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FRUGAL SURVIVALIST DIGEST VERSION 10

 

FINANCES

Who has extra money these days?  Not many of us.  I do, usually investing a fifth to a quarter of my take home pay in preps, and that is on an income of $10k a year ( my writing earnings go directly to reference books, and is not income per se ).  But I also was such a sad and pathetic creature that Evil Extraordinaire Ex-Wife #2 ended up leaving me and even if I spent twenty years in financial servitude to her I still came out ahead of the game money wise ( even at half the take home, I budgeted it so much more intelligently I was able to better myself ) by NOT sharing in her idea of middle class living ( read: debt and always being broke half way to payday ).  But you, you aren’t as good as I am and I’d wager your hair doesn’t look half as nice.  Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. 

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How is it my fault you didn’t pull your head out of your butt in 2008?  We were ALL lied to and we ALL started an adult life brainwashed by the system.  Some of us were, not smarter, but better able to get an idea we were getting screwed after the fact.  If you still believe that voting counts and your retirement will be there for you and that the USS Liberty wasn’t a sacrificial pawn and that a third skyscraper can pancake down without being hit by a jet and that fracking oil will give us at LEAST a century of energy independence and that little green men delivered the secret of room temperature fusion to Donald Trump, well, I guess I can’t convince you that continuing to spend and invest in an Oil Age is a bad idea.  You won’t accept the necessarily of sacrificing and get out of debt and give up your car and downsize a career and etcetera.  The only thing I can do is point out that prepping can be so cheap anyone can do it.

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SPENDING LESS

You don’t need a thousand dollars to prep.  You could do it on half of that, starting with a cheap shotgun and minimal ammo and just a year of wheat.  The one thousand dollar figure is for all the frills and bells and whistles of the Frugal Survivalist plan.  And you can spend a HECK of a lot more.  Which is fine.  Most of us do.  But you secure the bare minimum FIRST.  That way you don’t panic and do something stupid when some major event transpires.  When the stock market took a big squishy in the late 80’s I quickly ordered a mail order year of wheat in buckets.  It wasn’t cheap, and I lost it after I rejoined the service and there was nobody at the old address to pay the shipping due.  If I had been half as smart then as I am now I would have bought the wheat locally and stored it myself ( and, needless to say, I wouldn’t have gone back in the military ).  But I panicked and I wasn’t prepped.  A bare bones $500 prepping stockpile prevents panic. 

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Once you have the basics you can do such things as buy a pistol  or more rifle ammo or scopes or more wheat or better food stores or whatever.  Whenever I hawk the frugal prepper plan, I inevitably get something like “my life is worth more, so I’m going to spend more to protect myself” or “in a collapse, he who spends less does not win”.  Which of course misses the point that since you cannot time the collapse you have to assume it happens tomorrow so you need to prep yesterday.  And with the multitude of issues our entire globe faces, I can’t believe you would play the odds on a slow collapse.  I know most of you are poor, but I also know most of you have cell phones and other pricey luxuries.  Anyone should be able to scare up $500.

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GETTING EXTRA

Most prepping advice goes something like, “cancel the cable.  In a year you have $600”.  “Stop drinking coffee out, and in a year you have an extra $500”.  Dude!  I see you listening but you are NOT hearing what I am saying.  You CANNOT time the collapse.  Just because the odds are it won’t suddenly collapse does not mean spit.  Not when your life is on the line.  Good Gravy, I want to smack the glittery unicorn fart optimism off of people.  Stay paranoid and stay alive.  You need cash, and quicker than a year.  Find a gun store that does layaway to get a gun quick.  Then crash course cutting money.  It is just for a month or three.  Figure out what you can do without for a short time.  Postpone some bills if possible.  Skip a grocery trip if needed ( regular everyday eating food is much more expensive and a small cut there will buy a lot of storage food ).  Can you safely skip one months car payment?  Don’t eat out at all for that period.  Etcetera.

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Sell some of your crap.  Once the economy falls off a cliff, it won’t be worth anything.  If you sell twenty cents on the dollar now, that is better than one cent on the dollar once everyone else is unemployed and also desperate to sell their crap.  Now is the perfect time to sell a semi-auto carbine.  That should cover the whole cost of prepping.  You can still defend yourself with less gun. 

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TOTAL COST

 

$500 PLAN

   $200 shotgun and

   $50 ammo ( birdshot is a quarter a round and BTN )

   $50 wheat grinder and

   $100 in wheat kernels from the feed store with free bottles

   $20 water filter

   $15 knife

   $5 knife sharpener

   $25 vitamins-a years supply of C and multivitamin

   $10 LED lights-garden type

   $25 used wool clothing from thrift store

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FULL BUDGET $1K PLAN

   $350 war surplus rifle with

   $50 bayonet (s)

   $250 ammo-usually about 350 rounds new 30 cal.

   $200 wheat kernels ( 800 pounds )

   $50 wheat grinder

   $20 water filter

   $15 knife

   $5 knife sharpener

   $25 vitamins-a years supply of C and multivitamin

   $10 LED lights-garden type

   $25 used wool clothing from thrift store

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( the above are suggestions and approximations )

It looks a bit lonely and sad and forlorn, but come collapse time it will be a life saver.  Good luck!

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