“What’s the most common mistake made by new survivalist? How can we avoid it?“ – asked by Matt via email.
Here are a few quick mistakes that I see new survivalist making (some I’ve made myself). They’re listed in no particular order and I’d love for you to continue the list in comments below:
1. Giving up to early – Many new survivalist start out with a load of energy only to run dry, giving up before meeting their goals. The main reason – they think they have to spend thousands of dollars on a retreat, survival food and arsenal, money that they don’t have – so they give up all together.
2. Putting off starting - Procrastination is something we’ve talked about before, but is worth mentioning again. Don’t put off starting your preparedness program. The number one excuse given is a lack of money – see point one above.
3. Not making their own plan - Many new survivalist, not knowing where to start attempt to follow the plans of others. Granted there will be a lot of similarity between most survival plans, but it is important to look at your location, needs and budget and plan so.
4. Overlooking the need for shelter - Many new (and veteran) survivalist fail to realize the importance of a paid for plot of land and shelter. They seem to think their debt will just disappear or be forgiven. Sorry folks it don’t work that way.
5. Bugging out - Bugging out can work, if you have a place to go and make it there unscathed. But the throw on a pack and live in the woods “plan” is lacking in reality and practicality. Some will pull it off – most will not.
6. Too many guns - Firearms are very important, but many new (and veteran) survivalist have more guns than pounds of wheat. Get the life-sustaining basics squared away first.
7. Buying books and not reading - I’m sure many of you do this. You read a review of a preparedness book, send for it, it arrives in the mail, you open the package, thumb through it, you think “I’ll read it when I have more time” and on the shelf it goes.
8. Buying books and not doing - Still others read the books, but that’s as far as it goes. They never go out and test or learn what they’ve read. Reading is great, but you need to get off the couch and put what you’ve read into practice.
9. Not planning for unexpected arrivals - What will you do when unexpected visitors arrive at your door looking for a handout post collapse? Buying extra food and assembling care packages is a good idea.
10. Closed mind - They become fixated with their plans (or plans of others see #3). If something works, great; if not, you need to find out what the problem is and fix it – even if it means a complete overhaul of your original plan.
There’s A LOT more to be said on this topic – what mistakes do you see new (and older) survivalist making? What mistakes have you made?
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#5 has always botherd me. Bugging out should be a temporary thing or a last resort, not your complete survival plan. Living as a hunter gather ranks below nomadic herdsman on my list of preferred ways to live.
#6. Some people not only buy too many guns, but they buy guns that are impractical and cost more to shoot than it would cost for a well developed AR platform. I knew of one person who spent nearly $19000 dollars on a semi-auto 50 cal and high priced sighting system. He then spent another $500 dollars for a hundred rounds of ammo. After shooting the gun less than 50 times and owning it less than a year, he sold the gun for for $7000. He realized that the gun was too expensive to shoot and owning it was impractical.
Buying every piece of gear someone recommends or you read about. To be honest, I did this and still have to force myself not to go gear crazy. It’s easy to get sucked in even if you have already purchased something, then see the same product in a slightly better model or improved features from a competitor to not throw out your credit card and make the purchase. This was a huge issue for me in the beginning, Multiple rucks, water filters, guns, blah, blah, blah. Before you know it, you should have spent 200.00 dollars and you spent 600.00 over time instead. Being satisfied with what you have, knowing how to use it, and apply the skill successfully is what I have found is more important than the gear. Such a learning process…
Great list, by the way!
Do some backpacking and see how good #5 works for you. I’ve done it two different ways. One way is to bring just about everything you need, food, fuel, tools, and maybe even all your water. This is pretty much the way to do it if you are going on established trails. The second way is to pack very light and live off the land. I do recommend at least a good sleeping bag, a tarp, water bottle and an easy way to make fire. Some cordage would be good too. Rope is darn time consuming to make in the wild. This works best well off the beaten path. The second way takes a huge amount of knowledge and consumes a lot of time. However, if done right, you can go along while that way. Still don’t recommend it for a plan A.
#9. Have more than just food for unexpected guests. Have things like plenty of extra tools -axes, shovels, saws, hammers -every kind of hand tool. Might as well be able to get some useful work out of those uninvited guests. If they have something to do, you and them won’t feel so bad about them eating your food. Keeps them busy too. Have extra guns, sleeping bags, and even simple things like utensils and plates for everyone.
Good list! Good job!
Too many people learn no good skills. Making cheese, birthing babies, stitching wounds, repairing tools. Many, many Americans each specialize and can do only one thing well, then hire someone to do everything else. These people may not be available, or cost too much.
