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I believe Daisy did a article about this, but I thought to refresh it here.
SO! The SHTF.
What do you do to entertain yourself and your family?Here is one I recently stumbled upon: Kite flying. The wife was in Colorado for work. She came across a shop call Into the Wind. A kite store. She recalled a story I told her of me making kites as a kid. So she bought me a 2 line stunt kite. We have taken it out several times and it is a lot of fun.
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AnonymousAround here we would probably go outside and watch the animals act like animals. Squirrels and birds can be very spastic around here!
Other than that, books, coloring books, crafts, nagging each other, lego’s, wooden building blocks.
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AnonymousDo you mean we are going to have time for entertainment after SHTF? @crow-bar, you’re such an optimist. 🙂
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I think the term “entertainment” after SHTF could be a matter of personal interpretation. *laugh*
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I just picked up some books at a yard sale about different card games you can play. I have several decks of cards, so I figure that might keep us occupied. I also have dominoes and typical board games.
We are a pretty artsy family, so I figure we’d probably do some of that stuff, too. And I have a LOT of books. Like an entire room full. Fiction, non-fiction, how-tos, and all different genres. I’m always so happy when the power goes out because I actually have time to sit down and read for once.
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Oh – I also have 5 old-fashioned typewriters. They’re all in working order and I have lots of extra ribbons for them. I have reams and reams of typing paper. I could finally write the Great American Novel if things all go to heck.
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Books, playing cards and board games.
All that gets really good to have when SHTF.
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We have a few decks of cards.
And old style roll playing games too.
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We read a lot even now and through other things we made through, but I also keep a bucket of cards and board games, yarn for some finger games, play games like I spy, and make thing like we did as kids like wagons and houses from shoe boxes for the hot wheel cars and our all time favorite story telling from the classics to made up stories everyone adds to as it goes around the room.
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We’re book people. I’ve really got a LOT of [free] ebooks toooooo…..which I’d be sad if I could not access. But we also have the proverbial ‘one-thousand’ books in print too. All sorts …lots of reference/medical. AND my spiral notebooks and .5 mech pencils/erasers. I love to write my stories and would have to return to handwritten. Oye, that would be harder. Used to have ancient non-elect typewriter. Taught my girls to type on it long, long ago. Still have elect one. One spare ribbon, I’m afraid would be dry.
FIVE of them, Daisy? But then, that’s your profession – the written word!
Kept all my childhood and daughters childhood board/card games. Yeah..I have my Grma’s dominoes, actually. And mine. Forgot those. One of our elderlies and I have gotten into the coloring books now available for ‘grown-ups’. Lots of colored pencils/markers/gel glitter pens. Also we do puzzles….what was old is now renewed. Just finished a 1,000 piece one while I stayed with them. Whew. Even teen Grson helped with that one.
Have stashed books about knit/crochet…since I never got past squares or scarves with either of those….and lot of yarn, hooks, needles, the knitting Nancy, oblongs, and an actual knitting machine. From thrift stores/garage sales mostly. Useful and pass time in post-StuffHitsFan. Better get more reader glasses!
Probably have other craft/hobby stuff that would then be useful. …..whole set of leather working tools. Don’t remember what else. I used to teach crafts!
OldMtWoman….how to I ever sort and eliminate stuff?
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Old Mtn Woman,
Don’t know if this is up your alley but I have to give the artist a plug, she’s an old friend.
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VERY nice! Reminds me of making pictures with that old “Spirograph”…..which I still have…somewhere. Never thot of coloring in those Spirograph drawings. But my elderly might just like that book for Christmas. Thank you, Whirlibird.
OldMtWoman
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Spirograph, now there’s something I hadn’t thought of in years. Thanks for the memories.
She also does some Celtic knot patterns that are amazing, all of it free hand. I still have a Christmas card from several years ago that I framed, even in black and white it’s something else.
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One thing we do is take a laser pointer out where the chickens scratch. Point it at the ground and watch half the chickens chase and try to peck the dot and the other half run from it. 😉
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I used to love Spirograph.
I like the coloring books but puzzles are my favorite. Â Jigsaw, crossword, soduko. Â Not picky about the kind really.
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Sebastion Queeg…..your post made me laugh til I was coughing. My cat used to chase the red dot. But the thot of bird brain chickens…. LOL! That would be entertaining!
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I make it a rule when the kids come to Grandma’s NO ELECTRONICS!! I have board games, cards, checkers/ chess, puzzles and the old fashioned use your imaginations toys, for them to play with. I rotate the toys and am always on the look out for “new” old toys to add to my stash. My two grandsons always make sure they bring some of their Lego’s with them to our house as well. Can’t tell you how much fun we have playing the board games with them. Second grand daughter (6) is a shark at playing board games.Of course they ALL try to change the rules of how to play the games on Grandpa and Grandma. That’s what makes it so much fun, seeing how they try to outwit us.
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Because I’m slow paced, I would craft to my heart contends.  Knitting and crocheting can be a chore but also can be entertainment.
We are currently teaching sewing basics to kids. We will have a quilting session in a few weeks. I imagine, that we will keep it up after SHFT too. It’s a family tradition that, luckily, has not died in our group.
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I too have a ton of books and several games. I would like time to draw and paint- have a lot of art materials- used to teach art to teens. I enjoy reading and like puzzles too and saved a bunch of them from old papers. Being out foraging is fun to me but probably would be work later.
I might like to just do nothing if I had some down time. Sitting around a fire talking is fun if you can make a fire. Kids may actually learn the art of conversation instead of texting. Doing things with kids like spotting different constellations at night or making willow whistles. The list is really endless.
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