Clothes pegs

[Malamute Mitch]

Good info there folks! Clean clothes matter. Otherwise we become savages.

Umm Interesting statement !!

This is taken from an interview with Helen Skelton after Antarctic record breaking trip earlier this year.

"What did you learn?
How to kite ski. I’d never done that before and I’d never cross-country skied previously either. And how to put a tent up in a blizzard.

You’ve worn the same underwear for a month…

Yes, because you have to carry everything with you on the back of the sledge, so you’re told unless you absolutely need it don’t bring it. It’s too cold to undress, anyway. You’re in so many layers of clothes you forget about what you’re wearing. It’s all about function, not fashion, which is my mantra now. "

Off course there countless soldiers who ve been dug in an op for weeks and occasionally months at a time unable to change cloths and have a mate hold a plastic bag for them to defecate in. umm

Love to know you definition of savage!!

[jansman]

I ain't a soldier,Nor an explorer. I don't live in filth. Most Humans, and animals live cleanly. You work out the meaning of Savage.

[preppingsu]

It's also about keeping moral and spirits up. Clean clothes and undies will make all the difference. Just think what you feel like when you have clean sheets on the bed - there is nothing better!

[jansman]

It's also about keeping moral and spirits up. Clean clothes and undies will make all the difference. Just think what you feel like when you have clean sheets on the bed - there is nothing better!

Dead right. Clean sheets-the best feeling!

[Malamute Mitch]

I ain't a soldier,Nor an explorer. I don't live in filth. Most Humans, and animals live cleanly. You work out the meaning of Savage.

Obviously, as I said before this is very much about the situation one finds one s self in.

And believe me after several weeks in the same cloths unable to wash, then a long hot bath, clean cloths, a tot of rum and crisp sheets. Well it just does not get any better.

However "Jansman" still curious as to your meaning of "savage" as to be fair it did seem a tad judgemental !!

Personally I like things clear and straight with no ambiguity, and well !! would like to know are you using that a an adjective or noun, big difference!!

Personally I'd rather be savage, any day of the week over being a bigot or ignorant!

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Martin Luther King 1929-1968

[judicatr]

In a pinch try binder clips and paracord.

[Rosesandtea]

Was just reading in the Doom and Bloom Survival Medicine Handbook. They have a good section about preventing disease thru good hygiene. It was mentioned that body lice (not head or pubic lice) live on dirty clothes themselves (but bite the people wearing them). These lice carry some very bad infectious diseases.

So there's a definite morale issue, but also an important health issue.

Besides, what if you're in an accident??

[Malamute Mitch]

but also an important health issue.

Besides, what if you're in an accident??

I am talking about serious SHTF scenario and yes you are absolutely right, in any long term environment hygiene is a must, but it is interesting to note that poor hygiene and insanitary conditions can build a stronger longer term herd immunity. It is now well understood the vast majority of the European conquests in the middle ages were due to the fact most Europeans lived in squalid conditions and built very strong immunity to the diseases in the community which they then carried abroad and devastated the communities they came into contact with but this is self defeating in a individual survival situation however it is also a simple fact that over cleanliness weaken s individual immunities over time, so a balance should be sort.

A good understanding of microbial biology is really a must for people to get through a period of several months in a survival situation. Can you or can't eat a smelly carcass you find in the wood, can you make it safe to eat and if so how. There are many many more things like this I think people need to know if they are going to survive if the SHTF.

My personal feeling is if people don't except how much there lives will change, especially in the short term, in a serious TEOTWAWKI situation they and there families will become part of the statistics and I'm hoping to cover more about this in my strategy and the black swan post.

In short people will have to become a lot less squeamish, embrace blood, s**t. p*ss and poo or die.

[diamond lil]

Well lets just wait until we have to eh - this is just nit-picking

[Mr_Sea-Breeze]

Surely in the short term then looking clean and fresh will attract some unwanted attention from the great unwashed, who by coincidence would have been the less prepared...