Every time you add something to your “stash”, you also need to add something to your brain. If you bought 50lbs. of rice today, then this week you need to learn to identify and treat common childhood ailments. (Or what will become common again with reduced medical availability.)
Or better yet if you buy 50# of rice learn how to prepare it. Same with beans ETC Suture kit? better learn how to suture ( sounds silly but before that next roast goes in the oven put a few stiches in it). Midge is right on the money.
Good post MD
ROFL Try explaining that one to the “Non-Prepper” spouse.
“Honey, why are there stitches in the pork roast>”
“Well, um, it was falling apart. These butchers these days do such a sloppy job.”
It’s hard enough justifying even OWNING a suture kit to him.
My father lived through the great depression in the rural south. Before, wild game made up about 10% of their diet, during it moved to up to 33% with some families more and also selling wild game in town. I have never seen a deer on my dad’s 100 acres or the other parts of the old family plantation. 5 years ago I did see one, 1, across the bayou from my dad’s rye grass field. Wild game will be hunted to the point of extinction very soon after the collapse. The key is to aquire acerage, plant a garden and maintain livestock. 10 acres is enough. Aquire a tribe or clan. Build skills that compliment the other members.
I agree too heartily! Every hungry 12 yr old with a stick will be after the squirrels and pigeons. In a total disaster including mass die-off, even your garden and livestock will not be safe. Trust me, even now lazy people are regularly raiding gardens and rustling livestock. And just out of revenge, if they can’t take it they will ruin it.
On top of everything else, the wild game may not always be edible. More Whirring Disease is cropping up in the West, along with Chronic Wasting Disease in the elk and deer. Rabies has raised its ugly head again after decades of very low rates, and the rodents, as lightly common, have Bubonic Plague.
Don’t trust that you, along with thousands of refugees, can live off the land.
I would add: Focus on knowledge and skills in addition to stocking up on food and supplies. Survival is about a lot more than having stuff. It’s about knowing how to use it, how to make do without it, and in general how to survive with what you have, where you are.
Also, make sure your plan covers all aspects of survival for multiple scenarios. Don’t prepare for an economic collapse just to have a flood wipe out your house and everything in it. Don’t prepare for a hurricane and leave yourself vulnerable to a house fire or armed burglary. Also don’t stock up a year’s supply of food but get caught without any way to cook it in a blackout, or forget to plan for hygiene and sanitation in extended emergency.
A good, well-rounded emergency plan will consider every significant threat that you may face in your area and include provisions for food, water, medical care, security, shelter and warmth, hygiene and sanitation, fuel, communication and transportation for each of these threats. (There will be a significant amount of overlap. You don’t need a separate plan for each threat scenario. Just make sure that your plans take each threat into account and provide contingency plans as needed.)
Practice, Practice, Practice.
Amen.
Don’t be in a hurry. Sure, maybe things will crash tomorrow, but more than likely it’s a slow motion train wreck. Take your time, plan, expedite. Most people entertain themselves by buying things, then don’t put them to use. Garages and storage lots are chock-a-block full of proof. Be patient, learn what you need for your plan, patiently shop. Craigslist and other such sites are full of never used deals. After many years of shopping, I recently bought some acreage. Craigslist has been an invaluable source for tractors, mowers, materials, appliances, etc to build my remote nest.
#3. First (expensive) lesson I learned was just because someone says they are a “survivalist” or a “prepper” doesn’t mean they actually know squat. Too many arm chair survivalists out there giving “well, it looks good on paper” advice.
If I may add to the list: #11. Not knowing the difference between a “Want” and a “Need”. For example: You “Need” shelter. You “Want” a 4/3 professionally-built log cabin with a $100K solar system on 100 acres. BIG difference there. Prep for the first, dream of the second.
Excellent point with #11. Most financial problems with folks these days
is exactly that…their wants overwhelmed their needs.
I agree with bb. What if TEOTWAWKI comes not with a bang or crash, but a whimper. Overshoot by Mona Clee tells such a tale. Most preps work for other things if you start with balance. Extra cat/dog food, no mice in my pantry or intruders in my back yard, SHTF I want my critters on the job, not the menu.
