It’s all downhill from here…
Doomsteading, Prepping, Stockpiling, Caching, Pack Ratting. Whatever you may call the process of storing goods, the idea and motivation are the same; To prepare oneself for times when things may be non-existent or scarce.
The urge to stockpile can be from anything as simple as, ‘Wow, Wal-Mart had a sale on socks, now we have 500 pair’; to, ‘I saw what happened in New Orleans and I won’t let that happen to me’ , or it could be something even more. Those are just two examples and I am not about to sit here and pretend to know all the reasons, then list all the reasons, and then give commentary on the reasons. That would be asinine. However, what I can tell you is that I think I know at least two more reasons why people stockpile…
1. Some people think that The-End-of-The-World-As-We-Know-It (TEOTWAWKI) is knocking on our door.
2. Some of those people think that society is going to collapse and that it is going to be soon.
Now I believe both. I do not feel that Armageddon is coming and that the world will be a battlefield between God and Satan. What I do feel is that trends since the 1980’s have been pushing us closer to a collapse of all that is great, grand, and spectacular about this country. I feel that the electorate has gotten ignorant, that Socialism is coming, and that the financial crisis of today, will pale in comparison to the crisis that we will see in the next 5 years. I also feel that things that we all take for granted, the internet, cell phones, electricity, running water, natural gas, food on shelves, Mt. Dew, tobacco, cotton shirts, Q-tips, Toilet Paper, are all coming closer to that invisible “Best when used by XXXXXXX”. These are things that make modern life all the more better.
I believe that when the crash does happen that the majority of people will be unprepared. I believe that many will be standing around with their dicks flapping in the wind wondering, “What the Fuck?”
So I propose this site. I don’t have all the answers, but I know what works for me. I will update as often as I feel that I have relevant info on doomsteading, prepping and stockpiling. For rants in general and the views that have made me, me please visit http://urbanesabine.wordpress.com
~A
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