Summary: TweetThis is NOT the place to be when you start your journey as a modern survivalist. Yesterday I did a “back to fundamentals” show on permaculture, today I am going to do one on basic preparedness. On some levels it is great that prepping has become its own “industry”. This brings some unique products to the market and allows preppers to buy from companies that think like they do. On the other hand, it has also attracted parasites to our world. Said parasites hype every news story to infer the end of the world, dollar, oil, _____, will be here in just a few short months. They cite “CIA insiders” that are likely some dweeb that grew up reading spy novels to make their case and other nonsense. Then networks like Discovery get on board and do nonsense TV shows like Doomsday Preppers, and other BS. The problem is the person simply concerned by events like hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, realistic pandemic threats, loss of liberty, sustained inflation begins to feel prepping is for quacks. Or they feel that prepping is so expensive that it is just not possible anyway. The truth is prepping doesn’t require a mountain retreat, it doesn’t require a bunker and it certainly doesn’t require 20 pallets of MREs down in your basement. What it actually requires us to do is simply think more like our grandparents and great grand parents and less like modern slaves who worship authority, conformity and debt. Join Me Today As We Discuss these Twenty Rules… Step one – keep a food log Step two – keep a spending log Step three – perform a risk assessment on your life and geography Step four – build a basic black out kit Step five – build a basic first aid kit Step six – start copy canning Step seven – cut two expenses, just two of your choosing Step eight – Build a basic 72 Hour Kit – BOB Step nine – buy some source of back up power – any source Step ten – get some source of back up heating Step eleven – build just two 7.5 gallon tubs or four 5 gallon buckets emergency food Step twelve – store a minimum of 100 gallons of water, more if you can Step thirteen – acquire a minimum or two emergency radios Step fourteen – acquire some means of back up communications Step fifteen – build a basic documentation pack Step sixteen – build up over time a 30 day supply of commercial long term storage food Step seventeen – learn at least 2 methods of food storage Step eighteen – find local food producers and visit often, learn about seasonal opportunities Step nineteen – learn to cook 10 new recipes (try to use some of your storables) Step twenty – store up a reasonable amount of COH (cash on hand) Step twenty-one (bonus) – affirm your right and responsibility to survive Resources for today’s show… Join the Members Brigade The Year 1486 Join Our Forum Walking To Freedom GenForward.com TSP Gear PermaEthos.com AgriTrue.com Fortress Defense Consultants – (sponsor of the day) Ready Made Resources – (sponsor of the day) Bug Out Documentation Episode All Steven Harris Interviews on Back Up Power Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air. Also remember we have an expert council you can address your calls to. If you do this you should email me right after your call at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with expert council call in the subject line. In the body of your email tell me that you just called in a question for the council and what number you called in from. I will then give the call priority when I screen calls. Join the MSB Today Want Every Episode of TSP Ever Produced? Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and vi[...]
