20 things you need when the economy collapases

Gee, that’s too bad. I was beginning to enjoy myself!

Oh wait, I’ve been prepping slowly but surly! I have backup power for a month, stored fuel with stabilizer, and cycled to keep it fresh. I have an antique lever operated well pump I’m attaching to the well head. Been planting fruit trees in place of the firewood trees. Expanding the garden and production every year. I always have a good supply of refrigerated seeds (they last longer).

My list of things to get:

2’000 lbs. of sealed and dehydrated grain and beans.

1,000 lbs of MPK (Mono potassium phosphate). An undisclosed amount of KNO3, 1,500 lbs. CaNO3, 2,000 lbs. MgSO4*7H2O, 200 lbs of micro-nutrient sulfates, 10 cases of KOH, 55 gallons of H3PO4, and 10 gallons of H2SO4.

I’m prepared to skin and eat wild meat and fish with a kickass skinning and cutlery kit and a band saw that can double as a meat saw. My neighbor and I are both installing outdoor root cellars that can be refrigerated all summer with ice cut from the lake, but electrically refrigerated otherwise. I also have a biodiesel diesel breeding tank.
I’ll be in my glory when I finally build a miniature syngas pyrolysis refinery for all my gas needs. I plan to compress and storing the various gases. I’ve been saving all kinds of pipe over the years for this project that will fit in a 12×12 with an array of water cooled condensers and 32ft tall gas separators (pure hydrogen at the top with heavier gases below) I’m not far from having all the material I need. I’ll be driving on compressed hydrogen and biodiesel wile others are trading bullets for stale fuel.

If it gets REEEAAAAL bad, I’m also tooled for forging and blacksmith work, I’ll be hammering automotive leaf springs into plow blades, and turning truck axles into weapons.

There’s a bunch of little f~~~ers like me out here in the boonies, so don’t come’a’knockin, because we’ll be’a’shootin!

If the Yellowstone super caldera blows it’s top say goodby to America’s fruitful bread basket….

I’ve been prepping since 2012, I now heat with wood plastic and motor-oil, annihilating my heating costs no matter what the flubber market demands. I’ve been annihilating my fruit and vegetable needs well into winter and some products (frozen) lasting all year long!

With me it’s an issue of “public trust” and from what I’ve seen, only a fool would have some.

guns and ammo: the currency that never loses its value.

Faust For Science wrote:

General George S. Patton once stated that, “Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”

After much thinking, I have come to agree with him. And having a bunker, or being holed up in a home during a crisis is a fortification. The looters are going to come. What is left of the government is going to come.

You are not going to be able to ride out a crisis at home, or a bunker. Everyone will want you, and what you have. Either to loot everything you have and kill you. Or, to looting everything you have and enslave you.

You either then to be prepared to be mobile, or you need to plan your exit strategy from this life.

Interesting take on the prepper mentality. Makes sense though, but so does the bunker mentality to me.

I have waisted a not so small part of the last few years thinking, reading and educating myself about a “s~~~ hitting the fan” collapse scenario. I mean, it´s obvious that our current way of doing s~~~ is absolutely unsustainable in a quadzillion different ways. Only a matter of time until that big black swan swarm shows up all over the sky. And all this contemplating for sure added a few grey hairs to my hairdo. And you know what – I don´t give a f~~~ anymore. Let the economy collapse, press the reset button whenever it suits you, I could not care less. What will be, will be. The issue with prepping and s~~~ is that it´s not only a fixed fortification you might end up living in, it´s also a fixed fortification in your mind. And that´s even worse. Because there is a price you end up paying for it. You become risk – averse, cynical, you start wasting your time catching up with the news on 20 different websites, always trying to predict and to be prepared. Forget it. I´m aware of the big picture, no more fear porn needed, I will try to stay flexible and adaptive and most of all I want to enjoy my life here and today. Ignorance is bliss! Once thing I have learned is that the greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look. So, if the world ends tomorrow than at least I have my memories and my experience and I can say that I lived my life to the fullest. Think about our ancestors.They boarded tiny wooden ships to cross the oceans, my grandpa was in the midst of a bomb raid in WWII while returning home from work, explosions left and right and he made it, too. My other grandpa barely survived the Soviet gulags in Siberia, walking all the way home many years after the war ended. F~~~ it. And I´m not even sure if it´s desirable to live trough and survive a full blown collapse scenario. There are worse things than dying. Anyway, each day in peace is a gift and I´m not going to waste those gifts any longer. Enough said. Sorry for my rant, no offense.