more alpha strategy 2

MORE ALPHA STRATEGY 2

Another definition of the Alpha Strategy is, “tangible assets instead of digital illusions of wealth”. You need cash on hand, everybody does. You can only trust your bankers as far as you can throw their Hampton mansion full of hookers and blow. ATM's are a convenience, and shouldn't be a reliance. Bank bail-in's are real. Have cash. It buries easy, and you might as well be part of the problem with disposable plastics. Not that Greta would approve, but screw that stupid bitch. How sad is it going from Vikings to Muzzie mating and Greta?

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Yes, having cash is also stupid. You still need to do it, unless you have an oil well in your back yard. I love how all the bloviators of “gardens for food independence” rely on their vehicle to get into town. If I have to, I can eat my neighbor. How do you get anywhere? I guess you could harness your neighbor to a wagon. Okay, never mind. Bad analogy ( of course, now you have to feed your neighbor half your garden. Sorry, I needed go get the last word in ). Cash is just a transition tool. Mostly, you want to need as little cash as possible, so your loss will be minimized.

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I bring this up in case anyone panicked too much and wants to go all in on silver. Sorry, you still need Greenbacks for instant emergency use. Unexpected sales items too cheap to ignore, is another good reason for cash. I used to have three or four years expenses in cash, but converted all but one to silver and lead. I'll build that cash amount up, once again, just because whenever I solve one problem I go back to worrying about another. It's simply in my nature.

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You are probably worrying about debt. If you do pay it off, you leave nothing for supplies. If you don't pay it off, you are homeless with no place to have your supplies. Me? I'd pay off one bill, then take half that monthly amount to pay off another bill, and half for supplies. Rinse and repeat. You get the best of both worlds. That way the debt goes down and the supplies go up, and you are rewarded more than merely philosophically by cutting back on spending to pay off more debt even faster. But your mileage may vary depending on the debt and your perceived velocity of the collapse.

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I would secure an abode as priority, leaving the car and credit card debts for last. And just a note, the bubble is still Full Retard bloated. Might you sell and downgrade, eliminating that altogether? But regardless, back to tangible wealth preservation. This isn't ammo or nickels. The Alpha Strategy eliminates most of the inflation bite by pre-purchasing consumer items. You are buying now, years worth of non-perishables, to avoid the rising costs. Lets say you bought one light bulb a year. Each year the cost doubles.

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$1 the first year, then $2, $3, $4 and $5 on the fifth year. Those five light bulbs cost you $15. Buying all of them the first year, $5. Now multiply that by everything you buy. Toilet paper, socks and underwear, soap and toothpaste and razor blades. Small appliance back-ups such as toasters, hair dryers, hair clippers. Shoes. Shelf stable foods such as flour and rice and noodles. Condiments. Automotive fluids, garden tools. No matter how basic and Spartan you live, you are still buying plenty of consumables. Granted, you can reduce that.

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Getting rid of a clothes dryer, you'll be buying far less clothes as there isn't the wear and tear on the fabric. Replacing paper products with cloth produces eliminates some items. Using the trick of resharpening a razor on a pair of old jeans reduces the amount of those you must buy. Buying quality stainless steel pans, you'll never have to buy another nasty Teflon pan again when they start to peel. Duct tape, Shoe-Goo, sewing kits and patches stretch out the life of your clothing and footwear. There are other tricks such as replacing retail with thrift stores. A TV antenna instead of cable ( Internet streaming is still a reoccurring monthly bill, still consumption rather than investment, even if it is “free” after the computer use ).

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Food isn't as easy but it isn't impossible. The main thing is your meat and produce, both in cost and lack of shelf life. You can freeze meat ( or can it ) and can or dry produce. Just freezing meat, both by buying in bulk and buying on sale, your meat budget is easily reduced by half. The downside is the break down of our grid. California isn't having grid down two weeks in a row because it is a dysfunctional piece of crap whore of a location, although she is, but because there are simply too many people there ( the same applies to the water situation there ).

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Back when our burg was besieged by mouth breathing asshats, all the scum and villainy of the universe trying to suck off the areas economy because of the mines ( as they were failing economically-serves you right, parasitic twats ), the city grid couldn't handle the overuse. The Internet was always going down, the power always shutting off and the water pressure poor to near none and the traffic backed up more than one light. Two thousand people ( 10%, roughly ) left, and all those problems went away. That is California, state wide.

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So, as the Muzzies are shipped in, and the Latino's turn our country into a vibrancy enriched land, expect your grid to be overcrowded as well. Or, due to taxpayers fleeing a socialist paradise, failing from lack of maintenance. Do you want to rely on your freezer? Right now, as meat prices are lower, it might not be a huge loss. But as prices start to rise? Another bonus of pressure canning meat is that you can more easily store beyond about six months a chest freezer will hold. You just need a cool and dark storage area, and an investment in shelves ( don't stack the jars atop each other ). Not that this is feasible for all of us.

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Buying in bulk. Retail stores can mostly screw you over in this category. Wal-Mart is infamous for charging MORE for the larger items. I have a LOT of issues with Wally, but on this I can mostly get behind them on. There is a sticker on every item for sale. It tells you the unit cost. Sometimes they screw with you over it, but mostly it is a tool for comparison. If you aren't buying the cheapest unit per ounce, after they show you the price, you deserve to get boned on the deal.

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You can try jobber suppliers ( janitorial supply company, beauty salons, restaurant supplier ), but mostly nowadays between Sam's, Wal-Mart and Amazon, you are getting the best price unless you are ordering pallets by semi truck. And ALWAYS shop around. Wally has antacid half the price of Amazon, but Amazon has packing tape at half the cost of Wal-Mart. And it doesn't matter where you live, even in the boonies, just Internet search “item X for sale bulk”, and you'll find vendors that might be cheaper than the above, as long as you buy in bulk.

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As important as mini-warehousing is to combat inflation, I really like the retirement aspect even more. Then it becomes about spending NO money, rather than just less. I'll cover that next time.

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