by Ski
Take a hard look at your budget. Most of us donate the first 10% back to God in thanks and recognition of what He’s provided us. So we’re already using the 10% rule. Same idea, just apply the second 10% to survival. For those of us who don’t, pick a number between 5%-10% that you could do without each payday. This might mean a little less beer or skipping a movie or something each payday.
Dedicate that amount each payday to “survival”. That is all the money you need to be a full survivalist. The whole key to the 10% rule is consistency. Anyone would have a hard time shelling out $600 dollars at once for “survival”, but $50 a payday (I get paid every two weeks.) isn’t too hard. $50 a payday is $600 in six months.
You can be the best prepared survivalist on your block in only six months with 5-10% of your present income…given time. The time to make this commitment is today!
Using the 10% rule, I have amassed outdoor clothes, six months of water filters, six months supply of stored food, an excellent first aid kit, and assorted camping gear (backpack, tents, etc) for both my wife and I – all in one year. It really works.
Remember the number one rule of survival: When the disaster occurs, the time for preparation is over.
May the Lord bless you;
Ski
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I know this is an older posting, but it is one I feel needs more discussion.
Being a survivalist does NOT cost money, it just takes forethought and nothing more. Care to argue the fact? Just look to our Host for proof. He is a living example of my statement. His forethought caused him to change his lifestyle. Being a “survivalist” isn’t costing him a single cent more than his life was costing before he “went off grid” and started LIVING wwhat we are only preparing for. Is it really costing him any extra money than it would have cost him otherwise or is it actually costing him less? The problem is people are too spoiled and THINK they need things they do not. Entertainment time has replaced old fashioned hard work… Time that was once spent cultivating a food plot, and raising livestock and feed crops has been replaced with the television and movies. This has resulted in a disproportionately large number of obese people who do not get the exercise they need… and inturn expensive medical care pops up due to resulting poor health. WHAT is really costing money? When “WE” think preping costs, we need to rethink just WHAT it costs…
It isnt money, it’s our ignorant choices in an unhealthy lifestyle. It Costs us the things that have caused the breakdown in our families because we have made choices that take us in opposite directions instead of bringing us closer together, together the way working the food plot and tending the animals together does. These are obvious truths based on historic fact, and truths that I have experienced on personal experience. I was forced into retirement at the age of 40 due to health issues. I started spending time working with horses at my god-daughter’s boarding stable, only an hour or two at first, but my children and wife came along. Since that time my health has improved, my family has grown closer, our televisions have fallen into disuse, our lifestyle has changed. We are metro-plex dwellers and have been prepping for decades, it’s our lifestyle. But we never added the live stock or the food plot, until now… Believe me, it costs less than we WASTE on frivolities and foolish garbage every day of our lives until we make the change,,, and when we do, we start to notice our piggy banks filling up, our stock piles growing and our health, physical and mental, improving by leaps and bounds!
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