These 6 Things Can DESTROY Your Preps

[@diypreppertv]

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[@alantacitus]

Great timing, ya rodents can be a issue. A tip to keep them away from your stuff is lavender and/or mint leaves. I combine the 2 in tea bags and suspend them around my shelf close to the floor. Keep the area clean vacuum every weeks and wash the floor. Thanks for upload and have a nice week. Peace

[@diypreppertv]

Thanks for sharing Alan!

[@SJ-db1lh]

I have put Bay Leaves on every shelf in my pantry for years. I do still put my bags of flour, etc. in the freezer for a week just to be safe! I also put one in the bottom of the trash can and corners of all doors. Cinnamon, underneath small appliances on countertops can deter ants. Stay safe everyone!

[@villageidiot87]

Something else that can diminish your food storage is storing super tasty food 😋 I love freeze dried ice cream sandwiches

[@diypreppertv]

Yep, they are good. I get one for my son when we visit our local survival shop.

[@angeladansie4378]

Yep. I have to admit that I've gotten into my survival foods. I figured it's best to experiment with them so I have recipes ready when I need to use them. Luckily I bought a lot of #10 cans Augason Farms Cheesy Broccoli soup because it's become a new favorite. I've also discovered Hoosier Hill Farms white cheddar powder makes the absolute BEST mac & cheese!

[@deniselogan2733]

Homemade rodent killer (safe for pets) - jiffy corn muffin mix mixed with baking soda. They eat it & boom! Their stomach acid is like vinegar and the combo w baking soda foams up their inside. The corn muffin mix is to disquise the baking soda in something tasty.

[@diypreppertv]

Thanks for sharing!

[@joanmayo3330]

I cannot cause a painful and terrible death even for a rodent.

[@bettywales3631]

Excellent!

[@perpetualconfusion5885]

@@joanmayo3330 your life or theirs

[@brendanelson1027]

Lemongrass essential oil also a good deterrent for rodents. It & peppermint essential oils keep spiders, bugs & rodents out of our camper & help keep them out of our 100 year old house. I also put the oils on cotton balls & spread in our storage unit & sheds.

[@allengrant]

Great info here. Nothing worse than prepping a lot of food, and find out a year later, that insects or mice ruined it. I use a vacu-suck machine to portion and seal my dry preps. Hopefully, that's sufficient ? As far as vermin are concerned, I have numerous peppermint plants (and cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil) scattered around the house to keep them away. They hate it, and will vamoose pretty quickly. One note... peppermint doesn't repel your in-laws at all !!? 👴🏼 Thx JR. Cheers 😎🦅🇺🇸

[@michaelnienaber8263]

I think vacuum sealing would be sufficient.

[@MarkFaust]

Just get a cat.

[@allengrant]

@@MarkFaust Have a cat..... Outside.

[@MarkFaust]

@@allengrant There are feral cats in this town and I have two inside. A fly lives for the length of time that two cats can bat it around before getting curious to how it tastes.

[@timekabolden5309]

😬😅😆🤣🤣🤣

[@dustyschwartz1576]

The flying raisens and the wiggly rice all look better when not moving

[@timekabolden5309]

😂🔥😭😱😱😱😱👻👻👻😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@titanpreparedness]

Mice have been my biggest problem before. They got in my bob food and i didnt find out till i was out on a camping trip...lessons learned good information

[@diypreppertv]

Thanks Titan!

[@witchmedicine]

I have a frequentie repellent in my pantry. I also had rats in my pantry.

[@vonitadustylgreen2914]

I prepared alot of my dried beans, rice and dry milk in mason jars. I put beans in freezer for 2 days. Took them out, dried them for a day and put in jars. Other beans, rice and dry milk I put in mylar bags and stored in popcorn tins..

[@Morgan-rn4ow]

Take heed to what DIY Prepper says here, you never know when or how you will be tested. Spent some time in the military and know what destroys a home and everything in it and because of that I had no plans to watch this post. Then I went to the cellar and was greated by 2" of water and spray from a fitting to the pressure tank. Thankfully most things were protected. So aside from clean up and repairs we only lost 4 boxes of mac & cheese and a container of quick oats. Thank the Father!

[@SirMarshalHaig]

Keeping the cats in the neighborhood alive might help to deal with mice and rats. At least a gardener, who put meat into his compost pile, described how nothing really helped in the long run, but having two cats on patrol.

