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Once again, you are very welcome.  Before, I lived off grid on junk land for pennies on the preferred prepper dollar.  Okay, fine, that was completely for my benefit alone.  I’m still taking credit.  Now, I’m living post-prepping, as I embrace a life outside consumption and survive on a bare bones salary.  What is in stores is 99% of everything I’ll have for prepping ( outside the rare added coffee can full of wheat or sugar, another bag of dried fruit that only cost the electric to run the food dryer, etc. ). 

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I get the occasional e-mail notifying me to a sale, such as surplus 303 ammo for fifty cents a round.  Or I talk about the $338 register-less AR-15.  Or, I want another five thousand rounds of rimfire.  I need to resist all these.  Not because I couldn’t get them, not even because I shouldn’t get them, but because consumption is really just gayed up alcohol or opiate addiction.  You talk yourself into needing what isn’t a necessity ( “but you need the best to survive the collapse” is just another form of “today was really stressful. One drink can’t hurt”.  Note, I’m not dissing you if you self medicate for stress.  I, personally, am either 100% sober or an alcoholic, and drinking would impair my work, but I know I’m usually not like most people.  I merely use this as a illustrative device ).

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Everyone has an excuse to have a car, even though without planning to live without one you really can’t live frugally or free, and prepping is that much harder to do.  And everyone has an excuse to consume, but just like a car that lifestyle won’t be an option all that much longer.  Now, we all consume.  Even poor Turd World Nation peasants buy food and clothes.  I speak here of consumption as entertainment or stress relief.  And yes, prepping is all about consumption.  You can minimize that.  I was just as busy buying accessories for my rickety old Enfield’s as the AR fan boys are.  They buy FLIR’s and more magazines and CQB sites and all the rest.  I bought more bayonets and butt pads and etc.  I spent more on the accessories than I did the gun, as do the AR boys. 

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I just spent far less an amount, to coincide with my income.  I was earning half the national average but spending one fifth the amount on preps as compared to the Yuppie Scum Preppers.  I’m not saying He Who Enters The Apocalypse Saving The Most is the best strategy, but that if you wish to embrace a strategy for economic collapse, at some point you need to learn how to NOT consume.  The economic collapse is NOT a theory.  It is national news.  The only theory is when it gets far worse.  All other survivalist strategies are theory.  Even my beloved Malthusian bottleneck die-off.  But economic collapse is fact.

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You should be prepping for economic collapse FIRST.  And even foremost.  Far too often, we as survivalists give economic collapse very short shift so as to prep for far worse scenarios.  As in, screw my debt, I’m safe from a Soviet nuke attack.  Or, screw my retirement in a cheap location, I need to earn more to prep for the EMP or Super volcano.  The justification is always “it isn’t the odds, it’s the consequences”.  Which is great, in theory.  And I’m just as guilty of that.  I tell you to prep yesterday, since you can’t time the collapse.  That assumes the collapse is 100% guaranteed, yes? 

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But I also assume you are insuring yourself at the cheapest possible cost.  Which really is peanuts.  It is such cheap insurance it is silly to NOT have it.  So, I’m really speaking of prepping which is too expensive.  As usual.  Frugal prepping, you do not need to stay in the big city to earn big bucks.  If you prep frugal, you can easily prep for all the perceived dangers such as EMP, then hurry up and get busy prepping for the one guaranteed occurrence which is economic collapse.  And one very important leg of that stool is not just getting out of debt but getting out of needing to earn much money.

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We all consume.  You need to get to where you only need to consume the bare minimum.  And that is everything, from minimalist transportation, minimally taxed property to minimal monthly entertainment costs.  Everything.  Get frugal now and beat the rush.  I’m not suggesting you all need to get to my point in life of just needing $150 a month for food, energy and entertainment.  I could go lower, as that includes a lot of luxuries such as paid for e-mail, the web site nobody looks at, trips to visit family.  You can set similar goals, although my case is a bit extreme.

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I get “paid” to live like this in mental peace and living a minimalist stress lifestyle.  Besides JUST living thus because that is the future, it is also rewarding now, which is the only reason most of us could do it.  But I am learning it is no where near as difficult as you are lead to believe.  Just like off grid living wasn’t as hard as taught or assumed.  I don’t think the journey of learning to delay gratification is ever won, but you can be 90%+ successful quite quickly.  Once you stop earning and spending, it is mostly easier to do without most of the extras you always coveted.

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Less work to buy stuff means you get off the treadmill of justifying the stress of work by intelligently investing those earnings, our excuse for consuming ( and really difficult as a prepper, as we hurry to spend depreciating fiat currency ).  Again, we all consume, even the peasants.  You are looking to minimize that.  Invest in the collapse and then get out of consumption.  As a bonus, you are almost forced to leave the city to live cheap enough to minimize your consumption.  You can live cheaply in the city, but it isn’t as easy as if you have some junk land.  You also want to avoid the cities, as they will be the FEMA camps of the future, but that is a discussion for another day.

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