of their stash is that they want EVERYONE to HAVE nothing and be unhappy and ded.

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Dee's avatar

Well, we were definitely thinking along the same line today. I was also at my local JoAnn's picking up some flannels for baby blankets.

I smiled when you said you make stuffed animals. When I was a wee one, my Mom made our clothes. One day, Dad sat down at the sewing machine and made us all a stuffed animal, a snake with the open mouth and the forked tongue, lol.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I'm waiting for the drastic price reductions on fabric. I couldn't believe the sticker price on stuff made in Chiner.

Dad chose a very easy design to stuff. It's kinda hard getting the stuffing in the curl of a Seahorse's tail.

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Dee's avatar
Mar 16Edited

Absolutely, his design required no pattern. You need a helper, a child with small hands and fingers. Otherwise you can very carefully use a makeshift tool.

There might not be much selection left on fabrics if you wait too long. Once Joann’s is closed, there will not be a decent fabric selection anywhere in my area.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I use a crochet hook (blunt end) to work the fill to the very tip and then continue to build up layers until it is rigid. I thought that the Beany Babies were the most pathetic floppy pieces of garbage ever made. Someone was Family because they were a rage when they came out then became collectors items.

I live 40 miles from the store so I won't be going an more often than my Once a Month Trek down The Mountain with Old #7 mule to get some fatback, coffee, and hardtack (none of which I would ever use even if I was a mountain man).

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OK's avatar

My mother was a seamstress. She sewed a complete suit for me here in the United States, which I never wore because I always hated suits.

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Dee's avatar

That’s too bad. How about wearing the skirt or pant separately. You could style it your suiting. Bad pun. What she gave you was a labor of love. I look at the things my Mom made as pieces of her energy that still remain here.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I thought it was a nice thing for mom to do too. Have you seen his legs? You wouldn't want old Klinger in a skirt!

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Dee's avatar

Very funny!

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OK's avatar

I will never forget that mother sewed that suit for me even if I didn't wear it. I will always be greateful for her love.

I can't wear a kilt because I'm not a Scott. My legs were always muscular due to genetics and usage. I played soccer most of my life and did a lot of bicycling so my legs got good tone. Well let's changed due to an ankle injury which caused a bone on bone situation so I can't walk anymore.

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Dee's avatar

Oh, I am so sorry to hear that you are unable to walk. Yours is just another testament that this Eugenics Lab has a name and that name is HELL.

It's time for a reality scripted by us! Perhaps then, the FEAR would be put upon those that call THemselves our masters. Perhaps then we could REVERSE the shit of THeir actions.

I have a dream!

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Martina Luther Dee!

Preach it Sistah !

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OK's avatar

Thank you Dee. I can walk, but it's painful.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Not being a Scot has never stopped many a 'man' from wearing a skirt.

I'm in the Bone Department by way of looking into remineralization pathways that is not a direct answer but might bring us into the topic of cartilage regeneration via a backdoor.

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OK's avatar

Hi Patrick, I can't do much with the ankle as the outer ligament got stretched and so my fibula slipped to the side. It has been 40 years since the injury. Never had therapy. I was playing soccer till 55. Then 10 years ago the pain started.

Your books mention that vaccines cause various diseases aka Demons. My Demon is arthritis. It's spreading.

We live in hell.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Was she a member of the Seamster's Union?

Suits are the official Prison Uniforms of the professional asshole caste.

Ever notice that a tie is just like a dog-collar?

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OK's avatar

A tie can be a dog collar, or a noose. Either one is not good.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

a necktie is an excellent tool in a street fyte.

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OK's avatar

Slip the noose around the opponents neck and game over. Good luck with that one. Easier for the opponent to grab my tie and then the game is over for me. I hate ties.

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Jeanette Estrada's avatar

All I can think is that I'm glad I changed my lifestyle...and was able to take myself off of the page and a half of Pre Script Ions that I was taking, going into 2020. I now take 0, and use food as my medicine, instead my crutch.Healthier than I've been in years. Now I'm not beholden to the MediCull system, I won't be in dire straits when those things are unavailable, as many will be. I became a prepper in 2021 and started storing long term food items and staples. I very carefully followed all food prepping ProtoCalls, and dscovered that long term StoreAge does not work in Hawaii. My dry grains that should have kept for 20-25 years, so they said, were already bad 2 years later. My chickens wouldn't even eat them. Unless they were stored underground here, the climate is just not conducive. The airlocked dried veggies and meats started to take in air and well ...garbage.

