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Like ammunition, dryer lint may just well be the currency of the future.
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" i think i saw you on this program the other night "My strang addidtion" you should get help if your eating dryer lint its ok everyone has there chippies!!!Comment
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"mine started round the first time i saw red dawn back in the early nineties!!Comment
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Looks like I may have to start saving some laundry lint... hahaha
And, all I wanted to do was say Hi to the OP.... because I grew up in Elk Grove...Comment
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The lint and wax is good IF you have a flame to start it.
Take Vaseline and work it into small balls of lint and it will fire right up with just a spark. Cotton balls too. And you can smoosh a bunch of Vaseline infused cotton balls or lint balls into a film canister. The cotton holds together better though.
And you're not crazy. Yet.
Mine started when I watched "My side of the mountain".
I've wanted to live in a hollowed-out tree ever since. But now I want one with flush toilets and cable.Last edited by olhunter; 01-10-2011, 9:54 PM.It cannot be inherited, nor can it ever be purchased.
You and no one alive can buy it for any price. It is impossible to rent and cannot be lent.
You alone and our own have earned it with...Your sweat, blood and lives. You own it forever.
The title is....."United States Marine".
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Just finished watching 'Collapse' an interview of Michael C. Ruppert (on Netflix watch instantly). Wow.
Heirloom seeds just went on my 'need' list. I'll keep em next to my bags of dryer lint.Comment
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I didn't have the lint stage, I skipped straight intomore advanced paranoiathe later stages of our condition.
But I'll be saving the drier lint from now on too. I hadn't thought of it before and it sounds very useful for fire, and simpler to have around and carry than what I planned to use before.
Luckily we don't have the spouse disapproval issue, I'm the wife and I'm even more prone to this sort of thing than my husband.
I loved that movie too!
Mine started when I was born I think. It must have, since it's definitely genetic: I remember growing up with my dad telling me about the hiding place he prepared for our family in case SHTF, and in which we were all supposed to go with the food etc.
So any chances of growing up without obsessing about such things were probably doomed beforehand.
Crazy or not, aside from it being an useful thing to be prepared in case of major earthquake or other things, it's also a very fun hobby, so... at least it's a pleasant craziness that doesn't harm anyone.
I've merged the disaster preparedness urges with some of my other hobbies; instead of simply stocking food and water and so on, I've also pushed it into having the knowledge and the tools/supplies etc. to make our own bread, cheese, make soda and other carbonated beverages, and even brew our own beer, wine and other simple liqueurs etc. directly at home (no need for electricity for it) even if civilized society were to collapse and those things couldn't be bought anymore.
(Most of those are things that were commonly made in old times anyway and that people just stopped making at home, but that are a lot of fun to rediscover nowadays.)
Because surviving is one thing, but surviving and having gourmet food and beer with you even if the world goes all crazy is more pleasant.
It's unlikely I'll ever need to do it all (at least I hope), but until then we still get to enjoy the fun microbrewing tasty beer and making other things like that.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson
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I was just thinking of the many fine uses I could make of dryer lint when it struck me. Most of what I pull off the lint screen isn't lint at all but dog hair. I think I'll pass on starting fires with it and just compost it instead.Comment
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Originally posted by Munksigpic"Those who would ban extended magazines, will say that although hundreds of thousands are in circulation and thousands more will surely be sold before a ban is enacted, it will be worth it if it saves just one life. But the other half of that question must be asked, too: Is it worth it if it costs just one life?" Stephen HunterComment
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Guess I'm not crazy after all. I hang my laundry out to dry. Sooo, no lint to collect or indicate a level of craziness there.Comment
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The military brought me to San Diego back in '96. I've been here ever since. Visted EG for Christmas last year. It's no where near the same town I grew up in.
Of course, when my family first moved to EG there was only 1 traffic light where Florin and EG blvd met, the population was about 20k, and the roads were all 2 lanes.
It's just a "little bit" bigger these days...Comment
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Although lint can be used as a fire starter and I do collect it (why not, it's free), here is what I personally use as the 'fire kit' in my survival packs:
Qty 1 - Mini Bic Lighter inside Tiny Ziploc Bag
Qty 2 - WetFire Tinder Cubes
Qty 4 - REI Stormproof Matches + striker strip
Qty 1 - Mini-match Magnesium Fire Starter
Qty 1 - 4x Fresnel Magnifier
I actually ordered everything except for the REI matches from BePreparedToSurvive.com. I'm up in the mountains so being able to make a fire is real important to me. If I can't get it done with those supplies, I deserve to die.
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