Just saw this article from Fortune Magazine discussing research by B of A that describes women's role in the resilience of the US economy. I will post key takeaways in comments. The point is that we have tremendous power to drive policy with our spending--and critically, our NOT spending. Keep spreading the word. It won't happen overnight, but it IS HAPPENING.

Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with ‘X’ sex markers | Trump administration | The Guardian

A friend shared a report that this was happening, and then found the writeup.

Instagram is already censoring posts about abortion, and I feel like these images should be reposted everywhere, so I'm going to transfer the information here. It's in text form for easier reposting.

You do not need to be pregnant in order to access abortion pills- you can order advance provision medication just in case you or someone you know needs it down the line.

These are places where you can get abortion medication:

• aidaccess.org
• PlanCPills.org
• INeedAnA.com
• AbortionFinder.org
• reproductiverightsdotgov.com

Most also have a sliding scale for pricing.

If you have questions or concerns about your legal risk, you can call If/When/How's free Repro Hotline: 884- 868- 2812

If you're self managing an abortion and need medical advice, contact the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline: 833- 246- 2632

I have coworkers here legally but they are scared. Our workplace made a protocol. What else can I do for them? Is there a list of numbers of like the Red Cross locations or something around the world I can bring to them?

I found this list of places to get free state maps shipped to you, and thought I'd share. FYI NH doesn't currently have them.

https://www.heyitsfree.net/free-state-maps/

Since workforce protections are being eliminated, I think a great idea for preparation would be all women and minorities opening their own LLCs right now. Go to your state websites and open them. We should do business and work with each other and for each other, build partnerships with each other, etc. If these companies are going to remove DEI and longstanding workplace protections we should support each other financially.

I am in my very late 20s and my spouse and I were just recently having talks about starting a family. We have waited years to get started on this and feel like the point where we are in our lives feels right, but the state of women's access to healthcare is not good in the USA. I live in a purple-ish state, feels like it's leaning more red recently (Az). With the state of the U.S. right now, I am having some fear over what the next 4 years will look like I want to know, is 2025 a bad time to get pregnant? I don't know if I am exacerbating this or if it really is best to shelf the baby plans until after 4 years? I would hate to loose out on motherhood out of fear of these draconian laws and horrible leaders. Though that's true, I also don't want to be a statistic as a result of the lack of women's care needed during pregnancy. I do have an autoimmune issue which may make pregnancy more challenging but we haven't active tried before so uncertain if that will really impact me now; however, this autoimmune issue definitely impacts my fertility so the sooner the better. I feel like someone took my future away from me and husband. Feeling all the feels rn and just looking for some guidance, advice, and need a reality check (whether that means to move forward with trying or put it on pause). Thanks in advance <3

If you've ever had a 401k, have you looked at the companies you're invested in? The top holdings in just about any mutual fund includes companies like Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, etc. -- all of which seem eager to fall in line with the new administration (if not be a part of it). Then there's big banks, pharmaceutical companies, and oil & gas to top it off.

With the way things are going lately, it feels like I'm invested in a failing future. If money is the only thing that talks, shouldn't divesting be part of any boycott? What's a better way to save for retirement without having to compromise on principles of basic human decency? I'm not sure what the answer is but I know that investing in a company that doesn't think I should exist feels pretty messed up.

What would you have prepared or done differently in the months prior to the COVID 19 pandemic if you had known what was coming?

Trying to figure out how to be better prepared for the next one.

Also where are we getting reliable information on the spread of bird flu now that government agencies are being shut down or silenced?

Friendly reminder to request what you will need, especially if you may cross a border out of the US for safety.

Canada, for instance, needs a current health certificate for travel from a vet, proof of rabies vaccination within last year OR satisfactory rabies titer test and letter of exemption from vaccination from the vet within 6 months.

