I could go into specifics, but there’s lots of that out there. Maybe the most useful thing I can say is that preppers massively underestimate skills and connections, and overestimate just having whatever stockpile or tool. Don’t get me wrong, it’s better than not having that, but between the two having skills and connections will actually keep you going longer and under more circumstances.
At the beginning of Covid searches for “how to cook rice” spiked, IIRC.
If you’re starting fresh, maybe figure out what you’ll be doing and who you’ll be doing it with, get ready and organised for that, and then buy stuff to make it easier. If the collapse is global or local doesn’t matter much for this, BTW, only how it will look where you live.
Edit: If that sounds like work, it basically just is. The apocalypse was never going to be easy. Preppers who just buy stuff is a thing, because disposable income is much more common than disposable time and disposable interest in an unpleasant scenario.
One of the main reasons why I love watching people like Primitive Technology on the 'toob.
Chap goes through the process of building shelter from nothing but the shorts keeping you decent, and access to a bit of yard with a creek that has some good clay and sometimes grows iron eating bacteria.
Yeah, and over a very long crisis, some of that could become relevant. (The general concept of bootstrapping technology from nothing is kind of an obsession of mine)
Before equipment starts to wear out, anything that can run off a solar panel will continue to work (if you can afford it), though, and it’s hard to picture no leftover metal any time in our natural lifespans.
In a short-term disaster, just how to survive your local climate and navigate without help until things go back to normal is the main concern. And you can pretty much rely on other people being helpful. In the medium term, the way people live in the third world or remote areas right now is the best source.
I could go into specifics, but there’s lots of that out there. Maybe the most useful thing I can say is that preppers massively underestimate skills and connections, and overestimate just having whatever stockpile or tool. Don’t get me wrong, it’s better than not having that, but between the two having skills and connections will actually keep you going longer and under more circumstances.
At the beginning of Covid searches for “how to cook rice” spiked, IIRC.
If you’re starting fresh, maybe figure out what you’ll be doing and who you’ll be doing it with, get ready and organised for that, and then buy stuff to make it easier. If the collapse is global or local doesn’t matter much for this, BTW, only how it will look where you live.
Edit: If that sounds like work, it basically just is. The apocalypse was never going to be easy. Preppers who just buy stuff is a thing, because disposable income is much more common than disposable time and disposable interest in an unpleasant scenario.
One of the main reasons why I love watching people like Primitive Technology on the 'toob.
Chap goes through the process of building shelter from nothing but the shorts keeping you decent, and access to a bit of yard with a creek that has some good clay and sometimes grows iron eating bacteria.
Yeah, and over a very long crisis, some of that could become relevant. (The general concept of bootstrapping technology from nothing is kind of an obsession of mine)
Before equipment starts to wear out, anything that can run off a solar panel will continue to work (if you can afford it), though, and it’s hard to picture no leftover metal any time in our natural lifespans.
In a short-term disaster, just how to survive your local climate and navigate without help until things go back to normal is the main concern. And you can pretty much rely on other people being helpful. In the medium term, the way people live in the third world or remote areas right now is the best source.