Let's come up with the end of the world work out plan

[MrCoffee]

Sigh.

Read Deep Winter and Shatter by Thomas Sherry, read One Second After, and Light's Out, and Things Fall apart. All fictional, but they WILL change your outlook.

Sigh. Preparedness is a way of life, not something you do once.

 

[R.A.T.]

Sigh. Preparedness is a way of life, not something you do once.

Ahhh, some sanity brought to this thread. Best statement yet on this topic!

 

[lazerboy2000]

Good thread!

I agree that bartering is a great skill to have and one I always wish I was better at. In a SHTF scenario, it will be a skill that is realistically practical in an urban setting.

I'd also suggest learning how to disappear/live off the grid. No credit cards, no cellular phones, nothing that can be traced. I feel that if SHTF, it may go into Martial Law and they will round up everybody to maintain order. They will probably try to find you if you suddenly "disappear". Big Brother is watching

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[otis williams]

this guy's got a head start.

and defiant kicks ass.

 

[R.A.T.]

I'd also suggest learning how to disappear/live off the grid. No credit cards, no cellular phones, nothing that can be traced. I feel that if SHTF, it may go into Martial Law and they will round up everybody to maintain order. They will probably try to find you if you suddenly "disappear". Big Brother is watching

RP #36
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Read the book "How To Be Invisible" by J.J. Luna. You can start going covert now and not have to go totally native to be relatively invisible.

 

[R.A.T.]

this guy's got a head start.

Only problem is now that he's public, someone will try to roust him form his hole.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

I remember reading an article about a university professor who decided to leave his job for a year and live by dumpster diving. His wife took a waitressing job to pay for electricity, water, and food, but that was it. Everything else that they got was from dumpster diving. What amazed me was one comment that he made--he said that he was actually dressing better than he had when he was teaching thanks to all of the brand new clothes that he found dumped out in the trash all the time! Just about every material possession you could want he found in the rubbish heap. Hell, my internet router and a vintage Imperial pocket knife both came from the dump!

 

[Grump]

It's sad that there is so much good stuff thrown away when so many people are in need. We truly are a wasteful society.

 

[otis williams]

Only problem is now that he's public, someone will try to roust him form his hole.

that, and he's still relying on society to feed and clothe him. but he's over the psychological part of eating "nasty" stuff and not having all the comforts of our modern world.