INFLATION HEDGE
Long time readers, knowing better yet following some strange unexplained compulsion to follow my mental decline ( well, okay, perhaps not so strange since everyone slows down to take a look at a car wreck ), might have noticed after repeated exposure that I don't shy away from stealing other peoples ideas. Recently a loyal minion made a comment about fooling the spouse for prepping by saying you were stockpiling to hedge against inflation ( or something similar ). As I was thinking over yesterday's article on groups it came to my mind again, since that might also be a way to get your reluctant neighbors or group members to stock up.
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We all know that how the conversation goes. Hey, George, I have it on good authority from professional financial consultants that we are already in a Depression and wouldn't it be a good idea to go down to Costco and buy a few hundred pounds of rice and beans so we don't die a horrible and excruciating death? Now, George is a pretty good drinking buddy and you occasionally go shooting together so you figure he is an okay guy. But after thinking about what you said for about twenty three seconds, he reacts just like the trolls here do. He thinks about his SUV being repoed, losing his house to the bank, seeing his plastic Barbie Doll wife leave him for someone with money and he enters into immediate and total denial. He phones Homeland Security reporting your unpatriotic thoughts, who dispatch a SWAT team to your house a lot quicker than any relief supplies got down to New Orleans. You are arrested for Crimes Against Humanity, The Financial Sector And The American Way Of Life. Child protective services seize your offspring and sends them to re-education homes. Your wife files for a divorce under metal anguish charges ( she was deprived of shoes so you could buy food! ) and for every thirty three cents a day you make working at the prison factory you give one third to the IRS and the remainder to the ex-wife. This leaves you without the means to buy cigarettes to bride Bubba not to make you his bitch, so you get AIDS and die a horrible and excruciating death anyway.
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Far better to lie about your motives. Hey, George, notice how quick the cost of food is going up? I worry about having to give up my SUV so we can eat. What do you say we go in together on buying some food in bulk so when prices go up we can skip purchasing until the prices come back down. And, heck, we can always donate to the soup kitchen before it goes bad. You've cleverly disguised your prepping. You've as much said that you don't want to give up the SUV. Even better, you could say you don't want to drive a foreign car. And throw in helping out Union workers. Don't lay it on too think, but you are trying to appear as patriotic as possible without tattooing an American flag on your forehead. You've hinted that you'll continue to go shopping. Don't want him to think you'll cut up your credit cards and deprive the banks of twenty percent of your income. And, you've soothed any liberal, feminist feelings of giving and helping others no matter how unworthy. Hell, you could be a closet Democrat as far as he knows. You're in like armpit hair at a women's liberation rally.
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Now, in theory inflation should be a slam dunk. How else is the Federales going to pay their bills? However, a few economists that I have no reason to doubt seem to think a deflationary depression is in the works. I of course can't say one way or another myself. Other than to speculate that even in a deflationary period you will pay more for food as the global drought intensifies. But it doesn't matter. Just having the food on hand will protect you from all kinds of ills. You don't need to share these concerns with others. Just go with the inflation fighting plan. Hell, inflation is as American as apple pie anymore. And it used to be the excuse for buying a home. How's that equity position now, suckwad? HA!
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I hope you are following Creekmore. He's improved the blog quite a bit. He also sent me a CD of military manuals, and you know how I simply love free stuff. And I am pretty cheap to bribe. If you are interested in the CD it might still be on sale. http://thesurvivalistblog.blogspot.com/
I thought it was a pretty good compilation. I'm not a huge fan of them, but if you are this is just the thing. Plus, if you buy his crap he keeps publishing and I can steal his ideas, so the whole thing is a win/win.
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I am not convinced that my neighbors would buy into the arguments. Plus, they would tend to buy stuff that would expire quickly. I don't think they have even a rudimentary idea of rice balanced by beans, white rice stores best, where to get wheat, and dry milk disgusts them. Plus, they're going to say it just isn't going to get that bad, etc.
Only the wounded would listen and you might as well talk straight prep to them.