Last year my last dog died of good ol’ ancientness. (He was 23) I am now out of dogs. There’s nobody to give juicy meat scraps to. Nobody to lay on my cold toes on evenings. Nobody to follow me aimlessly around the yard while I do my chores. *sigh*
The cats do a wonderful job at what cats do… but they don’t bark at suspicious people and noises. Most importantly they do not keep the raccoons out of the garden! I got NO grapes last fall. I got NO strawberries this spring! Just two nights ago I had to figure out myself that a nasty person was in my shed. He’d done a lot of mischief by the time I got out the shotgun and 5 mill. candle power spot light.
I have arrangements in the works (Friend’s pregnant big mutt) to fix this shortage in my emergency plans.
Mor’s Mom where are you? I have 9 puppies. My best freind had a brindle Pit/Rotti mix he wanted to breed to a brindle Dane/Mastiff mix. He died suddenly before she came to season. His widow let have her to see my friends vision through. Pups were born 6/6/10 so will be available mid to late July.
Big thanks, Az, but as I said, arrangements are already in the works. These (well-mixed who-knows-whats) Will be born soon. The mother is a fine and handsome dog with good intellegence, despite her unknown origins. I’m sure a couple of her pups will do just lovely at Mommy’s house.
I’d say losing energy, and sometimes interest in the subject altogether. TEOTWAWKI isn’t going to happen tomorrow, or any time soon, so it gets hard to stay motivated, especially if you have a spouse who is patiently waiting for you to be right.
This is why some want it to happen, so they can show their non-prepper friends that they were right all along. After awhile, by way of human nature, you just get sick of waiting and begin to think you were wasting money. I live in a tornado state, so it’s nothing to scoff at. Other states don’t have this problem, so building a Bug out bag or never letting the tank get below 1/2 just seems like “paranoia”. This tends to drain a lot of preppers.
My #11? Not rotating and eating what you stock. If any one has bought a case of MRE’S and never ate one, why spend the money on cases of them if you don’t like the taste? Same for freeze-dried, dehydrated, etc. If you choose to go that route, purchase some samples first, and see if you like it. If you do like it, then check the expiration dates and plan accordingly. But don’t just put your food on the shelf and let it gather dust. “First in, First out”. Hope this helps.
Biggest mistakes in prepping?
1. Living in fear.
2. Focusing most of your life on prepping & missing out on life itself.
3. Making something from nothing, making something bigger than it actually is and worrying about an uncertain future because regardless, the future is ALWAYS uncertain and has little to do with domestic/world economics.
Mel Tappan who popularized the survivalist movement in the late ’70 – that’s 30 + years ago, died of heart failure in 1980. All of his prepping to die at age 47, wonder what parts of life he missed and I can’t remember, did the SHTF back then?
There were plenty of reasons in the late 70′s & early 80′s to believe that the S would HTF – prime interest at 22%, banks defaulting, Cold War, oil embargo & gas lines, the Rothschild’s and the chosen few buying banks all over the world in the bid for world economic domination & yet, we are here today not too terribly bad off.
I know, I know today it is really different! Ah, right? The only difference is WE are here, more acutely aware and following item #3 above, the ultimate recycling act.
Prepping for what? Is the question.
The end of the world as we know it or unemployment? Ice storms, earthquake or hurricane?
How much toilet paper do you really need? Rice, beans & bullets? These are all short term fixes, you will need to get more sometime or learn to make a substitute.
Are you learning the skills needed to survive if what you need is gone? Today we have the money and society to provide what is needed, be it food, TP or spare parts we can buy it. The skills needed to make “it” ourselves are what takes time to learn. Skills are what you need.
Prepping with things will get you thru the ice storm or the earthquake but for the bigger problems you’ll need skills.
What are you prepping for?
Better clarifying question – what skills are you developing & why? Everything else is just going through the motions.
The truth of the matter is we are not going to collapse economically, it’s just been romanticized by fear mongers. There are forces well beyond what you and I know who control it all and, bottom line – there is no profit in a complete breakdown.
Read the news, things are being spun in a different & more positive direction while “they” fix the economics. It’s a sick world and there is nothing we can do about it.
Witwct,
“The truth of the matter is we are not going to collapse economically, it’s just been romanticized by fear mongers.”
I’ll be sure to pass that along to the unemployed Americans when the checks stop and to and the more than 40 million on food stamps and Wall Street Journal.
Please do pass it along to the unemployed, they need good news.
Everything is relative – WSJ article says food stamp usage highest since 1983 when the population was 234 million and today we have a population of 309 million so, 40 million on food stamps is far less of an impact besides, 1980 -1982 was much worse with huge economic problems.
In 1980-81 we lined up for gas for sometimes hours & no shotguns or uzi’s. Prime interest rates it 22% and no rioting in the streets – point being those in charge spun things to opiate the masses, all the while making profit from dismal times.
