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  1. Very good info. I would also stress that readers should de connect from so much tech reliance for access to necessary subject matter expertise information. Hard copies, able to be referenced grid down, is like stored gold in value. In essence an old timer’s personal library chocked full of reference manual types of knowledge will have as much “necessary” value as a gun boy’s foot locker. Being a Luddite is the new cool kid.

    1. Frosty- excellent point and you know what else you get with books? People’s experiences written in the margins- like use more salt, or do “x” first. Funny I was just thinking yesterday about luddites.

    2. According to Martin Armstrong, there will be no tech companies at all in 2032, and no online shopping either. So assuming that he is correct, or rather that his computer is, electronic equipment and information has about eleven years of life left, unless it is completely separate from the grid and you have long term independent power. Even then, no replacements.

      So yes, hard copies will be best. Fire up your printer for the best of the online information.

      Armstrong has a way of dropping very brief comments in the middle of his posts that are extremely significant. His comment on why China will be the new world economic power after 2032 is that the west will be in even worse shape than they are.

  2. Written/Printed resource libraries & references are invaluable, especially when based on your own experience/trials and errors. You know what works and what doesn’t. Family cooking recipes, instructions how Grandpa did things, Dad’s tricks of fixing the well pump, tuning the truck, sharpening blades,etc. All priceless information to document while you can. Three ring binders, purchased books and a terrabyte vault.

    Remember in Lucifer’s Hammer, the Scientist hid the library in the septic tank to protect it from looters & destroyers for the future generation who would rebuild.

  3. Various online dealers are offering used 120 mm mortar metal containers…..same principle as 30 and 50 cal ammo cans……they will hold a 30 inch and under battle rifle and ammo/ mags they are very very nice air and water proof. Many uses, books, food, supplies, etc. I also use old paint cans once dry they are a very useful and stacked together a intruder would probably not give them a second glance. Would enjoy hearing your ideas on unique storage items.

  4. I have 2 moleskin notebooks with this type of information in them. My daughter calls them “Dad’s books of Apocalyptic Knowledge”. I Find “knowledge nuggets” often a chart or diagram on-line and will cut a screen shot and past it into “Paint” and resize and crop so as to fit in my book. I print them, cut them out of the paper and then use an Elmer’s glue stick and paste them onto the pages. The books do get thicker with this. I have really bad hand writing (where I can’t read my own sometimes) and printing information was important so my wife or kids could read it if I wasn’t around. Not all the information is cut and paste- sometimes I write stuff down while watching a YouTube video. Something else I do is I try to reference where I got the information, probably won’t be useful in the apocalypse but in the mean time. I have a ton of info on common uses for common chemicals like baking soda and vinegar. Information on common herbs/plants that are around my homestead, information on some common “pet” anabiotic’s and their uses.

  5. Great article. I would be a little vague on locations, where my location is. And where the “Thompson and Morris farms” are. Remember your OPSEC and that of your extended group, or folks you barter with.
    When the world we live in goes sideways we will all be living and breathing OPSEC. Once again wonderful article, lots of thought. God bless

  6. I still have my smartbook, range coach card and armory card that says a single burst fire M16A1 rifle is assigned to me and waiting in the armorer’s vault at Fort Dix, NJ…..Ha! After 34 years, I doubt it.
    We can dream though .

  7. Great article. Thanks! There’s a lot to think over.
    Does anyone have any good ideas on how to organize a notebook (not computer program) on how to inventory where preps are stored? For instance by room, by items, a cross reference? I’ve gotten everything where it’s supposed to go, but need to let everyone else know how to easily access “stuff” and know how much of it there is. Thanks in advance.

    1. Try a three ring binder notebook. You can swap out pages easily as needed, and you cannot do that with any bound notebook.

      You can use index inserts for each room and location, or else for type of supply.

    2. I keep my storage information on an Excel spreadsheet which I -print out- every time I update it and keep in my purse. This way, when I spot a sale on something, I know how much I need to round out this or that supply, and also have a paper backup if my computer goes all flooey. I keep similar spreadsheets on my in-home library, my DVD movie collection, and various acquisition wish-lists so that I’ve always got them in my purse (folded in 1/4, and then kept in a little 4×5″ notebook with a rubber band around it). It’s not elegant, but I’ve always got a paper copy on hand.

      Not as nice as a 3-ring binder with sheet dividers, but the binders were too big to bring with me, so I discovered that I tended not to use them as they’re too big and clunky to have on-hand, while it wasn’t convenient to hand-write stuff out into another notebook. Fold in 1/4, stick in the little notebook, and I always have it.

      I keep my preps fairly well-organized by class of item, so I usually know the general ballpark of where I can lay my hands on stuff.

  8. Great reminder article. Thanks for pinging our work completion.

    I labeled my smart book End Times Instructions. But I need a collection box for the critical items so thumb drives and things can be co-located.

    One very useful aspect is to have instruction sheets laminated for the workers who show up to help, as in relatives or friends could take it and correctly do the complete step by step generator setup with light set and phone recharger with slow cooker, etc., etc.

  9. Can anyone provide more links to examples. PDF examples are good because you can download them and study and compare them. Examples are good even if they are for a location different from your own. It is often that I read someone else’s notes and discover ‘gems’ and things I never thought of.

  10. Hey G.P., excellent article, lots to think about and a big help for getting better organized. thanks for taking the time to put this together.

    It’s pretty difficult to be overorganized and I think we can all benefit from getting more organized than we are. In addition to having accessible books, and putting together our own in the way you point out, it’s also important in some areas to keep a “journal” for lack of a better word, where we write down what we’re doing so we can reference back to it. I have journals for my gardening and one for my beekeeping. I can write down planting dates, frost dates, bee swarming dates, all the things I can’t remember from year to year but which we need to help us imporve and do a better job. After the SHTF, we don’t want to be wasting time trying to figure out which bean varieties produce the most dry beans, we want that figured out ahead of time and written in our journals, logbook, whatever you want to call them.

    The main thing I like about your smartbook idea with its 12 points is that we’ll not only learn a lot just putting one together, but it’ll be a quick reference when we need it instead of going into panic mode trying to find information. Just knowing we have it will help keep us, and our loved ones, reassured that we’re going to be okay, we’ve got a plan, and this is not all bad, just something we’re prepared to deal with.

    I’m old enough that I’ve never trusted electrons and wonder what books will be worth in a TEOTWAWKI situation. Those old sets of encyclopedias I see at auctions that they can’t GIVE away will be worth their weight in gold some day.

  11. In reference to your statement about the “13th Amendment” Jim, that’s a fine amendment, used to be the preamble to the original amendment now known as the 14th amendment. But do some research sir, the actual 13th amendment, and the original is here:

    http://www.amendment-13.org/index.html

    I was part of a team that put in a lt of time and $$ to uncover the coverup … the ramifications of which we are paying dearly for today. “My people perish for lack of knowledge…”

  12. Excellent article!!! You know what would be great? a Smart Book for Our Elected employees”. . . OH WAIT its called the Constitution of the United States!

  13. G.P., great ideas.

    I also include a list of financial information, accounts and passwords for my wife if she suddenly needed to do some of the things I usually do. We have recently been reminded that your lifestyle can change in an instant due to injury, sickness, death or politics.

    Always have a plan B, I guess being a Boy Scout in the 60s and ” Be prepared, is the moto of the true scout” really influenced me.

    Reassess your plans for grown children to join you in TEOTWAWKI because they may be in the other camp now. Suddenly the help you thought would be there may be gone. As we enter our later years we slowly realize can’t do it all any more.

    Lessons learned from the last several months of covid-19 isolation.

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