Life is good right now if you live in America, relatively speaking and according to most mainstream media outlets. The DOW keeps punching through all time highs, gas prices are low, jobs are being added while unemployment is dropping. Inflation is low and optimism is high, credit is once again plentiful and you too can buy your living room furniture at 0% APR for 72 months! If you are a gun enthusiast, prices have once again nearly bottomed out and supply for both guns and ammunition is plentiful while (thankfully) new laws challenging gun rights have largely been thwarted. Life is good.
But for how long?
Anything that cannot go on forever…WILL STOP.
Take advantage of this opportunity and make like a squirrel.
Say the word “hoarding” to most people and it will conjure up images of reality TV about people who live surrounded by piles of junk. In ecology hoarding has a much different meaning, and refers to the practice of hiding food to be eaten later. Hoarding is a strategy to store seasonally abundant food to eat later in the year and to hide food from other animals….
If you have watched a squirrel for any amount of time, it is quickly obvious that most of a squirrel’s life is spent chasing nuts. They risk life and limb to grab them off the spindly ends of branches far above the ground, they spend hours burying and re-burying them throughout the forest, and they brawl with other squirrels over access to the best trees.
Don’t be like the people who are on the east cost right now facing a blizzard, caught with their pants down and standing in line to buy bread / milk / eggs.
Photo Credit Teresa Priolo @fox5teresa
By the way, what’s the obsession with bread, milk and eggs when a storm of any sort approaches? I rarely eat bread, maybe the occasional sandwich. Eggs? It’s whatever man, fry me up and omelet and I’ll toss cheese and hot sauce on it but I don’t go out of my way. Milk? I haven’t drank milk in years. I digress.
Here’s my point. Who knows how long this time of “prosperity” will last. What goes up must come down and when it does it might not be SHTF but it could be close. I know it may sound contradictory but buy what you need, save money while you can, pay off those credit cards and finish those projects. Don’t wait until it’s too late because when that happens you’ll be one of those morons willing to pay $5k for an $800 AR15 because you think a gun ban is coming.
Make like a squirrel, stock up on nuts and be prepared to defend them at all cost.
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I never understood the milkbreadegg thing either (one word used intentionally there), you would be better off with pork and beans and other canned goods that can be rolled into a pillowcase and carried should the need arise. but I digress, too.
I am of the same mindset as far as putting things back in times of relative plenty. History teaches us that humans don’t tend to learn very fast as a whole and we tend to make the same mistakes over and again as a species. I prefer to be one of the exceptions in this and try to learn ways to make the bumps in the road a bit less jarring. Be it a personal crisis , losing job, injury etc, big storms or S really hitting the fan, a little forethought can make a big difference.
but I’m preaching to the choir here.
Amen. Seven years of plenty followed by seven lean years.
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