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While most don't think of it as a survival trait, grooming can be vital to survival as well as making impressions on those you meet.
One of the things I have done recently is put back a manual hair clipper (the kind you squeeze to cut hair rather then the electric ones most have), a set of barber scissors (hair thinning scissors and clipping scissors), strait razor, razor strap, shaving soap, a mug and brush for the shaving soap, nail clippers set, metal comb, lice killer and lice comb.
While this was not as cheap as I would have liked (have you tried finding a manual hair clipper that's in good shape? Not easy). I figure it will do two very important things.
One, when your living in hard times, and primitive conditions, head lice become a bit problem. The shorter your hair and the cleaner you stay, the better. Lice has plagued man form the earliest days, and to anyone who has been a field troopie can tell you, Lice is a real problem when your short of showers, baths and your hair and beard grows too long.
Two, if you go to a swap meet or a barter meet/ flea market or open market, if you have the equipment to cut hair and beards, you might be surprised who will be willing to trade for you doing so. Make sure you have a place to clean your equipment and sterilize it between customers, even if it is putting into boiling water then re-oiling it after wards. To use the equipment takes a bit of skill and that is a learned thing, but skills in the post SHTF era matched with decent equipment, just might make you a living and bring in needed food and other supplies you require, or even silver coins.
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:50 pm
I have an old barber case with all the stuff they used out of the trash. old style straight edge shaver manuel clippers wholle nine yards. I clean them and they look like they were never used
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:03 pm
There are a lot of good sites and YouTube videos that show you how to cut your own hair, as well. If you were in a situation where you were confined to home, you may need to do that, instead of asking a friend/neighbor to do it for you. -k
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:20 pm
That is an excellent point Wulfin
I think personal appearance is going to be very important in having a positive attitude. If you look good you will feel good. It is a way of hanging on to something that is "normal life" when everything else gets turned upside down. I really like your idea of using it as a skill in order to barter or make some change. Jack of all trades but master of none. Cutting hair is just one of many trades that you have. What you are doing is thinking outside the box and planning on different things in order to survive. It is about rebuilding a new future and society when things calm down and people pick up the pieces. Today you might be cutting hair, tomorrow you might be making some lead bullets because you have the mold and they have the lead. It is about being flexable and not letting something stop you just because it is new or your haven't done it before. We are going to need to be as selfsufficent as possible and not only survive but thrive and be successful in the new world. Kevin |
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:29 pm
Hygiene and grooming are definitely health issues as well as social issues. One thought is that if we are in TEOTW type scenario good grooming might make you a target....
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:40 pm
You are right doc, it could, but it can also maybe let you make better deals, be better accepted by others, keep helathier, etc. As in all things, it is a trade off. I plan to stay as clean as possible. One of the things i have foudn is many people see a dirty person and it makes an immedicate negative impact, part of our biology it seems. Are you more likely to trust and accept someone who is fairly clean or someone who is a pig pen and looks like they don't care about themsleves or anything else? If being a target means I have no lice and fleas living on me 24 7 and don't smell like the south side of a north bound liberal, I accept the extra risk. If your reconning, you want to look like everyone else, but when you are around your people, you don't want to look like a scum bag. Also when bartering, who are you more likely to barter with, someone who looks and smells like crap (you mentally start thinking what they have to barter may have the same care taken of it when made or used as they take care of themselves) or soemone who tries to look rpesentable and is as hygenic as situation allows? "Tell the Truth, know the escape routes and carry extra ammunition" Georgia Mason in the novel "FEED"
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:59 pm
Damn Wulf, I was gonna become a hairy mountain man, guess i'll have to rethink that plan. But then again, I heard (people) bugs had lots of protein so that could be an option also........
 
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:53 pm
LOL Go ahead and do it, but pelase put your barter table on the far side of the trade area and down wind of me. LOL And yes bugs have protein as any ape can tell you, they groom each other and eat the bugs they find....
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:51 pm
I havent been to a barber in about 12 years now, I just shave my head usually my face, but growing my beard still... it takes some practice but a straight razor and a good piece of leather to sharpen is the way to go if u ask me. I had many nicks and a few scalps/cherries for the first few months getting used to shaving my head...
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:07 am
I have been stocking up on razors blades and bars of shaving soap i found and i plan on staying clean shaven and shave my head also to keep the grey hair away as my kids told me one day .
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