I did a search to see if it's been discussed before, but didn't see it.
I bought some blackout curtains to try and they are great. You cannot tell a light is on in the room. Anyone here use them?
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I did a search to see if it's been discussed before, but didn't see it.
I bought some blackout curtains to try and they are great. You cannot tell a light is on in the room. Anyone here use them?
I have them on half the house. Only two windows on that side and one in the back/side.
My use is more for sleep assistance than security. Anyone casing the place can count the vehicles and tell if I am home.
If I see trouble comming the lights are going out, not comming on. I am old school, "the darkness is my friend".
I was talking for SHTF use. If you use your oil lamps they'll know you have "stuff".
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Originally Posted by linkmissing
Who is THEY?
If you are alive and breathing THEY know you have stuff!
Perhaps THEY should be concerned that I know THEY are out there. At one time of my life my job was to create diversions, attract THEM and ambush them when they came to check things out.
If you are using oil lamps you are attempting to deny the realism of your situation SHTF. Why do you suppose the old folks used to rise at daylight and go to bed when the sun set?
You are fighting loss of the old system and wasting rescources. Turn the lights off and go to bed!
I put them up once and stumbled around in the dark for two days before I could find a door. Even then I ran into it. Had to take them down. My toes were taking a beating.
I have them in the bedroom for sleeping purposes. I have to work through the nights from sometimes and it is much easier for me to sleep during the day if the room is dark.
I don't plan for a situation where I will be concerned about "they" and light shinning through the windows. If that situation were to come to pass, there would be no white lights on, as it would inhibit my night vision - but yeah - mostly sleeping.
I just asked this question on another site, so some of you may have seen my answer on the other one.:shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by kyratshooter
Not having experienced true disasters. I have a way of thinking about TEOTWAWKI. I see it as having different levels of preparedness. Kinda like the fire danger levels: green yellow, red. This by no means may be an accurate way of thinking about it, but it's the best way for me to envision it.
Green would be something like: earthquake, longer blackouts, short-med. length/term disaster (days - weeks). Society is intact. Eventually things will get back to normal but people are scared but not really much danger to life and property.
Yellow would be more dramatic like: pandemic, terrorism, med.-long length/term disaster of disruption. (weeks - months) Things may or may not be different afterward. There is danger to life and property but society is semi intact.
Red would be complete disruption of normalcy for the long term. Danger is wide ranging, society is in complete chaos.
I see my curtains as being for green and yellow.
Red would need alot more than flimsy curtains.
I just cover the bedroom windows up with tin foil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Camp10
That's an idea. It would match what I already have on the walls!:noway:Quote:
Originally Posted by oly
I think I'd like that more then my wife! I've heard of using it, but have never tried foil.Quote:
Originally Posted by oly
The real danger with using foil is if the space signals get inside they just bounce around and can't go anywhere. Remember to leave the bedroom door ajar so they have a place to escape.
Then would you recommend a foil hat that covers the eyes instead?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
How will you see it coming?
I made a sleeping bag out of foil. That way if the space rays do get in I'm protected until I have to go pee. Now, and stay with me on this, the bag is like a burrito. I can actually walk without getting out of it. I can open the door as a walk by, let the rays out of the room, do what I need to do, close the door and go back to bed. Sweet huh?
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Originally Posted by Rick
Just one question.... Huh?:eek2::nuke:Quote:
Originally Posted by Camp10
Looks like the alien mind sucking rays have penetrated. You didn't leave the door open too wide did you?:eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pocomoonskyeyes3
The hat is handy when you're driving.
So is E.T. phoning home from the bedroom? What rays?
I just knew the hat thing would come up LOL.
Space rays. Duh! Where have you been? The hat is useful when driving to keep cell phone radiation from melting your ear. That's almost as hazardous as space rays.
