You're not going to talk about long term options like family clothes, non disposable baby diapers, sanitary napkins, etc? And the importance of properly treating each of those...
I used to be an engineer, the type that builds stuff... like large encampments that would hold a couple thousand troops. Field hygiene was an issue that was consciously built into the layout of said camps. Latrine, shower, etc. You had to build this stuff away from where people slept and ate, (preferably downwind) and properly with soakage pits when possible to avoid standing water. Beyond that, most people may not realize it, but Mess kits were designed the way they are for rapid cleaning in heated barrels. (you ran your utensils and kit lids through the handle) The barrels were, Initial rinse, soap, and final rinse. You dipped and swished your entire kit, holding on by the handle. When you have hundreds of guys eating and needing to wash their mess kits, its the most efficient way. The point i'm trying to make is field hygiene is important, so much so that it's intrinsic to how the military builds and runs camps. The vast majority of diseases you'll catch in the field, particularly Gastro intenstine, is from hand to mouth. Don't underestimate the value of good field sanitation. If you wash anything, wash your hands. Historically, entire army's have been brought down by disease brought about by poor field sanitation.
@@nrob450 Apparently, youtube doesn't like links to where you can purchase stuff...... Since i'm typing this a second time.... I dig a latrine for my family every time we go camping. Go to everyones online retailer that starts with an A, and search for "1 man hunting blind" (2nd item) and "potable toilet for camping". (1st or 3rd item). If i was to dig a latrine in my backyard, I'd pick a spot farthest away from the house, any water spigot, and any area that traditionally floods out during heavy rains. Dig a hole as small in diameter, and as deep as i could get it. The depth of an E tool lasts about 4 or 5 days for a family of 3. Should be able to get it deeper with a full sized shovel, but you'll have to scope the dirt out with your hands, or a posthole digger. Leave yourself room to move the outhouse after the first hole fills up. If you can't find anything else, a little dirt tossed in after having a sit down is like flushing the toilet. Helps keep the stink down, not entirely, but it helps. Keep the blind open and ventilated if you can. If it's going to rain, zip up the blind.
A bottle of water with some Apple Cider Vinegar in it and paper towel cut into smaller squares works very well for body wipes and doesn't irritate sensitive areas and keeps order down and is cheap. Dry shampoo for emergencies is a good idea. Less water waste as water is needed to drink and stay alive. Spray bottle with vinegar and water is good for cleaning dishes right after using them and stops water waste. Water will keep us alive, so be aware of not wasting one drop of water.
But also remember that 100 years ago there where almost no indoor toilets or sewer systems in most places. NOBODY had these things, and people got along fine. I would suggest reading "The Humanure Handbook" for better information on how to dispose of human waste safely and naturally with no smell.
@@jonothandoeser Ever heard of dysentery, cholera, or typhoid? Some examples of diseases common back then which were usually due to contaminated water. It really was an issue. And could be again if we don't get educated.
Great info. Exactly what I learned in a class 15 years ago. I like the Baking Soda, but want to save that for cooking...so I bought kitty litter and lime at Home Depot. The other thing is for us older folks we got a 6 gallon bucket...a little taller 😁 with a toilet seat attached. Another thing to consider is have some tennis or rubber balls handy and plug the toilet and other drains in your home if there isn't running water so bugs and critters can't get in.
A hand-held peri bottle / bidet is worth a mention. Even though it uses a little water, it also reduces or eliminates your need for paper. If sick, you can go through a lot of paper, but a bidet could get you through a bout of diarrhea with little to no wiping. Doubles as a quick shower too.
We often think of unlimited water, like our current day showers, or no water, as we imagine in survival situations. We often forget the option of a ~little~ water... out of a squirt bottle! I've tried to perfect what used to be called a "sponge bath" for a survival setting and practiced it on myself for weeks at a time at several different junctures. You take a two cup plastic container (I use an empty peanut butter jar) and put a teaspoon of peppermint soap in it (or any liquid soap) diluted in water. Put your clean wash rag in that, beginning to wipe from the cleanest part of your body to the least clean, stopping short with your personal area. That you use one wipe for that you can throw away, again cleanest to least cleanest. The peppermint water you can re-dip a clean rag in for your next "sponge bath" until it is out. For hair I prefer to use same squirt bottle to build up a shampoo that can either dry into the hair or be rinsed out, with minimal water. Some prefer cornstarch or baking soda as a dry shampoo. I know of a man who lived in a van and cleaned this way for over 20 years (still going) actually preferring it over the common shower even when he visited family, feeling perfectly clean already. 💡
We bought a bidet from Tushy during the pandemic we love It and continue to use it. It was a lifesaver as we were prepping for our Colon ostomies. It is a must have item for us now
Wow! I was totally going to ask for this video-and here it is. Your mind is going to the right place (heh). Seriously, this is really important information.
