This is SHTF.
In 2020 our nation entered a true SHTF situation. There is no denying that.
It was early in 2021 that I realized we had not emerged from that SHTF scenario, instead, it was simply changing. The masks came off but the battles between groups grew darker.
The political divide widened and the strain on our resources, inflation, the cost of living overall, violence in the streets, corruption in the highest seats, and the general anxiety that the average person carries on a day-to-day basis all tells me that we are living through a massive and historical time in history.
Is Prepping Over Because Value Is Harder To Find?
To put it simply, everything is more expensive. It’s not just the price of meat and fuel that is going up, but everything is going up. Of course, this includes a variety of prepper items that are essential to preparedness.
I wanted to give you some examples of how much the price of preps has changed over a little less than a decade.
The first bare root peach trees I purchased were $25 each. I bought 3 and I got one free. Now they are running around $60 each! These are trees that will take 2 years to produce fruit.
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The first bag of 50lb rice I bought for making home food storage was just under $19. Now that same bag of rice costs $25 and some change.
Firearms and ammunition have taken a massive hit on prices and that is only going up. This is an across-the-board problem that is only going to get worse in time.
There will come a time when firearms are out of the budget for many Americans.
Emergency food storage has been impacted by this, as well. The first bucket of hard red wheat that I purchased cost me around $23 for a 5-gallon bucket. That same bucket has doubled in price today.
This is the way the price on all emergency food storage has gone. It is even worse with proteins like powdered eggs and freeze-dried meats.
Is Prepping Over Because Moving And Building Is Tougher Than Ever?
One of the most important parts of preparing for the chaos is deciding where you should live out your days in SHTF.
If you are one of many people who are living in a location that is going to erupt into chaos or already as, the question becomes: can you move?
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Interest rates are going up and that will affect a new mortgage. Banks are going to continue to make credit harder to get as this banking crisis keeps grinding on. Worst of all is the price of homes.
I keep hearing that home values are starting to drop but if you chose to move right now you would be faced with downsizing for an insane price.
Here in Virginia, it is not uncommon for me to see $200,000 manufactured homes in the country with 3 bedrooms under 1800 sq ft.
Before 2020 those kinds of places were going for $100,000 and below.
So, if you want to be a prepper who lives in the country and has to move to get there you will get less for your money and you will pay higher interest.
That said, it might still be a good time to move because I have a feeling that owning a home in the future is going to be nearly impossible.
The Voice Of Prepping Is Far From Over
Just 5 years ago there were lots of preppers creating content. It was pretty easy to comb out the best from the bunch and really start making progress as a prepper yourself.
Since 2020, the pool has gotten deep and it can be complicated and frustrating to find out where you should be getting your information.
YouTube, Blogs, and Podcasts offer up so many valuable takes on prepping now that there are almost too many options.
Who do you read, watch, listen to? Who is speaking to you just so you will give them a thumbs up? Who is really conveying the experience that lines up with your own?
If you are an urban prepper then you should not spend all of your time listening to homesteaders who live on 50 acres. They are in a different thought process than you. Find a tribe that fits you and make sure they are adding value and teaching you things that you can pull off.
Skilled Prepping Is Never Over
It’s not all bad! No matter how far behind you are there are always skills. Skills are always an option.
Doesn’t matter if there is nothing out there to buy. Doesn’t matter if you are stuck living on the roof of a New York high rise while the city around you burns. It’s never too late for skills.
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This is why you hear us preach so much about skills because they give you an edge in an inflationary period and resource crisis.
When food is too expensive or not available then you have the option of looking to the wild places. These can be rivers or forests.
Skills give you the ability to do more with less and that is exactly where you want to be right now.
Quality Of Information Is Better
As prepping opportunities change with the times, the one thing that is better than ever is the quality of information and access to information.
Now, it is true that looking at things like threat reports everyday will probably drive you insane before it gets you prepared, but it is a good slice of motivation.
