prepping absolutes

PREPPING ABSOLUTES

There are some prepping absolutes that I would not compromise on. First, One Is None. That is just To The Bone Marrow basic. You cannot afford to be without tools. Another is, Got Wheat? You cannot have enough wheat and I would never advise stopping under three years worth. Five is much better. The world is too fragile, the lies too pervasive to leave to chance your life in the hands of government and gov minion soothing reassurances. Food First, always and forever. Obviously, with a hat tip to 'Ol Remus, Stay Away From Crowds. Those three are your bedrock. Yes, we could tweak that.

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But why hurt yourself? Sometimes staying basic is best. I could list a half dozen Gun Safety rules, but no one would remember them. If you just remember, “always loaded” and “never point anywhere but target”, you are close enough. With prepping, I could add things like, “you never have enough ammo”, or “you should be so lucky it only gets as bad as my worse case”, but all that isn't core basics. Hell, far enough away from people and you won't need all that much ammo anyway. And, while I insist on preparing for the worst, I do have to admit past mistakes.

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It has rarely gotten as bad as I've foreseen. Not to say I won't be right one day. I just lose sight of the probable events prior to complete collapse and die-off. I do have tunnel vision with Worse Case. Remember Mohave Rat? A minion in the Devil's own rectum, Las Vegas area, he got tired of living in his RV in the boonies and took a VA loan on a house. I warmed him to no end how this would turn out badly ( this was 2009-ish ). I was wrong, he had the thing paid off in like seven years, and even if I was right his RV was parked there and ready to bug out.

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I don't think it is wrong to assume worse case. Obviously, you cannot lose sight of enjoying life and not burning any bridges. You must have an ultimate crapfest plan, no matter what. While Mohave Rat was enjoying his new air conditioning, I had been conducting such prepping duties as digging the hole for the B-POD, and beefing up ammo and food supplies. I wasn't suffering, nor was he wasting time or funds, as he was as prepped as he perceived he needed. My advice was sound. For me.

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Now that I'm well enough prepared to relax enough to enjoy life, with the new wife, I've relaxed a bit on panicking. Now I'm mainly just filling out the second location stockpiles, and detail orientating on the old ones. Which doesn't mean YOU can relax, unless you are already ready for worse case. And note, by this I do NOT mean all out nuclear war. I mean the end of your ability to prep. You must make hay while the sun shines, and YOUR sun could set any time.

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It doesn't matter what you are prepping for. You don't have to agree with me, although I feel it is my job to constantly lecture you as if that were true. All I'm asking is that you are already prepared, because we can't time the collapse. And that you meet me half way on the food issue. Even if you don't think civilization is going to end, as I do, at least have the extra food you don't think you need. It is SOOO cheap, it is a very easy bet to lose.

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If you ONLY do one thing, and have that extra food, almost anything else is a surmountable problem. You can fashion weapons out of scrap, fashion a solar cooker from the same ( take the money from one Sawyer filter purchase-you do own several, right?-and get one or two of those wax gauges to tell you when water is pasteurized-link at end of article ). You can take off into the woods ( and return for the buried wheat-although wilderness caches are better ), participate in a Hobo Gladiator game for extra clothes, whatever.

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But food is NOT as easy as anyone, trapper, hunter, gatherer, gardener, make it out to be. You MUST have stashed calories. The One Is None rule isn't even as important as Got Wheat. With tools, you can go lower on the technology scale, and hence have much cheaper tools more easily duplicated financially. I don't want to bring a spear to a gun fight, but I can also avoid gun fights by avoiding people, by and large. Once in the land of black pajamas there were a thing called primitive booby traps. Didn't even require a gun. The operator DID require energy from rice to set them, however.

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Charlie was also pretty good at NOT being in the village when Joe came calling. He was avoiding crowds. You don't fight towards the enemies strengths. You don't notice Habeeb fielding armored cars, do you? You don't notice Afghans climbing the hills with 150 pound backpacks. Funny, we “Own The Night!” and yet are losing over in the Sandbox. Keep telling yourself we aren't allowed to win by the politicians. It might be true, because our wars are about enriching the elite ( the military industrial complex in Vietnam, the bankers with their PetroDollars in Iraq ). But that doesn't mean we could win otherwise.

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The economic collapse is already here, ten years ago. All we are waiting for now, during this new round of worry, is the actually personal catastrophe that was promised to each of us back then. A lot of you are since permanently unemployed. Your prepping days are nearly over. But that fate awaits us all, soon enough. Hurry, in your prepping. Food, more food, adding in some wheat ( yes, I understand some prefer rice. Fair enough. Just have calories, taking into account the need to compensate for the nutritional issues in White Food ) just for good measure.

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If you can't afford duplicate tools, lower the bar on what you consider necessary. If you can't buy multiple AR's, get multiple bolt actions. If you can't afford those, get single shot break opens. If you can't afford 308 ammo, be content with carbine rounds. Odds are most of us can't hit spit at the battle rifle rounds ranges anyway ( mine are more to defeat wind and cover at short ranges ). Anyone can be prepped, cheaply. You just can't be Yuppie Scum prepped. No loss. I'd wager they have a very hard time duplicating most of their expensive tools. Who is better off? The peasant with a pen full of donkey's or the man only able to afford one nice car?

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At the end of the day you CAN have it all, prepping and an enjoyable life. And being ready NOW. You just have to adjust expectations. You could be on a homestead now, if you were willing to sell all your toys, give up the salary, and live in a tent ( then a shack ). You could have a mountain retreat in the redoubt now, if you lived in a RV in the high desert, rather than insisting on Idaho land with a McMansion. Nothing is impossible, unless you dream above your pay grade.

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I think this article was a bit all over the place, a steaming mess. I think I even forgot my point. Let's just say, this stuff is easy, once you simplify.

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