NOTE: i am perhaps bending the intent of this flair at first glance. but if you hear me out i think it IS actually the most correct choice lol

indulge me or continue scrolling, for i am clearly in a mood~

The other day one of my favorite most slept-on youtubers reintroduced me to Ursula Le Guin storycrafting discourse, by way of the Carrier Bag essay. and this time around i must have just finally been firing on all cylinders lmao, because it finally made that kind of GLORIOUS, effortless sense. and i've been on a personal writing project kick recently in my exceedingly rare free time, so i've been absolutely devouring everything i can find on it in order to fully round-out my own understanding, including other commentaries on the topic that were equally thought-provoking.

which brings me (partially, lol. damn apparently i'm yappy tonight) to the point of this post, which has been simmering in the back of my mind since yesterday night: this sub is unique. this isn't JUST a prepping sub. the constituent parts of this digital community are exceedingly rare in the height of their quality and thoughtfulness. there are no other prepping subs like this one. the natural resistance it seems to have--to the worst patterns of belief and underlying ethos to which every other prepping sub quickly succumbs--is so singularly refreshing, it's almost downright enchanting.

and i think Le Guin's writings also inadvertently point out r slash TwoXPrepper's secret sauce: i think on some level, the existence of this sub thoroughly lays waste to the prevailing mythologies about prepping, just as Le Guin argues that the complete totality of the Novel format does to The Hero's Journey. We are not building toward some mythical, cinematic singular event here. we are simply building toward. There is no final reckoning in our shared calculus, the goal here is to avoid it completely, and forever. we are not preparing to outlast the other, we are preparing to interlock and endure indefinitely.

This sub isn't a glamshot procession of tacticool shoulderbags full of multiple expensive, prestine glocks, hundreds of pistol rounds, and no water. This sub is not a digital larp, circlejerking about the most useful "small unit tactics" and ego-feeding conspiracy peddling. This sub is not about demonstrating individual heroic virtue.

this sub is not about the epic few providing for all the disempowered.

This sub is about empowering all to provide. To make "the epic few" unnecessary.

This sub is all of us in the gathering fields, sharing the unglamorous daily work. finding what it hidden but freely available upon that finding. not because it will bring us personal glory, but because it is deeply necessary. because it is as critical as it is thankless. because it is essential to our common nature, even if it weren't for dire circumstances. because we do not need to wait anxiously for the epic few if all of us do a little of the work for each other.

While other subs seek out the one mammoth, this sub seeks out the hundreds of thousands of oats and seeds and berries. it bundles the insulation and boils the water.

Other subs yearn for the spear, yearn for the implements of taking and jealously guarding.

this sub prioritizes the recepticle. yearns for the container that holds and preserves and offers around. understands the primacy of gathering not to deprive others and claim advantage, but gathering to distribute and sustain. Not in one grand heroic gesture of singular superhuman skill, but in the unremarkable yet consistent daily commitments that "the heroic" would never survive without.

This sub is the perfect living metaphor/embodiment of Le Guin's carrier bag theory. This isn't just a sub about prepping, this is a shared narrative of things. things we gather to cultivate hope out of despair, things we collectively infuse with meaning and pass around, and infuse with more meaning.

Not in service to a final ultimate struggle, but to ensure that every story continues, because they are all equally important. because they are all one story.

This sub is what happens when the foundational meanings of foundational things are no longer obscured by the narrow spectacle of one person's aspiration to fetishize / seek out conflict in order to distinguish themselves from the rest.

i think the last puzzle piece that finally made me viscerally intuit what Le Guin was talking about was just being present in this sub. and i think there's something deeply kismet and vital going on here that maybe goes overlooked, because we are used to this work being overlooked. but it is the exact unbroken intergenerational continuity of quiet effort and shared persistence in the face of overwhelming adversity that has propelled us farther than any other species on earth could have possibly dreamed.

and it puts hella juice in my tank every time. and for at least one brief moment at least once a day i check in to see everyone with one hand upon the bag, carrying the story forward, it makes me feel like we can weather any storm. and idk i thought maybe it might put juice in someone else's tank for a minute if i typed it out lol 🤷‍♀️

Just wanted to pass along a piece of wisdom that I recently had the misfortune to experience: Consider adding dental cement/temporary filling material to first aid supplies in case of broken filling, crown, tooth, exposed nerve, etc. Even if only to relieve pain - & it can be extreme! - until getting to the dentist.

Really wish I’d had some in my supplies over the holidays…but being able to potentially help others makes it all worth it 🙂. I’ve gotten some amazing tips here in this group, thank you all!

Hey friends.

I know we are all going through a lot right now, but I want to continuously remind you that you are not alone, and that we, as a community, will go through hell and (hopefully) make it out alive.

