First Things First: Key Questions Facing The Beginning Prepper

SHTF Plan ^ | 5-15-20124 | Mac Slavo - Norse Prepper

[blam]

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[gorush]

How will I fight boredom? Don't worry, there won't be any idle time.

How will I heat my home? Wood, obviously.

How do I provide light and electricity? Candles or kerosene lamps...a solar panel to charge batteries and to power the ventilation fan to exchange the air in your (hopefully) earth-sheltered home.

What do I have to offer others? That won't be a concern for quite awhile, assuming you live that long.

How do I pay for this? Your problem. No time like the present to start planning.

[dynachrome]

Granpappy has good info:

How to Start Preparing for Hard Times
on a Very Modest Budget:
Part One

http://www.grandpappy.info/hstart.htm

[The Duke]

I don’t know if this is possible, but if a person could negotiate with their mortgage-holder to transfer the next two months of mortgage to the end of the mortgage then that might free up some much-needed $$$ to purchase essentials.

[blam]

A low interest rate loan to be repaid in (probable) cheaper dollars?

[TheRobb7]

ping for later...not much later.

[Iron Munro]

Granpappy has good info:

http://www.grandpappy.info/hstart.htm

Agreed.

Probably the best overall, well thought out collection of useful prepper info I have found in one place on the net.

[netmilsmom]

bttt

[KittenClaws]

How do I pay for all of this?

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If you are just starting and have a limited budget - begin at the beginning. I grocery shop once a week, using a list of the things we need.

But my eyes are open to those other things not on the list.

A canned chicken (expiration 2014), a bag of rice, a gallon of drinking water, a dental repair kit, a pack of band-aids or rubbing alcohol on sale. I toss these extras into my cart. It does not inflate the grocery bill by more than a few dollars.

Do this and soon enough you will have the essentials.

That “little voice” seldom speaks without giving you the time to respond - even minimally.

[Kartographer]

We’ve kicked the can so far down the road that we are running out of road and the can which was once the size of a soda can is now the size of an oil drum (Try kicking that!)

For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:

http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf

NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!

For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.

As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”

Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3

Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.

Underestimation can be fatal.”

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!

[KittenClaws]

Kartographer’s preparedness manual is extremely helpful and I encourage everyone to download it. Having said that, I do not believe we are yet past the time to prepare, though it feels as if time closes in.

Sure, some may be more prepared than others, but we all live within God's own plan.

[Taffini]

bump prep

[Jet Jaguar]

If you have not read it yet, check out the book Earth Abides by George Stewart.

This book should be a guide to what you can expect as a “new” prepper.

[AlligatorEyes]

BUMP!

[GOPJ]

All of my neighbors depend on electrical or natural gas for heat. I personally have seen the temperature in my location get to -60 degrees below zero with a wind chill of over 100 below. Many in my surrounding area will die of exposure unless they can be in my living room. I honestly don’t know the answer to the question of what will I do when people in my area are freezing and there is smoke coming out of my chimney.

I would strongly suggest heating with propane for the first week or so - then switch to wood. If it's -60 degrees - within a week anyone without wood or propane will be dead.

[The Duke]

A low interest rate loan to be repaid in (probable) cheaper dollars?

Good thought. Also, the biggest reason to buy gold is if you have debt today. If/when the dollar sinks in value you can cash in that gold and pay off a ton of debt.

[djf]

Two things I’ve been thinking about -
black construction trash bags, to put over the windows from the inside so no one can see your lights,

small, portable car starter type battery setups. I have a larger one, and a smaller one, the small one, when fully charged will run a 75 watt florescent (hooked up to a 225 W inverter) for over 12 hours.

Silent lights.

They can then be charged during the day when the generator is running.

[SCalGal]

Solar walkway lights....