Yesterday was delayed by the weather knocking out my internet. Which gave me the idea of doing a show on rainy day projects. The things you can do inside to further your preparedness. I have several projects to keep you busy on when the outside is disgusting.
I talk about a few projects to be able to cook on. My favorite rainy day project is by far making alcohol stoves. You know the ones made from coke cans. Not soda or pop. This is the south. they are all cokes.
Looking for more rainy day projects? Have you updated your Bug out documents recently? I didn’t think so. They are one of the most important and most neglected preps.
This week is a solo episode. James talks about Survival As Retirement. It is a concept I heard about years ago on the Survival Podcast Forum. Using Survivalism to retire. It immediately clicked with me.
The goal of Survival as Retirement is to eliminate the recurring non renewable costs. Basically to get rid of bills. So instead of paying $200 a month on electricity put in a solar system. It’s an up front cost of about 6~10 years of electric bills. After that payback period you are power retired. You no longer need to pay for power.
The same applies to food. Many of us have to buy food daily, weekly or monthly. This is another bill that can me reduced or eliminated. The goal for many survivalists is to be 100% food self reliant. To provide all of our food from our own land.
To me this is a three fold process. The most important to me is animals. Animals that you breed are a renewable resource. The same with egg laying animals. I spend about $36 a month on the cheap eggs. I would much rather have organic free range eggs. With my own flock, even a small one of about 4 girls I could be egg retired. I would never have to buy them again as long as I could replace the hens as time went on.
This is Survival To Retire and my retirement plan.
This week we tackle the issue of Debt. How debt enslaves you. How freeing it can be to escape from under debt. Mike and I both have become debt free at fairly young ages.
We share some tips on how to get free. How to stay free from debt. Also we talk about some frugal tips.
This week we tackle some of the biggest survival myths. Some I’m sure all of you have heard. Many will hear these myths and just keep retelling them. Everyone has heard that if you are lost look for moss growing on the north side of a tree. Which is terrible advice. In my experience moss, In Tennessee, grows on all sides if it grows.
This week Mike and I have a little fun surviving zombies. We are both huge fan of Halloween and Zombies. Zombies are partially the reason I got into survival in the first place.
We have had a long time to figure out the ideal way to survive a Zombie Apocalypse. The tools and resources you will need to live it out. Our take is a bit different than most.
I feel that the only way to survive zombies is with community. Without a tight knit diverse community you cannot hope to survive zombies. You can’t be both farmer, soldier and surgeon, cook, mechanic and whatever else you need. Having members that are better suited to specific tasks is how you will be surviving zombies.
