are you prepped for a recession/depression?

[dbjay417]

self sufficiant with a side order of potential militantism.

I've enough to support me and mine, but theives and beggers will find themselves that the short end of a long barrel.

I've always thought of myself as an egg awaiting the right climate to hatch. i think in total chaos i could be a fine warlord.

 

[Parson's Wife]

I found an interesting website some of you might be interested in, it is
www.betterbudgeting.com
plus there's always the magazines I like
countryside and backwoods home magazines; they both have websites.
My husband is a Dave Ramsey fan...

 

[horsechick]

We are looking into some things as well, wind power, solar.
Chickens are a really neat critter for all their useful benefits.
Goats meat/milk, etc.

I recommend the new video by Micheal Moore, Sicko, if it doesn't make you cry at one point and wonder "what the heck are we doing?" than nothing will.
People think he's silly but I really like the scarcastic humor to put a fun spin on things.
The Farenheit 9/11 movie was pretty good to considering one of the headlines in news last week was concerning two seperate groups who have done some reports and found 500+++ false statements made by Pres. and the rest before/after/during the whole aftermath of 9/11.
Turns out the video wasn't so far off....
I also found an alternative more "worldy" information space, www.linktv.org, or link tv-379? on direct tv. Gives news and stories from around the world versus the propaganda the corporate media wants to put out there. It has some interesting shows on it.

House sales down, (who can really afford a $500,000 home? +taxes,ins., utilities) repos/foreclosures highest they've ever been, ((Have you ever seen flip this house? where someone pays $325,000 for a fixer upper?!?!?! and then resells for $650,000?!?!)) cash in a flashs on every corner (legal loan sharking) people can't afford to live from week to week, credit card debt the highest its ever been, just read article in USA Today how companies are turning to individual health ins. for their employees instead of group, so they don't have to pay for employees healthcare, maybe $50-$200 a month, and have employees buy their own= more of a chance they will be denied/pay higher amount for less coverage or end up having none.
Education is not very good.
My old hometown has just been named as a dropout factory by an outside company and the people on the board etc had the gall to act insulted or surprised...a 54% graduation rate apparently wasn't clue enough for them, LMAO! Then they decide it might be better to combine schools. (Yea that will help, take the small schools doing good with smaller classes and force them into having a 2,000+ student body and way larger classes so you can leave some more kids behind. Great idea.)
I think they'd rather have us bickering among ourselves over trivial things than to realize a lot of people feel the same, get over the differences and make a real change in this country.

Greed is the root of all evil.
Sorry to babble.

 

[dbjay417]

What i hate about Michael Moore is that hes just so one sided. He pretends to paint a big picture but all he really paints is a puzzle piece, and a lot of gullable people buy into it all hook line and sinker. A lot of Americans lack the ability to sift the BS out of Reality, so if something makes enough sense, they accept the whole scenario as fact. Micheal Moore Belongs in Washington DC with the rest of the bipartisan finger pointers.

i don't care whose fault it is. lets just fix it already.

 

[yardbird tx]

I'm so sick of hearing the (you Ron Paul people) stuff. I dont even try to talk to people any more about why they should be getting ready to take care of themselves.

Down the road if you are hungry, thirsty or scared. Come see me. I have protection, eggs, and deer meat to sell. I take gold and bullets as payment.

 

[valmom]

It really just makes sense to be as self-sufficient as you are comfortable with (or your SO is comfortable with:/) We have chickens, I tried jelly making last year, we do a garden, and I want to try canning things that can't possibly go wrong (tomatoes). I have horses that right now are just a pleasureable drain, but could be used to haul logs or plow, or work in some way that doesn't burn fuel.

I am constantly reading and trying to learn how to be more self-sufficient. My SO thinks I'm a nut. So, it's a constant balancing act.

I do get paranoid ocasionally, and look at our wonderful property and wonder if the worst happened could it sustain us, and could we defend what we have. It sounds like I'm a nut, but, I'm really middle of the road. Just a natural pessimist.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Well this was a good thread while it lasted.

Michael Moore??? Even most liberals I know don't like him.
Oh ya, he's not American. He's Canadian. Sorry my Canadian
friends. It's not your fault.

Hey Quad, consider starting a new thread about actual
techniques used to become self suficient. I think you touced
on a good topic here. I'd like to continue a good, non-political,
discussion.

 

[nightshade]

Quote:
I know the feeling we shop every two weeks (when Dh gets paid ) and spend 300-400 in the grocery store. We don't buy alot of extras, the closes we may come to an extra is animal food or a new pair of shoes once a year.

 

[nightshade]

oh yea there is also a self suffecenty post on theeasygarden too for those intrested.

 

[All about the EGG]

You have to learn to take care of yourself...