It really is. And has been overlooked on most other channels. Guy really thinks this stuff through without letting his mind go off into bullshit conspiracies. We don't need the BS, people, there are far more REAL things to worry about. Right now, we are seeing it happen: Russia threatening nuclear war. Global climate change has my little town, that experienced some of the highest temperatures ever recorded on earth, approaching 50 degrees Celsius a year ago is exactly half that this year. Think about that, almost exactly 1 year ago. This year we have yet (May 18) to see 20 C. Today it will be 13 C. So you Americans can understand, that means that when it was 120 degrees Fahrenheit at this time of year in 2021, it is 60 degrees Fahrenheit exactly one year later. If that seems like normal temperature variations to you, you need serious help and possibly a little education. Astronomers have started to wonder at the number of near miss asteroids that seem to be happening at a much higher than average rate. So far no explanation. We are having a very active solar max as we approach a 2025 peak. On fact what we are experiencing now, could be an indication a Carrington level event could be in our near future and we have no understanding of what this may do to our satellite systems and power grid. Do I need to mention the word Pandemic. The COVID pandemic was a very minor pandemic. My biggest fear, being a free and peaceful Canadian, is the sharp turn toward authoritarian rule in the United States. There is going to be a civil war and I hope you are all prepared for that. From an outsider it appears inevitable. Maybe there is something I don't get. Maybe Americans can display this much viceral hatred toward one another and it just doesn't mean anything. But from an outsider's perspective, it looks like you people hate each other far more than you have anyone else, including the Chinese Communist Party and the vile and dictatorial Russians. Many of you openly support Putin, while calling political opponents child molesting devil worshippers... But like I said, maybe it is just an American thing, maybe I just don't get it and you'll all be fine. But my ultimate point is and was, something real is going to disrupt our world community, we don't need to make shit up. And I appreciate this site, for that exact reason. No BS. We are gonna get hit with something society shaking, of not ending, in the very near future.
Fair warning: Hopefully this will help someone. A repairman switched a hose that had been used for rinsing a sewer tank to become the hose that supplied an RV with fresh 'city' water. He thought the fresh water flowing through it would sufficiently rinse the hose to repurpose it for household water. Not true. Not realizing all of this was going on, I began to get sick at the first of this year... diarrhea, vomiting, bedridden for weeks at a time... wondering if it was covid, was it old age setting in, etc.? I began to double up on probiotics, on electrolytes, trying to get to the bottom of it. Praying for an answer, I finally realized the hoses had been switched and quickly corrected it, feeling better ever since! 😅
Your prayers were surely answered and God healed you. I would not let that "repair man" off the hook for what he/she did. Make sure they know that they endangered your life. Not a laughing matter!
Pine pellets for stall bedding will work also and is around $6.50 - $7.00 for a 40# bag at Tractor Supply or Farm and Fleet. You don't have to use much as it expands.
@@roughroadstudio Don't go for the kitty litter type, horse bedding or wood stove pellets are cheaper. If you can't find them, pine shavings used as pet bedding works, too. Jon in rural BC, Canada
The part about using water supplies for flushing is why I tell people to stock up on non-potable water. I keep several jugs of it, usually left over from canning, on hand in the old jugs our kitty litter came in. Also have catchment plans in place. Like reusing cooking and wash water. That is more than acceptable to flush with in a short term solution.
We have been using compostable bags with a powder that turns the waste into a gel that we bury. For the liquid waste we use a pine bedding pellet that expands when it soakes up the waste. A scoop last for days and that's with 4 of us using it. Both works very well.
In my van my camper van I use shopping bags in my makeshift toilet which I bought from Walmart then I put sawdust in it sawdust will stop the smell and there's no smell guys I'm telling you it is awesome that's the way to do it saw dust works and it's lighter than cat litter..
