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HAPPY MONKEY BALLS 4
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NOTE: Gary, got the snail mail.  Thanks, and Happy Festivus to you also!
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I had seriously prepped prior, in mid 90’s and overdrive the last year and a half of the decade ( prior to that was the “one year food and one firearm“ limited stockpile ), but the prepping was more an in depth personal stockpile.  It ignored free and clear land, being out of debt, a more secure job and other far deeper preps than mere beans and bullets.  Four years later I started covering all the longer term more serious preps.  I declared bankruptcy the first few months of starting at the casino ( to get my foot in the door I started out on graveyard, while we were living right next to the auto dealership.  Try sleeping in an RV with pneumonic wrenches shrieking nearby all day.  I was a friggin zombie ), upgraded to a bigger trailer I got for about the cost of my old jobs cashed in 401k, and got serious about re-doing my preps on a more intelligent scale ( we had moved from Florida with just a small van ).  Every day we shared tips from jackpots, and while most of the girls found a way to spend that quickly, I put the minimum towards living expenses ( trailer rent, eating from the discount grocery and child support ) and everything into preps.  More than one lot of E-Bay land, a little gold, a lot of silver ( at $5, $6 an ounce and they were selling it like it was coming out their ears ), more guns and ammo, failed attempts at going from writing to publishing ( the blogs have stayed my primary writing pay since 2006 ), a cheap bug out van ( both the van and trailer were $700 each ), solar panels and the like.  I was planning and investing to move off grid years before I did.

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All the time, I was working at the casino, hating everything about it.  I loved the girls I worked with but they were like herding cats and always full of drama.  I didn’t love the customers but since they tipped I kissed their asses ( competing with idiot bosses for the most stressful part.  Yes, I felt like a whore, but knowing I‘d have the last laugh helped some ).  I certainly didn’t like the idiots that signed my paycheck, as they kept implementing one stupid policy after another driving customers away and eating into our tip income.  All in all, high stress.  But they weren’t done.  First, they laid off all the management.  They then re-hired half of them back ( at reduced pay, naturally ).  I played along with that one but knew this was going to be the new normal.  My preps were almost done so I started accumulating cash and made plans to de-ass as needed.  Which was a good thing since next they laid off the entire department and hired half of them back.  I just walked away so not to cost anyone else their job ( a lot of the others transferred to other departments ).  That was Capital S Suck, for two years.  But I had invested rather than spent and knew there was a light at the end of the tunnel. 

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Of course, besides improving my life by trading temporary stress for money to invest in drastically reducing my expenses AND prepping, which was a salve to the stress, I also had my writing.  That saved me more than the knowledge of the necessity of what I was doing.  Biting the bullet knowing it is temporary is all good and well, but I think diving into your lives passion is the only sure way to deal with the high stresses in life.  Find your love and even if it pays marginally, the real non-monetary pay in stress release and soul fulfillment is what is important.  Spending money can’t be that soothing, so supplement that with your dream activity.  Then don’t screw around investing and sacrificing to limit the time living in Suck-Ville.  Then you’ll spend the rest of your life, or until the die-off whichever comes first, as happy as a monkey ball deep in a box of bananas.

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