[@angeladansie4378]

When I bring cans & boxed mixes home, I mark the expiration date on the front in large sharpie marker. That helps me rotate & easily spot things that need to be used up soon.

[@deniseeulert2503]

my mother would write the date of purchase as well.

[@angeladansie4378]

I have my pantry open when the cats are inside, just in case. They're ferocious mousers. I've only ever had one mouse in my house, but you can't be too careful. And everything down low is in mylar with OAs, inside of locking totes or 5 gallon buckets

[@beverlybell2271]

Raccoons are hard on food buckets. Lost 3 buckets of flour, sugar and oats

[@beverlybell2271]

@@kimnielsenthewordyvikingett159 They were inside of a boarded up horse trailer in a shaded area. It came through a weak spot in the floor of the trailer. This story was a cautionary tale to those who may be considering a similar storage place.

[@beverlybell2271]

@@kimnielsenthewordyvikingett159 God Bless and Godspeed.

[@tom-dr1ym]

have my can goods dated and in plastic tubs lids are tight rice i put in freezer for a week leave in there bags the put in plastic tubs

[@gezapapp9318]

Living in colder climate means that there is a danger of freezing water damaging the cans. I'm not sure about food with smaller water content, such as spam. May be somebody could tell what happens with it in freezing temperature. In worst case situation you won't have electricity, nor fuel, so you won't have controlled temperature - in which case a root cellar might be the best option.

[@readyornot316]

I accidentally left several cans of food in our camper over the winter in the upper peninsula of Michigan (think 20 degrees below zero). We ate everything the following summer; no noticeable difference with the fruit, mushrooms were tough and rubbery, green beans had no flavor, baked beans were a little mushy, and tuna seemed normal. None of the cans were bulging or looked different except rust had just started to form on the bottom rim of the fruit cans. Bottom line wouldn’t recommend it, but the food was still edible.

[@gezapapp9318]

@@readyornot316 It was probably 40 below when the problem happened to some of my canned food. Oh those Canadian winters!

[@LetsTalkPrepping]

Sometimes I get carpenter ants. Terro works great for them.

[@micj62]

Any advice for when you don't have air conditioning? How long will all your preps last then?

[@stealmysunshine]

See again this is good advice for life. We all have to eat. We all are subject to illness and pests. Real simple stuff

[@plantchant1872]

Baking soda and muffin mix in little containers around the storage room no more mice ever they can't fart :)

[@unwin42]

For a can rotator, I found the metal "Auledio" brand one on Amazon that's $20 for a two-pack. Seemed a better deal than the plastic ones, but YMMV. Wish it was even denser.

[@Steve-ls3yy]

Glad I didn't pass on this video because of it's author's youth. Good info here. Can I add one more for a 'special' hiding spot for my preps- termites invaded my shed crawl space! Their unique enzymes allowed them to eat through all my sealed containers. Ruined everything there.

[@WvhKerkhof]

Rats? Insects? I don't have them in my house.

[@timekabolden5309]

Lucky u

[@leenie1176]

So does that mean the canned goods I have stored under my bed, are not good to eat. It has been hot here off and on all summer and I don't have air conditioning. I did move most of the canned stuff to the basement, but some did not get moved.

[@diypreppertv]

Not sure, it would just depend on how hot it got and how widely the temperature fluctuated. Being under the bed may have protected it a little since it was shaded and had some insulation above it.

[@leenie1176]

@@diypreppertv thank you for responding.

[@markharris1342]

Weevils in the flour is no problems. Ask anybody who did a submarine tour in the navy. Add proteins to the flour.

[@angeladansie4378]

😆😂🤣

[@r.f.pennington746]

Another item learned the hard way: buying cases of bottled water. We live in the Chihuahuan Desert on the Mexican border where many days are single-digit humidity. Less than a year after purchasing several shrink wrapped cases of 24-30 (11-12 oz) bottles, I noticed that almost every bottle only had about 6-7 ounces in them. Dried right out. Actually, those bottles are made to degrade rather quickly. So, house plants and dog watering bowls got filled for 'free' for a few weeks, then invested in serious water containment. Friends who live in 'normal' places haven't noticed this problem. Seems to be just the bane of us desert rats.

[@sarahangel3439]

Mice don't like anything to do with peppermint.