We are not in the shape I had expected to be, with essentials. Ha, I even bought bottles of liquor to have for barter...but my husband drank it all! Of course, DEW fires or a Hurricane could wipe out this island and others, so in those events...like the North Carolina floods, and numerous fires, I'm sure there were planty of preppers who's entire cache was gone, in the blink of an eye.

I do have lots of thread though! High quality silk, nylon and satin. I make braided Kumihimo jewelry with it. I can sew, knit, even make eating utensils and bowls out of coconut, as well a multitude of other products from coconut. However the coconut palms are dying, like everything else here. I fear that one day they are just going to stop the container shipments. After all the food/nutriton source trees are dead. We even have breadfruit that you can survive on, and jackfruit, but they aren't doing well now. The production of all life giving trees is way down, and the quality is pitiful.

In the past, a society could survive here on the natural resources year round. Fruit trees, taro, and fish. Sadly those,things are quickly becoming toxic or dead....and now there's too many people here, to survive on what it can produce. I think it's going to get very ugly here when the SHTF.

Funny, the county has resurrected ancient ritual/human torture sites...and opened them to tourists.🤔 The locals won't even step foot on that ground.

😉I could wipe my ass with a green leaf, but a dead one will scratch. 🥴

What are your learnEd musings conCERNing my raveings, dear sage?

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Sage here, with my friends Parsley, Rosemary, and Thyme (I think is secret code by Illuminutty for correcting some of the damage they did to us).

The topic of holding planned disaster at bay is complicated by the stranglehold of people hooked on pharmaceuticals. When they collapse the economy/industry it will be an "Oh, my! those poor people who relied on our drugs. It's a shame that they're not available anymore. Pity."

I'm glad you're doing well without the poisons.

Excellent insights on the dangers of stored food going back. Birds are PERFECT indicators of food not fit to eat.

I've always said that we can anticipate what we might need to live on to fight another day, but with the A.I. and their superior fyre power, there will always be that One Thing that no one accounted for that will negate all good effort. So we do what we can with what we have.

Years ago when What In The World Are They Spraying came out I watched in horror when the fellow in Hawaii PULLED THE BARK OFF OF A COCONUT. I've had a lot of trees die here in the paradise of the Grain Ghetto as well. People say to me: Why would they destroy a planet if they have to live here too.

Underground bunkers full of prepared foods.

THEY are not human so the biosphere is being disappeared for whatever happens next.

Taro. Love that.

Someone else wrote "when the SHTF"

My position is that it already has, it's just that the downwind pile hasn't gotten up to our nostrils yet.

I think your husband had his priorities set. Eat, drink all the booze, and be Married.

David Wynn Miller said that the original Hawaiians were exterminated by Sea People. So that calls into question if the human sacrifice sites weren't created by the invaders just like the myths of the Aztecs and Incas dumping babies into blue pits or volcanoes wasn't invented by the Jesuits who 'translated' the ancient texts.

Most people would wipe their ass with poison ivy for never having been in nature before. It is a cruel system held at bay by even more crueler task masters.

As I posted earlier the goal is NOT survival. No one can survive total collapse that is planned. It is just to survive long enough to harm those that harmed us.

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OK's avatar

I can see the END already. I can feel it in dem bones. I also feel in dem bones that no amount of prepping will suffice to ensure one's survival. I have given up on prepping. I prepped many years ago. Gave away all my twenty five year shelf life foods to a friend when I had to move.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

This is why I view it as having materials to keep fy ting as opposed to trying to 'survive' and 'wait them out'. Motherfuckers have fully stocked underground bunkers. Short of the earth opening and swallowing them up into a nice magma pit they can wait out ANYONE and their petty stockpiles.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

Joann closing is very sad. I love to sew and used to frequent independent fabric stores which disappeared during the fakedemic. It is extremely difficult to buy fabric online since the quality can’t be easily judged. I have purchased a few items but waiting for further reductions, the Liquidator which won the auction to purchase the company a few weeks ago has not discounted very deeply yet so I stop by once a week.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I snaked through the aisles of fabric touching anything that caught my attention. A lot of eye candy but too many synthetics and too much that was just not acceptable for daily wear. Tellus more about the Liquidator. Is that like the chrome thing in the Schwarzenegger movie?

So, how does that work? The company is closing, but someone is buy it as it is decaying?

Sorry, I don't have Family Genes so nonsense is something that I can't figure out, which is why I'm not rich.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

😹😹😹I just overheard some of the details but the winner of the auction sadly did not intend to continue running the business on a day to day basis but bought it just to profit by selling the leftover merchandise (& fixtures = everything not nailed down) until the leases are up which I think is May for my store. Every week they will keep increasing the discount until the stores are empty.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Thanks for explaining how the system works on the Serengeti:

The lions bring down a prey.

