Thursday, April 2, 2020

four storage plan book 6


FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 6
Chapter Three
Inflation Plan
I'm really surprised that the grocery shelves are mostly restocked. Mostly. I understand every location is different. But in GENERAL, we are back to normal where very few things aren't getting back on the shelf. You might have to shop around a bit, go to three or four stores now rather than one or two, but that shouldn't be anything too abnormal. A decade ago after Wal-Mart ( I saw “Mao Mart” the other day-hilarious! That was a first. I wish I could credit that someone ) went Full Retard, you no longer had a One Stop Shopping Experience anymore.
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For fifteen years I pretty much only shopped at Wally ( except books, obviously ). Good times. But nothing good ever lasts and now one must take more care, return to YesterYear when you had to shop at all the stores in town to get the best bargains. So, it should come as no great shock that we need to carefully search for places that still have what we need in groceries. But what might shock you, but shouldn't, is that absent any government type of back door subsidy, food should start going up in price again. Yes, we had mild “shrink-flation”, but that was mostly junk food, or highly processed food ( like I said, junk food ).
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Normal price fluctuations are not what I'm talking about. If a frost comes and wipes out strawberries down in Mexico, well, so sorry, but the price is going to double. You can thank all the morons in California who ruined the state for agriculture. Gee, who would have thought a few million extra illegals drinking water and flushing toilets and washing lowriders would take water away from irrigation?
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There was a seed potato crop issue last year and this year we might see continuing shortages. But price increases are good, for demand destruction. I'm willing to see a fluctuation between a buck and three dollars, just so there is always a bag of potatoes ready to purchase. So we are used to prices rising in perishables. But real food price inflation, all food? That was twelve years ago after oil went to $140 a barrel. No one went hungry, but you sure were sweating a grocery store visit. That is what happens when Oil Age Food meets high oil prices. No worries, you say?
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Wrong. Before, shortages were not combated with higher prices ( outside the perishables ). Every underemployed lawyer with college debt and a hooker and blow addiction was salivating at the prospect of suing any price gougers. And they couldn't sue Mexican peasants. The grocery stores they could, so the stores just run out and stay out rather than raising prices. At this moment, oil prices are low. But they won't stay that way. We are in for another Oil Price Shock, soon. This is your warning that food price inflation will start again, on the wholesale and farm level.
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I'm going to veer into Peak Oil territory but I'll keep it very brief. I know you all hate the idea of your SUV not wasting gas and time. You cannot accept Peak Oil because even for a survivalist you are a weak and spoiled bastard. I still love you. Fracking Oil, the butt buddy who saved you the last Greater Depression, peaked last year. That was a production peak. You cannot just throw more exploration at it, as even at $70 a barrel, companies cut back on that cost as they are losing money.
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They aren't finding enough, so they stop trying. In the ground or not, hidden or not, the money isn't there, even AFTER banker subsidized loans, to find any more. Fracking was crap to begin with. And, well, it just got crappier. The fracking oil is no longer there to support an INCREASE in production. It is Peak Fracking Fuel. When the US peaked in conventional oil in 1971, we had an economic decline a few years later. When Global Peak happened in 2005, a few years later we had an economic decline. Last year, Peak Fake Oil, and this year, an economic decline ( if not collapse ). The food prices WILL increase, as they did the last two times.
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Note that this wasn't running out of oil. It was just an end of increasing supplies of oil. End Peak Oil lecture. Expect food inflation. So, you buy now. And it really doesn't matter if you'd prefer the prices were cheaper. They aren't, and they are only going up. So you buy now. A little bit of pain now or a lot later. You know, the whole premise behind prepping. This Inflation Plan is nothing more than a Budget Plan, but with ALL food, not just that which is on sale. Because it IS on sale, compared to a year from now.
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You can always get rid of the car. I've done it, even living off grid. Granted, some of you are much further away. But in most cases, push comes to shove, you most likely COULD if necessary stop driving. You could also move, if you were forced to ( don't have that junk land yet? What is wrong with you? ). You could live in a van down by the river. But the one thing that is hard to do is to stop eating. The inflation plan makes it easier to eat. After the apocalypse, you can burn down the neighbors house for ash to condition your soil. And you can raid the farmers field, or take over the National Forest to graze your sheep.
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But for now, as civilization endures, you shop at the grocery store like the other citizens. To do that, you need to stockpile while prices are cheaper. None of us is made of money. You spend less on food so that you can more easily afford the other items shooting up in price from inflation. Like heat to stay alive in winter. Or to buy more ammunition, to combat the roving gangs. Or just to buy MORE food, in case of future shortages.
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32 comments:

  1. Yes Jim. That term "nickel and dime" in vernacular usage is appropriate. They will creep up all prices of everything, soon. There has to be a lot of spaz out costs to recoup back. The term "the rent is still due", is a good stick a fork in it metaphor as a butcher's bill will come due for this bloodletting of so many systems all at once.

    I am just pressing on with sparingly conducting tactical forays out of the wire, with extensive ppe gear for safety, and picking the bones clean of this grounded beast carcass. If things creep along, shop till you drop with the soon useless F.R.N. money like a valley girl mall lizard with the 80s hair.

    'Hoarder Badges' should be awarded to Minions who hockey player hip checks a grubby boomer cutting in on some staple foods at the grocers. Bonus bisquit if they body cam film the professional hoarder performance, and post it on the web. Winning.

    Stay frosty.

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    1. I'm loving the Hoarder Badge idea! The video's even more. Bravo, my good sir, bravo.

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  2. Field report from Vegas. There is still holes in grocer's shelves inventory of about 50% at a walmart neighborhood market store. You can get enough to round out things, but no more free fire zone types of shopping at will, like the days of olde. (The budget grocers will be hammered more than yuppie boutique places, sheer numbers sum). Each A.O. is going to
    Have varied conditions on the ground. There is so many workers in Vegas that are normally fed near all of their daily food intake at hotel jobs and the breeder's kids mostly eating at schools when in session, it is a doubling of demands on the retail outlets on top of nervous Nellies spaz shopping. With the further push out of .Gov edicts a month longer (for now?) It is prolonging the crunch effects well past some set return to work/normal operations date. Like it is to be a light switch start up to instantly return back to normal. This will linger for years just like the physical and physchological scarring of being brutally sodomized, by multiple bucks, for a seriousness example. Stay frosty.

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    1. One wonders if ammo case shopping will return, or unlimited silver bullion buying. I have little hope.

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    2. There may be an organized by .Gov or industry lords an underhanded conspiracy program to shrink package size/quantity from the lard ass super size value packs seen now, to dinky dollar store and third worlder sizes. This with the added stores taping up ration limits posters on items as stop gaps. This will parallel occur along with quality reductions for costs recouping on the customer's dime. This is kinda a secondary form of rationing.

      There is going to be a lot of quality control and cost cuttings done for a long time, as a form of triage to save the hospice bound economy.

      Today's mantra: "Bulk buy on the fly", to get the empire's last available kit and gear, before the lights go out. Staying frosty.

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    3. Mexico shuts silver mines. 40% primary silver mines now idle. And in one month, a prepper no longer had anything to buy. What to do with all that worthless currency?

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    4. Get drunk or high, fornicate like a bull, and wipe your bum the next day with an asian
      Flaying type of fan method of display of one dollar stripper money bundle of fed notes. The flushing down sound will be orgasmic sounds to the ear post collapsing. Just saying. Stay frosty with them financials.

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    5. Is it time to start using Ones for bum wipe?

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  3. Finally got brave and made a trip to the Publix, early this morning. LOL requested if I could find chicken or beef. They had giant size bags of breasts available , limit of two packages no limit on size. Musta been like twenty pounds of chicken total. Good score, ignored the price...
    Only meat cow, was giant prime rump roast. They'll cut up into normal human sized steaks. Again limit of two items. Don't ask what the price was lol. Between the two kinds of meat I found, enough for the next two months.
    Yet only allowed two cans of veggies...
    No limit on fresh veggies tho and lots of that so stocked up and we can freeze em or can them if she wants.
    Yesterday,on the local FB buy, sell,trade page. Some dude just got metal storm panels and offered his just purchased last season plywood panels , first come free. I hauled ass ! Turned out only three were altered and ten were full sheets uncut half inch exterior plywood. All thirteen sheets for free !
    I'll use em for somthin...