I don't need the hat... No cell phone, so no need to protect me from that. Besides Aluminum won't protect from radiation.... you need lead for that! Can you imagine the Neck muscles of the person wearing a Lead hat? Old Arnold would be a pencil necked Geek in comparison!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Doh! Radiation is radio waves, too. You know, it's just a good thing you have me as Minister of Science. A lesser man would let you hurt yourself.
Poco - you are taking us entirely too seriously.
My tin foil hat has capacitors and diodes wired in series for that and for selective hearing
There is a danger in that, too.
Selective hearing is probably the best camouflage mankind ever invented. It has kept us from having to do all kinds of work. A bad memory is equally good.
LOL :beta1: No... but someone out there will!!:dodge:Quote:
Originally Posted by crashdive123
Man Rick your fast, one post to the next
I have to be fast. I do two shows nightly.
You can always tell the newbies up here where we have 24 hours of light in the summer. They all have tin foil over their windows. After a while you get used to it. I used to never be able to sleep with any type of light on, even a small night light down the hall. Now I darkish curtains but they by no means block out all the light. I sleep just fine. It's all what you get used to.
Well, you posted a serious question and we destroyed the thread. Okay, back to the OP. I don't use them. I do have some room darkening blinds but, like others, it's for the benefit of sleep. If you consider the environment you outlined do you think you are the only one left behind and your neighbors won't be burning lights too (rhetorical)? Whatever happens to you happens to everyone. Whatever you do to survive everyone else will have to do as well. If the curtains make you feel better/safer then by all means invest in them.
I also find this to be true in my experience. When in the military and living in the Barracks I could sleep through "normal conversations and activity" But if someone was trying to "Sneak" I was instantly awake.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
Also we learned to sleep in unusual places/circumstances. Like with a Parachute and full Combat gear strapped to your body. No way to lay down, but you just sorta' "slump" inside all that gear and go to sleep..... Kinda' like in this picture.....
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...vtW2B8BxA4VFVw
You can train your body and mind in more ways than most would imagine. Usually we do this and just assume we are "Just getting used to it". But it can be done.
Use a version of blackout curtains, more like blankets as a energy saver, back during the old enegery crisis in that late 70's and 80's.
Worked ok, I like it dark, but after a while we just sorta didn't use them much anymore.
Now, tin foil windows, that's an idea.....hummmmm
Or like in this one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pocomoonskyeyes3
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...ch_Snipers.jpg
I literally live on the hill, in the center of my town. EVERYONE knows where the house is and can see it from everywhere. If we didn't want anyone to know we were here but had to use lights...we would be a beacon to everyone in town. KNOWING some of the people here...don't need them tapping on my door or trying to get in. I've got a little one worry about. I won't lie, I've TOTALLY thought of having those types of things for my front windows both upstairs and down...but I'm not fond of the way they look. LOL!! Yeah...I'm a girly-girl in that regard.
I've just gotten a roll of black plastic, duct tape, and some staplers as a just in case...plus all that stuff can be used for a LOT of other things. (stapling my son to the floor when he gets out of hand (JOKE), slip and slide (NOT a joke...HEY it's FUN), duct tape...need I say more?)
Poco, that is how I learned how to fall asleep in church. Also, at Basic, I fell asleep on a road march and woke up still marching in line. I was probably only a sleep for a second.
I haven't tried blackout blinds/drapes, but I plan to get some really thick ones. Mostly for insulation to save on heating and cooling.
By the way Rick, I have a black box room. The out side is covered in tin foil to reflect the space rays, and the inside is super absorbent and won't let any bounce around or escape. What kind of absorbent you may ask....depends.
Anyone has any experience and can chime in with whether need to get blackout curtains or is semi-blackout enough for Malaysia? No need to be in total darkness and look like Malam gelap type, just enough to have like wearing sunglasses indoors
I've used "Blackout" for years. But never purchased blackout curtains. There's plenty of things you can use that are cheap or free.
Yep. If you line up spam cans end to end, no light will get through.
Just use black paint....
Alan