A hybrid between the pool noodle bucket and the camping toilet is a medical bedside commode. Mine has a catch bucket securely slid into a bracket under the underside of the potty seat, with a very sturdy frame around the whole unit. So yeah, I have to empty it...but its a lot more comfortable and safer for me to sit on (because I'm physically disabled) than a bucket. Less tippy too, which for me isn't just less potentially gross but could prevent a real emergency.
I have one for my wife and it doubles as a second toilet in an emergency. Small trash bag liner and a couple of paper towels to soak up some of the liquid. Also, baby wipes are a good thing to stock up on.🇺🇸⚔️🇬🇪
For #1 I collect empty, washed out detergent bottles with large openings. It doesn't cost anything extra, nothing leaks, no odor penetrates, can be used by men without any problems, and there are pee funnels for women, which are then practical. Can be emptied, rinsed and reused on occasion or discarded. They are also an excellent replacement for the classic urine bottles for bedridden men.
I recommend everyone looking in to horse pellets. They work great. Also a fuel and once used. Can be composted. Been using it for cat litter recently and works amazing and there is no urine odor at all. Near me a 40 lb bag is $7
@@silversoulawakening9195 horse pellets are a pine pellet for horse bedding. They will absorb moisture/ urine and trap odors in them giving off a pine smell. When moisture touches them it will absorb, expand, and turn in to a powder. There are several youtube sources online for more detailed information on them and uses. I learned about them on RU-vid when researching on camp toilets/ van toilets. Also where I found out about using them for cat litter which I now do and love it. Hope this help.
@@AMKB01 very well could be. I just recently learned about these . One of the speakers mentioned it could be used for stoves. It is compressed pine. They are all natural and can even be composted if needed. Multiple purposes, works well and cheap.
Years ago I used to go to a hunting camp that had an outhouse, It was probably a 5' deep hole and didn't smell all that much because the guy would sprinkle yeast on it. I don't know how often this was done but it worked quite well from my experience inside. I hope that this helps another, GOD bless!
I am so glad we still have the outhouse my Grandfather originally built way back in the 1940's. It was pumped out for the final time when they finally got indoor plumbing and a septic tank system put in around the mid 1950's or so. I redid the outhouse and upgraded it about 25 years ago for emergency use like power outages that lasted for several days or more. It has a normal toilet seat now, has a roll holder and a cabinet to store extra rolls, a can or two of air freshener, etc. Outside we have a drum that holds lime to use as needed. We have plenty of Lanterns and Flashlights to get to and from the house to the Outhouse on the back porch. Life is Good!!!
Try a compost toilet. Using a bucket without the plastic add Pete Moss to the bottom of the bucket then scoop more Pete Moss to cover after you go. This keeps odors down and absorbs moisture. When full this can be used to fertilize trees no burying needed. Petemoss is sold cheap and sold in large packed cubes that last for a long while.
I was going to skip over this video because I live in the country and have a septic tank, plus a hand dug well with abundant water, but I think it would be wise to have a bucket setup in case we get stuck in the basement. I never thought I'd have to worry about nuclear war!
I'm in the country and on a septic system as well. We've been here 4 years now, and it's backed up into our basement 3 times. We don't have a gravity septic system. Our tank has two chambers; everything goes into the first chamber, with the solids sinking to the bottom. The greywater flows over near the top, into the second chamber. When that fills, a float triggers an expeller pump in our basement, which pumps the grey water to an outlet a couple hundred feet away from the house. We get the tank emptied twice a year. Unfortunately, the reason it was backing up into the house turned out to be because the pipe between the house into the tank got clogged, repeatedly. Even after having a plumber auger roots out of the pipes, it still clogged up again less than 6 months later, and we're not sure why. Thankfully, we have a really awesome septic guy, but the last time we had to empty the tank before we could clear the pipe, we had to ask a neighbour with a front end loader to clear a lane of snow for us, so the septic truck could get close enough! So having a back up is essential! We do have an outhouse. A bit hard to get to in the winter. Right now we've got a lot of flooding, and there's a "lake" between us and the outhouse, so we still need to have a back up for our back up. LOL
@@AMKB01 What a nightmare! I have to laugh at the outhouse (we have one too!) and the "lake" between you. You've convinced me to get a back up for the back up! 😜
@@visnuexe I have a hand pump on the well. The septic is gravity fed. I do have a solar generator for backup. We lose electricity where I live at least once a month and I haven't had a problem with flushing the toilet in over 20 years. Knock on wood it stays that way! 🤞
For some people (many different reasons) using a bedside commode might be more comfortable than a 5 gallon bucket. Just remove the bucket that it comes with commode & put the 5 gallon bucket underneath (switching out between the urine & waste bucket).