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    1. What kind of moron gives away plywood? Last ones I bought were total crap, light weight, looks like they skimped on the glue, and $16 a sheet

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    2. Lots of yuppie scum , with entirely too much disposable income. Probably had a wife who didn't want that unsightly lumber laying around. Just wanted it gone like right now this minute. Lucky me to happen on the Facebook post first. Around here you can score free stuff all the time if you want to waste the whole day scrolling thru FB ...NOT ! Same day someone wanted to give away 3,000 square feet of bricks, just had to come dig up the sidewalk they were used in.
      That's a shit ton of bricks ! But also something beyond my broken body can handle with the speed they'd likely want...

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    3. Okay, yeah, didn't think of that one. I should have known, Mrs. Conehead too uppity for free lot rent. Are most women is a race to be crown Top Princess?

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    4. Subject matter interjection, be spying around and hyper vigilant online (mine is urbanized craigslist), or while out of the compound i.e. yard sales, road side gypsy sellers etc for recession/depression desperation sales opportunities. There will surely be pennies on the dollar sales, for survival cash needed by the newly corn holed Okies pushed into the dirt by another financial finger diddlying scheme. Head on a swivel. Stay frosty.

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    1. Still relative-far more than a few extra deaths from the medical industry free-falling

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  5. This is the worst SHTF. Where are the blue helmets, zombies, mutant bikers? No earthquakes, coronal mass ejections, pole shifts, flooding or sharknados. I have not saw a single looter or riot. This apocalypse sucks. One out of five stars.

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    1. LOL Perfect Amazon review! Very helpful. :)

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    2. We had a couple of guys from Charlotte come across the state line and started breaking into storage lockers. They found out SC isn't playing, 16 charges, including looting and apparently under the state of emergency, the state can make up the sentence as they go along.

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    3. Seriously, Anon 4:26 wins the day. Thanks for the belly laugh!

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    4. Give it time anon...Idaho had an unusual earthquake just a few days ago, a lot of my relatives are reporting huge booming noises all along the Snake River valley (the old path of the Yellowstone caldera) there is thought that the booms are magma rising around Yellowstone...

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    5. W2-not very assuring for us Deploraples, is it?

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    6. Spud, I normally discount the Yellowstone ( always wolf cry symptoms ), but that does NOT sound good at all. What will the next shoe to drop be?

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    7. That incoming massive comet this month don't miss.
      It's Corona (coincidence ??) Is said to be bigger than Jupiter and half the diameter of the sun, that's freaking big ! It is unknown what the actual size of the rock is. It is just now crossing the orbit of Mars and will become visible to the naked eye soon. Look for the green star all this month...

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    8. Between the comet or the volcano, I just have a gut feeling we ain't seen nothing yet. Still low on the Oh Crap meter, just a nagging feeling.

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  6. This shut down thing has been a spotlight through the not previously seen holes in my overall game plan. That won't happen again. I have a nasty habit of not repeating mistakes.

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    1. I like to repeat my mistakes. I pretend I don't, but why else would I, so often? :)

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  7. Damn the gods ! The LOL got designated as essential personnel yesterday. So she must continue to go in to the zoo...
    Fug em , I think they oughta just turn the critters loose and let them all free range.
    Really was hoping she'd get to stay at home.

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    1. I hear you-darn stubborn women. NOL isn't even really cooking much any more, it is mostly sandwiches in brown bags given away outside. But the Uber Twat boss is still burying her under work she ( boss ) doesn't want to do. Still way too many hours exposed to Patient Zero's. I can't get her to quit and enjoy retirement

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    2. $2k in debt should be little problem. I mean, really? Who would bother you with that? Food is a MUCH better bet.

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    3. Our thoughts exactly ! Only the plan is not so much long term stuff as it is normal stock to roll over type foods.

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    4. Last few years, I have really only been buying the extended normal foods to be incorporated into the six month short term foods. I mean, how much wheat do you need? I did get that soy meal, but that extends the meat, feeding the Coneheads.

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