The Shtf Stockpile: 55 Items You Shouldn't Miss When Shtf

By Ronald Nelson

Your ability to survive when the Shtf depends on two things – having a solid survival strategy and possessing the tools to put it into action. This book tells you which tools you need. It is a guide to the 55 most essential you need to stockpile for when the Shtf. When preparing for a ShtfF scenario, there can be no room for superfluous items. Everything you stockpile needs to stored for a reason. The 55 items recommended here have been rigorously assessed to ensure they provide you with the greatest utility. Essential Shtf stockpile items should have uses that focus on the bare necessities of survival. For this reason, the items in this book are organized into chapters that prioritize the basic human needs. There are four things all humans must have in order to survive: water, food, sleep and shelter. Without these, humans are in immediate danger. Take just one of these away and our survival hopes are drastically cut. Items that help to fulfill these basic needs are identified in the first four chapters. A further chapter details items that can help provide you with Power, Communication and Light. You will also need to make sure you have the right items to keep you and your family healthy and comfortable, and Chapter 6 guides you through the items you need for First Aid and Sanitation. Lastly, it makes no difference how well you stockpile your items if someone can simply come and take them from you. For this reason, Chapter 7 lists the most effective items for protecting your property from unwanted guests.
Here are the chapters that you'll find in this book:

Preparation
Water
Food
Sleep and Shelter
Power, Light and Communication
Sanitation and First Aid
Security

• Language: English
• Publisher: JVzon Studio
• Release date: Feb 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386237396

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Introduction

When The SHTF

No one knows exactly when the SHTF.  No one can tell you why it will happen or what will cause it.  We can all speculate on what may befall us.  It could be a solar storm, it could be global pandemic, like Ebola, it could be a nuclear EMP, or a financial meltdown.  Did you know that in the United States alone, forty-five states could be hit by earthquakes?  All this is pure guess-work.  What is clear is that this century is characterized by its instability and radicalism.  It is a volatile time and no one can predict with any certainty what will happen next.  The potential for immense disasters on a global scale has never been so great. 

We do, however, know three things for sure.  Firstly, that when the SHTF the resulting panic and chaos will be unlike anything we have experienced before.

What is clear, is that in a world of super-advanced technology, where everything is connected, in which machines and computers take care of our most basic needs, the possibility of disaster moves ever closer into view. 

Ponder this for a moment -  there is no single person in the world who is able to build cell phone on their own.  That basic tool of the modern world, the thing we all depend on each and every day, can not be constructed by anyone person.  Without the complex web of supply systems that stretch around the world, nothing like this can exist.  The fact is our modern lives depend on things that we simply do not understand and will never be able to learn.  What would happen if these complex systems broke down?  How would we be able to survive? 

Imagine how the society you live in would be able to cope without access to computers.  Would you be able to fill your truck with gas, would you even be able to buy your groceries?  Without access to basic commodities how far from complete breakdown do you think our society is?  A week?  Days?  Maybe even only a few hours, once you consider how quickly panic can grip any community of people.

The truth is that for the first time in human history we have become so disconnected from the basic methods of survival.  This technology that allows us to pick up fast food, or connect to people with a touch of a button, make modern life easy.  But at the same time, our reliance on it could well be quietly sewing the seeds of our own undoing.  When our reliance on the tools of modern society is no longer possible, how quickly will we descend into madness and violence? 

Secondly, we know that we cannot rely on governments and states to help us.  It will be their mismanagement and folly that brings about the disaster.  The example of Hurrican Katarina should serve, not only as a warning about how quickly a city can fall into utter anarchy, but also illustrate the powerlessness of the authorities to prevent it.  This was just one city that was affected.  A disaster affecting a larger area would render the national bodies totally useless.

Lastly, and most importantly of all, this all means that we must prepare for when the SHTF and that we can neither blame nor rely on anyone but ourselves.  We can see what is coming and we must be prepared. 

It is, therefore, unsurprising that increasing numbers of people are deciding to take matters into their own hands.  They are taking the necessary steps to safeguard their own and their family's safety.  Most of these steps are not only entirely logical and reasonable, they are also endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross.  Their recommendations are that you need to stockpile a supply of emergency food and water.