Fast forward to today … depending upon your view, times are somewhat bad, banks have record defaults yet all – you and me, is being controlled through various diversions. We can only float along for the ride and believe our preparation should be geared towards the realistic with the acute understanding that the ultra rich (Bill Gates could not even be a part of the group with his paltry 50 billion) NEEDS the serfs to be medicated & survive – it simply a profit motive, nothing more. we are cogs in the gears of the machine they control.
I watched my family scramble prepping for Y2K, spending thousands on a year’s worth of food only to (still) occupy the garage. I watched the panic in WalMart as people got water, batteries etc on New Years eve only to be a part of the merchandise return line that stretched to Mexico and back. Well, at least they were prepared, right?
So the question remains – what skills are you developing & why? The answer to that will dictate the quality of one’s life and how time is truly valued.
WITWCT,
Forget about your prepps. Sit back have a beer and watch football everything is going to be okay. I’m sure you’ll be much happier and have a more satisfying life. LOL.
Sorry, no gas lines in 80-81. Try 77-78. Carter, not Reagan. No matter how much you wish it the other way!
>> Sorry, no gas lines in 80-81. Try 77-78. Carter, not Reagan. No matter how much you wish it the other way!
Sorry, no gas lines 77/78, it was 73/74. And yes, I remember Reagan, the originator of tax cuts for the rich and deficit spending.
“Sorry, no gas lines 77/78, it was 73/74. And yes, I remember Reagan, the originator of tax cuts for the rich and deficit spending.”
No, it was after 76 because my older brother started driving in 77 and he would get gas from work to be able to get home sometimes. I started driving in 79 but never had that problem.
I was a college student and a Soldier under Reagan and then Bush 41 and was able to afford to buy my home (1400sf w/10 acres) when I got out in 91. I seemed to have done okay under Reagan and so did the others like me who worked hard and saved money.
>> No, it was after 76 because my older brother started driving in 77 and he would get gas from work to be able to get home sometimes. I started driving in 79 but never had that problem.
I’d suggest you use google rather than obviously faulty recollections. The oil embargo and it’s effects are a fact of history that are easily brought up.
>>I was a college student and a Soldier under Reagan and then Bush 41 and was able to afford to buy my home (1400sf w/10 acres) when I got out in 91.
You being able to buy a home under Reagan and Bush certainly doesn’t provide any proof that those two presidents didn’t follow a policy of tax cuts for the rich and deficit spending. As a matter of fact, the deficit spending helped you buy a home as it provided stimulus to the economy. The problem being, the artificial stimulus has now come home to roost in the form of debts we can’t afford to pay. I’m glad you bought a home, it’s a commendable thing.
>> I seemed to have done okay under Reagan and so did the others like me who worked hard and saved money.
You are certainly to be commended. I’m guessing this is some dig at those who don’t share your views so they must be lazy freeloaders?
“I’d suggest you use google rather than obviously faulty recollections. The oil embargo and it’s effects are a fact of history that are easily brought up”
Sorry, I don’t use the official Chinese censor. And nothing wrong with my memory either. He worked for a guy called Baldy at HTI off Richard street and he filled up at the Billups across the street. He started in the summer of 77 and worked every summer until 79 when he started college in the fall.
“You being able to buy a home under Reagan and Bush certainly doesn’t provide any proof that those two presidents didn’t follow a policy of tax cuts for the rich and deficit spending. As a matter of fact, the deficit spending helped you buy a home as it provided stimulus to the economy. The problem being, the artificial stimulus has now come home to roost in the form of debts we can’t afford to pay. I’m glad you bought a home, it’s a commendable thing.”
Hard to cut taxes on the poor. They don’t pay income tax. And before you say it, my income in 1996 was $12000, 1997 $10000, 1998 $28000, 1999 $17500. Last year was 16000. So I know how much income tax people at that income level pay. I was a college student in 96 and 97. Worked for 6 months in 98. And 8 months in 99 I was a dog catcher. Last year I lost my job 26 Jan 09. And only worked part time when I could find it. I haven’t collected unemployment since March of 92.
Not lazy, but maybe unwilling to sacriface? I am married with two young sons. I know what things cost. What is a need and what is a want.
WITWCT whatever that means, I bet Americans during the booming 1920′s thought the same way as you before the crash and start of the 10 year long great depression.
Same with the soviet union in the 1980′s, argentina in the late 1990′s and others they thought as you do. Everything is going to be okay the government said so right up until the banks locked the doors.
