Monday, May 12, 2014

newbie preppers

NEWBIE PREPS

Go to almost any survivalist site offering advertisements and inevitably they offer the same tired advise hawked to the great unwashed proletariat ever since the early Eighties. Concrete bunker atop a wilderness hilltop, years of freeze dried foods and a humongous arsenal of semi-automatic weapons. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to advertising per se. That is how I get twenty free channels of television to lull my brain asleep after a hard day. And that is how a lot of us get a free, no maintenance publishing platform ( blogger )( and just in case you missed the last discussion, the Google ads on my site are not chosen by me, nor do they pay me much of anything-they influence me not at all-most times I don’t even pay attention to them which is a practice you should NOT emulate ). But with TV, other than product placement such as the vehicles being driven by the characters being of a certain brand or drinking one or the other type of soda which I see no harm in, and other than the TV corporations sucking the big black floppy rectal lips of Uncle Obammy so as to keep their license to broadcast, which is another form of influence but has no bearing on the advertising ( an article tomorrow touches on that ), the advertisers are not influencing the content of what you are viewing as much as what happens on survivalist sites.

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TV might push the consumer culture, and it does with all its might, but it doesn’t push any certain products. As long as you are consuming, Hollywood is happy. And indeed, they don’t want to actually influence any particular item. Think about it. As long as it is always a battle between product A and product B, both companies will pay Hollywood to advertise. If one company is favored over another, they might lose 50% of their revenue. But survival sites have a vested interest in only pushing Yuppie Survivalism. No other lifestyle prepper wise advertises. Farmer John wheat doesn’t advertise, as does Mountain House freeze dried foods. Manufactures of bolt action rifles don’t advertise, but makers of semi-auto accessories sure do. I trust you see my point. I call conflict of interest, and I believe most but not all sites are guilty. No, I’m not insanely jealous I’m not rich and famous like some hawking $750 wheat grinders. When you have too much money you have too many fair weather friends. And while most people claim that money is just a means to an end, I believe most never survive its initial loving embrace and are forever ruined afterwards. What I am is pissed off, having to deal with this money bias in survivalism for almost forty years ( I started reading up as a young teenager ). It isn’t one person, rather one trend. You can SOOO easily prep with nearly no money.

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Need food for six months? Freeze dried foods and MRE’s, while fine for a weeks worth of a bug out bag when you can’t cook, are also $6 A FRIGGIN MEAL!!! One tenth the price is what we always buy, and is in every market. White flour, white rice and beans. Granted, it is a basic bare bones calorie source only. You understand it is JUST to keep you alive, right? It isn’t tasty, or a “comfort food” or designed for Green Berets Killing Commies For Mommies ( and it needs vitamin supplementation ). It is, oh, let me search for the right word, SURVIVAL food. For $100, you can feed one person for half a year. I still advise wheat for multiple years, this is just a quick and easy way to have familiar food in your pantry today. $40 will buy you 100 pounds of white flour. An additional $40 40 pounds of beans and the last $20 gets you forty pounds of white rice. How easy was that? To arm yourself, if you have nothing and need something which is better than nothing, get a break open single shot twelve gauge shotgun. It is perfect for novices and the rounds are the cheapest retail. $150 gets the gun and $50 gets two hundred rounds. $50 buys you a Berky brand ceramic water filter element you build a filter out of with two five gallon buckets. You just spend less than a lot of “perfect” knives that are being sold on the aforementioned sites. It’s easy being a prepper newbie. Tell everyone you know.

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11 comments:

  1. I did manage to find 50lb sacks of wheat in one of the local feed stores James. When my mother set out to get feed for her horses (Worthless nags at the time of this writing, but a post apocalypse future to be sure) I asked her to check out the availability and price of the wheat.

    She brought back a 50lb bag that cost $13.00. Now where to store it? At the moment it's sitting in a metal trash can on the north side of the house. Must get started on that storey's root cellar ;) Must also get a grinder, unless I plan on only cooking the berries. Rather chewy, but they weren't too bad. I'm going to have to look up some more palatable recipes.

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    1. Corona brand. Affordable, made in Mexico instead of China. Good price on the wheat. I'll be covering alternate wheat preps, hopefully this week.

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    2. I love a New England single shot 12 gauge. Cheap and nothing to wear out. Fairly quick to reload with practice
      Stock up on primers and you can reload with rocks and black powder.

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    3. Hey Jim, if you pick up wheat from a feed store dont you have to make sure its not treated? (I believe its with a deworming agent and a reddish hue?)

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    4. Correct. Ask for Human Consumption.

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  2. Nice thing about storing basics like wheat, rice, beans, and flour -- modern suburban folks have no idea what to do with it so your preps are safe.

    Idaho Homesteader

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    1. If they survive being attacked and trying to defend themselves with a cell phone, they still wouldn't pose much threat. Still, a mob is a mob.

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  3. I love my Stevens model 9478 single shot 12ga. Paid $50.00 for it in 1978. I had to replace a broken hammer, and the rear stock that someone mysteriously broke, and never fessed up to? But it's still going strong. Even after my father bought me a very nice Browning double, I always reached for that Stevens first. The only problem with these single shot shotguns is that they kick pretty hard. Try to get a model with a rear counter weight, or ported if possible.

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    1. And a fem can always go 20g, even if the ammo isn't as available.

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  4. I knew we entered a new level of yuppie prepper schtick when I started seeing survivalist board games being pitched to the well-heeled masses. First there was "Conflicted" by some other wheeler-dealers, and now Dr Bones and Nurse Amy have their board game.

    Psssttt. The only games I see White Trash Irregulars playing (related to survivalism) will involve crude dice that utilize collected teeth picked out of the ash of last nights campfire.

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    1. Dammit, man! That is why you use a stewpot. A roast wastes fat, dripping into the fire. A stew keeps all nutriants.

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