The war drums are banging and the financial collapse alarms are blaring, what are you going to do? Let’s talk about “prepping” a little bit, eh? What does prepping look like? What does it mean? What kind of prepping do we need to focus on? It’s not an easy topic to cover or even think about mostly because no one has any experience in the type of situation we’re facing. Maybe that’s where we should start - what kind of situation are we facing?
We all see it right now. Grocery stores have a hard time keeping their shelves stocked with stuff. Electric bills keep rising from constant rate hikes. The cost of everything has skyrocketed and none more so than the cost of diesel fuel, except maybe fertlizer but how does that effect you? Crime has gone absolutely insane and Walmart stores are actually talking about shuttering because they can’t afford the government-sanctioned retail theft they’re subjected to. The U.S. is for the first time importing food because we can’t produce enough to feed the people already here, let alone the millions of hungry mouths the Brandon Regime is importing in. On top of that the War Machine is dead set on triggering WWIII with Russia over the most corrupt country in the world - Ukraine. That’s just for starters, but the theme is that a massive collapse of everything in our society is on the horizon.
There are people who “prep” for things like hurricanes and tornadoes. You get some water storage, you set back a couple weeks worth of non-perishable food, and maybe you have a detailed first aid kit. Perhaps you even have a portable generator and a few gas cans of regular unleaded with some Stabil in it. Cool. Those people are set and ready for a week or two of power outages and impassable roads from major storm damage. Now what about when the crisis turns more permanent?
When we enter permanent crisis mode your tub of Auguson Farms emergency food isn’t going to get you very far. Maybe you spent the big bucks and got the 1 year supply. Maybe you even built a storm shelter and stocked it with 5 years of canned food. That’s great and all, but what are you going to do in 5 years? What we’re facing right now requires lifecycle prepping. Your lifecycle and the lifecycle of your family. That’s a tall order.
1200 calories is the magic number everything you do to prepare will focus on. The average person needs 1200 calories per day to survive. That’s bare bones (literally) sustinence you have to consume on a daily basis to keep going. Short term starvation rations can break down to around 600 calories per day. With intense manual labor that 1200 number goes up. Growing children and adolescents need more for propper development. Pregnant mothers obviously need more.
How you get to that number for each person in your domain is where your lifecycle prepping becomes unique to you. If you plan to live beyond the bottom of your MyPatriotSupply tub-o-foodstuff, you’ll obviously have to grow things to eat; protiens, fibers, carbs, fats. Can you do that? Do you know how to do that? Do you have the personal infastructure to do that, i.e land, equipment, supplies, livestock? If you answered no to any of those questions, you know where you need to start your prepping AFTER you sit down and have an honest chat with yourself about that magic 1200 calorie requirement. That’s not up for debate, you have to meet that number every day for as long as you want to be alive. More if you plan to not just survive, but thrive.
I read a lot of chat about how people have “talked” to friends and neighbors and think that after the big boom they’ll just all hang out together and shoot some rabbits while the little ladies hang out in the kitchen and bake bread. They keep thinking they will have a “community” where everyone does their part and sings campfire songs. That might last a few weeks but animosity among its members will soon destroy it. Be honest with yourself, how well do you see that working out? Does everyone in your currect social circle spend every waking hour putting forth their maximum effort for the good of other people? Of course they don’t.
Jimmy likes to slack off in the evenings and his yard looks like trash. Bobby and his wife like to sleep in every weekend. Frank’s kids like to play video games half the day and look like Michelin Men-in-training. Elizabeth has one of those voices that make you cringe whenever you hear it. I hate Kyle’s face. I’m going to whoop Jeremy’s kid’s asses. And that’s on a good day. Imagine your psychological state after several gruelling weeks of you trying just to feed your own family, and then Elizabeth needs a cup of rice because she let mice get into her supply room out of sheer laziness.
Folks, community will work only after each individual family has taken care of themselves. Planning for long term dependency on a community is a plan for failure. After society breaks down there is no community and one will not be sustainable until after basic survival has been achieved. This is why you have to prepare for your own lifecycle. Imagine it like a luxury. Community is a nice thing to have after the basics are taken care of. Again, that crate of Ramen Noodles isn’t taking care of the basics. That starter herd of goats you have out back is. That solar powered water well is. Those hand and foot powered tools you have is. That bookshelf full of how-to’s is. That stash of heirloom seeds is. Those fruit trees you put in 5 years ago is. That stash of 10,000 rounds of ammuntion is.
I think you see what I’m getting at. In addition to that way of lifestyle prepping you undertake, think about this: When society crashes and there is no more community, money will be worthless. Gold and silver will be worthless. Food will be the new currency. A loaf of bread will be more valuable than all the gold in Fort Knox. Be the person who can make the bread. Be the person who raises the chickens. Be the person who knows how to build a brick oven and stove. Be the person who can mill lumber or lay stone. These will be the people who thrive enough to build a new community.
Hopefully when we get to that starting point to build a new community and eventually a whole new nation we will be smart enough to excise those deadbeats before they have a chance to procreate. You know who I’m talking about. If society had pushed that first deadbeat off a cliff who wanted to get something for nothing all those eons ago, today might look different. Hopefully this next go around we’ll have learned that lesson. Happy hunting, patriots.