Why you reading a survival blog anyway? Your obviously only here to start trouble. Probably a government propaganda worker or whatever you call those asshats.
Red,
First off, since when is questioning one’s motives creating trouble? Nothing has happened yet, you respond in fear – coveting the need to prepare as the imaginary world is falling apart. The #1 key to survival is a clear mental outlook and discerning fact from fantasy or speculation.
Secondly, get a better understanding of American history and the causes of the Great Depression. Much of the programs that exist today were born from that time including the many fail safes for an economic collapse. We have things far worse economically in the US today that, if happened in the 20′s we would be dead as a country.
Thirdly, Russia, Argentina do not remotely apply to the US – not as any form of trending either.
As far as being a propaganda worker for the government, try a little harder.
WITWCT whatever that means. If you think all is well nothing will happen the u.s. is to big to fail and all that bull, why r u reading a survival blog? Why waste your time here after all according to your comment this whole preparedness thing is a waste of time so why are you wasting your time (and ours) here? I’m sure you would be better off looking at gay porn.
Red,
Funny how the subconcious works – of all the possibilities for a response to try putting me in my place, you choose viewing gay porn, how revealing.
I know – “whatever that means” except I am afraid you do know. Not to worry, your secret is safe with the several thousand readers on this blog.
Red, there’s a lot of ways that things could get bad. Economics is one, climate change and natural disaster are two others. There are probably several more ways that the world (as we know it today) could end that seem extremely unlikely or that we aren’t aware of yet. You don’t have to be worried that the government is going to collapse to prep, just worried that there will be an emergency that the government will be slow or unable to respond to.
And as for your insulting finish there, it contributes nothing to the discussion. WITWCT has given no indication in any of the comments I’ve read that would imply that he was gay. Even if he was, that wouldn’t preclude him from being a survivalist.
WITWCT,
I must respectfully disagree with your comment that our economy is not in danger of collapse. The current, proposed and future (so far unannounced) spending programs of this administration are unsustainable. While I have stumbled through several of your intellectual sparring sessions with Prepared N.D., I have gleaned a great deal of useful information from many of your posts. However, the suggestion that prepping for an uncertain economic future is the result of fear mongering pressure is troubling to me. I don’t prep for hurricanes, we’re in the Midwest. Tornadoes are another story. Tsunamis, no fear. River flooding, you bet. We all have specific challenges based on location, lifestyle, health concerns, family dynamics.
One of the greatest universal threats to the U.S. is a potential meltdown of our economy. To suggest we needn’t fear such a threat because of the largess of the ultra rich is imho, a mistake. The ultra rich will continue to be, whether the factors that affect our simple lives are up or down. The growth of their wealth is not subject to the fickle whims and latest trends of the common marketplace. To simply ignore the warning signs, i.e. the social unrest overseas, various bubbles (dotcom, housing, dollar) bursting or moving toward bursting, the takeover by our government of automakers, banks, healthcare, all suggests to me an economy in serious trouble.
And with regard to Red’s comments, that has no place here.
Creekmore, now that you are “rich and famous” your getting lazy-too comfortable. Post some new stuff or have a guest writer. And what happened to the Saturday “What did yo prep this week?” Lazy boy LOA!
M. E. Biccum,
I thought I’d been posting new content here, here and here.
By the lack of comments readers seem to have lost interest in the “What did you prep this week?” idea.
As for being rich and famous – not by a long shot.
Just ignore Biccum. He doesn’t speak for all of us! I look at this blog everyday for inspiration and ideas that can help my son and I survive and prosper. And for the record – I like the “what did you prep this week” threads. Just my 2¢…….
M.D., I hate to see you give up on this topic. I don’t think you should let a lack of comments suggest people have lost interest. I have looked forward to this update for my weekly kick-in-the-pants motivator. While comments such as, “bought a thousand rounds of .22lr and 25#s of beans”, may get a little monotonous, we can skim through those. Many posts have more substance and get people thinking. I’ve seen plenty of spin-off columns from points raised in this regular question. I would definitely miss seeing what other people think is important prepping.
Oscar – The preps I have made since the last “What did you prep” posting are:
Took advantage of the sales at Emergency Essentials (a sponsor of this blog) and added more to food storage. I bought some large water barrels from them also. I also purchased a few of dozen 50-cent can openers from them and taped them to boxes of my #10 can long-storage food. (As I open the boxes for weekly use, I remove the can opener and eventually tape in onto the boxes of food that rotate in). I check their sale items every month for what I need.
