Re-arranging

A few years back, a local defunct lumber mill was repurposed into a bitcoin mining facility. As it turned out, bitcoin mining, I am told, uses quite a bit of electrical power and the rumour is that this business managed to singlehandedly generate enough demand to change local pricing and require infrastructure upgrades. Regardless, the business ran for a few years and then recently closed up. One of the things they were getting rid of was a huge amount of the steel wire shelving that I am so fond of. I scored a truckload of the stuff and now have the oddly enjoyable task of adding more shelving to my basement and reconfiguring the stuff that is already there..

With the…hmmm.. let’s call it ‘increase in activity’… in my own stockpiling, increased storage capacity was going to be called for eventually. Might as well get ahead of it.

Other than the increase in stored food, there was also an across-the-board increase in pretty much everything. Cleaning supplies, batteries, TP, toilet paper, dish soap, detergent, and pretty much every consumable you can think of. And that takes space. The payoff? Tremendous peace of mind.

There are a few things I hammer out in this blog over, and over, and over….and one of them is this: you will suffer far more personal, intimate EOTWAWKIs than you will the conventional zombie apocalypse kind. You will experience job losses, unexpected expenses, periods of illness, localized disasters (flood, hurricane, etc.) far more often than you will experience boogaloos. And while cases of MRE’s, .223, and night vision do have their place, you will use them exponentially less than you will use TP, battery lanterns, and wind up radios.

And, as it turns out, keeping all that food, toiletries, extra water, and sleeping bags on hand takes up space. So…new wire shelving. With inflation, economic uncertainty, ‘surges’, and who knows what else coming down the pike it just seems to make sense to keep adding a little here and there, yknow?

5 thoughts on “Re-arranging

  1. Commander Zero also in the spirit of your 50 cal BMG Vs a crisp 50 dollar bill comments…

    I bet the value of a box of 3 inch deck screws next fall WILL be Higher than the 20.00 I paid for it last month. Already since I bought it that same 3 pound box is marked 22 dollars and change and scarce on the shelves.

    They do not rust away nor do rodents eat them up unless your foolish in storage.

    Supply and demand. Not enough of them being made and a LOT of folks repairing their homes. The supply is faltering and the demand for repairs is not going away.

    Monopoly money or real tradeable NEEDS. One can be turned OFF my Government foolishness, one is IN MY HANDS safe from foolishness. You HAVE to have US Dollars for Taxes and currently liquidly but excess…

    Such a Decision…

    • nor do rodents eat them up unless your foolish in storage

      Must admit, I’ve never had rodents eat deck screws, not even when I acted foolishly. Maybe they had an iron deficiency.

      Only time I’ve been foolish in storage was once when I had too many college roommates to bring her back to the apartment.

  2. Exactly. Read “The Alpha Strategy” — the only way to beat inflation is to buy tomorrow’s needs with today’s dollars.

  3. Do not forget that bitcoin business received coal tac money aka a grant to cover a huge chunk of thier payroll.

  4. The wire rack doesn’t have the load carry capability I would like(canned goods,tools, parts can be heavy). Real pallet rack is built for very heavy loading and is very modular and customizeable. Watch for business closing and can be bought very affordably, also available through liquidators but larger orders are wanted.

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