Don't put up too much liquid soap in plastic. The plastic will break down and anyway, liquid soap (dish, clothes, etc) doesn't have a long shelf life. Usually just a couple of years. Same with laundry pods. For storage, get powder, bars, or something like Castile soap and move to glass mason jars. I have had Dawn that I got from Costco start leaking from the seams in less than 2 years on more than one occasion, which is super annoying! Baking soda, Borax, and bar soaps like Fels Naptha are good to have for laundry, or just a traditional powdered detergent.
You store fresh eggs by "water glassing" them, it amounts to taking a fresh, unwashed egg and placing them in a solution of water and picking lime, kept cool they'll store for over a year. I use gallon pickle jars but you could put them in anything, 5 gal bucket, crock, anything, it doesn't have to be sealed, but the eggs must be submerged. Google it, but I think it's about a cup of lime per gallon of water
Great advice! We do this... well, technically it's my aunt who does it because she has the chickens. Unfortunately the vast majority of Americans are not getting fresh eggs today, let alone after the crap hits the fan.
I've been preppin since Randy Weaver's wife was shot. My two best protein producing assets are my chickens and meat rabbits, both will start producing protein around 6mos of birth, I think this is important because when the SHTF we will have a short period of time for everyone to gear up their food production, stockpiles are not indefinite, invariably there are going to family and loved ones that show up that haven't prepared. The whole thing with preppin is to have a plan, a back up plan and a back up plan for the back up plan.
I've got some now, although they're coming to the time I need to use them and do another batch. We live in a rural/agricultural area so we can get nice unwashed eggs all year.
Thank you for your thoughts on this. If I may, a thought of my own concerning soap. There are approximately 7 plants that are "soap plants". One is even called Soap Bush. I would recommend buying some of these plants and having an almost endless supply of "soap" growing in your yard.
Don't put up too much liquid soap in plastic. The plastic will break down and anyway, liquid soap (dish, clothes, etc) doesn't have a long shelf life. Usually just a couple of years. Same with laundry pods. For storage, get powder, bars, or something like Castile soap and move to glass mason jars. I have had Dawn that I got from Costco start leaking from the seams in less than 2 years on more than one occasion, which is super annoying! Baking soda, Borax, and bar soaps like Fels Naptha are good to have for laundry, or just a traditional powdered detergent.
You store fresh eggs by "water glassing" them, it amounts to taking a fresh, unwashed egg and placing them in a solution of water and picking lime, kept cool they'll store for over a year. I use gallon pickle jars but you could put them in anything, 5 gal bucket, crock, anything, it doesn't have to be sealed, but the eggs must be submerged. Google it, but I think it's about a cup of lime per gallon of water
Great advice! We do this... well, technically it's my aunt who does it because she has the chickens. Unfortunately the vast majority of Americans are not getting fresh eggs today, let alone after the crap hits the fan.
I've been preppin since Randy Weaver's wife was shot. My two best protein producing assets are my chickens and meat rabbits, both will start producing protein around 6mos of birth, I think this is important because when the SHTF we will have a short period of time for everyone to gear up their food production, stockpiles are not indefinite, invariably there are going to family and loved ones that show up that haven't prepared. The whole thing with preppin is to have a plan, a back up plan and a back up plan for the back up plan.
Special note: These are for fresh, unwashed eggs only, this will not work on store bought eggs, the eggs must have the "bloom" on them
I've got some now, although they're coming to the time I need to use them and do another batch. We live in a rural/agricultural area so we can get nice unwashed eggs all year.
Thanks JD, love you posts.
Thank you for your thoughts on this. If I may, a thought of my own concerning soap. There are approximately 7 plants that are "soap plants". One is even called Soap Bush. I would recommend buying some of these plants and having an almost endless supply of "soap" growing in your yard.