So we all know to be prepared, have hard metals, stocked up food, cash on hand, etc. I’ve done all that, but now fine tuning it. I have cash and money in the bank. If everything goes to crap this next week, then it’s losing value and I’m missing out because it is turning worthless. If I spend it on tradeable goods and things that hold value, and then it takes months for the collapse to happen, I am left trying to pay my mortgage and bills with ammunition and bottles of whisky. Sure I could by gold then trade it back in if needed, but then I’m just losing some value assuming no movement in the price. Thoughts?
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Unless you have thousands in the bank. Don’t get too alarmed. Try to balance out some in the bank and some at home safely. If anything buy a couple of guns and ammo. Water, canned food. Get comfy and have family near by. I wish I had started a home garden for food earlier. Killing the grass and making room for crop plots. Gonna make a rain catch too.
Mulch, mulch and moar mulch. That's my best gardening advice.
Amen! I started. Raised row garden this year, lots of mulch, but once it's in and going it has been the easiest garden I've ever had and will get more productive each year. Gonna add some more yard to garden in the next couple weeks for more growing space next year.
Fuck grass. Grass is boring.
I dug up some grass for a decent garden. It was under a few inches of water all last week. I didn't grow up in this part of Florida so I am have a bit of a time figuring our the planting seasons, and what to plant when.
What I am thinking about doing rather than focusing on vegetable type garden is to grow fruit producing trees. I'm in zone 9B, and was watching these vids: (I should have gotten started a couple years ago though)
This is a good video
7 Fast Producing Fruit Trees Every Florida Homestead Garden Should Grow
The biggest thing with a garden ism get a well drained plot, prepare the soil ahead of time with some good chicken/cow manure, keep the friggin weeds down.
Right now is planting season in Zones 9+. I have a lot of stuff going, but hoping this storm doesn't ruin everything with salt air. I may be out of the danger zone so far for a major hit, but a close shave will kick up a lot of salt if you're close to the beach. Muh corn!
!!! I plan on getting chickens. But I need a safe place for them. Too many yotees here and hawks. When my pitbull was young there was hawks always waiting for her to be left alone. Now she can fuck them up and they don’t mess with us.
I got chicken. They are fine unless you leave them out at night. Get a rooster too. Pain in the ads but keep your flock going. Goats are easy keepers too.
Your talking about a coup/pin right? I was going to build one, but my neighbor has a fairly nice size coup that backs right up to my property with no chickens since her husband left. I told her, she agreed that if I repair all the holes in the wire and we can just share it. Also need to run wire out about two feet out on the bottom to keep cats, foxes from digging under wire. And if you get a good rooster it will take care of the hawks.
Did you no that chickens are blind, can't see anything in the dark. That's why if you let them out in the yard they will always "come home to roost" before it gets dark.
I been think about getting some rabbits and just turning them out in the yard. They breed like crazy. Probably lots of them will get eaten by bobcat or other predator but I no some would survive because I see rabbits from time to time in my yard.
i have wild rabbits in my yard all the time.. my pit chases them away lol
You would have more than enough customers for rabbit meat.
We have natural artesian wells near here and I fill up my bottles and jugs. Tap water tastes like sand to me now.
I have small silver/gold coins, and then the rest is investing in becoming fully self sustaining, live of my own land, generate and store my own electricity, water well, backup generator, gas, I don't have livestock yet though. Basically try not to need money.
My brother in law, keeps his money in the form Of liquor and bullets lol smart in a way
Chocolate is an underrepresented barter item.
Something something race based joke.
Put away anything you don't need for a year+ in gold/ silver. That's probably safest. Prices are oddly low right now. You really can't go wrong. Make sure you research the best coins/ bars for purity and resale.
I'm a big ISO20022 fan in crypto world. This isn't the safest but highest risk/ reward. Do a ton of research before getting deep into crypto.
I'm rolling w an even mix along w sides of AMC and DWAC.
GoldCo will convert your entire 401K into physical metals. You even get to pick which coins you want. They did everything for me. They did the talking on the calls to my former plan holders and I just affirmed everything. If I want I can go visit my munnie.
Yeah. It’s wierd right now. Metals could be skyrocketing. Going down?
Sounds like you are as well prepared as you can be.
I like to keep cash on me for everything but monthly bills.
Cash on hand, real estate, precious metals, stocks, gns and am-o.
Theta token. Sony, samsung , google, cas all back it.
My plan is not to spend any money, or as little as possible.
Buy long shelf life foods at least. And guns and ammo for protection. Better to have it and not need it. My canned food I rotate and consume when it’s been a while. Always replacing the supply. Couple of months is all you need. When shit hits the fan, if by 3 months is still bad, move and take your family to safe areas. Armed communities are the safest.
My plan is to buy all the things on my wish list because they may never be available again. eg-PEMF mat and other healing items.
The money will not do me any good in the bank as it goes down.
I have reasonable prepping done already but I've already decided to stay with the house - no bugout bag for me. I'll die in my own bed.
Yea I'm doing the same. I should have qualified my comment a bit to say I am not wasting money on discretionary non-essential expenses, but since I got married 38 years ago to Miss Scrooge that been the norm.
Balance is good, but I think I would rather be married to a penny-pincher than a spend thrift. Unfortunately penny-pinchers tend to be pussy-pitnhers too, or is that just a common trait married women in general.
Read a fully IT Support thing yesterday:
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of new space and valuable resources. Not mention of this phenomenon was included in the product brochure.
In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself into all other programs and launches during system initialization, where it monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3, Drunken Boys Night 2.5 and Saturday Football 5.0 no longer run, crashing the system whenever selected.
I cannot seem to keep wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run some of my other favorite applications. I am thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall does not work on this program.
Can you please help me !!!???
Thanks,
A TROUBLED USER
Dear TROUBLED USER,
This is a very common complaint, but is mostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a UTILITIES & ENTERTAINMENT program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and designed by its creator to run everything.
It is unlikely you would be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to Girlfriend 7.0. Hidden operating files within your system would cause Girlfriend 7.0 to emulate Wife 1.0 so nothing is gained. It is impossible to uninstall, delete, or purge the program files from the system once installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this.
Some have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife 2.0 but end up with more problems than the original system. Look in your manual under "Warnings- Alimony/Child support". I recommend you keep Wife 1.0 and deal with the situation.
I suggest installing background application program C:\YES DEAR to alleviate software augmentation. Having installed Wife 1.0 myself, I might also suggest you read the entire section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). You must assume all responsibility for faults and problems that might occur, regardless of their cause. The best course of action will be to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE. In any case avoid excessive use of C:\YES DEAR because ultimately you may have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the operating system will return to normal. The system will run smoothly as long as you take the blame for all the GPFs.
Wife 1.0 is a great program, but very high-maintenance. Consider buying additional software to improve the performance of Wife 1.0. I recommend Flowers 3.1 and Diamonds 2K. Do not, under any circumstances install Secretary with Short Skirt 3.3. This is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and is likely to cause irreversible damage to the operating system.
Best of Luck,
Tech Support
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The usual: dry foods, metals, medicines, cash and water. Growing barley for its high nutritional value. We have tobacco for trading. Operating minimum in the bank, no debts.
I have a small solar-battery-inverter power system - enough to keep my computers running for a few hours if no mains power and, of course, indefinitely while the sun shines. I must also buy a small, portable solar USB charge for when I'm out and about, just to charge my phone and iPad. The network might be out but I'll still have access to my contact addresses, notes, photos, etc.