@@tractorman1946 i agree! i haven't forgotten about older people. also people with disability's, people who are too tall, people who are heavy, people who are tall and that makes them heavier. there are so many variables. that's why i didn't make a list. sometimes thrift stores or on free apps will usually give them away.
What about turning off toilet and put a 13 gal garbage bag inside with some kitty litter inside. It is much easier to sit on your regular toilet than a bucket even with the toilet seat. It’s harder to get up and down for older people. Also - I just learned this hack and that is get a squeeze bottle, like a ketchup bottle, and fill with water and use as a bidet so you can feel a little cleaner. Thanks for all the good work you do for us! Mandy from Tucson🌵
go to good will or used items store and but a portable bedside commode . a five gallon bucket is low and unstable especially if you are handicapped or overweight. put a plastic bag in it. use kitty litter, etc.
Great summary. Great info on the toilet issues and the disposal. One addition, urine is relatively sterile in most people and diluted is a very good fertilizer for plants. It is a source of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. No e. Coli from urine. If this is the long term, save some back for the garden. Fecal matter is a different matter.
@@tinsoldier5621 Nope. You do need to dilute it down 1-8 or 10. Concentrated fertilizer burns plants' roots. Lots on the net about this. BTW water the soil, not on the plant.
Most humans carry fungi, parasites, bacteria and viral conditions. Human urine will be absorbed by plants causing diseases like Salmonella. Human urine is a HAZARDOUS material and must NEVER be used around vegetation!
@@terminatortsw8006 You might check out the Scientific American article "Gee Whiz: Human Urine Is Shown to Be an Effective Agricultural Fertilizer" as well as many other articles. Other human waste products can be dangerous if used without proper treatment. Food also needs to be handled properly. With the lack of resources and faced with growing in dirt one needs to use the resources you have,
When I check City Prepping and Candian Prepper both from time to time, as well as kick back and enjoy some memes with friends from time to time, I feel I get a balanced view on the world and am prepared for anything.
When you talked about using leaves to wipe you forgot one of the softest leaves to use and that is Mullen. The Mullen Leaf is like velvet and it's very soft for the back side. Maybe you should include that maybe in your next video about pooping. Just a suggestion I've used it and it is very very soft and biodegradable. Thanks for the video this will be great for beginners and people not even thinking about this which they should be. Thanks again for the video have a great day and stay safe and keep your powder dry and your toilet paper handy!
OMG Best video yet. I mean, offering numbers to waste cumulation is amazing. Most people ignore this but for me, as an experienced prepper I have over fudged a lot of these numbers. I will still over estimate my approach but having these 'solid' numbers is very useful! Sure I could've figured these out on my own but it never occurred to me to measure the export volume! Awesome vid City Prepping. It's a great segue to composting.
Shitting into our water supply is one of the stupidest things humans do. I have used a DIY compostable toilet in my RV for years - no smell and no making sewage. There is a urine diverter that puts the urine in the grey tank and then the poop is covered with sawdust/hamster cage fillings. I have a nice toilet seat and a wooden surround that makes it very comfortable to use. The poop and sawdust makes great compost for your flower gardens, To use it for veggies gardens it must be heated by the sun to a degree that it destroys any pathogens. Kitty litter would work but makes it unusable as compost and very heavy, unless using some of those newer light versions. Pine chips are a plenty where I live and leave the room smelling just fine. Thanks Chris for a very thorough overview.
For hand washing, I started saving those large laundry soap tubs. They have a spigot, and someone else said they tie a towel & a soap bar (I assume in maybe panty hose?) to it. I figure I can fill them as I use them up, and that's washing water. I had to use one of the bottles to rise the garage floor, and there was no funny color or smell. I use one to hold my door open for yardwork 👍
in girl scouts they taught us to drop in a bar of soap in a tube sock (1970s) LOL and tie to a tree limb to wash your hands and not lose the bar of soap and the air will dry out the sock and soap for the next use. for the water you take an empty gallon water and poke a hole at the bottom with a small stick. pull that stick out to wash your hands quickly and put the stick back in when you are done.
