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GRANDPAPPY’S PREPPING 3

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note: a very short review of Creekmore's new book "The Prepper's Guide To Surviving The End Of The World As We Know It".  It is a newbies book.  Perhaps one of the better ones, true, and there are hundreds of far, far worse ones out there, but a complete new to the field persons guide, nonetheless.   I found nothing new or exciting, and I found a lot of too brief coverage on almost everything.  If you don't plan on trying to convert someone to the Dark Side Of Survivalism, and use this as a Trojan Horse disguised as a gift I see no need for you to buy this book.
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So, you earn far less with costs higher ( ignore the current slight dip on some things, as that is just Over Capacity/Shrinking Demand, no more credit offered by the banks due to derivatives fear and loathing in Manhattan.  Once the lower prices wipe out most competition the prices will rise-and don‘t expect that to take long as everybody was already overextended and weak from the last eight years of Greater Depression.  If you see a deal, as long as it doesn‘t require debt, You Buy NOW! And that is not even accounting for any sudden PetroDollar collapse ).  You have no option but to cut all expenses, to include prepping.  Why is prepping on credit stupid?  Because the economy implodes first, not the law and order infrastructure.  Live within your means rather than dreaming beyond them.  And most prepping “essentials”, to include survival batteries, are dream level insanely expensive and not necessary.  Yes, if you were Grandpappy, indeed you could have all the toys you wanted.  But since you ain’t, you can’t.  Deal with it by embracing the new normal, not by squealing like a first day prison bitch and denying it is happening ( “make the bad men go away!” ). 

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Read almost any article or book on survival batteries and you “must” have a semi-auto battle rifle, a thirty caliber bolt rifle ( some even try to throw in a fifty cal, but that isn’t universal so I won’t include that ), at least one assault carbine, a shotgun, at least one auto pistol, a rimfire rifle and a rimfire pistol.  That is six different types of weapon if you don’t absolutely positively need both thirty cal long arms.  Now add in pellet guns, black powder, non-registered antique and any bow weapons.  At least ten different weapons.  Now, we all know that two is one and one is none, so every weapon needs multiples.  And since semi-automatic weapons are de riqueur,  you need at least five times the ammunition as “normal“, so expect a huge expense there.  And of course, let us not forget that a Democrat might be elected so you must buy dozens and dozens of magazines for each individual firearm.  Good friggin Golly Molly!  We are talking some serious bucks regardless of who you are, running the gamut from “Holy Sweet Baby Jesus, even penny pinching and bargain basement sales, I still need to sell the first born to white slavers AND liquidate my house”, to “only The Donald can afford this”. 

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The too glib answer to this problem was always, “buy a little at a time”.  Every time I hear this advice from an author when it pertains to food I get an overwhelming urge to liquidate my assets, higher a private detective, find the author, travel to their home, and then either castrate or attach a chastity belt around them so they can not repopulate the Earth with their moronic offspring.  Can you guarantee something very, very bad can’t happen tomorrow, rendering your advice idiotic?  Of course you can’t!  Even after Katrina and Fukishama?  Are they willing to personally stock your larder as insurance their advice is correct ( they can take your beginning food and you get their fully stocked pantry-why not?  You have plenty of time! ), in case the PetroDollar collapses tomorrow or the Saudi oil processing plant is bombed by terrorists?  Of course they aren’t!  Everyone has heard the “better a bird in hand than two in the bush”.  What do you think it means?  Two birds are better than one bird ( harkening back to a time you ate birds ), but a flock would be even better.  But you’ll never catch a flock, nor even any birds over yonder in a bush.  The one bird you’ve already killed and stuffed into a pie is guaranteed supper.  The bush birds are just wishful thinking and fantasy.  Just like all that food you think you might be able to buy one day.  Just like all those guns you think you can purchase sometime in the dim future.

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How about the saying “defecate in one hand and wish in another and see what fills up faster”?  That means your wishes don’t mean a damn thing.  An unwanted, smelly crap has more intrinsic value than your wishes.  You can wish for more food when you are starving and wish for more specialized weapons when you need them, but you might as well soil yourself, dig into your britches, and proudly wave around your fecal smeared fingers.  What is on those digits holds more worth than your airy-fairy pre-collapse plans to “do better in my preps, soonest”.  Continued tomorrow.

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