frugal survivalist digest 3 of 10

FRUGAL SURVIVALIST DIGEST 3

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NO REASON TO GET FANCY

Every swinging cheese dingus out there wants the prettiest and coolest and most tactical and the best and the brightest.  And twenty years ago ( or perhaps thirty since we have to take into account the false inflation from Clinton’s gun ban ) that was almost feasible.  There were jobs and there was the Chinese import miracle and there was a functioning economy.  Today we’ve got nada.  Zip.  Zero.  It eludes my comprehension how someone who claims to be a survivalist has such an optimistic outlook that they believe that their job will never be eliminated, that their suburban McMansion won’t be burned down in race riots, that the oil will last forever and that they have all the time in the world to prepare for Bad Things To Happen.  And, yes, we might just have a lifetime to prepare.  Or we might not.  The Yuppie Scum Survivalist Guru’s lead you to believe they alone can discern the intentions of foreign powers and of Mother Nature. 

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Ego, much?  I’m pretty pleased with my own gasp of probabilities and possibilities but I certainly don’t claim omnipotence.  Here is my reasoning.  I say, assume the worst.  If it happens, you are prepared.  If it doesn’t, if I am wrong, then you’ve lost nothing outside owning a few prep items you would prefer to be better.  If the Yuppie Scum are wrong, if you listened to them and waited years saving money for The Best Of Everything, all the while staying in the craphole of a city to work a slightly better paying job ( the higher cost of living eats up most of that higher salary ), and the worst case happened and whoever you listened to was off in their timing due to a Black Swan or an Unknowable Factor, you didn’t have enough preps and you die.  While you are waiting to save that $1500 to buy a years worth of freeze dried foods and a collapse occurred, how are you better off than the guy that already has $150 worth of bucketed wheat-a years supply of basic calories?

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THE BARE NECESSITIES

Go bare bones NOW.  You can get fancy later, if you still have time and the finances.  Yuppie Scum all agree that you are such a wonderful person and a swell customer that they only want to see you buy the most nutritious food and the most deadly weapons and the best farmland around.  But what if you can’t afford that?  What if you are poor?  Even if you are the Cock Of The Walk, The Donald incarnate, the bees knees and All That And A Bag Of Chips, even if you are the Alpha Male Of All Alpha Males and you measure your wallet as the instrument that pleases your woman, even if you make gobs and oodles of money the chances are still good that you don’t have enough disposable income to undertake The One And Only Approved Prepper Stockpile.  Why do you still think that being poor is a reflection of your abilities?  If you are part of the 99%, you are most likely poor because the Elites have structured our system that way.  Heck, even the lazy bastards sucking off welfare aren’t really even to be blamed anymore as there are no jobs.  Every jerk getting paid to hawk the 1%’er line acts like with just a bit of gumption and go-get-iveness are all you need to succeed.   I say, hump you, you little rich boys bitch!  I’ve worked two jobs for almost 25 years, many times clocking over eighty hours a week and I’m still poor.

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Since the economy is getting worse, and the forth generation warfare seemingly is already spread to our shores ( I’m not sure how much is genuine and how much are continued False Flag Attacks ) and all our oil substitutes fail to get us back into an energy surplus, I say that everything speaks towards a future of MORE uncertainty, not less.  To be certain you are prepared, even if it is with Less Than Perfect items, you need to prepare YESTERDAY, not in ten or twenty years.  The bare necessities are few and affordable.

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FOOD

Any one food item is unhealthy.  That is understood.  Yet, no prepper food collection is going to be perfect.  You either have a balanced diet that is VERY expensive so you have less of it or you have far more calories that are less nutritious.  I’m of the school that sides with more calories.  If you run out of food, you die.  It is as simple as that.  If you have more calories, even substandard calories, you live longer.  Even if it is in poor health, you have a far better chance of surviving than with zero perfectly nutritionally balanced calories.  For one MONTHS eating of MRE’s, you can buy two YEARS worth of wheat kernels ( minus the storage containers ).  And MRE’s aren’t even that balanced, lacking in fiber and enzymes ( both of which wheat has-the only failing with wheat is lack of animal protein ).  Clearly, on a prepper budget you must go vegetarian.

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WATER

Rather than buying a fancy bright shiny countertop water filter for $300, how about one for $20 ( the harder to use one ) or $60 for essentially the same thing as the fancy one?  Redneck filters are much cheaper.

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PROTECTION

Everyone needs to protect what few supplies they have, and the section on guns will be what most of you are salivating over.  Much has changed in the ten years since I wrote the original book.  Again, this will be bare bones budgeting.  Sorry, no semi-auto carbines for you.  What?  This is an under $1k prepping guide.  Semi-auto is NOT in your budget. 

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SHELTER

Shelter is pretty easy.  Anyone can make shelter with $40 in tools.  You just need a mattock pick, a shovel and a wood saw ( and if you can, a $60 roll of thick plastic sheeting really improves things ).  And it will be more energy efficient than your $40,000 bunker atop a mountain you need a $30,000 four wheel drive to get to.  Energy efficiency isn’t very sexy but when you can’t light a fire because of tactical considerations you might begin to appreciate it.

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