2, Stand on a street corner on a box, ringing loudly a cow bell, holding a big sign that says “The End is Near.” There is truth in public acts of satire. Plus it’s something fun to do.
3. Make “vanilla extract” in a still (small one on Anazon about $100). Invite friends over to sample some of your “vanilla extract” while tossing horse shoes, listening to music, and BBQing deer burgers. The point being embrace magnanimity in the face of dark times. Make your home an oasis of light in the darkness.
4. Instead of TV in the evening, the family can take walks, play music, play board games or outdoor sports, make arts and crafts, read, and chat. To bed early once it’s pitch black dark. Gotta conserve on energy costs after all.
5. If there are still restaurants like fast food, and you can afford it, go out to eat once a month as a treat. Everyone gets a small burger and fries 1950’s style, sharing one small drink. Or go on picnics in style.
6. Make gardening, fishing, hunting, food prep, home cooking, chopping firewood, and all things homesteading a fun hobby to bring the family closer together, and for your health. Kids love gardening. I did as a kid.
7. Write a blog. Perhaps a Catholic or conservative blog. Address issues related to the zombie apocalypse. The Internet will certainly still be everywhere, if not provided by our socialist government. Blogging is fun.
8. Start a Traditional Catholic Home Chapel. Make a pamphlet inviting neighbors to it and go door to door in nearby neighborhoods inviting people to come over for rosary, discuss papal encyclicals against modernism, and have potlucks. If you widen your walk radius enough, I bet you’ll find like-minded Catholics. Make one room your Chapel with an altar. This is your most local Catholic prayer cell and spiritual community. You may not be able to afford gas to drive to Mass. Or even have gas. Associate with a traditional society of priests like the SSPX. Ask them to come to say Mass and offer a conference when they can, and be chaplains at least long distance.
9. Do drills. Nuclear drills. Looter drills. Bug out drills. Etc. Make it a competition, and compete with yourselves to improve your times. Then everyone gets rewarded with a piece of deer jerky. Mmm. Or some of your homemade “vanilla extract.” Yeah baby.
10. Go on scouting expeditions. You’ll be looking for abandoned property to make use of, networking with the community, finding opportunities, but also you get to camp out every night with a tent and campfire! Make use of all those decades of experiential knowledge about camping, backpacking, and outdoor survival.
Enjoy life abundantly no matter how much daily preparations you have to make for the 2nd Great Depression + World War III.
You have two choices the way I see it: prepare and have no fun doing it like a Puritan in sack clothe; or prepare and have some fun. Your choice. But making it fun, interesting, and adventurous will only help you survive mentally so that, as Holy Scripture says, “you and your descendants may live.”