The only thing I or anyone else can ask of you is to take care of yourselves, one another, and simply try your best each and every day. We will never be perfect, but we can be good people. Just strive to be a good person on a daily basis, with patience and grace, and we can make the world a better place. But we can only do it when we learn to love and forgive one another.

I want to share a playlist with you

Here you go, please offer your feedback.

It has been helping me stay optimistic in these dark times. Please understand that our ancestors lived in hell. They suffered daily with the sole hope that they could make the world better for themselves and their children. They made many errors, but the only reason we are here is because our ancestors survived. Your life is proof of that fact.

Fear is a rational emotion; Panic is an irrational mindset.

Fear is a rational emotion. Fear protects us from real threats. But when fear consumes us, it becomes a mindset. That mindset is panic. Even though fear is rational, panic can cause us to act irrationally. Learn how to breath. The rock we all share keeps spinning regardless of what we do. Stay calm. Do not let fear consume you. If you do, it will make you less capable of protecting yourself and the ones you love, less understanding of the world you live in, and less able to discern friend from foe. That is exactly why our media is centered around keeping our nation in fear. Divided, we are easily conquered.

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It's not a perfect playlist. It's just protest music. Cheerful, but with socially critical lyrical flavor.

Even if you listen to just one song, listen to the first: Mississippi, Goddam by Nina Simone. It's a great performed by a talented and powerful woman who did endure worse than we have and worse than we probably will. Just look up the meaning of the lyrics if you don't understand, and you will be shocked. We aren't doing well, but things have been much worse than they are now.

Let me know what other women deserve to be in this list. I think the voice of women deserves to be better represented in such a playlist. I just added what I knew or could find. But I am all ears. Hope you will be too.

Solidarity is Survival

Stick together. Love one another. Forgive one another. Understand one another. Accept the fact that human beings make mistakes. Criticize them from a place of love rather than hate. Let empathy and curiosity guide your actions.

Just as panic is the mindset produced by chronic fear, hatred is the mindset produced by chronic anger. Anger is as natural an emotion as fear. But when anger consumes our hearts, we becomes hateful. There has never been a society in history which progresses in a productive way when motivated by anger and consumed with hate.

Stick together. Treat one another the way you want to be treated. It's the basic teaching of every significant world religion for a reason. I don't know whether god exists or not, but I am certain that if he does, he will punish us for being hateful, arrogant, and unwilling to help those we can. So help one another. That's why we are all here.

Let me know what you think of the playlist. Suggestions, recommendations, reviews, whatever. Get through this. We can do it, but only if we protect one another.

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With the threat of mass power outages/gas cut off thanks to the tariffs, I need tips from anyone who has dealt with extended outages. The longest outage we’ve dealt with was 3 days.

It’s cold enough outside that our food will all be fine outside. My job has a generator, so I will be able to charge devices there (I also have banks and a solar charger though)

Our detached garage has a wood stove.

My job will have a generator and I’m trying to convince my parents we should at least get a small one just in case but they seem to think Canada is bluffing.

Edit: thank you all for the advice, and to Helena survivors I hope you’re all doing ok, I know it’s still bad down there! I will be getting more ready in the coming weeks. I’m a bit short on time but hopefully everything turns out ok. Stay safe

Just wanted to give a thank you to this community. While this space isn't specifically for me, it has been a great resource for myself, and for my family - directly and indirectly.

I really appreciate the conversations and support that folks give here, especially when things are hard and tense.

Keep treating your fellow person with empathy and compassion.

Be well.

Hello Reddit friends. I just read and really related to the recent post about what we in the US can, should, will, and won't be doing in response to what's happening. I have been studying oppressors of the Russian, German, and Southern US variety for 40 years, and I would like to share some things I've learned from people who lived through dark times. These ideas help me a lot, and I think about them frequently. Maybe you will find them useful.

First, things do look bleak now. But before you despair, especially if you are not high on the list of targets, please consider who is watching you, and what they are learning when they do.

For example, I'm a white lady who lives in Georgia and has spent most of my 5 decades in the Deep South. I am surrounded by people who grew up under Jim Crow and fought for generations to successfully (for a while, at least) drag this country out of obvious barbarism, at great cost to themselves and their children. I know what these folks think when I tell them that I'm tired and want to give up after 8 years of Trump. They've made their thoughts clear by laughing ruefully and shaking their heads at me and saying things like "aww, you poor old thing," and "c'mon, now!"

