I know what you think this post is about. Nope, I haven't been listening to Eminem an feeling all Wangster....Though I occasionally get retro and appreciate Public Enemy. This is all about the immortal Hoodie as an essential survival item...that no one thinks about until they have had to live in the cold for a while...without central heating...bitches (I couldn't help adding that bitches part because of the theme).

In a recent post I said, Do you remember when we used to teach Actual Prepping Skills. Now we seem to have moved into the roll of councillors and lay psychologists to keep people from harming themselves and others. Our roll seems to have evolved into teaching people How To Survive...The Dangers of Prepping.

Now that harvest and food storage and firewood is almost done, Ild like to get back to first hand survival advice. This one is simple and stupid but...simple and stupid is not always obvious to those that haven't lived it.

The Hoodie. It keeps your head heat in. Its more than a toque (wool cap for you amerikans) though can be used together. Almost as important. It keeps your Neck heat in. It keeps your identity in. Oh, He didn't go there. Yup. He did...but it also keeps mosquitos and blackflies at bay during the other season. Bug mesh makes me feel claustrophobic and they generally attack the back of the head anyhow so I can see and breath easy. I have thinner ones for summer but I hope some budding entrepreneur makes a T-shirt version....but this is all about the chill. Canada cold eh?

It will get below freezing tonight...but, I couldn't bother firing up the stove today. Its nominal. A piece of firewood saved is firewood earned. Instead, my hoodie is up...as it has been for the last month. Heat the body. Not the space. That should be a survival principal. Have I mentioned recently that preppers whining about the loss of the middle class...suck. I am just cringing in my hoodied head. Deal with it. Adapt...or die as a whinny bitch (see the title and previous parenthesised remarks). Central heating is not a Right....and it disappears quite regularly. I noticed my hoodie makes me look like a medieval peasant...but lets be honest...that's what we really are...but we still have to pay for the central heating part because our lords consider that privatisation. Ditch the central heating and you are a smidgeon closer to free.

This is really a Love Story. A weird prepper love story. My Muse for writing this?...MrsC5. A couple weeks back, before we had hit zero, me in my hood, I walked into the bedroom and Mrs C5 was sitting on the bed watching Netfixs...in a very similar insulated olive green hoodie than the one I had already made my everyday wear. It was instantly prepper sexy perve material that only someone like me would get turned on by.

I asked her in curiosity, "So. When exactly did you embrace the Hoodie as survival chic?"
She replied," It started because I was curious why you were doing it. I don't think about it anymore."

Oh yah, baby. Ditch that lingerie. Its sooo 2007. Put on the hoodie. Oh ya baby. Stoke the fire and call me daddy (Too far?)

Construction workers already embraced this trend. I still cant believe new construction jackets come new with a hoody sewn onto it...like construction workers aren't smart enough to wear a hoodie under their jacket? Everyone laughs at rednecks until the zombie apocalypse. They embraced the hoodie. So should you. I'm actually wearing two at the moment as I write. I can regulate my temperature by putting it up or down...or full on scrunched up like Kenny. I never really fully embraced the redneck ballcap until after embracing the hoodie. It kept the hood out of my eyes. It stuck. Add a mask and I am now a redneck ninja. A warm redneck ninja...with a bit more firewood incase its a long winter.

Survival advice never looked so sexy...in a C5 way that only MrsC5 could love. Stupid simple survival