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#211895 - 11/25/10 08:27 AM Re: Paper Goods the underrated survival item [Re: ireckon]
Alex Offline
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Registered: 03/01/07
Posts: 1034
Loc: -
Almost any clean paper will do well, especially when crumpled (do not be confused with plastic "paper"). Dangers of a modern printing ink chemistry are overrated, imo, especially in a survival scenario. So I'm stashing real paper (e.g. mail ads and old phone books) invisibly under the furniture. It's filling the volume otherwise occupied by dust, have more uses than typical TP, e.g. burns much better, mechanically stronger, have some information printed on it to occupy your mind, and is virtually free.

By the way, plastic "paper" is not that bad either, e.g. as a single use plate/platter, cutting board, and wrapping material. So' I'm stashing it too but separately from the real one.


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#211899 - 11/25/10 01:29 PM Re: Paper Goods the underrated survival item [Re: Alex]
hikermor Offline
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Registered: 08/26/06
Posts: 7705
Loc: southern Cal
Where is the Sears and Roebuck catalog when you really need it? Some of you younger ones may not get the reference. Your grandparents can explain...
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#211914 - 11/25/10 06:23 PM Re: Paper Goods the underrated survival item [Re: LED]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
Maybe you shouldn't be too quick to toss all your old phonebooks: lots of paper in the most confined space possible. And, unlike junk mail, are easy to stack.

Sue

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#211973 - 11/27/10 01:30 PM Re: Paper Goods the underrated survival item [Re: LED]
sotto Offline
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Registered: 06/04/03
Posts: 450
According to my mom, one of the benefits of growing up on a farm in Iowa in the old days was corncobs--one tool, many uses. First, you ate the corn off the cob, then you used the cob in the outhouse (firstly to knock the point off the spicule of frozen urine that steadily grew up towards your heinie from the glory hole underneath the outhouse, and then to clean your heinie once your duty was done). And corncobs also apparently were excellent hot-burning fuel for the wood cookstove. And then there was the ubiquitous corncob pipe. Since most farms had upwards of a 100 acres or more of corn, this was one of the original sustainable sources of food, TP, recreation, and stove fuel.

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#211974 - 11/27/10 01:37 PM Re: Paper Goods the underrated survival item [Re: LED]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
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