Use that information to help you better understand the threats near you and create a plan for the future. Threats are always changing but your base level preparedness along with a growing collection of skills will make all the difference.
Is prepping over? Not quite. In fact, the lifestyle of self-reliance is a balance between skills and purchased resources. One side of that equation grows as the other side shrinks.
When you start you need many more purchased resources to achieve a basic level of preparedness. However, as you acquire more skills you need less and less.
Prepping will be over first for those who assume they can buy their way out of a crisis. To the people who think they will survive on purchased freeze dried food and stocking their pantries and medicine cabinets to the brim, prepping will end for them first. Use them as a canary in the coal mine.
If you can look into the woods and see medicine and food, if you can defend yourself and your family, if you can find and purify water, grow from seed, raise animals, make friends, make trades and preserve food, then you are going to outlast the buyers with ease.
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NO, But “it will come to a STOP” and then, WE become Scavengers, and Lotter and scared and crazy people that will do anything for survival and we will destroy each other for so little.
Millions will go and fall to the evil side, just because they are not prepared.
REV: 13: 16-17
That movie The Walking Dead. Remove the zombies and just look at how the people are acting. That is how it will be.
Really sucks, that it has come to this… but here we are. lol
stay sharp
PS: This is not a Drill this is a warning that more is to come.
I absolutely agree Red. Remove the zombies from Walking Dead and you have a fairly real realistic look. It’s at least close enough to provoke some thought.
I believe that is one way out in the Bible.
One chance to NOT take the mark and still live.
What is the mark? Minney thought it was the vaccine for Covid… Historically… It’s some kind of a tattoo… Or a micro chip…. So what is it going to be? I’m sure it will not be a giant 666 tattooed on your forehead.
My grandmoter grew her own food, and preserved it through canning, drying and freezing. This was not prepping, it was a way of life. But the Republicans love to prep because they crave the “End times”. Probably so they can start shooting people.
Its not prepping, its a way of living.
The end time. there will be an End Time, that will come upon the earth, but we know not, of the time for His Great return, SO WE PREP in order to sustain our selves, until His Coming.
Its NOT about a republican or a demoncrate, it is about staying alive.
Most grandparents “did prep” for the (seasons) so they could make it thru the “hard time”.
So YES, they did prep in the old days, not like today where we have people that don’t do nothing but make it hard on everyone else’s, by way of being deceived… YOU?
stay sharp
Oh look another deranged liberal. There’s a certain political party who advocates violence, riots, looting, burning & destruction of property & businesses, & erasing God & Christianity from our culture & society, while forcing ungodly ideologies upon everyone & calling us a slew of virtue signaling insults when we don’t agree or accept what’s being forced upon us.
It amazes me there are people like you reading these articles, & are still so clueless as to what is going on in our country & society.
Perfectly said, DAVE!!!!!!!
Thank you.
stay sharp
Ever think that the Republicans are intending on doing it right?
Republicans do value life. Until others try to to take one’s life via murder, theft, arson, etc.
Come to my house and try to cause my family harm, directly or indirectly, they will not enjoy what my family will do to them.
And they won’t try to harm anyone ever again either.
My wife is darned good with swinging a cast iron frying pan…
It is called self defense, self preservation.
Don’t try to take what is not yours or cause another harm with criminal intent and you won’t have to worry about getting shot.
FYI: More shootings are perpetrated by non Republicans.
More crimes are committed by non Republicans.
You are so stupid Lisa! Growing your own food, canning, and drying are all methods of prepping for later. If not, Grandma would have eaten it all at once and not planed on anything for tomorrow. It is obvious that you are uneducated or else you could spell grandmother????? Maybe you do have a grandmoter. she must have been a genius compared to you!
You are a nasty human.
Please leave and tell your little local community how you really feel.
You are contributing nothing of value.
Puff puff pass, puff puff pass….
Always a troll or two who wants to attack….
