finances for collapse book 5

FINANCES FOR COLLAPSE BOOK 5

BTN’S FIRST, LUXURY SECOND

BTN’s are, of course, Better Than Nothings.  This was not original to myself, first being used to describe less than ideal wives.  We’d all love Cindy Crawford as a wife, obsequious, randy, hobbies including cooking and shooting.  In reality land, we all settle for one a little less…everything.  But most wives are better than not having a wife ( I know a lot of you disagree, and I can see why with the pick of the litter out there being carbon copies of Hilary Clinton with a muffin top, but here we speak of pre-FemiNazi’s when women were more interested in whelping a brood than wearing a man’s testicles in the boardroom ).  Hence the saying.  I’ve used BTN’s to describe survival stockpiles.  As in, far better to have a months worth of food in wheat berries than a single meal of an MRE ( both being the same price.  Yes, the wheat is not as tasty, nor as animal flesh-ey.  But a months worth of Better Than Nothing because you can’t afford thirty MRE’s ).  Okay, I use it to describe some of my wives, also, but you read me for my delightfully insightful and witty bloviations on prepping, not relationships ( although you have few choices when I spring the latter on you ).

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BTN’s are important for you financially because the less your supplies cost the less you need to find in your budget and the less you need to work.  Or, are allowed to work, anyway.  Obammy the retarded Muslim fag thought his legacy was getting everyone health care ( because, you know, in the mushy grey goo that passes for Compassionate Liberals brains these days, thinking that allowing pre-existing conditions to be considered mandatory to insure would never raise anyone’s costs.  Okay, I know, Obammy only cared that he was told to be the fall guy for this turd of an insurance industry bail out [ being an insurance guy is tough nowadays.  Your profit goes down when Gore Warming hits areas where the majority of the population lives.  And they expect you to actually pay out on policies after disasters!  You got in this game to make money, not give it away, for goodness sakes ] but even if you don’t buy that you can’t excuse this exercise in illogic ).  Instead, he will be remembered for both killing people indirectly, but more importantly cutting everyone’s hours ( it is also tough to be a big business owner nowadays.  Your employees, rather than be appreciative of the fact they have a job at all, insist on actually getting half a living wage!  HALF!!!  Then they get health insurance?  What are we running, a profit center to keep me caught up with the 1%, or a charity?!?! ).

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At a time when everyone’s hours are being cut, prior to the job being outsourced to a foreign county ( and please feel free to purchase those overseas products with your unemployment check ), you are busy listening to a bunch of punk ass bitches preach to you that you need MORE money for preps?  What did I miss here?  Was it the sound of a contracting global  economy?  The sound of air being sucked from oil wells?  We aren’t buying a boat to impress our friends, we are prepping for the apocalypse.  Which means we are in a collapse, awaiting the final crash.  Now is the time to think about finding more $10,000 bills that fell between the couch cushions?  No, it is the time to face unpleasant realities.  Like, toys are not as important as tools.  You can still have your toys.  Lord knows I can spend as much money on unnecessary crap as the next guy.  But FIRST you need the basic, no frill, affordable items nobody bothers advertising on their web site. 

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Bulk calories in whole grains.  Buying more bolt action ammunition rather than semi auto magazines, cool optics and assorted accessories.  A piece of junk land with a shack rather than twenty acres in the boonies.  A mountain bike rather than a four wheel drive.  A manual $50 grain grinder rather than a $300 electric one.  None of these are sexy, but they are affordable.  And, surprise, they help keep you alive.  Which should be the whole point of this hobby.  NOT preserving your middle class industrial nation imperial Oil Age lifestyle.  First off, that lifestyle is NOT sustainable.  I don’t care who you are, expecting to be able to achieve infinite growth on a finite planet is retarded.  Secondly, I love you with all my heart, Honest Injun, but you are NOT a special snowflake.  You are just one of the herd.  Even if Americans kick ass and the rest of the world sucks, you are still only one in three hundred and thirty three million.  I think you are special, but the rest of those dinguses out there do not.  You do not deserve more than you can afford, seems to be their uppity attitude!  The nerve!

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And thirdly, seriously?!?  You are going to try to time the collapse?  Dumb ass.  Expect it tomorrow, so prep yesterday.  That means, wait for it!  Better Than Nothing.  If oil magically turns out to actually be abiotic, and the replenishment rate is better than all indicators hint at, well, THEN you can go toy shopping to your hearts content.  Buy fifteen AR-15’s, one of each varying lengths and barrel twists.  Take out a thirty year mortgage on a retreat property.  Go cat crapping wild!  Want to bet a jelly filled donut you’ll never get the chance?  Part of the philosophy of finances you need to embrace is to minimize and to eliminate.  JUST minimizing your expenses just means you need a lower middle class income rather than an upper middle class one.  It is necessary, but not enough.  Far better to ELIMINATE costs.  We cover that in the next chapter, but for prepping it works just as well.  Once you eliminate the perceived need for a farm and a plastic arsenal and bug out cars and night vision and everything else, it is dirt damn cheap to prep.  Once you eliminate the perceived need for a lot of everyday living arrangements, you need a lot less money to live.  That frees up more money for preps, which aren’t even all that expensive.  This stuff is NOT rocket science.

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