ready already

READY ALREADY

A few minions have mentioned the Midwest floods, expressing concern over severity and suggestions of further preps for any needy minions.  On the one hand, as Americans don’t eat much grain directly, and the Chinese might be more impacted, this might be yet another Nothing Burger.  If one squawks about it, there might be an extra helping of crow on that sandwich.  On the other hand, what if this is the relatively ignored final straw that breaks the camels back?  Well, to both I say, meh.  You are either ready already or you just don’t get it.

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I’m not saying you don’t need to add to your preps.  I’m saying, you are either already ready or you will never be.  Topping off supplies only matters insofar as increasing comfort levels.  If you have the basics covered already, you don’t need extras, even if you never stop getting them.  Did I add ten percent to my battle rifle ammunition because of the Christchurch false flag shooting?  No, I did it because it went on sale ( actually, looking it up I placed my order six days prior-it almost makes me look smart ).  Did I finally order a 80% AR?

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No.  And not because I judged the New Zealand news completely irrelevant.  All the Red Flag Laws being passed here would be a more compelling reason.  It is because while it isn’t the worst idea, I was still overruled by the Lizard King.  While doing a up to date price check on everything ( creeping up, in case you need to know ), stressing over where to put financial surplus ( yeah, White People Problems! ), in the end I felt most at peace with the decision to pay back the canned butter depleted savings. 

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I know that sounds silly.  I actually can hear myself.  Don’t I know that tangibles reign supreme and hyperinflation this way cometh?  Why, yes, yes I do.  But I had to listen to my gut.  The one telling me economic armageddon is here.  It isn’t telling me to buy more guns or to stock up on groceries or to can meat before the prices increase.  I could be way off.  But what else can you do but roll the dice?  Not that I’m playing with the rent or retirement funds.  I’m only gambling surplus.  Because I’m already ready, and have been.

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Should you have run down to the feed store the day you heard about the flooding?  Sure.  It wasn’t like they ever have much in stock anyway ( I’ve written about this before, how most stores stock very little wheat.  Our towns second grain store closed their doors, so now the most you can expect is about 300-500 pounds on average to be in stock [ can you say, “just in time inventory”? ] which pencils out to Diddly Squat ).  It never hurts to get a bit more.  But you also should already have what you need, prior.

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The whole point of stockpiling is not to live longer.  You can take a bullet the first hour of the collapse, or get run over by a bus tomorrow.  No, the point is ultimately Peace Of Mind.  The GOAL is to be supplied way past the point you’d reasonably expect to live afterwards.  But the POINT has always been to sleep better at night.  If every little thing that gets the news whores dripping crotch fluid, causing them erect nipples and clenching sphincters, if those cause you worry, you aren’t ready.  You should only be using tragedies to remind you to check preps.

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Do you need a bit of a Top-Off?  Could those items stand to be rotated?  I told you the last two times about the toilet paper issue, when I got industry reports ( did you know the majority of our exports are NOT food or fracking oil, not Hollywood movies, but rather paper products? ).  What did I do?  I had to find extra room for more TP, because I was already well stocked.  I didn’t NEED more, but it was cheap enough to deep store extra.  I certainly won’t buy more ( except day-to-day replacement ) when prices rise.

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I don’t panic.  I try to gaze into the crystal ball and prudently shop ahead of the crowd.  But the hall closet is already full of TP, the freezer is never allowed to get low, I always have six months to a year of dry goods for regular meals, and I already own far more ammo for my bolt gun than a lot of preppers have for their semi’s.  I probably already have more in savings than 90% of the ninety percent of the population who are poor.  I’ve lost track of my long term food storage.

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This is the main reason I’m no longer concerned with timing the collapse.  It could happen tomorrow and I’d be fine.  I certainly don’t want it to happen ( I don’t want to get old, either, but I don’t get a vote ).  Now, remember how much I made last year?  I averaged exactly $300 a month.  That is super, as far as I’m concerned.  Minions to the rescue!  I help out with utilities by giving the NOL $100 a month, spend at most $100 on groceries and have the extra $100 to prep with.

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This has probably been pretty standard for me, even when making far more.  I don’t spend that every month.  Some months I put that into savings, or stock up ahead of time for gifts, or pay back depleted funds I used to get a super bargain.  Sometimes I do nothing.  Other times, more.  But my whole point is, when you prep frugal it takes almost nothing in funding.  And when you are already ready, it is just a hobby.  It isn’t life or death, and hence not stressful.  But what if you are not ready?  Should you be worried, and about what?

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As always, Food First.  And that isn’t because of the Midwest flooding.  Oh, they say, extra grain was in the silos, and they are wet and ruined, so you should worry extra.  Did you run down to the feed store already?  If you didn’t, I hold out no hope for you ever being ready.  We have had a LOT of food scares these last few years the Bison Global Media Empire has been publishing.  Remember that rice shortage?  The drought and ban on exporting wheat in Russia?  The flooding in Pakistan that wiped away a significant amount of crops?

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Remember those couple of years with drought globally?  If all of that didn’t motivate you to buy food storage for twenty cents a day ( bare bones grain, minimum calories ), while you make $8 an hour minimum wage ( forty days food PER HOUR!!!! ), you will never be ready for something as severe as an apocalypse.  Don’t want to eat JUST wheat?  Fine.  Have it anyway, just in case.  What, you think you can’t barter it?  Industrial grown grain right now is like industrial mined silver.  It is being given away far below value.

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The example given is a fifteen cent cup of gasoline.  It propels a small passenger car two miles up hill.  Now, buy fifteen cents worth of food and try pushing that car yourself, with those calories.  You won’t come close.  Oil has that kind of hidden energy we simply take for granted.  Minus oil, you will be amazed what everything costs.  Especially food.  Food, grown organically, might cost close to zero to make, but the demand from non-farmers makes it very expensive.  Without oil.  Stock all your Oil Miracle items NOW, and don’t ever think you have enough.

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If you are not ready for Midwest floods, you cannot buy enough food now.  Not because there will or will not be shortages.  Because one time, if this isn’t it, it will be THE time that the crop failures do bring on catastrophe.  You need to already be ready.  Then, the next time it floods, or there is a drought, or the PetroDollar is crushed, or terrorists blow up the Houston refiners that provide about 20% of the nation’s fuel, you need not worry.  Once you no longer worry, I become mere entertainment worthy of adulation and support. 

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