[@heatherdeavalon]

JR do you ever use dry ice for dry goods?

[@diypreppertv]

I haven’t yet. I’ve heard about it, but I’d rather just keep things simple.

[@jenniferespinoza3512]

Just curious? Can weevils chew through mylar? I have a serious infestation, and was told if i just seal the food in mylar bags, jars, or plastic buckets(with a gasket seal) and oxygen absorbers, it would kill ALL live weevils and their eggs?

[@diypreppertv]

If they are inside the package, oxygen absorbers should kill them and any eggs.

[@dustyschwartz1576]

All joking aside, good video.

[@dustyschwartz1576]

If you ever need bad jokes I'm your guy.i can still say guy right?

[@diypreppertv]

Thanks for watching!

[@temetitolapinga4449]

First comment! Yes!! Do your thing, JR! Good vid!

[@diypreppertv]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@dustyschwartz1576]

My ex hated the word moist or moisture. I never understood why?

[@ronaldsimmonds1002]

👍🏻

[@diypreppertv]

Thanks for watching Ronald!

[@sharriceowens913]

By light do u mean sunlight or even light bulbs.

[@diypreppertv]

Both

[@simplesecrets5370]

Can't stand those mice. They can really reproduce fast and a lot. Have traps.

[@smiley2477]

Get a cat. Even my declawed prissy purebred cat has killed several mice.

[@timekabolden5309]

I wish this had a creature disclaimer!! 😳😵‍💫👻

[@leahhoward1212]

I gave this video a like yesterday, then had to restart my computer this morning, came back now just to listen to a part of this video again and now see that my like has been removed... had to click it again... just sayin'

[@bronwynsmith4469]

I need help to get rid of 🐜 ant's coming in my kitchen window all the time I kill them an disinfectant the around but they keep coming back HELP please

[@diypreppertv]

Try Ortho Home Defense on the outside of your home and maybe sprinkle some diatomaceous earth on the inside of your window.

[@bronwynsmith4469]

@@diypreppertv thanks heaps

[@helgabruin2261]

Bronwyn, that's a good Welsh name? I make a mixture of one part boron, (found in Borax laundry soap if you have it) to two parts sugar or honey. They eat it and take it back to their nest to feed the Queen and larvae. Works like a charm.

[@WarriorGnome]

Diamataceous earth

[@tennesseeterri]

CAULK

[@ericarnaud7983]

Bonus #7: the government.

[@angeladansie4378]

I don't think the government is too concerned about your Spam collection

[@ericarnaud7983]

@@angeladansie4378 not really about the food, all about the government saying we are enemies to them....we been seeing this more and more.

[@angeladansie4378]

@@ericarnaud7983 I've never heard the government say that self sufficient people who are prepared for emergencies are the enemy. Only those who are threatening violence. Most of those people aren't preppers. In fact, from what I've observed, most of them don't hardly have a pot to piss in. If you didn't watch Biden's whole speech about that the other day & only caught cherry picked snippets, I recommend watching the whole thing. He clarified multiple times that he was talking about the violent extremists, not conservatives. We have a democratic process in America that has worked well for over 200 years. There's no need to talk about shooting those who think differently. We swing right, then we swing left & we have always managed to achieve balance in the country where the needs of the vast majority are being met. We've prospered peacefully under that system & I, for one, don't want my grandchildren growing up in a country that resembles Afghanistan, with warring factions & strife. That's what the government is trying to avoid when they say that violence will not be tolerated. The majority of Americans didn't want it from the left in 2020 & we don't want it from the right.

[@ericarnaud7983]

@@angeladansie4378 open your ears .. the government saying parents are terrorist, that the 74 million who voted for trump are fascist and the greatest threat to democracy, just to name a few. Don't believe the media hype about the Republicans being extreme right as gospel.

[@zoelynch295]

@@angeladansie4378 when he mentions antifa and BLM, then we can agree with you. To date not a single “right leaning” organization or group has terrorized major cities all over the country and caused billions in damage. Not a peep about those groups. Wake up

[@jhutch1470]

Loose lips can ruin your preps as well.

[@annkleindl3561]

Learn the correct was to store your preps. Common sense.

[@jessereitz9574]

Ammo cans for food storage??? It's got a seal for water tightness, throw in some oxy absorbers, and light is not an issue. Good idea or no?