forever stash

FOREVER STASH


Good Humping Gravy! You’all did it again. I write a brilliant inspired gold nugget dripping with wisdom, it turns into a church pew fart article. And the next days article which I thought was a tired rehash earns me a gold star. I’m telling you, my perceptions of what satisfies a minion ( or a women, according to all wives past and present ) is skewed. Which is a great reason to just keep ignoring what others want and concentrate of what I’d like to read if I were a Bison loyal minion. I’d be wrong half the time either way, but at least I enjoy the writing this way. So, who knows what you’ll think of today’s subject. It is nothing more than my normal frugal survivalist stockpile on crack, but I thought it made a good thought exercise. What you need to live forever off your stockpiled goods.

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Of course, the title itself and the idea are more than a bit misleading. Nothing is forever. No one but Bill Gates can afford fifty years of vittles and armaments stockpiled safely away. And even fifty years isn’t enough for a multi-generational stash. This is just a “better than nothing”. It sure as heck ain’t the half million dollar Rawles mountaintop bunker and farm that would actually support a whole line of descendents, nor is it the “teach your family to trap sustainably” strategy because that is a bit too geographically constraining even if it is a couple hundred thousand dollars cheaper. This is the totally frugal tightass method of surviving a collapse in isolation. For just a few thousand dollars. One third the cost of an Asian compact car, and less than the cost of one years rent. So anyone can afford it. While earning minimum wage, paying child support and supporting the current wife, my last residence before the current Bison Compound was renting a travel trailer lot. That put me back fifteen thousand over five years. My point being, although several thousand seems like a lot, most worker bees earning crap could have that set aside in a year if they lived as frugally as possible. And bear in mind, even if the civilization collapse never occurs, the economic collapse will, and the welfare state will die a horrible death, pulling down 95% of us ( almost every single person relies somewhat or totally on the government tit ). This might actually be your only viable retirement plan. So, whether last ditch survival stash, or just the only way to avoid homelessness and malnutrition, this is a dam fine idea if I do say so myself.

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The only way to cheaply stockpile enough ammunition to last you years or decades is to concentrate ,mostly on rimfire. Sure, have a thousand or two thousand rounds of real rifle ammunition and a surplus bolt rifle, but for long term hunting and defense you must get your rimfire. Twenty thousand rounds is still only about $600. Two single shot rifles ( rimfire semi-auto is still wasteful and most of those have cheap plastic parts in their gut. Plus the expense of mags or tube springs. Go single. Your pistol can be your close in rapid fire firearm- and that assumes you don’t already own a conventional size caliber pistol ) are $200, and another $200 or so gets you a rimfire revolver ( come on, its’ nine friggin shots. You shouldn’t need to get a semi rimfire pistol ). For one grand, you have a “forever” arsenal. Far from perfect, but better than using an empty AR-15 as a plastic club.

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I wouldn’t want to just eat wheat for twenty years, and I wonder if you would even last that long because of the protein deficiency. But just look at the Asians. White rice, which is a vitamin deficient, fiber poor grain, is still calories. The rice makes up the 90% of the diet delivering calories and then vegetables and fish or eggs are added to round out the vitamin and protein needs. The rice doesn’t keep you alive, it just provides the bulk of the diet. Use your wheat stash the same way, calories which you can, if necessary for short periods of time, survive on but in normal times the bulk of your diet which is supplemented by rodents and other protein and by wild plants and container grown veggies. It isn’t ALL you eat, just the critical 90% that delivers calories. I haven’t bought a bag of wheat kernels for a year so I’m not 100% sure of the price, but let’s just go with $15 a fifty pound bag. I know the Home Despot buckets might possibly be toxic but I’m using them as the low cost storage unit ( I doubt that that plastic is any worse than the crap we breath in or eat, and I’d rather have slightly toxic grain than no grain at all because I couldn’t afford buckets at twice the price, but it is your call. Any further questions on this matter, see my Friday Fundamental links page:
http://bisonpress.com/fundamentals.html
and look up “Storing Wheat” ). For $10 you get three buckets and lids which holds a hundred pounds. $40 for a 100 pounds of wheat in buckets, $160 a year, $3,200 for two decades of bare bones calories.

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It ain’t easy, but you can still find land under a thousand bucks. West Texas is still good for even sub-$500 lots, but make sure it is close enough to surface water like the Pecos River. As a reminder, remember that Utah land in the same range is most likely a rip-off. One minion had to go to court to get a refund for a lot that was illegally subdivided and there is word ( I can’t remember if it was a minion or something I read ) that anyone living off grid is being harassed to convert to the expensive septic and well route, clearly an assault on poor folk who dare live less than middle class Yuppie Mormon Scum. You might not want to live in the desert, and I’m sure there are other options, but cheap junk land somewhere is out there for you. E-Bay search your way out of the rent trap. And of course, we just talked about the $1k cube cabin. That or a trailer and you have shelter. Total cost for the absolute minimum basics to live most of your remaining life is just around $6,000. It seems like a lot at first but it is just a third of a years minimum wage. For a security blanket that could last two decades. No, you wouldn’t voluntarily live like that, but it sure is one hell of an insurance policy that only costs $500 a month for one year. Remember, I’m almost paying that much in child support, and I still support the wife and myself, plus buy a hundred bucks a month in books, on what is left from minimum wage work ( important note, only twelve more child support payments left until the end of the world ).

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For the frugal prepper that has everything, a two decade insurance policy.

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