Got more magazines for my Mini-14, plus ammo.
Right now I’m getting ready to do my quarterly test of all my equipment, radios, power sources, etc., etc.
(W), thanks for the input and helping with my point. New people are finding this site and ones like it all the time. (I found it by accident just recently, and now stop by regularly during the day.) Two good points here for me, cans are easier to open with a can opener so keep’em handy, and don’t just acquire equipment and not maintain it. Simple stuff, but reminders are always appreciated amongst friends. Oscar
I think that TEOTWAWKI will begin with a wimper and not a bang. While we focus on “THE PLAN” for the coming Zombie Horde (is there any other?), we lose focus on every day survival. We think BIG, which overshadows the small.
You are unfortunately in a bad accident distant from any prompt medical service. Due to the entropy of the accident, no electronic communication is availible. Did you place a trauma kit in your “get-back-home” bag in your trunk/toolbox to not only fix your arterial bleeding but that for the other. Can you even treat for shock? Remember, when seconds count, the police/EMS/volunteer first responders are only minutes away (in my case it will be tens of minutes).
What is your local plan if you have to actually walk home if you commute (we walk on average 3mph; so a 15 mile level hike will take 5hrs…try that in crappy fitting shoes or for the ladies, high heels) I think that we are all in agreement that no matter what the case is, in these uncertain times it will SUCK! All we can do is plan to make it suck less. If you make your homestead zombie-proof, what is the plan to get there while you and your family are away?
#4 ‘a paid for plot of land and shelter’ in a safe area.
I’ve got a nice home in the Florida suburbs that’s mortgaged to the hilt, lots of beans, bullets, and bandaids, but I don’t have a PAID FOR plot of land and shelter. I’ve had my wife’s support on everything prepping-wise so far, except for moving out to the boonies. My plan this summer is to take the RV out west and try to find a piece of land in the mountains for ‘summer vacations’. I’ll work on improving upon it with shelter and fruit trees, and eventually moving there full time. Though if the Gulf gets any worse this summer, I might be able to convince the wife to move there immediately and just stay in the RV until we get a better shelter built.
Jack- I feel for ya, I really do. You’re blessed with that enlightened wife, though. She’s a keeper. As to moving out west, I wish you luck. I live “out west.” Usable land is Faaar from cheap. Everything else either has no water, or slants too much to put a house on it. Even if there’s a well, or you can get a well permit, the water is DEEP and they slap a meter on it. you’re only allowed to use what the water board tells you.
I’m not saying it’s all bad, or that you shouldn’t try. I love it here and wouldn’t live anywhere else. Just be aware, living rural or remote here is a whole different thing than back east.
You mean they charge you even though you have your own well? What happens if you use more water than they “allow”?
The biggest mistake I made was waiting and putting off prepping,I am now more aware of my situation.Thanks to M.d. ,I have updated my stores of supplies and knowledge.His blog has educated me beyond my own capabilites.My lesson that I have learned is…dont wait..do it now…make a plan,stick to it and continue to follow this blog….thanks M.D.
Well, this post has changed my outlook a bit. My survival plans and supplies right now are limmited to grabbing a trusty .22 lr from the closet and a red cross personal first aid kit from the nightstand and huddling in the bathroom. Any ideas for VERY limited resources? I’m interested in prepping, but just cant find the time or money to put anything more into it.
One extra can of food every time you shop.
Plenty of reading material to read on line to improve knowledge.
Every weekend Lowe’s and Homedepot over DIY courses.
Baby steps, all forward never back.
Refill old soda bottles or whatever you have with water and store them in a closet or something, and refill them every once in a while. Just slowly building up your water supply will put you in a much better position should the utilities get lost for a few days or weeks.
I agree with So Dak, Im set pretty good for 4-6 months on food and water so Ive tapered down on that..my bob is complete as I can get it and still carry it, Ive pared down my arsenal to a 12 ga pump, a 9 mm pistol and a 30 cal carbine with 200 rds each..Im going on the 3-6 month shtf plan because sans a NUKE WAR any shtf isnt gonna last too long before govt sends troops in..besides getting a few more of this and thats..Im done prepping for the most part..now I wait..hear more bad news online or the tv..then better news..then more bad..and I wait some more..hard to maintain a prepper line of thought when I see ppl buying homes and cars and big screen tv’s..and it gets harder everyday as Im wanting a jeep but dont need the debt..when the old ford still gets me from point A to wherever..but damn thet jeep id neat
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