TIme for you to play with my poll……
Whaddya think you spend on average per year on stuff to advance your level of preparedness?’On average’…so if you bought a BOV this year, thats not really part of the average unless you buy one every year, capice? And we’re talking items specifically towards your level of preparedness. ‘Dual use’ stuff doesn’t count…think of it this way, it’s specifically an item you bought for preparedness if you wouuldn’t have bought it otherwise.
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Let’s review, shall we? “A bird in the hand is worth more than a bird on the wire” “whatever you pay today, will be cheaper than what you pay tomorrow” +/or “you can pay me now, or you can pay me later” “this product is subject to importation and or govermental restrictions, thus it’s availability is never a certainty” “the availability of this product/item is subject to the wants of 300 million other people within your nation and the other 6 billion people sharing your planet with you” “happenstance or circumstances can cause an unavailabilty of this item-product that makes it un-obtainium on the periodical chart thus the rarest element” So, you spent how much? Let’s get those numbers up people! “You came into this world broke and naked, you might as well go out broke, and you will be naked in the end of this” happy prepping games!
Is this just spending on disaster preparedness or spending on preparedness in general (saving money as preparation for down payment on a home, investments as preparation for retirement, etc.)?
Money spent, outside of six@months to a year of savage basic living expenses is better used for gear -kit. Your 401k-IRA =crashed 60-80%loss. Home, good but will it be over-run or find you behind enemy lines, in precarious a location location location that had “good schools”. Retirement= 90% dollar value loss since 1913, getting better? 30 to 40 year saving and investment in this paradigm? Nope. Go shopping while the trucks still roll,
My opinion, may not be a popular one here, is that if you aren’t preparing to be wrong (SHTF doesn’t happen in your lifetime) there’s a hole in your preps.
Really not that much, maybe $1,800 or so, specifically for a grid-down future.
“Dual-use” stuff, useful in good times or bad, total probably goes north of $5,000.
Almost everything I spend is either a one shot deal (extra propane canisters, extra parts for for my bicycles, the 200 rounds of 30-30 I keep squirreled away…) or dual use. The bicycle that will work great for getting around when gas isn’t available (either do to price spikes or short supply) is the same bike that I already do most of my getting around on, I just have a bigger than average parts bin. Same with food. I made lentil chili for dinner tonight and most of what went into it was shelf stable, either dried or canned. I keep about 3 months worth of food on hand and all of that is stuff that could be “preps” or it could be dinner. When a food item drops below the 3 months supply mark I stock back up.
I think I spend around $200 a year on prep specific stuff. But, my way of looking at things is pretty light on stuff and complexity.
What would you consider Gold and Silver?
What it is doesn’t matter. Why you bought it is the determining factor.
I want a swimming pool full of it so I can roll around naked in it. Not sure why.
I want a swimming pool full of strippers for the same reason.
Gonna need some baby oil for that…
Nah…get the good stuff…by the barrel!
You get a swimming pool of Gold & Silver, and you can end up with a swimming pool full of strippers.
A pool,a cooler of margaritas,a bunch of pool party invitations and just turn up the music. A few burgers on the grill and you could be a legend
What about guns, ammo, accessories (optics, slings, mags, parts, etc.) and training?
What about them?
I try to buy everything with dual purpose.
I was trying to think of items that would be hard to dual purpose and so far all i can come up with is a plate carrier and plates.
I look at it like this: having 1 or 2 1 pound propane canisters around for your camp stove is “normal.” I have around 13 of them. But, that extra 12 is/was just a one time expense. Now that I have scads of the things I just buy 1 or 2 when I use one up.
The initial outlay of cash I made preps wise was pretty steep, but my ongoing costs are fairly minimal.
More along the same line of thought. Owning one hiking water purifier would be a “normal/dual use” thing to have. I have two purifiers and two extra filters for each purifier. But, now that have all that filtering equipment I’m only spending $30-40 every other year to replace what I use up.
Same here. I had to vote Zero based on that.
My armor is now used at the range (gotta keep used to wearing it) and was used at my former job, so even that works a dual purpose for me.
The last thing I bought JUST BECAUSE of preparedness was cheap night vision just prior to y2k because….well I hate to admit it but I don’t know everything and if I had been wrong I would kicked myself for not getting at least that level of NV.
Heck I consider my drone hobby to be dual purpose tho everyone thinks i am just in it for the fun. Those things make great recon tools. (and i don’t mean thos bs dji’s).
What would you recommend other than DJI?
Now that we are living the life, we spend very little in preps alone. Additionally, much of what we buy is second hand. I continue to be amazed at how foolish people are.
If we were to count the entire camp we are putting in, the cost would be in the thousands; however, we will be using the camp for generations…assuming, of course, we still have a country. Otherwise, well, I’m not going down that road…
“single use” spending is minimal as most of those have been in inventory for a while. Dual use spending is >5K year but is down the last several as the next stage of prepping means $$$,$$$ capex investments in real estate and in businesses.
My number is pretty low, under $1,000. If it isn’t dual use, I probably don’t need it. I live in my bugout location, and I’m starting to grow our food, so that helps keep expenses down.