The hyenas chase the lions off.

The wild dogs chase the hyenas off.

They glut on the carcass,

The vultures pick the rest clean.

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Eva's avatar

Ahh yes, drifting in and out of my mind is musings of “what should I buy now”.

I haven’t gotten very far.

Replaced plastics with stainless steel and glass stuff. Food stuff which will keep for a while. I need to think of clothing I think or more specifically shoes.

Think I’m currently in a if/when SHTF I’ll be ok for a wee while but I’m not a survivalist and live in an urban area.

Oh well.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Sorry to hear you live in a Human Mouse Trap (city).

Shoes (many pair Emelda) would be good for leaving Dodge on foot since the roads will be clogged with cars so no one can get out. (as planned).

You'll need a place to retreat to.

That's part of the plan.

As to what next:

1. water and related items.

2. Food and related items.

3. Shelter and related items.

4. Defence of all of the above.

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Eva's avatar

Yes, thank you, good highlight summary to focus my mind.

And hey bonus of a spot of retail therapy to brighten the mood (I’m hunting for good second hand things like fishermen woollen jumpers, wax coat etc).

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Jeanette Estrada's avatar

#4 is really the key, because if you can't defend what you have, you won't have it long when the looting and pillaging starts.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

The scenario has always been presented as City Folk pouring out of the Human Mouse Traps like locusts to plague the country. Grid lock will prevent vehicle traffice if the fuel supply wasn't cut off to begin with. Most people can't walk a flight of stairs let alone 50 miles without food. So, the plundering will be less from the fellow oppressed but the roving bands of millie tarry fucktards will destroy any bastions of survival just because they were hired as mere sin narries for the express purpose of inflicting evil for their masters. So it is ORGANIZED crime that will be the biggest thread not the disorganized chaos.

This is why I always warn that projectile devices are useless against electronic we upons, so shielding is a top item on the list to protect against the 'protectors'.

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Jeanette Estrada's avatar

I listened to Dr Jack Kruse on a podcast recently...explaining why they have patriated so many dark skinned Pyr ates to predominately caucasion cunt trees. Apparently their methods of cunt roll don't work so well on those with lots of melanin, so they have to be taken from their environment and introduced to the garbage/shit/food that we are, terra formed no sun skies, housed in hotels AND given In A Cell U R devices. The blue light and lack of sun will quickly degrade the melanin. The chemicals in the food and water will quickly cross the blood brain barrier, and turn them into virtual, semi functioning zombies, like many of our cunty men. Who will respond exactly as direct dead when act I've ate it by the MicroTeraGigaNano waves. They can't use our own cuntymen, except the augmented SoldEars, but not enough to go door to door in the Rue Rail (Jim)Neighbors hoods, terror rising and culling for die Reigerung (Von Claus Schwaben), or any of the current goober menschen.

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

If I had money, I surely would be prepping. They're taking the whole down, and deliberately. Maybe We should take down the single tool They have to affect this so widespread.

Obsoleting Money (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/obsoleting-money

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Toxicanadian's avatar

Add Canada's oldest company to that list at the beginning.

The Hudson's Bay company is liquidating as we speak. How fucking utterly and completely sad this makes me.

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Aquabraintv's avatar

Reminds me to make a list of said useful items that aren’t easily recreated!

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Recreation is my favorite pasttime.

It used to be Recess in grade school.

James Burke at the end of his series Connections said to take everything out of your pockets and put it on the table. How much of what you carry is anything you made yourself?

If you are merely a consumer that makes no thing, then who are you, really?

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Aquabraintv's avatar

Holy shit! society has failed us! I enjoy tinkering butt I am severely under-qualified to create almost anything that isn’t service related.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

You've got that over Gen Z and Alpha. They don't even want to work.

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Aquabraintv's avatar

I might be able to create a list but it will get long fast. Narrowing it down to the essentials is going to be difficult

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I make many lists.

They are always divided by what I can do with the tools that I have and what will take money to purchase new tools or raw materials.

As you learn to make things your skills increase and pretty soon you will be making and fixing things and then your SERVICES will be in demand especially in a dystopian post a pox your lipstick future.

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Aquabraintv's avatar

Making an inventory of the tool I have and what can be done with them would be helpful. Perhaps a good starting point.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

The beauty thing is that if you have tools you can use them to make other tools.

Sure it won't be as precise as something that you buy off the shelf, but if everything goes to digital currency and they WON'T let you have a bridgeport mill in your 15 minute city apartment, then you will have to MacGyver things with what you've got.

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