Poor Lisa Blake. A fool is born every minute. Weak minded people all end up in the same place in this life. Confussed, angry but don’t know why, cult oriented, weak in mind and heart, athiest, and completely deranged. UInfortunately, 50% of this country falls into this bracket we label as Liberals. The real enemies of civilization.
This is so far removed from red or blue. As a Republican I have zero plans to shoot anyone, even an ignorant Democrat. And I have prepped for decades simply because of where I live.
And it isn’t lost on anyone that the most violent cities in the US are run by Dems. Without changing your thinking you will not survive because it will take everyone, regardless of political affiliation, to make it.
Yeah, we’ve always lived in the country, gardening and preserving food is fun, not prepping. HaHa, a lot of my conservative neighbors fly the black AR15 on a white ground flag, but I’m not worried about them shooting me, we’re on the same side.
Harvesting and preserving food has always been prepping. It is done so you can survive when fresh food is not available. It is fun and also work, but that is a way to continue to live comfortably. Even a squirrel with a brain the size of a marble is a prepper. They know enough to store nuts for surviving the winter when their source of food is not just laying around for casual feeding. Now days prepping is just another way to survive when resources are scarce. Getting a heavier coat out of storage, or putting an extra blanket on your bed, or adding an extra log on the fire is prepping for a colder night. Prepping is just having the foresight to be prepared for what is possible to happen in the future. Most prepping is just common sense and forethought to get ready for what is coming. Unfortunately, city dwellers seem to have lost the skill for survival. Preppers have a greater chance to survive than unprepared liberals that rely on somebody else to furnish everything.
You don’t have to live in a log cabin with a dirt floor to be prepared. Just have a good supply of the things that you need, just like the pioneers did. it may not be easy but how much do you want to survive?
We thank the good Lord that we were prepping far earlier than 2020. We actually were very comfortable watching the unfortunates who live day to day. That sounds kind of rude, I know, but we also helped out some of our neighbors and residents of ALF who were unable to acquire the necessary items for their wellbeing. Now several of our neighbors are preppers too! So, mission accomplished. We never stop prepping. We buy what we need and buy one or two more. We are getting ready for retirement, so money will be tight, but we have worked our preps up to about 3 years with a rotation plan in place. We grow some our own veggies, mostly herbs, dehydrate what we can and freeze what we can. We are a team, and that’s what it takes to make it happen.
Lisa Blake, I do those same things your grandmother did. I am a republican. I do not crave “end-times”, nor do I want to start shooting people. None of my many republican/conservative friends want that to happen either.
It’s actually the left-liberals who rioted, looted, burned cities and police departments (with cops inside!) and hurt or killed people all thru the summer of 2020. Portland OR is still suffering from this. It WAS NOT republicans, nor conservatives who did this. And I’m not sure why Libs always want to make everything political. This site is for preparedness, not politics. It’s for helping everyone, not just Democrats or Republicans. IMHO.
Never stop prepping until you can no longer prep anymore.
It will slow down but it won’t stop.
Until the end.
Most people think SHTF will be one big cow plop. Nope, it’s more scours hitting the fan. (Those who know cattle know what that is.)
With all the bad , corrupt, morons, villiage idiots in charge
It will never be over
Plan , Prepare, always be on Guard , NEVER trust any gov. official
and pray to God to protect you from the coming disasters
the worst is yet to come
90 day s min. really should have 1 year stored for hard time s
no money , just trade items , and lots of common sense
when it all fails and believe me it will
then the end shall come , like a thief in the nite , when you think all is well and peace finally
then the one who is really destroying will surface
and force , no option , yes force you to worship the beast or starve , not have , not buy
matter of when
Pre tribulation rapture isn’t biblical
Ok, as I read the article I had to chuckle. First and foremost prepping, being prepared, survivalism is a lifestyle. It not just what we buy, or what our dollar can buy. We have over 2000 canning jars back in the back and several hundreds more of quart and pint in barrels for replacements. The canning lids and rings fill two large totes [as in 2ft by about 10 high by 16 wide for both large rings and regular [total of 4 totes]. The redundancy of our water supply, well it doesn’t just go away.
