book sample, post 2 of 2 today

book sample, post 2 of 2 today

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I do not care for Reprint Sundays, Sam I Am.  If I’m going to rock this bitch with the best doomer writing ever, I need to stay true to my Always Original Material Even If The Subject Matter Is Constantly Repeated.  So, from now on Sundays are just another original article, NOT a repeat.  When I have a reprint to remind you to buy the book it is now in, I’ll post as that days second article, which you may read or not as you wish.  I want to get paid to write but I keep trying to be cool about it.  Far too many Dingus’ out there cashing in on the Apocalypse and I shan’t be one of them.  So, seven day a week free writing with only minor irritations to remind you to pay for it eventually one way or another.

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The following is from the new just completed book The Pampered Peasant.  Never seen before, except one or two sections of the introduction I posted some time back, and included with the book “The Forever Gun” which I DID post in its entirety on the blog but which I know you all want to read again.  After this Bison Book Batch, both included books will be all new and exciting never before published material.  click here to buy BBB no.9

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MONTHLY BUDGET

Now that all that is out of way we can begin to get into the meat of prepping to pamper your peasant self.  That starts with a budget.  You know, that piece of paper with crayon squiggles you somehow created with long ago forgotten dredged  up nightmares of addition and subtraction.  The thing you use in real life so that you spend less than you make and use the difference for preps.  That is the only secret to a budget.  Spend less than you make.  Dave Ramsey, that bald snake oil salesman pretending he has a friend in Jesus that charges you big bucks for a slick printed in China book ( way to help out domestic employment! ), he basically tells you the same thing but all prettied up and with glitter on it.  You are welcome.  Now I’ll bet that the whole one friggin dollar, six excruciating minutes of your job standing around the water cooler talking about last nights episode of Celebrity  Dating, that you spent for this book was a bit of a bargain, eh?  Of course, the American public having been educated in public schools where an elementary school principle needs a doctorate and makes $150k a year, they don’t know about basic forth grade math skills or how to figure out the percentage of their property tax bill is used to keep school board members in caviar. 

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Once you’ve hurt your deductive capabilities by doing a budget ( I’m being sarcastic.  You know as well as I the ease of budgeting.  People just make it more difficult than it has to be as a natural reaction to the ongoing economic collapse.  Since few have enough, nobody wants to further sacrifice to create a surplus in their budget.  I understand this about regular pukes, but as a survivalist you are supposed to know about sacrifice being the new lifestyle.  It is called reality ) you find out the amounts you can spend.   I’m assuming here for the sake of this exercise that you already have major expenses in prepping met.  Land, bulk wheat, gun and ammo.  This book is about affordable luxuries, not basics.  Now, your budget is just beginning.  You need to map out your spending priorities.  What gets bought this week and how much and for how long.  Me, I’m a big advocate of five year plans, commie style ( history lesson for the public school educated-the Soviets and ChiComs loved Five Year Plans.  They never worked but it looked good on paper )!  Five years of wheat per person.  Five years worth of ammo.  Especially five years of coffee, but I needed food first to live to drink the coffee and ammo to kill those after my coffee.  And guess what?  I’m not a Yuppie Scum spoiled ass swipe that needs storage beans for my coffee stash.  Store bought canned ground is good enough for me and a lot cheaper.  Bad coffee is better than no coffee.

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The bad thing about having a minimum of five years for everything is the cost and planning ( the good news is it increases your odds of survival ).  A family of four buying enough bucketed wheat for five years, assuming Wal-Mart due to no feed stores being around, is ( $15 a bucket for 25 lb, 400 lb per person per year times four people times five years ) five grand.  Now add in all the guns and ammo and wool coats and shoes and everything else.  The good news is that after all that is done, pampered items are a LOT less.  For instance, in the “Sanitation” section I include bar soap, liquid soap, TP substitutes, teeth care, hair products and shaving.  For one male, the cost for a year there is only $30 at most.  Less averaged over five years ( closer to $22 ).  That is not only the cheapest section but also the most important, conversely.  You could stock those items cheaply and quit right there and be okay.  But, really, all sections are pretty affordable.  We’ll cover all that but the main point here is that you need to budget all these many items from all categories and create a plan of procurement.

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All these items were gathered by myself in a rather haphazard manner.  I didn’t have a spreadsheet or a master list.  Money availability fluctuated wildly ( for instance, one year every spare dollar went to paying off my land early and buying lumber to build my dwelling.  No books, no prep supplies ) and I didn’t need everything on this list.  For that matter, I had nothing but what was in my head.  I bought as the thought occurred to me.  I was very unorganized.  Which was fine.  This is all mostly extra, not required.  Some makes a lot of sense to stockpile.  Rather than using fat I should be eating, and campfire ash to create a terrible soap, far better to get the ingredients that cost fifty cents a GALLON for more gentle and effective cleaner.  Nothing was absolutely necessary and so I employed a catch as catch can stash.  Well, I certainly don’t think that you think that you have all the time in the world to duplicate my efforts in such a shoddy manner.  Things nationally and globally have gotten far worse since I started.  And are getting worse at an accelerated pace.  You don’t have the luxury of half-assing your efforts.

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The other issue is how you buy.  Prioritize, then go all out one item at a time, or buy everything equally, say a six months supply of all items all at once then repeat until you reach five years?  Your choice.  In the “Entertainment” section I mention board games as one item.  I got all those at one time during a thrift store sale.  That doesn’t fit in either mode, but it did fit into my “don’t know what I need until I see it” haphazard acquisition style.  That might be a third way, parallel way of doing this.  However you decide you should be organized, to expedite the whole process.  And you can stock for whatever length of time you desire.  If you can’t get paranoid enough to see the wisdom of five years, one might be all you are willing to insure against.  Your time, your money and your call.

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