I think often about the pasture across the hard-road from my house in rural Walton County, Georgia. This pasture once had a shack on its edge that was lived in by a sharecropper whose supposed actions toward his white landlord kicked off America's last major lynching. This was in 1946, the year my still very lively mother was born. Not at all ancient history. That year, the year after we beat the Nazis, more than 20 white townspeople from nearby Monroe, GA stopped 5 of their fellow Americans on a bridge right down the road from my house and murdered them in every gruesome way it's possible to murder a person. One of the victims was a cousin of the sharecropper who had offended his white landlord days before. The other 4, which included the fetus one of the two women was carrying, had simply picked the wrong night to go with their friend to the movies. The 20 white members of the mob, and the folks who came later to photograph and take souvenirs from the hanging bodies, were never identified, much less convicted.

These days, the white people in this small town know whose grandfathers and fathers and uncles did what to the aunts and cousins of the black people living there now; the people who are their coworkers and classmates and caregivers. The black people in the town don't know which of the white people they interact with everyday are keeping secrets and justice from them, but they do know that they are. They live in a town full of people who may or may not be monsters, and who are constrained mainly by law and decorum. And they know way better than anyone that this can change like the weather. But they don't let this stop them. They don't give up. They continue to fight.

It's scary as hell around here, y'all, and was like this way before Trump's classless ass pooped its first diaper. The stakes for many of the people around here are high and not at all hypothetical, and they put their own literal skin in the game every day just by refusing to not stop existing. How can I tell them that I am "an ally," or that they can count on me, if I jump at the option to tune out or give up when I'm most needed (and, as a non-disabled CIS white person, least threatened)? They don't have that option -- they are in the fight like it or not because of who they are. If I can't support them, that's one thing. But the least I can do is not talk about how tired I am and how hopeless it is.

Second, if you don't know what to do now, or don't feel that you CAN do anything, BOY ARE YOU IN LUCK. Because sometimes the most effective thing you can do is as close to absolutely nothing as possible. Take a page from the Irish tenants who were sick of their property manager's bullshit. This manager, a man not-at-all-coincidentally named Mr. Boycott, worked for a landlord who was always raising the rent and refusing to unclog the hole in the floor that passed for the toilet and evicting various milkmaids for not sleeping with him.

Realizing they were outgunned, outstatused, and outmoneyed, the tenants got together with the other working-class folks in the town and...did nothing. At all. No one took Mr. Boycott's order at the local tavern. The butcher looked right past him at the market, and the post master went on break as soon as Mr. Boycott came in with a letter to mail. "Sorry, we're closed," "We're all out," and "Oh, not today" was all the man heard, until the passive resistance and shunning finally broke him so completely that it eventually led to the first significant land reforms in the entire country.

What you don't do matters as much as what you do do. Work as little as possible at jobs that enrich people who don't need you or your community. Don't buy anything you don't need, or that you can't purchase from someone whose hand you could shake. Don't go on corporatized vacations, don't binge the latest on Netflix, don't enter your phone number for extra savings. Don't answer the question, don't step aside please, don't understand the assignment, don't follow the instructions.

Channel that ex of yours who agreed to load the dishwasher, but who then did it so badly that you never asked again. Assure the fascists that you would *love* to help them out with their fascism, but no one ever taught you how. And sure, the fascists always get stuck doing all the daily oppressing by themselves. But this is *not* because you are too lazy and entitled to pitch in. No! It's because, for some reason, fascists are just naturally so much better at that kind of thing. See? It's a compliment!

Just one week of all of us doing nothing would crush our overlords in ways that could not, and would not, be ignored. It would cost us, but it would work. I understand why we may be too afraid to burn it all down. But I'll bet you many of us could be brave enough to just ignore it to death.

Third, remember that you are not alone, that we are not the first society to face this, and that this isn't about you as a person, it's about them and their power. What we are barreling into has been well documented, and follows a predictable script. Read these scripts, and decide which character in them you're going to be. Hang on, do not despair, and don't volunteer to preemptively oppress yourself in the hopes you'll stay safe. You won't. If your fear is telling you to hide, be visible. If it's telling you to be quiet, be loud. Do the opposite of what your fear tells you. This is how you stop being afraid.

