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  • Does a certain scenario affect your planning?

    Often times new folks get "into" survivalism based on a certain scenario they see (or think they see) unfolding in front of them. Thus the onus is to "prepare for" X scenario.

    Many times that's ALL the new person focuses on. As obsessive-compulsive type behavior does seem to prevail in preparedness circles, this tends to make some folks very narrowly focused.
    Say for example the new person is convinced an economic collapse is coming- He may put 99% of the his efforts into monetary preparations and totally miss having enough food to feed his family in storage, or learn how to grow food or protect against NBC threats.

    Unfortunately this narrow focus along with the high potential that this person is "chasing dates", leads heavily to early burnout.

    "But Robert, things look bad right now, inflation is at a 40 year high, I mean BIDEN is prez for crying out loud!"

    Yes, stuff is bad, no doubts there. But as we have always cautioned, be careful of the folks that set dates or make cries of "the end happens tomorrow!"

    I've been preparing 36 years now, actively preparing. I've seen and heard so many BS dates set by some of the same voices still around making BS prophecies. We need to be careful of them and understand 99% of what we hear for "date setting" is utter BS.

    That being said, it doesn't take a rocket scientist or an Oracle to look at trends and current situations and make some common sense projections from that. When covid started in early 2020, it was easy to see that the next shoe to drop would be a fair amount of civil unrest. It didn't take a crystal ball to see that, just common frickin sense. But that's not "common" any more.

    Times changes and situations ramp up, hence why we should always be flexible with our planning and preparations. For example- look at how many just now are realizing the need for nuclear preps? Did it really take a small land war in Eurasia to figure this out? Maybe the "narrow focus" problem I mentioned above crept in for most folks and they were focusing on JUST an economic collapse and/or the boogaloo type events?

    A broad focus when planning and preparing is important. If you think through all these various scenarios, they all have some of the same things in common and therefore the same NEEDS as far as preps go. No matter if the economy collapse, there is a nuclear war, or rabid zombie polar bears from Mars attack- you will need to EAT every day. You will need to protect yourself. You will need to house your family in a safe as possible place. You will need clean water to drink. You will likely need some amount of power - if nothing else to charge batteries for security related items (NV, thermal, seismics, etc.)

    With that BROAD FOCUS, you'll find that preparing for more narrow scenarios also becomes easier. If you moved your family away from the cities, your nuclear preparations just got a helluva lot easier. And your county of 6,900 people is less likely to erupt in rioting than Jacksonville, Miami or Atlanta.

    What about you? Are you solely or mostly focused on a certain scenario and if so what? Has that changed over time?
    Boris- "He's famous, has picture on three dollar bill!"

    Rocky- "Wow! I've never even seen a three dollar bill!"

    Boris- "Is it my fault you're poor?"

  • #2
    Best if a certain thing isn't planned.
    Be a traditional farm family.
    Plan for the worst of anything that "could" happen.
    Then your family if ready for whatever comes along.
    Country folk have always done that, at least for the first 200 years.

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    • #3
      My focus has shifted over the years, but my current state of readiness is a combination of all the perspectives of 6+ decades. We're as ready as we can be considering age and physical environment. Food, water, shelter and backup shelter, self-defense, and acknowledgment that we could go from modern civilization to pre-industrial revolution in a flash. A large part of this is mental preparation and being conditioned to not expect the status quo to continue. Having lived off the grid for about 18 months, I learned how to do a lot of things the old-fashioned way, and I have worked at being prepared to live simply again. The older I get, the more I've returned to the ways of my childhood, where food came from the garden, the water, the forest, or the chicken coop, and "putting food up" was a continuous process. In spite of my constant posting about my garden, it's not the only thing that happens around here - it just happens to be the focus area for this time of the year. Somewhere between now and fall harvest, I will plant flowers, swim every day, and continue organizing my house for easier living. There's still a lot of reorganizing to be done in the storage room and the garage for easier access to things I might want to get my hands on, like my canners that I moved from the top shelf of the utility cabinet to my dehydrator cart:

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      • #4
        I am like surviort_wwdnet...planned and prepared for an event, whatever that may be. Need food, water, shelter, self defense and medical for all events that could be thrown our way...
        Protecting the sheep from the wolves that want them, their family, their money and full control of our Country!

        Guns and gear are cool, but bandages stop the bleeding!

        ATTENTION: No trees or animals were harmed in any way in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were really ticked off!

        NO 10-289!

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        • #5
          The boyscout in me won't allow me to just channel on 9ne thing.
          that's good and bad.
          Plus I think the biggest issue for those of us who are now btdt types is becoming complacent or letting our peppering ego slow us down.
          Hey Petunia...you dropped your man pad!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by protus View Post
            The boyscout in me won't allow me to just channel on 9ne thing.
            that's good and bad.
            Plus I think the biggest issue for those of us who are now btdt types is becoming complacent or letting our peppering ego slow us down.
            I work hard to not focus on any one thing, but for now it's expanding our fresh food supply. It happens to be that time of the year. I put in 19 new seed starters today, in addition to the 25 grow bags and the 8 containers that are already full of growing plants (snap peas are almost ready to pick and process). I just ordered some seed peanuts so I can try my hand at growing my own peanut butter supply. It's a good source of protein and another staple around here - if I can keep the squirrels out of them!.

            My husband offered up his leftover pool deck wood to make me some more grow boxes, and I graciously accepted. He'll line them so I don't have to worry about chemicals from the wood leaching into my soil. Since I just pressure canned sweet potatoes from the garden a couple of days ago, I'm feeling 'skill-refreshed' for fall canning. Other projects are ongoing and I haven't had a lot of free time lately, but it's all good.

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