by Michael X, Survival Blog:
Is TEOTWAWKI imminent? I do not know. But things are slipping toward it happening soon. Will it be a violent, giant crash, like one involving many cars on the turnpike, or will it be a quiet breakdown along the side of a deserted country road?
For myself, at this point, I am not thinking it will be a catastrophic, instantaneous crash caused by nuclear war, an EMP, asteroids, or alien invasion. More likely, I think it could be a slow slide that will catch people off guard until it is finally too late to get the basics in place.
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This could be caused by the slow boil of recession, inflation, unchecked illegal immigration, government oppression of freedom to buy what you want when you want, to go where you want, and own what you want. Your currently untraceable money replaced by electronic “money” that the government will monitor the use of. Cash could be useless. Use of barter will be outlawed to ensure that taxes are collected “for the greater good”. After a few weeks or month, many people could wake up and realize they are living as if they exist in the world described in the novel 1984. And the flexibility to control the situation will be gone. Many will panic.
This article addresses basic preparations for enduring, in a sound manner, the beginning three months or so of a steep slide into a depression of at least the 1930s magnitude. Imagine – prices are high, stores are open but supply chains are often disrupted, electricity is on but is suffering from occasional outages. While we can’t do much about the big things that are falling apart on a global or country-wide basis, we can control what we do locally….. Going back to basics and developing a plan to make it through the early stages…is a good place to start.
Life will be reduced to hard work with manual processes that can be done independently at home, or perhaps in a small local economy. By prepping this manner and being able to live independently, you can avoid the boiling of society as the unprepared start to suffer. You can stay a “gray man”. By learning now how to live like a pioneer, without modern “conveniences” you can avoid the pain of the learning curve when something does happen.
This requires living in the current, here and now, but living smarter, and simpler, and better, and healthier, and saner. This is what I have started.
What I describe is fairly easy to do and can be done by anyone. If you prep in this manner, and things somehow straighten out without a big problem, you are not out much, but are left with a collection of useful items, skills and new hobbies to use. And, if I am wrong and it is an Armageddon-level SHTF scenario, the items I outline will still be needed, regardless of whether it is slow or fast, easy or extreme. You will be much better positioned to survive the critical first few weeks and months until some societal recovery plans can be implemented. My plan is to be able to make it as comfortably as possible through the first three months of SHTF.
If you are already in your bunker, you may find this article amusing. If you are just starting out, you may find it useful. Absorb the relevant information and apply what you can to your situation.
BACK TO BASICS – OR ELSE
I keep seeing reminders about how things have changed from 60 years or so ago. Back in the day there was much more self-production of the needed basics. People were not as dependent on the economy and stores/supply chain for their daily needs. I remember my parent’s huge garden, and having to work in it to weed and harvest. I remember my mother gardening, canning, sewing new clothes, patching clothes, hanging wet laundry on the clothesline. We almost never went out for a meal. She did have a part-time job helping my father at his dairy, and we got milk and cheese that my family produced from that business. But essentially she was a stay-at-home Mom.
Contrast that to the “stay-at-home Moms and Dads” of today. In the past few decades, we have learned to buy everything at the store, prepared by someone else. All foods are shipped in from God-knows-where. Many people often don’t even buy food to cook at home, especially if they have to prepare it. It is normal now to have instant food, frozen food, microwave foods, or order-in meals. Some current stay-at-home parents are the person that does little at home but drive the children to daycare, dance class, or soccer. And perhaps go to exercise class and out for coffee. The kids are taken care of by going to daycare or worse yet, to our government schools. Those who work outside the home also let their spare time be filled with meaningless activities.
