frugal survivalist revisited

FRUGAL SURVIVALIST REVISTED

I apologize in advance, but due to the astronomical nose bleed stock market highs, Forrest Trump’s saber rattling with Iran for God knows why, and a record low retail wheat price, I have no choice but to do yet another article on a prepper stash under $500.  It is almost Christmas, and what better gift for your child living near college in a urban craphole than a closet full of wheat and a novices firearm?  At the time of gift unveiling,  of course the ingrate spawn with try to hide his boiling rage over not seeing a bottle of Jack Daniels under the tree, but he is a dumb ass.  Why is he even going to college?

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Even if the insanely greedy and retarded Powers That Be somehow manage to keep kicking the can down the road, I think some well established trends are NOT going to go away.  Like health care being even more unaffordable, and college imparting nearly zero knowledge leading to a worthless degree which will, after persistence and a well placed bribe, MAYBE lead to a non-paying internship which might last past the company going bankrupt.  And why are you paying this little bastard to go there in the first place?  He can’t think logically.  Hormones, dude.  Come on, you still remember.

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Do I need to do a Ten Times Minimum Cost survival stockpile article?  If you have the money to piss away on college you must need to buy more prep gear besides a FLIR scope.  Nah.  I’ll leave that crap for the Yuppie Scum.  Their websites are probably in dire straights right now, with advertiser demise.  To them, that will be a frugal prep budget.  What could you do with five grand if you were them?  Not much, as freeze dried yak kidney’s and three semi-auto’s would exceed that amount once you added mags and glowing red dot sight.  I could stash five years of food, several bolt rifles with all needed ammo, a piece of junk land, an underground shelter, solar panels, a lifetime supply of bicycle parts and a few small business ideas equipment, but that is just me.

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Hey, you knew going into this article it would be nothing new.  Consider my idea/article repeats my version of a guest article since I was drawing a blank on what to write about that day.  Or consider it just a gentle reminder how cheap you should or could be.  Hell, I blame it on those cheese dinguses out there on all the other doomer blogs that haven’t written anything new or exciting since the last hurricane made landfall, depriving me of ideas to steal.  I think I was on a pretty good role there for awhile anyway.  It was inevitable I’d bog down for a day or two. 

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Remember, this isn’t for everyone.  It is bare bones without endangering oneself.  Just the food storage alone might be problematic if you don’t have the proper indoor space.  It assumes you are completely new to the game and have nothing, not even a firearm.  I don’t care how nice and Billy Bad Ass your knife is, it just seems wrong for anyone to be without a gun these days.  How do you sleep at night?  But, regardless, here we go.  The most important is obviously a years worth of food in the form of wheat kernels.  If you are gluten intolerant you suck.  You’ll be stuck with rice which has no nutrition ( regardless of what anyone tells you, you cannot store brown rice for any length of time-I’d see if the livestock wanted it and completely replace it every year and even then I’d worry it was months out of date ).

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If you can’t eat wheat, you wont be prepping frugal.  The cheapest I’ve heard for rice was thirty some odd cents a pound.  Wheat is twenty-two.  And you won’t just be eating off your food stores.  You’ll need supplements for fiber and other nutrients a White Food ( white flour, white rice, white sugar ) doesn’t contain.  They are Calories Only.  Ornamental cuisine doesn’t contain a lot of vegetables because they are oh so yummy, it is because they must make up for the white rice deficiencies ( plus, it is all cooked because they used human feces as fertilizer ).  Why didn’t the survival writers in the 60’s and 70’s have to deal with these non-wheat diet issues? 

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At the feed store ( request wheat “for human consumption”.  Make sure it isn’t vet medicine treated.  And don’t be afraid of a bit of stalks and other crap in there.  Jeez, pick it out or grind it up and eat it. It’s just more fiber ) right now whole wheat kernels are $22 a hundred pounds.  Get 400 pounds ( a pound a day will, barely, keep you alive.  The extra 35 pounds is for more sprouts so you get your live green food ).  Go to Wal-Mart and buy four 18 gallon Sterilite grey plastic tubs.  You will probably want to have them inside where you don’t get mice ( I have an experimental tote full of flour I‘ve kept outside uncovered except for the RV overhang, and I‘ve yet to get infestation.  Don‘t ask me how-take that with a grain of salt ).  They are thin plastic, not thick like poly five gallon buckets.  The totes should be $20.  Just throw the unopened wheat bags in.  So, $108 total.

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You’ll need a few more food items.  While at Wally, buy $25 worth of the vegetable shortening.  The worst kind of oil to consume, but it stores a very, very long time.  I used to store lard ( both are hydrogenated, which is terrible for you, so lard doesn’t win in the health department ) and it lasted at most five years.  The shortening was still going strong.   A years  worth of multivitamins.  A few pounds of iodized table salt ( you need iodine in your diet, usually only available from saltwater grown items ) and a bag of water softener salt ( it must state that it is Sodium Chloride, NOT potassium chloride ).  Your total is around $150.

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Also at Wal-Mart, pick up a $100 gun.  Your choice is a single shot rimfire or a single shot shotgun.  I would recommend the rifle over the shotgun as you’ll have more rounds due to price and a far more accurate weapon.  Unless you are more comfortable with a shottie.  Expect about a seven cent rimfire ammunition cost and a twenty cents shotshell.  The gun with sales tax and the background check fee will be about $135.  A thousand rounds of rimfire will get you to about $200 ( about 300 shotshells-still pretty respectable for a single shot ).

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Now your total is up to $350.  Time to shop at Amazon.  Get a grain grinder.  $45.  You might find one for $38.  Look for “Victoria”, which is just the old “Corona” rebranded.  Same unit, a cast iron bastard that will last a lifetime if you keep it from rusting.  They are NOT wheat grinders, but corn.  With wheat you must run them through three times.  A course setting, middlin, then fine.  A bit extra work, a HUGE money savings.  Also buy a Sawyer water filter.  $20 and in theory filters a hundred thousand gallons.  Next, a Kukri knife ( one of those curved near sword knives used to good effect in the World wars by the colonists ).  And a Swedish Mora knife, high carbon steel and suitable for fine work ( the Kukri is just a hacker ).  Last, about the best knife sharpener you can buy ( for blades that come from the factory with the correct angle ), a “Rada”.  The whole shopping trip here should be about $100.  Your total comes in at $450.

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As I said, far from perfect.  You have no duplicates of anything in case of loss or damage.  But given how this entire kit costs under two weeks of minimum wage, it is a VERY good starting point.  And if the ass falls out of civilization tomorrow, at least you have relatively decent insurance to increase your odds of survival.

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