{"id":318098,"date":"2022-09-24T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=318098"},"modified":"2022-09-24T00:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:58:28","slug":"the-preppers-storage-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2022\/09\/the-preppers-storage-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prepper\u2019s Storage Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Pat Cascio, Survival Blog<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Storage of your voluminous preps can be a real problem. We don\u2019t live in a large house, it is only about 1,600 Square Feet. It has two bedrooms, one is extremely small, and is used as my office. The home we used to live in, on the dry side of Oregon, was quite a bit bigger, it was originally an earth-sheltered house, with most of it underground. And, at some point, in the 1970s, there was another level added and it became a more traditional house. However, the below-ground portion of the house was totally useable. Half of the \u201cbasement\u201d was used for my office\/dojo<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 I also taught martial arts classes in the basement. The other half was our oldest daughter\u2019s bedroom, and a great storage room for our Preps. We miss having it!<\/p>\n TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n We live in a single-level house now, on our small homestead, and it is adequate for the most part. We have a small guest house next door on our property, and our oldest daughter lives in it, it only about 750-square feet \u2013 small, but she is single and not home all that often \u2013 she works all the time, but it suits her needs. We have a small outbuilding for storage, but it doesn\u2019t hold a lot \u2013 it is pretty much full top-to-bottom most of the time.<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re not much for socializing. We\u2019ve been in this house for coming up on 17 years now, and very few people have been in our digs over the years. We just don\u2019t host parties or gatherings of any type. I\u2019m a very private person, always have been, and I sincerely cherish my privacy, no one needs to know my business \u2013 period!<\/p>\n <\/a>We are almost full-time Preppers, to be honest. We\u2019ve been at it for a long, long,\u00a0 time. And, of course, living in a small house, doesn\u2019t give us a lot of room for all of our Preps. So, it is always a challenge to find places to put our purchases. If you walk into our living room, it looks like we are still unpacking. Nope, just\u00a0a lot<\/em>\u00a0of canned goods all over. One entire corner of the living room is covered with canned goods, in boxes, underneath an old sleeping bag, and other things. Another corner has cases of canned veggies and fruits, just sitting there. Under my wife\u2019s desk, are more canned goods, as well as some #10 cans of freeze-dried foods, and we even some bookshelves with freeze-dried foods, as well as canned goods hidden under a small bookcase, behind some old cassette tapes.<\/p>\n <\/a>So, storage space is limited, but we still manage to get everything put \u201csomeplace\u201d in our house. So, one means of storage is cardboard boxes. It seems to work. Our utility room, with the washer, dryer, and huge chest freezer, is a total mess \u2013 there is just enough room to walk into it, to the back door to let the dog out into the backyard. Just this morning, my wife managed to knock over a lot of canned goods as she exited the utility room \u2013 that\u2019s how crowded it is. We have Preps in cardboard boxes, as well as in some very large plastic bins.<\/p>\n Anyone old enough to remember the movie,\u00a0The Graduate<\/em>\u00a0with Dustin Hoffman, will appreciate the scene, at a party, where a guest simply told Hoffman\u2019s character one word: \u201cPlastics\u201d. He was telling him to get into the plastics industry for the future. Well, it might have seemed like strange advice at the time, but it was a great tip. We have big plastic bins all over the utility room, as well as in my office. Truth be told, you would hit your head on \u201csomething\u201d in my office, if you fell down, before you\u2019d hit a wall, since\u00a0all<\/strong>\u00a0of the wall space is covered.<\/p>\n I know many Preppers will agree with me now on the use of plastics. I remember when the first Glock came along \u2013 the Model 17, and the receiver was and is still made out of plastic. Everyone laughed and said the guns would never last, or blow up in your hand. It hasn\u2019t happened, and every major handgun maker, produces some handguns manufactured out of \u201cplastic\u201d these days. Many call it \u201cpolymer\u201d but whatever name is used, it is plastic of some sort. Personally, I only own a few handguns made with steel and Aluminum. I might be an old dog, but I learned some tricks along the way and plastic is the way to go.<\/p>\n