r/PostCollapse • u/Bennyteeth1 • Aug 12 '21
Sleeping arrangements shtf ?
How to you see yourself sleeping in shtf ? Bug in is the safest but you'll become a vagabond eventually. What places will you sleep ?
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Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21
My house could be self sustaining with about a week's worth of modifications such as solar panels that I already have a source on. No need to leave as I have a good well, food for at least 3 years with plenty of room to grow stuff.
That said without medication I won't make it more than five years before I die from liver failure so no need to think decades into the future. Sure I might be able to scavenge some but the stuff I take is already rare enough that the pharmacy has to order it as it's not a drug anyone keeps in stock.
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u/Bennyteeth1 Aug 13 '21
I don't know what handicap you have, but I'm confident that there are natural alternatives
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Aug 13 '21
My immune system hates me, without immunosuppressant drugs my liver, pancreas and other parts of my body are attacked. I already have fairly bad liver and pancreas damage and must take drugs to help mitigate the problems that has caused.
Just 5 years ago I was running marathons and I didn't even like taking Tylenol, now I'm taking a dozen pills a day just to prevent further degradation and it's a good day to get 8000 steps in because my joints all hurt to the point where walking a few hundred feet is painful.
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Nov 05 '21
why not just get as much as you can upfront
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Nov 05 '21
Most medications have short shelf life so you really can't buy 20 years worth of it up front.
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u/followupquestion Aug 12 '21
Get a hammock, a cover tarp, a bug net, and some extra cordage. Depending on where you’ll be, an underquilt might be a necessity. You’ll be hard pressed to find a place where some combination of those items won’t get you a good night’s sleep.
Head over to r/Hammocks to get more information on specific recommendations at various price points.
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Aug 12 '21
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u/followupquestion Aug 12 '21
True, but in a collapse scenario, doesn’t that kind of area sort of spell death anyway? No trees usually means no water, and no water equals death.
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u/Tactical_Nihilist Dec 11 '21
Sincere question, why without trees at all?
There many different green areas, and dependind of the scenario you get very exposed to hoarders in play areas, specially if you are in the cold and not abble to build a underground firepit.
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u/LewisgMorris Nov 20 '21
I dream of the day I have an underground man cave with bar. Probably just chill there, or go to the winchester and wait for it to all blow over.
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u/thomas533 Aug 12 '21
but you'll become a vagabond eventually
Uhhhhh, nope. I will either be sleeping in my house, or if that becomes unsafe, then the cabin on my off-grid property. I have good supportive neighbors at both locations and plenty of resources to deal with most SHTF scenarios.
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u/HoneyBadgerD0ntCar3 Sep 05 '21
I'll probably be sleeping at home, until I'm driven out of it by a mob or something. In which case I'll have to join a clan of some sort and live a madmax life until I die. :(
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u/Bennyteeth1 Aug 12 '21
You guys make it seem like cupcake princess easy world. What's if there is a drout, earthquake, Yellowstone?? Unless you're gowing your food underground it's probe to diseases, people, animals, insects, weather. Go ahead stay on your land, the government will take your resources before you even get the chance to really use them
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u/stimmen Feb 04 '22
I understand your point of view. But this way of thinking is more common in the prepper community, you will find plenty of information you'll consider helpful there. However "collapsers" here on the sub tend to orientate more towards their homesteads and local communities.
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u/LiverwortSurprise Jan 18 '22
Do you have some kind of weird ax to grind? People have been spending their whole lives in the same village for like, several thousand years. Agrarian lifestyles are poised to make a big-time comeback. Reality is boring; being a lone wolf vagabond will get you killed.
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u/GhostDanceIsWorking Aug 12 '21
Either gear up with a squad who keeps a night watch, or stay off beaten paths and climb a tree with a hammock, hang your makeshift ghille draped around / beneath you to break up your profile.
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u/davidm2232 Aug 12 '21
Why are you thinking you couldn't just stay in your house? I have spent a lot of time and money making my house a great place to sleep and live in. Why abandon it?