Showing posts with label History of Prepping and Survivalists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History of Prepping and Survivalists. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Housing Collapse - Living in a Van to Survive

 NY has homeless catastrophe  -  Put a WALL around the place like in the movie "Escape from New York."
Living in a Van  - The coming America thanks to the left.  I've traveled in a van many years ago and found it possible but not wonderful.  You got by.  Having spent lots of time in a tent in the military a van seemed like a major improvement, but let's face it.  If you could get a nice place to live and afford it easily, why would you choose to live in a van.  You wouldn't.  That is why you see plenty of welfare types living a good homes but the ones in vehicles are the falling middle class or working class that can't get the free ride or aren't skilled at scamming their way into it.
What you should do:  If you ever get into the position to have to consider this it might be best to imagine what alternatives there are.  If it is about work like for some of these people who want to work in a high paying high expense area then I can almost see the logic.  If on the other hand you have some limited assets and job prospects are bad based on your health or age, or lack of skills then maybe consider a downsize to a small trailer or travel trailer in a semi-remote area that would give you the option of cheap land, no mortgage, and low taxes.  Most people can find some type of work anywhere if you are willing to get your hands dirty or drop your pride.  One thing that will always work in your favor is great communication skills, the way you talk and present yourself, and reasonable hygiene.  There or dollar discount stores everywhere and I always see ads for work.  I guess the only problem might be if you have a police record.
Be creative.  Start working on some way to generate an income right now that you can use as a backup to losing a job or moving into a no job location.   So that means coming up with something like online sales, gun show sales, making your own product.  Examples.  Holsters if you are good with leather, or handyman skills.  Senior care is becoming a big thing everywhere so you might earn something just helping out someone else.  Get a resume going in that by signing up with the county you live in and getting some training or certification.
Whatever you do, try to stay off the street at all cost.  It can cost you your life in terms of health and also risk of attack since homeless people are often targeted by psycho bullies and gangs who have no concern for their fellow humans.
Reprinted with permission from Survivalcompound.com

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Preppers are a Subculture

Wow, they figured this out finally. If you're gonna have a hobby it helps that it might save your life or prevent you from lots of pain.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/21/us-usa-civilization-collapse-idUSTRE80K0LA20120121

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Old Prepper - Old Survivalist - Nothing Changes

I was prepping when prepping wasn't cool. That goes back to the 70's.

Why did we do it then? The world had many of the problems that face us today. If you read Harry Browne back then you knew we were headed for a monetary crisis. We just didn't know it would be many of them to extend over decades.

We worried about pandemics because we did have some treacherous strains of Flu coming through as we do now and expect to see again.

We all had to face the idea that Nuclear war could occur at any moment either through aggression, mistaken launch, rogue generals, or stupidity.

Food shortages didn't loom as a major concern at the time, but food storage was part of the preparation for all of the other concerns.

Most importantly, we all prepared for those things that we had no control over so that from our perspective we did gain some control by being prepared.

Has anything changed since then? Only the list of things to worry about. It's much longer.

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