Thank you for sticking to basics. These are the videos that will save people and we will go back to over and over again as the world falls down around us.
Great video! I've been stockpiling for a few months and while I have a good supply of hygiene products, I hadn't thought about toilet alternatives. I'll be putting together that kit this weekend.
Sadly, in the event of a protracted scenario where utility services are offline in urban and suburban communities, … conditions will likely become untenable for a great many reasons. And while we ourselves are prepared to perform best practices, our many neighbors may not be. Sometimes best defense, Daniel-San, …is no be there.
Put it in a box and send it via UPS to people who sent you junk mail after you told them not to. Use a return address from another of the same so they start fighting each other.
Spot on. Remember dysentery and the like has killed more solders than swords, spears, bombs and bullets have. I remember as a kid my grandparents had just recently switched from an outhouse to a indoor toilet, they used to keep a 50 lb. bag of lime and a bucket of ashes in their outhouse. The ash was used after every use and a half cup of lime daily to control the smell and Coliform Bacteria
50% of hippy communes failed due to sickness. Mostly they didn't know how to live in the country side and made terrible misstates like, dug the outhouse too close to the place they dug the well etc - - - over 8 months (or more) the water went bad, crops failed. They refused to except help from local farmers because "they are over 30 man".
I ordered the Blika portable toilet (folds down for transporting) plus 3 boxes of 40 Triptips 8 gallon toilet bags. I chose that brand because it is 1.67 mil thick and no other bags have come close to that sturdiness plus that brand has a "no leak" guarantee. I plan to have kitty litter available to cover and reduce the smell after each use. I did order these on Amazon.
I was just thinking about this problem in a SHTF. I am on a sewer system; the local town uses a powered pump fill station.... I just called a plumber to make sure I at least have a backflow valve installed....if your not clean you will not feel like doing anything
Regarding the out house, use post hole digger to dig a deep hole so you only need one hole a week. Cut the bottom off a 5 gallon bucket to put over the hole to set on. Line the bucket sides with news paper to catch splatter. After you finish, put the news paper into the hole. For peeing, guys can use a funnel and 2 ltr pop bottle. Cap between uses. If you can get them, a 3 ltr pop bottle or juice bottle will let you loose the funnel. Girls can use the funnel by setting the bottle and funnel into a bucket. If you dump liquids down the sink it takes much less water to flush.
I have a 5 gal. bucket , toilet seat and 500 plastic bags. I am not sure wear I would put the used bags, BUT after I used them up, I would be poring the bucket out at curb "Just like every one else" It would not go well especially in 110 degree day witch we have in the summer. PS I also have 110 rolls of toilet paper. Just walking across the street you would get poop all over your shoes. The stink would be overwhelming. People would get sick and die. I think MOST people would fill their toilet to the top hoping it would eventually start working agin. NOTE don't pee and Poop in the same bag.
For those without a ready source of sawdust, get a bag of pelletized horse bedding. It's sawdust compressed into little round cylinders of pine or cedar and breaks down into saw dust when it gets wet. If you don't have a farm supply store nearby, the same stuff is sold (with a higher price tag) as Feline Pine cat litter. Space permitting a forty pound bag of this stuff might be worth prepping because it is so absorbent and biodegradable. Don't put it in your septic tank, though.
You made me lol as I thought about how RU-vid would react to a video from City Prepping titled, "How to dispose of dead bodies". It's actually a legitimate topic for true shtf
@@Ash_95 I was the coroner for my school. Every one in CA has one. We have body bags and ice machines as long as we have electricity. This is for when schools are used in natural disasters as shelters. Teachers are not allowed to leave until relieved.
Get a paint bucket, buy a toilet seat made for buckets and fill the bucket with a strong trash bag, then put the toilet seat lid onto the bucket. You can then buy an odor killing liquid gel to reduce the smell. You can also store empty containers for temporarily holding eurine.
@@RustyOrange71 It can be any empty container like a 1 gallon water container or a 1 gallon grape juice container. Keep a dozen or more empty containers around for temporarily storing urine. You can also get a female urinal device for the women around you to urinate into a container. Squatting out in the bushes or in the backyard won’t be safe for them due to nosey neighbors and their prying eyes along with all the crazies out in the world.