"you might as well talk straight prep to them..."
well, i just started reading SNITCH CULTURE, and FRANKLY it just doesn't pay to APPEAR OR ACT "different" than the other fellow weirdos in your town.
whether "survivalists" are just alienated by the AMERIKAN MONOKULTURE and want it to DIE, or whether they actually saw the unsustainable trends is a moot issue now. but there is a media tendency to paint 'survivalists' as 'drunken neo-nazi gun hoarding racists anti-government fanatics'.
and, yes, there are a lot of strange folk out there who will think it's their duty to call the pigs and tell them what a menace you are to their children, etc.
much better to talk 'green' and pretend your a 'back to the land' leftist, preparing for the collapse of the bougoise cryto-fascist capitalist wage slave system....
hey! who wants to just plain old survive on the plantation, instead of living in a 'sustainable' group or cluster anyway ?
plus when the PTB run out of money for DRUG PROHIBITION who do you think are going to be the next target? but, GREEDY SELFISH HOARDERS, of course.
DNH
Creekmore's blog is very nice...
Two years ago I mentioned to my neighbor that maybe they should have a little extra food in case of emergency. She smirked and said we have a couple extra cans of soup and tuna, what else do we need?
Her husbad just got laid off and her dog grooming business is in the tank. I wonder if they are going to eat tonight. Oh Well the have soup and Tuna, what else do they need?
No Name
Or you could blame your stash on FEMA - did you know that after you get your emergency bag togather FEMA recommends a three weeks supply of food & water? Their free book recommends a three month supply after that...(really it does somewhere after page 90 - that isn't the joke).
Me & FEMA we are real close. ;)
Oh and the green idea works good too.
FEMA is going to make sure you regester your emergency supplies so they can confiscate them.
Well, hell, half of the survivalists are 'drunken neo-nazi gun hoarding racists anti-government fanatics'! Seriously though, I'm a "greenie doomer" and have been interested in that sort of thing since '72, so I'm apparently socially acceptable. I don't get those "strange looks" when I'm buying for preps, they just ask me questions about gardening and such.
Ah but that's the idea isn't it? You blame FEMA for making you have all that extra stuff but you NEVER get anywhere near the real initials.
Speaking of FEMA, there is an online library of FEMA books that are downloadable.
http://www.fema.gov/library/index.jsp
The site seems very useable and appears to be a great resource for people preparing for emergencies longterm or otherwise. Stephanie in AR referred to a FEMA document that suggested 3 months supply of food. I believe it, because I think I've seen the reference before, but I can't remember which publication.
(something i ran across and saved) seems appropriate since i ran across some 'investment' literature that was recommending
both diamonds and expensive collectible wines... anyway, DEBEERS is facing collapse, there are zillions of diamonds for sale on EBAY, and during the last depression diamonds became virtually worthless... DNH
From a Sarajevo War Survivor:
Experiencing horrible things that can happen in a war - death of parents and friends, hunger and malnutrition, endless freezing cold, fear, sniper attacks.
1. Stockpiling helps. but you never no how long trouble will last, so locate near renewable food sources.
2. Living near a well with a manual pump is like being in Eden.
3. After awhile, even gold can lose its luster. But there is no luxury in war quite like toilet paper. Its surplus value is greater than gold's.
4. If you had to go without one utility, lose electricity - it's the easiest to do without (unless you're in a very nice climate with no need for heat.)
5. Canned foods are awesome, especially if their contents are tasty without heating. One of the best things to stockpile is canned gravy - it makes a lot of the dry unappetizing things you find to eat in war somewhat edible. Only needs enough heat to "warm", not to cook. It's cheap too, especially if you buy it in bulk.
6. Bring some books - escapist ones like romance or mysteries become more valuable as the war continues. Sure, it's great to have a lot of survival guides, but you'll figure most of that out on your own anyway - trust me, you'll
have a lot of time on your hands.
7. The feeling that you're human can fade pretty fast. I can't tell you how many people I knew who would have traded a much needed meal for just a little bit of
toothpaste, rouge, soap or cologne. Not much point in fighting if you have to lose your humanity. These things are morale-builders like nothing else.
8. Slow burning candles and matches, matches, matches
very interesting... DNH
http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-apocalypse-never/
"See, that’s what’s sad about all this: the post-disaster world will be just like this one, only worse. All the lousy coworkers and squabbles and crap, but none of the luxuries. The winners won’t be the zombies, just another set of bosses."
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