1. Don’t believe every wild conspiracy you read on the internet or receive via forwarded email
Only the wild conservative conspiracy theories are true. All the liberal ones are lies.
2. Firearms and ammo are part of a well thought out survival and preparedness plan but shouldn’t take the top spot
There’s (1) firearms, (2) ammo, (3) archery equipment, (4) tactical tomahawks, hatchets, and battle axes, (5) tactical knives, (6) quarterstaff, nunchucks, and tactical baton, (7) tactical ballpoint pens, and so many more things to include before you bother with food, water, sanitation, entertainment, communications, light, fuel, and similar trivia.
3. Don’t model your, “preps” after those of some person
But don’t make it up completely from scratch either. I’m modeling mostly after Kartographer - not after the woman from Dilbert.
4. Don’t stash a few #10 cans of Mountain House, buy a Glock and a few boxes of ammo, a bottle of bleach, and call it good.
You at least need trade goods: coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, and napalm.
5. Don’t think that purchasing power equals preparedness.
That’s why in addition to credit cards, my preps include cash, coins, gold, silver, diamonds, cigarettes, and whiskey.
While we’re on the subject, don’t EVEN forget about peroxide, bandages, quinine pills, iodine pills, and a consideration for any maintenance meds you may be jacked up on.
Much of the need for those meds may go away if you are FORCED onto a more healthy diet.
But think it through, if you are a type 1 diabetic, and you don’t have a supply of insulin, you are pretty royally effed and your days are numbered.
A good med supply kit, sutchers (sp?) sutcher needles, syringes, (yea, a box of diabetic syringes are really useful when you need to administer some emergency antibiotic.)
I could go on and on. Each person’s needs are different. But don’t wait till you are down to your last blood pressure pill to realize that “sh!t, what was I thinking?”