Human waste, if properly managed, is a great way to fertilize your garden. “Humanure” is an endless and free supply of high nitrogen content for plants. Personally, I would mostly use it for fruit trees and plants where the roots aren’t the main crop, simply because of the “ick” factor.
Situations like this is where I would recommend installing a grey water system if your budget allows for it. It is a excess water supply that can be used for plants and disposal.
Kris, there are assumptions made that others are being responsible with their own waste . . . but we know that's untrue and unlikely. Maybe produce a video on how preppers can best address the inadequacy of others (assuming they live in a populated area and are unable to educate their neighbors). Thanks mate.
That is scary; I wonder how that would work... I read a story a long time ago about maybe plumbers(?) reporting people having bathtubs full of waste, which may or may not have been bagged🙄🤢, after some sort of natural disaster that stopped utilities for 1-2 weeks. This is a serious issue, esp when people are so beside themselves they can't even deal with the mess they made....
This is an excellent demonstration. It should have been discussed by EVERY prepper channel starting no less than 5 years ago. If you do not personally start researching this elimination subject, and READY your personal home, and car with a checklist and setup of all things needed, you’re going to be living in a world of STENCH, come the days of no water power and no electricity ⚡️ you’ll be very sorry you didn’t pay attention here! The only thing more important that drinking water and eating food is…. That’s correct, defecating. It’s vital to staying alive. Get busy.
I’ve been wanting to build an outhouse for a long time, but my parents won’t let me lol. This video was very helpful. The primitive system that pipes water into our house is very unreliable, so I’ll probably be using the this information even when the grid is perfectly functional lol
One yr. to decompose is really daring, I saw one clip where the fellow sugested 2 - 3 yrs., adding that there is no need to run out and uncover it even at that point. He suggested that the back yard sinario, if less than 6 ft. down has a greater chance of serfacing in the rain season, as the dencity would naturaly be lighter, carrying with it greater chance of spreading Tyfoid , a deadly desease.
wow...great content. my great grands had outhouse. they poured lye on it. it was awful. smelled to high heaven . I used chamber pot. I was a kid. plus giant spider's took up residence in the outhouse.
On the right track, CP. Miss one inportance factor - Long term waste Mgt. You show only short term. Here is some tips from a old school guy. Seperate solids and liquids. Use pine shavings, lime, and cat litter for semi solids. Bulid a outhouse that uses a composting toilet. Waste pit should be away from the house and Water sources.
The Humanure handbook addressed long term management very well, along with safe composting of human waste and after a year using it on ornamental and fruit trees. Can't recommend adding it to a vegetable garden, but once composted (and barring any communicable disease) it poses no more danger. A better solution for older people as well as young children is a bedside commode with the five gallon bucket replacing the small one that is normally attached. This is what we used for the year we were building our cabin and it was easy to maintain and comfortable. We used sawdust we got for free from the sawmill where we got our lumber ~ stored it in rubbermaid totes stacked up behind our little outhouse so it was easy to refill the sawdust bucket when we needed to. One thing I do not recommend at all for long term use is anything other than any septic safe toilet paper. The other option is to purchase bulk washcloths, one color for each family member, and use a rinse system with bleach or vinegar to soak them between washings. A good supply of a tried and true laundry soap such as Fels Naptha and washing soda for all laundry isn't a bad idea, along with any of the small manual washing machines available at various online sellers is also a good idea. With proper planning, it is easy to set up a small combination outhouse and shower (get one of the solar camping showers and water bag combos), as well as your clothes washing (don't forget a washline and clothes pins!) that is clean, sanitary, and easy to maintain. if you have the space, set up a compost area for human waste now ... because dumping bags in a pit for long term anything is just one more source of illness that should be avoided. If you have Kindle services, you can read through the book for free and just take notes to keep with your other prepping notations, articles, recipes, etc.
Benefits of living in the country where the electric fails quite frequently, we are already prepared for this and have to do this on occasion. About 8 years ago we list power for 22 days when a Deracio came through and decimated our power line infrastructure. We have a rain barrel with hand pump system for non potable water use to flush our waste into our septic system and a hand pump for our fresh water spring. I really want an outhouse next to my man shed, not for emergencies but just because I don't want to have to fight the 3 females in my household over the 2 toilets lol.
