Can you all explain to me how I would go about “prepping,” when we are now down to our last 50k in savings? My husband is 48 and a pilot at a bankrupt company, where top management has been awarding itself for the company’s overall failure. Pilots have been living with a 30% salary reduction since I believe, 2002, and without a contract since 2006. We have one child going off to college in 2 years and another with Aspergers.
My point is, how does one prepare - buy all sorts of dehydrated foods and items when we are biting into our savings a bit every month? My husband just about died last week when I told him I needed a root canal.
Basic “prepping” starts with extending your pantry, as you can, to have ever more food on hand to last you longer times in a crisis. Prepping isn’t just about dehydrated foods and zombie survival gear, it’s about comfortable yet frugal living and having enough on hand that you won’t need resupply for quite some time (be it a week or a year).
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$17 will get you 50 lbs of flour at Costco. That, and some salt & yeast will feed you bread for over a month. $16 nets another 50 lbs of rice. While sure not optimal, $50 can feed the family for a month. Easy cheap backup food.
Shop at Aldi, Super Walmart, and other cheap stores. Always buy a little more than you need, and put it in storage. Put everything you buy in storage, and live off the oldest stuff.
Spring is approaching. Visit the dollar stores often: they’ll have seed packets for $0.10 each; $10 and some effort will grow you more food than you’ll know what to do with.
And getting out of Palm Beach County FL is probably also a good idea.
There is good PREPPING advice on some of the links that Kartographer provides. I'm sure he will be glad to direct you to other sources too.
One trick I've discovered for saving money (on non-food items) is garage sales. I purchased two full 20 pound propane tanks this Saturday for five bucks each. I've bought camper stoves, Coleman lanterns, chain-saws canning pots/jars and power generators, etc for pennies on the dollar.
There is good PREPPING advice on some of the links that Kartographer provides. I'm sure he will be glad to direct you to other sources too.
One trick I've discovered for saving money (on non-food items) is garage sales. I purchased two full 20 pound propane tanks this Saturday for five bucks each. I've bought camper stoves, Coleman lanterns, chain-saws canning pots/jars and power generators, etc for pennies on the dollar.
You may find this interesting. I've posted this to the archaeology/anthropology threads for years.
"In the past there have been numerous theories for the cause(s) of autism, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD and Tourette syndrome. Most of these theories can at best explain small parts of these diverse syndromes. Many of them extend their findings in spectacular ways to be able to claim to explain larger parts of the autism spectrum with little success."
It's been recently reported that the DNA of Europeans and Asians (not Africans) is about 2% Neanderthal.
My DNA haplogroups are R1b and 'V'...probably more than 2% Neanderthal too, lol.
don't eat out...that is a big money waster...
I guess the good side is that with your money down maybe you're kid will be eligible for govt grants..
God bless...
A camp stove can usually be found used if not you can buy one at the end of camping season on sale. You will also want a couple of sources of light.
You want to prepare for a small emergency first. And it is a good idea to cut the electricity to your house for a couple of days to test your preparations.
As time goes by you will find that you gather more items and you learn what you need and what is so much fluff.
A garden is a good idea. If you are looking at your husband losing his job then a small or not-so-small stash of food is a great comfort.