Having said that, does the value [or devaluation] of the dollar affect our buying. Of course it does. It doesn’t change the way live. It doesn’t change the plans of added rainwater catchment. It doesn’t change the plans for a smoke house. It only affects our gardening as we are forced to find more alternatives to the very limited application of commercial fertilizer. It only affects the medicinal herbs we grow in the high tunnel in that we now grow both some chicken and quail in there as well to have a more complete eco-system. Again, this is a lifestyle.
Chicken manure is a great fertilizer, if you garden is large , making a compost tea will make it go farther. And you could see if the neighbors have a larger supply and would share , goat, horse or cow poops with you.
As long as there is WINTER prepping will never end. LOL.
We as Republicans do not crave the end of time. We just want to keep and protect the things and the way of life we worked for! We do not want to shoot anyone but any Democrat tries to take what is mine because they are so used to taking instead of working for it, they might need a hearse.
Republicans are a joke
Republican Democrat are the same same. Anyone who think that either side of this wicked government has any care for you are absolutely deceived. Every dam one of them are bought off luciferiarn. Trump, DeSantis, Biden, Pelosi all are working the same end agenda. Know your Bible and follow the Lord Jesus Christ. You prepare what you think will get you through to the end, but all is for not is you fail to prepare to meet your Maker.
Judgemental. You are a fake.
There is so much lawlessness going on in the world, I don’t think I will ever feel safe again. Prepping helps maintain a sense of calm in all the chaos. However, when we just learned that our President actually has soldiers on the ground in Ukraine, when we were told it was only logistical support and armaments that we would be providing; now we are apparently in a shooting war in Ukraine with U. S. soldiers, again, without the approval of Congress…no wonder the axis is shifted. I and those in my family are believers and know that worry avails nothing and will proceed as best we can as our ancestors have done. I am grateful for this site, and other sites that give us tools to work with to avoid the panic that is coming… God Bless America.
Ukraine War is Biden’s war to cover up the crimes his family has done. A distraction to the max, he don’t care who dies there.
Taiwan will be another distraction to what his administration is doing from the pay off’s.
It’s a shame people will get injured or killed for the profits made.
Most people will vote agin for the same insanity since Nixton, Carter, Kiltons and the obooma’s administrations have done to America in modern times.
That’s why history is not taught in grade school. Well maybe revisionist history is for sure.
I recently read “listened to”
The series The Edge of Collapse by Kyla Stone it’s about an EMP that strikes many places at the same time! It was place in upper Minnesota in a rural area! She did an amazing job covering all of the nuances of society, health concerns, and how smal place and large were effected and the deteriorating societal problems and of people finally pulling to survive! Great listen with amazing ideas!
Just another take on life and how it changes for the good and the bad!
What’s interesting about bugging out is all the experts by pass the seasonal clothing needed to weather the 4 season changes. The typical scenario people think of is probably during the Summer.
How much clothing stuff can on carry in a bug out pack to survive? depending on the part of the country we are in. In reality what can we have for clothing to be comfortable? If we left in the Summer, a rain jack would be too thin for a cold winter. Carrying a parka around all year could be too cumbersome.
Trying to do buried stashes, that area could be compromised or found by another bug outer.
Think we take chances everyday about daily living. The experts sometimes base their bugout ideas on one item or thought. Then try to expand on that to a whole concept of survival. How many people have actually done camping? And how many have actually been out in the wild past the regular camping trip to really experience some hardship?
The 1800’s people did survive but also had primitive supply chain country stores. Will we have that luxury when our time comes? We see the foreign countries own a lot of American land. Will those farmlands be protected by their gunslingers to protect their food stores from us?
Will FED lands like parks be protected by armed guards during the SHTF periods?
We hear of EMP theory about what can happen but what actual knowledge do we have not in theory. How long will it take to restore a civil society again?