I have a milk crate for#2 have a small trash can cut bottom out to fit in the crate . Cut the trash can so when you compress it you pop the bag in and leave the upper part of the bag around the outside. When you let go of the compressed can it's going to spring open and fit inside the crate. The perfect bag is the same one you get at Walmart or Sam club to put fresh meat in.
If you use kitty litter, how long is it safe to store solid waste, if for example you’re in a high-rise apartment & it’s unsafe to leave due to war, radiation etc?
Wash your hands often! Keep your hands out of your mouth, out of your eyes. Use a spoon, fork or sport or chopsticks to eat your food, not your hands. I had aerobic dysentery back some 53 years ago. Antibiotics, lots and lots of hydration fluids, living on a toilet! In my older age today, it would probably kill me. Endemic typhus hospitalized me and corresponding encephalitis almost killed me (flea bites were the cause). Both took several months to recover from. In a SHTF situation you are on your own! And if you get hurt or sick, you hurt and endanger each and every member in your group! It's not you anymore. Growing up has to be done in minutes, not weeks or months! Hygiene, proper waste disposal, safety are all very important. Expect rampant pinkeye after three or four days after bad times begin. Prevention is paramount. Stop it before it starts.
Yep. I was in Taiwan when I was 19 years old and healthy. I got dysentery and was horribly sick for 10 days, full recovery took longer. I'm now 70 and I believe today it would kill me, maybe even with good, accessible medical care, which may or may not be available. Sanitation will save lives, TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY.
We live in the PNW where we expect a 9.0+ earthquake & tsunami like Japan & Chile. Water & sewer lines not expected to be repaired on the Oregon Coast for minimum of 2-3 years. Bedside commodes are adjustable, sturdy & easy to clean. Buckets sit low and are no stable. Some commodes fit over bucket. Most have pans. When water is limited, use a weed sprayer like you hold in your hand then use spray wand to spray weeds…but fill it with water. The weed sprayer, filled with water, naturally limits use & provides pressure for cleaning, etc. 55 gallon food grade barrels are less than $40. Can store prepping items in the barrel. Once disaster strikes, take prepper items out, and put waste inside.
I highly recommend so does my friends sawdust is lighter them cat litter but yes cat litter does work as well it definitely kills the smell.. but so does sawdust.. what you do is put some soldiers in the bag do your number too and then put more sodas on top of that number two and that smell will be gone I'm telling you it works I know because I live out of my camper van most of the time there's no smell in the van at all none whatsoever.. and of course I do have a maxi fan as well ..
@@gloeli5725 well my friend you can get sold us anyway for free go to a lumber yard.. or even make your own you don't have to bite you can make your own I can get a plane when those planes which I have and you can go into the bushes get some twigs and wood and make your own sore desk as well.. that's for me I live alternatively I live out of my van and I do have a base and I do also have a workshop which I do I'm building my camper trailer right now as we speak and I have a lot of soldiers right there so I use that too when I go away.. my end game is to get a piece of land down the road.. but I live alternatively right now so I don't pay no high rent I definitely pay no mortgage and I have no bills I'm debt free and I have a lot of freedom which means I let work a lot less I love it not to mention my camper van is stocked up with food to the rim for months.. because I learned not to take life for granted..
YES! I called it! I was thinking of making a kitty litter box using plastic bins, and just collect the natural litter with my remains and use that as fertilizer for my garden. 😎👍
My grandparents had an outhouse. They had no indoor plumbing until 1970's. Outhouse is my game plane. I have a septic system , but that takes electricity. So I am buying a generator to run the septic pump and refrigerator.
Thank you. Could you make a video about the sewage backflow valve? I would very much like to know more about it, where to find it and how to get it to stop any backflow that might seep into our house. This is one problem I have yet to solve. TY
We live in a bus and we have a Natures heàď toilet. We empty our front wee bucket every day, 2 people The main coir tank every 6 weeks. Planning this stratigrly when digging around our garden.
777 Subscribers. Lucky!!! Great Video. I was wondering what I was supposed to Dooh. I bought cat litter as part of my preps months ago. I need a Pool Noodle. I bought heavey duty contractor bags too. Thank you Kris.
