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Survival Savvy - Surviving Disasters Whether Natural or Man-Made
Become Survival Savvy!
The word 'survival' conjures up all sorts of unpleasant images -- like surviving a car crash to surviving a heart-attack. It's a conscious thought but we rarely go beyond anything more than just the thought.
Yes, some of us get a kick out of watching the Survivor TV show, but that's an altogether different ball-game. The word 'disaster' gets demoted to the disastrous feeling of 'our home team lost the game' -- that's a disaster?
It's disaster survival in other parts of the world, like famines or mudslides, which make us feel helpless to do anything. Now those are disasters! We need to pay attention to what we can do - in our own backyards.
And Speaking of Backyards ...
My first experience of Survival Savvy after hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in 2004, was easy, I'm sure, compared to poor souls who lost everything they own - including their lives - in mudslides, volcano eruptions, and wars. Read my brief story and see photos of how we 'got through it'.
What Goes Up Must Come Down?
Well, that's the theory. But it doesn't always work that way. The price of oil is rising, but that's due in part to the rise in commodity prices and the value of the dollar decreasing. It's known as inflation, and the US is headed for hard times.
For the past fifty years, all's been well, we've gone about our daily business. Things don't seem to change on a daily basis. It's only when you do compare things such as the price of oil now to the price of oil 'back then' do you realize just how drastically 'things' have changed!
Become Survival Savvy!
Many of the middle eastern countries are 'at odds' with each other, which will adversely affect how our country receives needed shipments via the Suez Canal.
Food prices WILL and ARE rising, and we need to get prepared NOW to save money by dehydrating foods while we can still afford it! This brings us to Survival Savvy. And Action.
How To Survive Blog goes into detail on Survival Shelters, Survival Food, Seeds, and Pure Water. All things man (and woman!) needs and must have to survive.
Here's "need-to-know" information about Solar Flares, Earthquakes, EMP, Survival Gardening, Urban Survival, and how to grow 100 year crops ... and so much more, please check out: How To Survive Blog. You'll be glad you did.
Time to Get Down and Dirty
Even a small plot of land can yield awesome bounties of fruits and vegetables for dehydration, but we've become too accustomed to driving to the grocery store. It's "too much like hard work" to grow your own -- so why even bother, let alone think about it! Yeah. Right.
It's time to start saving money and it's time to get back to basics, whether it's trimming your budget or trimming your grass to make way for your very own carrots, potatoes, lettuce -- you name it! And with your bounty - you can dehydrate it - and store it! Here's Survival Savvy at its best:
Simple Green Living - Help Yourself, Others
Check out this great site! Simple Green Living helps families and individuals take steps toward a low-impact, high-efficiency lifestyle! Grow your own food, save money, save on fuel, learn homesteading skills and so much more!
You bet! I'm living proof. Save money by cutting out things that aren't absolute necessities, such as:
Smoking, booze, soda pop ... but I'm not here to preach, but to give examples of how to save money.
Stop eating out at fancy restaurants so much!
Walk to the stores if they're not too far away to save gasoline!
Turn the A/C up 1 or 2 degrees in summer - you'll get used to it and save money!
Save money by using electric blankets on your beds in the wintertime instead of wasting money heating the WHOLE house!
The Three C's: Credit Card Crunch
For years, we've been led to believe that having a credit card was like a status symbol -- the more you have, then, obviously, the better off you are! Saving money became an unthinkable thing to do for the majority of us.
And it's that kind of thinking that's gotten us into trouble -- we're borrowing from the future instead of living in the present -- and living within our means!
We don't know what 'living within our means' is anymore! It's time to get serious with your household budget and really find out why there's nothing left over at the end of the month. It's FUN to be FRUGAL (but it's not Hip to be Hard-up!!!) Be Survival Savvy!
Get Yourself An Education
It's amazing all the stuff they teach in school.
Or is it?
Looking back on my school days, there was a distinct lack of anything money-related being taught. You were pushed to 'get a job' via 'job counseling' ... so where was all the entrepreneurial stuff being taught?
I guess it's either something that's inside you - or not.
But - it certainly doesn't hurt to be educated about money. On the contrary!
This country is now facing a disaster in record numbers of home foreclosures, personal and commercial bankruptcies, and high unemployment. So what money we do have needs to be managed (better). So where do you begin?
Try visiting Secrets2Money.com to find out what you can do, starting today. There's answers to lots of questions. Secrets2Money has many different categories of questions and answers:
Debt
Save Money
Negotiating
Real Estate
... these are just some of the categories that are full of easy ways to put more cash in your wallet and bank accounts. Hop on over and take a look! Then come on back here to get going with your dehydrated food!
Plant seeds in your garden and grow your own food.
Buy meats now, when they go on sale and stock away.
Purchase canned meats too, they last around 2-3 years. Check their expiration dates at the store! You can dehydrate fresh meats (after they've been cooked, i.e. your leftovers).
Surviving in a Deflationary Economy
According to Delwyn Lounsbury, the self-proclaimed Deflation Guru, (I won't argue with that!) -- the United States is headed down a deflationary road, which began in 2000 and is likely to last until 2016/18.
So we've got quite a few more years to get through before a positive cycle for the United States begins again.
When times are tough, people hold onto their money, and are unwilling to make impulse purchases, and even 'not-so-impulse' purchases either, be it in cash or on their credit cards. When this happens, businesses have no choice but to cut into their profit margins and reduce prices.
If things get bad enough, it then causes businesses to begin losing money on their products, because they need to sell their inventory. Product is then sold below cost to move it out of the warehouse. Credit is tight, so many small businesses cannot get a loan to tide them over until 'better times' arrive.
This now leads to job layoffs because the business cannot afford to 'stay in business' if all product is sold at a loss. There's only the government that can 'stay in business' selling at a loss, because they have access to the tax-payers' pockets, and Ben Bernanke's Quantitative Easing packages ...
We still haven't got a balanced budget, almost 3 years into the current presidential administration - and yet they expect all taxpayers to stick to a budget! Sadly, most people DON'T have a budget, spend more than they earn, charge everything on their credit cards -- and bham! ... hence all the bankruptcies across America.
People are not saving as much as they used to because prices are skyrocketing. Funny thing is, you may not notice it on a day-to-day basis, but when you look back to only a year ago, you'll see a price percentage rise in the double-digits -- of many goods! You may also find companies are packaging product differently - i.e. same container but it has an ounce less of product IN IT, but at the same price.
All this in the name of stopping us from panicking and putting "two and two together".
Here's a quote from Delwyn: "The Greater Depression will be three times larger and three times longer than the 1930's great depression. The world will experience the pain of the cure for credit inflation - a nasty credit deflation economy and the rest of the Greater Depression which actually started in 2000 with the dot com stock peak - a bubble mania climax. Real estate, stocks and most other assets will drop 90% from peak and bottom in years 2016 to 2018. Even gold may drop in half by then. Unemployment will be 30% plus. Why?
IT IS GOING TO BE MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE RETURN OF YOUR CAPITAL THAN TO HAVE A RETURN ON YOUR CAPITAL IN THE YEARS AHEAD."
Delwyn's site, www.deflationeconomy.com, gives you a thorough explanation of what deflation means to businesses and to the ordinary guy on the street.
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