Ugh…Im immersing myself in a bit of reorganization of the long-term food. The positive aspect is that it gives me a chance to inspect, update , and repackage things. The negative side is that it’s a buncha work. After the last big Mountain House buy I wound up with a dozen cases of leftovers to add to my own stockpile. But…where to put it? Its an eye-opening experience. I’ve come across quite a bit of older stuff that may need to be excised from the current stash…most notably some MRE’s that are, no lie, 20 years old. Gotta figure out what to do with those.
It’s very odd to come across all these different things that have been in storage so long I’ve forgotten about them.
Anyway, when you have spent as many years as I have doing this sort of lifestyle you wind up having these sorts of to-do lists. I’m hoping that once Im done I’ll have freed up a bunch more space for better organization. And, really, I need to split the whole thing into an even distribution of three or four stockpiles to be relocated elsewhere…Ive got way too many eggs in too few baskets.
But…there’s a certain fun and bittersweet nostalgia to going through stuff from so many years ago. I’m curous to see what turns up and what winds up not being worth keeping. (For example..the cheap sleeping bags will probably be eliminated since I have so many of the military sleep systems these days.)
Too much food, too much stuff.
You poor bastard. What a challenging and difficult life you must lead. Meanwhile, in sub Saharan Africa…
Seriously though, if those are your problems, well played!
Sub Saharan Africa is on its own…doesn’t bother me in the least. As the great philosopher Kinison once said “It occured to us, as we were driving here with your food, that there’d be no worldhunger if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! You live in a desert! Nothing grows here, nothings GOING to grow here! We have deserts in America…we just don’t live in them!”
When my MREs get too old, I bury them in a cache.
Someday I may be ecstatic to have them.
I try to eat them up around the 5-7 year mark or at least open them up and steal the snacks and throw the rest in a bin, 6 bins and counting so far loll. The ration review channels on YouTube are pretty interesting btw
I go by the site of Sam Kinison’s fatal accident scene from time to time outside of Needles, CA. Guy was great.
Whenever I have leftover or unwanted stuff I sometimes leave it in the park where the homeless hang out, ninja-like of course, I don’t want to be seen feeding the less than standup.
MREs, years old half bottles of vodka, clothing, what not, it all get’s used up like it entered the black hole of desparation. I had a few cases of the big cans of tuna from Costco that were past the expiration date, the no-kill cat shelter was happy to get them. Humane society told me they didn’t want them!
20 years old MRE’s taste as good as the day they were produced.
That’s what I’m afraid of! LOL
Correct, like I referenced before, spilt your gear up into somewhat equally divisible units 3 or 4 no more. One is home base unit that can be newest bestest slightly mostest. Two more units can be separetly and in varied manner cached if it can be done so in a very secure never found except by you with effort and not someone casually falling over and found out. Or a unit can be assembled into road boxes for quick deployment kits when hasty no packing type departures are necessary to save your ass. After all the fakebook and other means of discovery, every set of eyes reading here is a known entity to the borg/skynet-cyberdyne systems/ etc. One micro incident or an initiation of action and it is all post-toasties afterwards. Good luck all!
Feed ‘em to the goats. That’s what God made them for.
The winter freeze dried ones are pretty good!
I still have some MRE’s from the 80’s – you know – the dark brown ones. I still save them because many of the components are perfect. The freeze dried fruit and the dehydrated beef and pork patties re-hydrate the same as when new. If it gets to the point that people are starving, they will still have significant barter value.