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Sep 18, 2024
9:32:50pm

Bob Vance Political Junky

It's been 12 months for a long time, back even in the 70s. More recently it has been 72 hrs as a minimum.

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Bob Vance

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Joined: Feb 13, 2006
Last login: Sep 19, 2024
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One of my favorite YouTubers was talking about Doomsday Preppers. He said some

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 9:12pm

Used to be a year but they realized there are some unrealistic aspects of that so believe the last one was 3 mos.

Soupie

Sep 18, 9:14pm

Used to be 7 yrs, then 3, then 1. Now a few months yeah

Akilleez

Sep 18, 9:17pm

I can just picture 7 years of rotten food storage being thrown out when cleaning

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 9:28pm

Yes, fact.... done that a few times.

Parley

Sep 18, 9:29pm

SiL's father recently passed. He'd stored enough food for his whole extended family at his small farm.

Soupie

Sep 18, 10:48pm

I have a year for about 20 people.

TheSpiker

Sep 18, 9:17pm

It's been 12 months for a long time, back even in the 70s. More recently it has been 72 hrs as a minimum.

Bob Vance

Sep 18, 9:32pm

Probably Hinckley walked it back, right? He seems to have done a lot to whittle

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 9:37pm

I don't know that he walked it back, as such. Probably more that they added in a more practical minimum.

Bob Vance

Sep 18, 9:39pm

I have about a year’s worth. I figure in an economic collapse situation it could

DwigtA2RM

Sep 18, 9:49pm

So my question for you would be, how much do you think is excessive?

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 9:57pm

I grew up in the time when we were told to have a year supply of longer lasting

DwigtA2RM

Sep 18, 10:15pm

Dang, good for you. I respect that. I'm in school so extra cans of spaghettiOs &

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 10:22pm

That’s why the community would need to band together. Not everyone will be in a

DwigtA2RM

Sep 18, 10:41pm

The 12 months thing has NOT been the Church's advice in 20+ years

j20

8:17am

Correction: "Where permitted, gradually build a one-year supply of food ..."

j20

9:03am

It was a two year supply for a long time and they changed it to a one year

RC Vikings

Sep 18, 9:41pm

The trend does seem to be downward for sure. Maybe less fear of people losing

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 9:46pm

Moreso when the church is every country you can’t have some blanket food

BaseCoug

Sep 18, 9:49pm

Right, that goes with what I'm kind of saying. As times change, so do

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 9:52pm

I’ve thrown away a lot of food storage, when helping people move, over the

RC Vikings

Sep 18, 9:51pm

Not a requirement but it was a two year supply

Sep 18, 10:05pm

I bet that food storage companies made a killing for sure. Its amazing to hear

LSUcougar92

Sep 18, 10:10pm

I think some of the shrinking requirement is due to the international growth of

rmsenior

Sep 18, 10:11pm

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