[TheWriterTX]

We started stocking up two years ago. Mostly canned goods and gallon bottles of water, cords of wood and lots of lead. Sustanance, heat, light, a way to cook without gas or electricity, and a network of neighbors who are also preparing.

Good thing we did. Food prices have been jumping! Now, if we have a tight week, we go into the reserves and restock the next chance we get.

At present, we could survive, independently, for 40 days of a zombie apocolypse and take out a small army at the same time. We've got in home entertainment, too; cards, chess, checkers, board games, lots of books.

Do I think it will be a zombie apocolypse magnitude? No; but look at the turmoil in Iceland when the kronos collapsed. SHTF moment right there, and things were ugly for a few weeks. Folks are still hurting, but there weren't any mass riots, etc.

I'm personally waiting for Tanzi's law to kick in and the onset of hyperinflation. We're already experiencing hidden inflation in the price of food and shrinking package sizes. Stuff I bought earlier in the year is almost twice the price now.

My closet full of food will feed my family when things get tougher...and they will get tougher, societal breakdown or not.

[Niuhuru]

I might be wrong, but America has a history more of coming together than we do of killing each other wantonly. You don’t know until it really happens and usually the naysayers are wrong. There are problems, the government is useless, but the smart ones always survive and the secret of American success is that we are unafraid of really serious challenges. We always pull through. You’re being smart, I am being smart, and Americans are surely not as lazy and useless as so many cynics on here think.

[Secret Agent Man]

And if it’s never needed for shtf, you’ve got yourself a pantry of things you normally eat anyway. Nothing wrong with that.