a FLIR scope away 2 of 3 ( article 1 of 2 today )

A FLIR SCOPE AWAY 2 ( article 1 of 2 today )

I know one of the first things I’m going to hear from most of you.  All your advice is for single people.  Well, all my prepping was done while married. My advice is merely my experience.  What I couldn’t do was prep while married to the Baby Mamma living a middle class existence.  What I brung into the relationship was what was stockpiled for lo those many years under “her” roof.  No matter how rough it became financially after that, I was always prepping to some degree or another.  It is certainly NOT about finances.  It was about Bitch Control.

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And, yes, for my two or three female minions, bless you every one because no one really likes to attend a sausage party, I understand everyone today, both genders, are financially irresponsible and you had it just as bad dealing with HIS attempt to control the money and his pissing it away on beer and motorbikes.  So you all understand, your prepping has no restraints placed on it by the number of folks in the household.  Just by the attitudes of its participants.  You live as poor as you need to so as to afford prepping.

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Or not.  I’ve prepped when 75% of my gross income went to the ex-wife.  I’ve prepped when I had 75% of my gross income free from bills.  It is all about prioritizing, not about income.  I’m still prepping as I make $4k a year.  If you cannot control your woman to reign in luxury spending and divert a small portion for a short period, you will not make it through the collapse.  Not from lack of supplies, from lack of controlling your destiny.  I report the news, I don’t make the rules.  Your choice and choose wisely.

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We are talking between three and five thousand dollars here.  Less than the cost of my land ( I overspent on the land to minimize commuting cost, but also because it placed me so close to the river.  You pay dearly for water here in the west ).  Anyone can do this.  And this isn’t even the cheapest version.  You should be about to get a lot of land for $1,000.  There are $500 lots out there.  Heck, you could get an eighth of an acre in Arkansas ( closer to where most of you live than here in the high desert ) for $500. 

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That has no HOA’s and allows RV’s.  That is predominately White in population, with low density.  And only about fifteen miles from shopping.  That is out of the Mississippi flood plain.  In the Ozarks.  Why didn’t I move there when I owned land in the region?  I was still paying child support and there were zero jobs there.  It was also a dry county and surrounded by more of them, and wife #4 ( now an ex ) was a boozer who wanted beer.  Homemade wine wouldn’t do for her majesty.

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I’m not sure I’d even want to live in Arkansas. Kurt Saxon lived there ten or twenty years and the Good Old Boy network screwed him pretty good.  It is one of those places you have to be born in to be accepted. And it has to be THAT county, not the one next door.  But the point is, there is junk land out there for you, in a climate you can accept.  In a region you can live with ( east Texas is another cheap area, but with a crap ton of its own issues, from angry negroes to fracking pollution plus more ).

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I don’t even really look at junk land costs as “maximum X amount” other than what my budget is.  I didn’t really overpay for my land, even though I REALLY did, because it was not a cost.  It was a minimum payment to never have to pay rent to the bankers again ( you will always pay rent to the county/state, forever.  I minimized mine by keeping it legally raw land rather than developed ).  It was an investment.  It was security.  Even the crappiest land is still yours once paid for, and that is Prep #1.

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Sure, food and guns come first.  Land without either is worthless.  But anyone can go to the grocery store and spend $42 and have six months of calories in flour.  And anybody with a YouTube video and about $25 can buy some PVC pipe and some arrows ( or some iron pipe and shotgun shells ).  Food and weapons are like clothing.  They are cheap and easy to get and disposable as your circumstances change.  Land, though, is one of those decisions and investments that will alter your life like no other.  Especially now as we economically implode.

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My criteria for land had more to do with nearby jobs than its initial cost.  If you don’t need a regular job, if a much smaller income is possible to live on, such as a micro business income or retirement, you can pick to live wherever you want and not have to be so picky about where you must live ( for that job ).  I got lucky and had a job I could work like a mule for half price so that no one else wanted my job, a slap to the face sort of job security.

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If I didn’t have to work to pay the ex to stay out of jail, I could have moved anywhere and picked land in the hundreds rather than the single digit thousands.  But I also just dodged the bullet.  I was born at the right time.  Since I always had job security in retail management, I had a slight advantage in all my preps.  Now?  Retail is dying, and it is not coming back.  Not because of Amazon, but because of those dingus sucking whores that sold us out to globalism.  Sure, we embraced Wal-Mart.  Sue us.  We were already almost three decades into Real Wage Decline.

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Now it is more important than ever to minimize your need for income, as the jobs disappear.  The best way to do this is to have that paid for lot of land.  If the average person spends 50% + of his take home pay on rent, by not having rent you can go from forty hours a week to twenty, and not suffer one bit.  What? You’ve never walked into work one day and hours were suddenly cut, without warning?  Owning land ( with low property taxes ) is a lifetime liberation. It transcends a problem at one job, or one relationship.

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Just act promptly.  Cheap rimfire, cheap AR’s, cheap food and cheap land can disappear overnight.  I’d rather have crappy $500 land already secured than subject to hyperinflation money I’m using to save up for theoretical land.  A legal squat is better than fearing the cops placing you in jail from trespassing, or from running out of gasoline or insurance money as you live out of your car.  Continued tomorrow.

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