Most of the USA manufactures are gone or bought out by China. It would take months to decades to replace parts from other countries. The Chinese wind mills and solar panel farm will be an expensive joke to Americans.
Do we still have a chance to drill for oil and build the Southern Border Wall to regain our sovereignty we once had? In SHTF EV’s will be obsolete, the Green Energy program will be another joke on us in SHTF:) Remember Obama and Biden’s (www*solyndra*com/) how that failed? Go woke go broke, just like ‘BUD” beer.
Good point. I like to have clothes with me where I can survive the elements without other shelter for 72 hours in the future.
I mean based upon the worst weather in the forecast and for the season.
Read Konkoly.
I recently read “listened to”
The series The Edge of Collapse by Kyla Stone it’s about an EMP that strikes many places at the same time! It was place in upper Minnesota in a rural area! She did an amazing job covering all of the nuances of society, health concerns, and how small towns and large cities were effected and the deterioration of society, the givers and takers and of people finally pulling together to survive! Great listen with amazing ideas!
Just another take on life and how it changes for the good and the bad!
Great article, what did prepping mean the first time we stepped into the arena?
Has that idea we first had changed somewhat with this current president?
We are being squeezed into a small bubble, my nest egg has been drained by taxes and fees.
If we all go down to the Southern Border and go through the same illegal process. Would we get the same treatment of free everything like the illegals now get?
Many of us live in more or less a suburban area, not everyone lives in the rural areas. So do we need to change our mindset of what prepping is all about?
It’s nice to have plenty stores in a bug in situation, but what do we really need. In a bugout situation we can carry so much with us. Depending on whether the FED troops will be checking for weapons as we escape our present circumstance. Will we have other skills for self defense is the weapons are taken?
As we age we can’t all be a spec-ops super troop, many people are past their 20 yrs old prime age. We maybe able to defend against one attacker, can we in reality really defend against multiple attackers?
Will we have to abandoned our pets to the sick minded homeless scavenging the street for food? If not how long can we feed our pets away from the usual feed supply stores. On the food we keep for them in our bugout packs?
How many real working skills do we have? What is the straight out basic level skills do we need to bugout? Can people really use a compass to navigate? Are our maps up to date or 5-10 years old?
We know the govt is checking on websites for information on preppers. Are we loosing the prepper community to the new AI chat-bot misinformation that is coming around the corner?
You describe the problems with living in populated areas. Relocate into a rural area.
EMP, prepping and communications.
Right now the EV manufactures are eliminating AM radio from their vehicles. They say AM freq. radio interferes with the EV’s.
In reality the lib’s have found another way to eliminate Conservative Talk radio stations out of business just the large die-rect tv did to OAN tv network. But keeps cnn and the view nagging cows on tv.
Most all the real good preppers are prepped up. It’s the non preppers that’ll have the hardest time. We have food, freedom seeds, personal protection devices just waiting for the right time. We have God Who’s on OUR side, but; what’s coming no one can prep for. Brace yourself……in spite of what is preached to you- the worst is yet to come. Do your best to prep, pray and stay outta the way. Be always aware of your surroundings. Things are happening, moving under your nose and through your towns.
The number one priority of prepping for catastrophic is location. Trying to survive in an urban or suburban area is futile. There are too many people in those locations that will overcome neighborhoods with their violence. Not to mention FEMA confiscations. Relocate into rural areas. Read Andrew Skousen “strategic relocation”.
