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The 12 simple things you can start doing right now to prepare for the coming financial apocalypse (see here):

  1. Become Less Dependent On Your Job
  2. Get Out Of Debt
  3. Reduce Expenses
  4. Purchase Land
  5. Learn To Grow Food
  6. Find A Reliable Source Of Water
  7. Explore Alternative Energy Sources
  8. Store Supplies
  9. Protect Your Assets With Gold And Silver
  10. Learn Self-Defense
  11. Keep Yourself Fit
  12. Make Friends

See also: The Prepper Movement: Why Are Millions Of Preppers Preparing Feverishly For The End Of The World As We Know It?

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Country lifestyle (a better way to live):

  1. Spiritual
  2. Food/water - Water (minimum: 1 gal/per day/person for 2 weeks -- i.e. 14 gal. per person)
  3. Energy -- see Homesteading and Country Living. Bare minimum: camp stove with propane cans.
  4. Natural remedies - charcoal, water therapy, etc.
  5. Survival skills - making fire, makeshift shelter, knowledge in wild/edible plants
  6. Financial assets - money (cash and gold/silver), assets with exponential returns (i.e. seeds, tools)
  7. Location - living in a rural country setting

FOOD (one person for one year):

  • Grains: 300 lbs
  • Legumes: 60 lbs
  • Fruit: 185 lbs
  • Vegetables: 185 lbs
  • Sugars: 60 lbs
  • Milk: 75 lbs
  • Fats/Oils: 25 lbs
  • Misc. Cooking: 10 lbs (salt, yeast, etc.)
    TOTAL: 900 lbs

LOCATION (rural):

  • Solve the source of income first:
    • Same type of job, if possible
    • Telecommuting
    • Local business - on side first
    • Online (telemarketing) business - on side first
    • Small market gardening
  • Find a home with the following properties:
    • Acreage. 10 acres min.
    • Access. easy/hard
    • Water. sufficient for family and agriculture
    • Soil. for gardening
    • Slope. slight southwest
    • Timber. firewood
    • Privacy. buffer with neighbors
  • Steps in finding a country property:
    1. Employment - Solve source of income first. Commute --> (if not) telecommute --> (if not) similar job/new loc --> (if not) retrain/career change
    2. Find rental - Rent before you buy - can save thousands of dollars.
    3. Find property
    4. Garden/orchard
    5. Build shop - (barn)
    6. Build home
    7. Build guest cabin(s) - to help others

Mentors

RH July 5, 1906 - earthquakes, floods will come
6T 195
Last Day Events, p. 95

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