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MONEY AIN’T BUT A THING 3

Let me give you an analogy to help illustrate why having too much money to prep with is dangerous ( I’ll take credit for the comparison, the original idea which I don’t mind stealing was all on a loyal minion ).  Every once in a blue moon when the planets align and all the gods convene in committee and decide to honor my Baby Jesus’ most favored status ( I’m talking like all at once I get my twice yearly Google Ad payment at the same time minions pile on Christmas donation love whilst I get one of those rare third paychecks in a month AND someone’s uncle dies and they can’t think of any better use of the windfall than to just send it to me for craps and giggles ), I have even too much for me as far as book money budget goes.  Rather than re-read descriptions and comments on every potential book, plus disciplining myself to wait just a bit longer of lusted after books until they fall in price, I just throw caution to the wind and splurge and buy way too many books that turn out to pretty much suck and be a waste of money.

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Sound familiar?  How many prep items did you buy on a whim or more likely in another panic that stare back at you from their shelf space and mock you?  Literally call out to you in a derisive voice, questioning your parentage and intelligence?  Don’t get me wrong, any prep item that can be used is better than an idle company chit note.  No, it is the problem of what isn’t on the shelf instead.  I don’t know if your nipples harden and your sphincter tingle when you caress your AR-15, but the emotion I would feel is disgust in myself that I could have had a V-8 instead.  That, PLUS three Lee-Enfield rifles and three thousand rounds of ammunition and some bayonets ( obviously I’m talking about pre-2006 availability/prices ).  A case of MRE’s, two weeks of Spartan rations, is now up to $85.  In wheat, that is almost a years worth of food ( assuming free storage containers ).

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Notice I’m talking about poor peoples shopping remorse.  Rich preppers can piss away as much money as they’d like.  More power to them, at least some of their ill gotten gains are making it back to middle class business owners ( and don’t throw class warfare into my face-the simple fact is that the majority of rich humps are gaming the coercive monopolies system and getting a slice of a stolen pie.  Made your money in real estate?  Think that makes you a free market capitalist?  The bankers and governments artificially inflate real estate prices to benefit themselves, and all you are is a parasite living off the skimmed cream.  Hang your head in shame, bitch! ).  If you ONLY have $85 for prepper food, rather than it being #1 of 25 purchases, you choose wisely and buy the wheat.  If someone hands you a $100 bill and doses it in gasoline and holds an unstruck match ( how most people act when they get extra money ), you’ll run to the nearest gun store and buy that case of MRE’s with nary a problem.

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As a recently commenting minion and myself can both brag on, we make very little money and have great lives.  Humpers making six times our income, if in debt, might drive a shiny car and sip a pretty frothy Starbucks caffeinated drink every morning, but have absolutely zero quality of life.  It is bad enough they have to run faster on their gerbil wheel every year just to stay in place, but that is always compounded by extreme stress at the very real possibility that their job security is tenuous at best and more likely closer to “every payday is a potential pink slip day”.  Me?  I work 25 hours a week ( I’d like it to be 20, so I could earn under the Obammy HealthCare Penalty Minimum, but I can’t finagle that less of hours ).  I have stress three months a year during the Demon Christmas Season but the rest of the time I’m semi-retired, almost every day I put more hours into reading or writing than I do earning a paycheck.  I have ZERO debt, not even a cell phone contract.  Would I give it up for running a company, having a trophy wife with all necessary expenses that entails and having a lavish prep budget?  Your ass I would.  I don’t worship money. 

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Divorce yourself from the deity Mammon and you’ll be amazed at the freedom.  She is an evil entity.  Or not.  Whatever.  I’m going to my recliner to read for three or four hours.  Enjoy the rest of your eleven hour work day.

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