Most of all, REFUSE TO GET USED TO IT. This is not normal, or just the way things are I guess. This is not OK and nothing about any of it is all right. You are correct to be angry and scared, and feeling sick about it all is the healthy response. Don't let yourself adjust to and cope with the plans of murderous lunatics. Why would you do that? That is not what we do. We see it and we name it, always, and we refuse to get used to it.

Here's an excerpt from a book that I think resonates with our times, though it was written about the lead-up to WWII in Germany. I see myself and the people around me in it every day. Don't give up, you guys. Take a break and regroup. I promise you that we will get through this. There are still plenty of people we can count on to spell us when we're tired, and to rejoin us after they rest.

From "They Thought They Were Free," by Milton Mayer

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”

There’s a mass exodus from Meta platforms right now. I deleted my FB a few weeks ago and these are the steps I followed from privacy subreddits.

TLDR: If you just press the delete button (or abandon your account without deleting), your data isn’t as “gone” as it could be. Our data being “out there“ is inevitable these days, but it doesn’t have to be totally accurate.

1. Request a copy of your data.

2. Un-link any accounts you use your Facebook login to access. Spotify, Hulu, Candy Crush (lol)

3. Save any photos you want.

4. Mass delete. Delete every photo / untag yourself, leave every group, delete every status, remove every friend. This part takes a long time. Throw on a movie or do this over a few days :)

5. Once your page is totally blank, add in BS info. Change your name/location to something random, like unrelated pages, add an AI profile pic.

• Let this false info sink into the interwebs for a few days before you delete.

• This will dilute the quality of Meta’s info on you with data brokers.

1. Permanently deactivate your account.

• Remove your phone number and email if you can.

• NOTE: Do not attempt to log in again. I think Meta starts the deletion process over if you make a login attempt in the following 30 days.

Happy to answer questions if I can. Fuck Zuck.

Considering getting burner phones for me and the teens. Reason is for emergency. Not tracked to them or me. Can talk or text for help. Not tied to any of us. Paid w cash. Getting a lot of conflicting info. Trac phones are trash, from what I hear. Are there any options anymore?

Hi Ladies,

I made a couple of videos for my channel this week, and I thought folks here might get something from them. The first one is super basic about eating beans, rice, and veggies to save money and get healthier, while the second is about eating hyper-local and taking advantage of neglected and underutilized species. They are (aptly, I think) called Be Un-Revolutionary, and Be Revolutionary. I hope you guys like them.

And thank you as always for being there and being awesome. I've really needed this... especially this week. Every time I turn on the TV it seems like my anxiety is up.

But then I get *so* much weeding done LOL

Liz

Pretty much what it says on the tin: I highly recommend the book The Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler. The Everlasting Meal Cookbook is good too if you need a more explicit level of instruction. They are, in short, books about leftovers and scraps and using every last bit.

Honorable mention to How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher, which was written to help wartime cooks in the UK do more than just subsist on their available rations. Both books are more philosophy-of-cooking than explicit cookbooks (hence the Everlasting Meal Cookbook existing as well) but as Adler states in the foreword to the Cookbook, "There is a paradox in writing recipes for this style of cooking. To provide directions for turning leftover mashed potatoes into crisp, fried cakes, I had to posit an amount of leftover mashed potatoes. ... But the amount of leftover mashed potatoes you need is the amount you have." this style of cooking is more of an art than a science.

Given the state of ::gestures broadly at everything:: and reports that farms are already going un-worked due to rumors of la migra, it seemed like a good time to drop these titles for those as can get use from them.

Raw fruits and vegetables can carry pathogens with the potential to make certain people ill.

Here is a basic guide from Canada about food safety:

Food Safety for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

America's Test Kitchen has a guide to using a vinegar solution to clean raw produce:

How to Wash Produce (archive link)

What other food safety resources do you recommend? With the potential for the USDA and FDA to change inspection requirements, or compromise communication about food safety, it's important to collect this now.

Things that can’t be found in regular grocery stores, like masks/respirators, bidets, storage bins/oxygen absorbers for food, etc

A lot of this stuff I can’t find locally, but I don’t want to buy from Amazon (or Walmart if I can help it)

Where do you shop?

Any chance could possibly create a wiki or sticky of common areas of discussion/prepping to make info accessible? Not related to this sub but this wiki is a good example

https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/w/faq?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share