A few ideas for living in hard times.

The Alpha Strategy for surviving inflation.
This method of buying commodities will help you financially survive high inflation.

Pioneer Skills
They may come in handy.

Cheap Home - shipping container 
A room is a room and add that to location, location, location.

Don't Walk Among Elephants
Take this as a metaphor for avoiding situations that will get you stepped on.

Opening canned food without an opener video
Add this to your list of skills.  I never would have thought of it.

Low cost Temporary Shelter for living or storage
More ways to create space at low cost.

How about a survival cave.

High Intensity Interval Training
Staying fit may mean staying alive.

Vehicles you can live in.
Don't laugh please.  I've done it before and may end up doing it again.  They are OPSEC reasons to own a car, truck, or van you can live in at least when traveling.  It never hurts to have enough room to lay down and stretch.

According to an expert, fats are where it is at.  As part of a study an expert claims that high carb low fat diets increase the risk of dementia drastically, "what grain is doing to your brain."
Great huh.  For decades they told us that carbs were the way to go when it came to preventing heart disease as compared to fats.  Yes, we also heard that protein was good too but most of the foods out there ended up high carb due to their fat free status.

The Captain's Journal gives you a good overview of how preppers take the wrong approach and often waste money on based on fear tactics of advertisers.  I agree with his view which is to defend yourself and your family first and then focus on the basics.  Preparing for rare events falls out of this purview.