Well after watching doomsday prepers I decided to make a doomsday pipe kit. Yes I'm that bored. It includes 3 pipes, 5 2oz. Pouches of tobacco, a pipe nail and a chezch tool, 100 pipe cleaners, and 5 packs of matches.
Doomsday pipe kit....
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I think I would be squirreling mason jars away inside of new (empty/clean) paint buckets, with t shirts or something for padding. If an earthquake shattered my mason jars, I would probably be reduced to crying in the fetal position.
I could get away with one meerschaum pipe if I had to. Can smoke it as much as you like, and because it's made out of stone (sepiolite), there is no risk of burn out. Could always whittle a pipe out of cherry wood, a corn cob, or whatever if I had to. Stick a hollow reed on it and call it good. And I can't afford the bulk and weight of hauling around my 30 odd pipe collection!
A 5/32 or something a bit smaller diameter drill bit might come in handy for boring out the stem/shank of the pipe, after I eventually run out of pipe cleaners. Or the marading hordes take a fancy to arts and crafts, and use up the world's supply of pipe cleaners.
*Tobacco seeds - very necessary. I could barter tobacco all day long for whatever supplies I need. The stressfull post-apocalyptic lifestyle would probably make people want a smoke. I suppose edible vegetable seeds would come in handy, too.
Sunglasses. A drizabone leather wide brimmed hat and leather duster cloak. Thermal sweaters, ala Morpheous in The Matrix. Combat boots, with combat knives inside them. I like the Swedish fire steel idea a lot. Definetly a tomahawk (best of both worlds of an axe and a big knife). Big knife - awesomeness and interpersonal relationship intimidation factors. Swiss Army knife, which I am never without anyways.
And a flame thrower. Again, awesomeness factor... and negotiation influence factor.
I could get away with one meerschaum pipe if I had to. Can smoke it as much as you like, and because it's made out of stone (sepiolite), there is no risk of burn out. Could always whittle a pipe out of cherry wood, a corn cob, or whatever if I had to. Stick a hollow reed on it and call it good. And I can't afford the bulk and weight of hauling around my 30 odd pipe collection!
A 5/32 or something a bit smaller diameter drill bit might come in handy for boring out the stem/shank of the pipe, after I eventually run out of pipe cleaners. Or the marading hordes take a fancy to arts and crafts, and use up the world's supply of pipe cleaners.
*Tobacco seeds - very necessary. I could barter tobacco all day long for whatever supplies I need. The stressfull post-apocalyptic lifestyle would probably make people want a smoke. I suppose edible vegetable seeds would come in handy, too.
Sunglasses. A drizabone leather wide brimmed hat and leather duster cloak. Thermal sweaters, ala Morpheous in The Matrix. Combat boots, with combat knives inside them. I like the Swedish fire steel idea a lot. Definetly a tomahawk (best of both worlds of an axe and a big knife). Big knife - awesomeness and interpersonal relationship intimidation factors. Swiss Army knife, which I am never without anyways.
And a flame thrower. Again, awesomeness factor... and negotiation influence factor.
Maybe a couple of bullets of coffee beans and 1lb sacks of OTC for bartering, as well as an AK-47 and about 1000 rounds to keep it all safe.
Sadly, I don't think I'd make a doomsday kit. I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road. If doomsday ever comes, be it by man's design or otherwise, I'm buying a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and heading to nearest certain death zone, where I shall have a drink, smoke my pipe, and kiss my own ass goodbye.
I'll be damned if I'm going to live in the aftermath. :rofl:
I'll be damned if I'm going to live in the aftermath. :rofl:
I think I might travel around post-disaster with a case of canned tuna. (compact, and current value per can=99cents)
Bartering would eventually get me anything I wanted from tobacco hoarders. Stock-up, knock yourselves out..........................I'll be waiting! (evil laugh)
Bartering would eventually get me anything I wanted from tobacco hoarders. Stock-up, knock yourselves out..........................I'll be waiting! (evil laugh)
It would be tough to decide which pipes to leave behind, but I would grab my hurricane evac kit: pipes, tobacco, flint and steel, sheet of bic lighter knockoffs, two weeks of canned goods, first aid kit, flint and steel, rifle, 2 boxes of rounds, bags of gold and reproduction medieval chopper for the zombies that I don't knock down with my rifle. On second thought, I will probably just hunker down in the bomb shelter and wait for them to come to me.
Hoarding a weeks worth of necessities for a minor/localized calamity would certainly come-in-handy until help arrives. (That roughly translates here as 2 pouches). The extremes practiced by "doomsday preppers" on the tv show appear comical to me. Most notable are the ones canning years worth of food, and conversely, the guy who is already feeding his 3 kids road-kill(actual episode). Long term: Most likely, the one item you would first run out of would be drinkable water. Add 3 days past that, and your smoking pastime is over.
Who wants to survive in the "stone-age", anyhow?
Who wants to survive in the "stone-age", anyhow?
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