I would not be surprised if the world ended in this century the science is there, and so are the signs, but I do think we will see many miracles from god soon and we have defiantly at least a few decades. They will have the Bible in every language by 2035. There also have been a lot of prophetic forecasts about this decade we are in it started with Covid, but many other things are going to to open and have started happening. If your interested in that Joshua Giles came out with a book called the Prophetic forecast that he finish writing years ago and stuff has started to come true between tensions with China which where not there when he was writing to banking issues that have just started this March to the push for digital currency also something that was boosted this year. I have also heard repeats from so many people about this decade just he sums it up pretty well and he is is the real deal. -He also says you may want to prepare by praying and (basically prepping) we are entering a time of global famine in this decade like the days of Joseph. Before I heard this I already kind of saw it coming because I I am a scientist and agriculture is the field I study. Things doesn’t really look that great in all honestly for agriculture in the coming decades between depleted aquifers, drought, depleted top soil, mineral shortages that could seriously deplete fertilizer amounts, and I’ll say it terrible unpredictable weather patterns that are a side effect of climate change. One of my main research projects is trying to figure out ways the slow down the depletion of one of the main minerals used for fertilizer by recycling it’s not really a main page agricultural issue. Anyways this is my perspective take it or leave it. I think we will get though this if we don’t panic are right with god, innovate, help one another, and stay aware of the changes the world is making.
$60 for bare root peach tree?? Just this afternoon I bought a 6 foot+ Florida Grande Peach Tree in a 15 Gallon pot with 3 peaches growing for $76.99. It will go perfectly next to my Tropic Prince Peach Tree.
Yes, prices have gone up. For some items…way up. I drink Green Tea. The brand I buy was $3.68, it’s now $6.22. Guess what, I don’t buy that brand. I bought something cheaper. It’s not $3.68 but it’s also not $6.22.
Has prepping ended??? Heck no. It’s just gotten more expensive. Just remember if you voted for Joe Dementia, you’re part of the problem.
FlaPrepper1.
Don’t blame everything on Biden (and I am not a democrat!!!), but Republicans should be loudly and clearly be yelling for someone to replace Trump in the next election! He is a danger to the entire world, and is actually the leader of a cult. If you have not received a “letter” from him (his campaign), then you don’t know that they actually sound like a threat… “Thousands of people have donated… why haven’t you? Donald Trump loves to see who has donated, and you haven’t yet,.. why not?”
Poor A.E. hasn’t figured it out yet and is a tad confused. ANYTHING that has happened since his THEFT of the election IS HIS FAULT. Most likely Trump will be the nominee, personally….I would rather have DeSantis (Yes, I’ll give up my Governor to save America from the Marxists). With Trump as President, it would become “Revenge Tour 2025”. I can see Trump rounding up hundreds of Democrats/Marxists Politicians, charging them with Treason and daily firing squads for a month or two. I would have ZERO problems with it. Can we Treason Firing Squad in Pay-Per-View?
At least with Trump, we were not in any wars, The Norks (North Koreans) had STFU, China was far weaker than now. Iran was running scared. The economy was going great (until the Deep State released the WuFlu ScamDemic).
With Joe Dementia playing with his puddin’, America has gone straight into the crapper.
The real danger lies within a closed mind where one revels in one’s own pride, perhaps you need to refocus your own limited perception of truth. Wisdom is one’s quiet time looking within and making adjustments to your own faults not others. What’s makes president Trump maybe better or worse is his business geared mindset and not a political ‘what’s in it for me’…..if you run with the sheep and their limited intelligence then you will be happy while waiting at the slaughterhouse.
I’m READY !!
How can it end? If done right, it is a way of life and this is a good time to test one’s preparedness and hone one’s skills.
Heres a thought..next time your shopping for canned fruit at Walmart look at the back of the can if it says Product of china one has to ask themselves why we would feed our families food from a communist country who hates us and assume it is safe…
Steve – same thing with medications….. a lot of our medications come from China, India and other places such that we have no control over the quality nor the components in the meds. EVERYTHING that we NEED should be made in the US of A —
Worse yet, these same companies are bringing the “foreign talent” that they use over there here to over see the companies “over seas” operations from our shores! A double whammy when you consider who’s watching the store!
why is it that in all of the article’s comment sections, it always devolves in to a useless political debate? I’m european so maybe I’m underestimating how bad it is a cross the pond.