SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters.

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Last nuclear treaty between US and Russia nears expiration as Trump and Putin trade testing threats. (Pictured above are subsidence craters from underground nuclear weapons tests at the Yucca Flats portion of the DOE’s Nevada Test Site.)

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“Unique” weather warning for winter as La Nina, Polar Vortex dance. (Our thanks to SurvivalBlog reader C.B. for the link.)

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Tanning a Hide: A tradition that’s worth the effort.

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Reader Andy B. wrote:

“I am very frustrated in trying to find a financial advisor.  I try to weed most of them out by asking them about their opinion of Gold.

Most respond with “0%” in a portfolio or “5% in Gold ETFs”. (because physical does not make them any money.)

In addition, I have a non-prepper spouse who has thankfully allowed me to invest in some PMs but I would like more to achieve some prepping goals (10-20%)

Thank you so much for your article on “non-prepper spouses” BTW.

My options are:

    1. Be my own financial advisor and have a tax accountant who can help me roll over my 401k to a “Roth” outside the government. (My wife would be against)
    2. Choose a financial advisor who doesn’t support my goals and battle with them and my spouse to meet my financial prepper goals
    3. Find a certified CFP who supports prepper goals and physical PMs.

Therefore, do you know any prepper-minded CFPs?

Your response is greatly appreciated.”

JWR Replies:  I’m fielding your query to the full SurvivalBlog readership.  Someone out there must know of a good, prepper-minded CFP.

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Video: Top 5 Guns For Wilderness Survival.

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Strange, dome-shaped structure seen floating toward Hawaii.

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Mrs. Alaska had this suggestion:

“Years ago, we bought a 4′ x 125′ roll of silver, double bubble,insulation. The current cost for this is about $175.  We have used it in several applications.

Most effective has been cut-to-fit rectangles for our windows, which we install on winter nights behind our curtains. Despite the windows being double-paned, the temperature in their vicinity used to be much lower, with more draft, before we installed these insulators.
Being flexible, they are easy to roll up into a tube and store beneath a loveseat during the day.
This winter, we have also encircled our cedar, wood-fired soaking tub.  We will see if this helps us use less wood and if the tub retains heat better.  TBD.
This material might be similarly useful for South-facing and West-facing windows in very hot climates during the day.  The silver material reflects the heat outward.
This window fitting is also useful for people concerned about quickly cutting light emissions from a bugout location.
In an Alaskan winter, anyone would smell our wood stove fire, but in any setting that does not require a fire, this could be a quick way to make a cabin appear empty.”

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D.S.V. sent this: Quebec Has the Highest Euthanasia Rate in the World.

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Video: Prepper Library: Banned Books for SHTF & the Coming Collapse.

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Jase Medical (one of our affiliate advertisers) is running a special sale for November: Hydroxychloroquine is now 50% off.

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Reader C.B.  spotted this article: Colossal 75 Mile Wide Rift Rips Open Beneath Northwest US In First Ever Recorded Plate Death.

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