This is me passing on some info I’ve learned from others. It’s meant as an act of charity for those resolved to prepare themselves and their families for what is coming. When the SHTF, I could have fish to give out, or I could show others now, especially my brother and sister Traditional Catholics, before the SHTF, how to catch their own fish, per the saying, as I myself have been shown by others. Plus I’m growing hoarse shouting from the roof tops to prep, and why, in every other post since February, when You-Know-What started, so I’ll downplay somewhat those posts, and just keep this one tagged at the top of the blog.
1. Do everything that is reasonable to avoid the False Church of the False Rite.
2. Embrace exclusively Catholic Tradition, the TLM, and ideally Trad chapels separate from the False Church of the False Rite. If within reasonable driving distance (4 hours one way is to me reasonable for most if it’s say every few months), go to the SSPX. Or start a House Chapel and fly a priest in when available based on your budget. Do not care one iota if others don’t like it or react negatively. The Deep Church is moving to shut down the TLM. Everywhere. And Bergoglio keeps talking resignation, so the St. Gallen’s Mafia may fast track it.
3. But register at your nearest territorial parish you canonically belong to, get to know the priest, for sacramental emergencies (plus to convert him to Tradition).
4. Say daily rosary, Little Office of BVM, ejaculatory prayers, abstain from meat on Fridays, wear the scapular, you can substitute first Saturday devotions the following Sunday Mass if necessary.
5. Get say 50 food grade buckets from Tractor Supply, with lids, about $6, 50 five gallon Mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, and a $250, very energy efficient deep freezer. Also at least 100 one quart canning jars, more the better, and a pressure canner.
6, Get a $60 Costco membership, say 25 ten pound bags of rice just $10 each, 10 bags of pinto beans, 3 fifty pound bags of flour at $18 a pop, 3 twenty-five pound bags of sugar for $15, etc. Store in Mylar bags with O2 absorbers inside the buckets, frozen for 5 days to kill potential insect eggs —> could last 20 plus years.
7. Get a Berkey water filter or make one. Store a few 55 gallon drums of water, sterilized with bleach to kill microbes. Have a backup water source, like a creek, or dig a cheap shallow well for $300, kits available at hardware stores. If you don’t hit water, you can pull out the pipe and try in another spot.
8. Go down to a pawn shop with say $1500 and get a shot gun, pistol, and deer rifle. I won’t add buying an AR-15 to the official list since the House just banned them. And I’d rather Big Brother not show up at my door for a blog post. Go to the ammo store and get $350 worth of ammo, especially to deal with potential looting gangs. Get a cheap $150 tall closet gun safe off of Amazon. Total $2000.
9. Find a few prepper types to network with, who you could barter goods and services when things become like they are now in Sri Lanka. Preferably conservative Christian patriots, who are trustworthy.
10. Don’t get all nutty and obsessed about prepping. Still carry on with daily living enjoying God’s creation and the gift of life.
11. Prepare for nuclear war. A sand bag shelter in your basement or dig a hole in your backyard covered (safely) with sand bags A 6 x 6 x 6, with a compost toilet bucket, food and water for a week, and some folding chairs is better than direct exposure to radiation above ground. You’ll also want to get a few bottles of Potassium Iodide off Amazon, and research when to use it to prevent radiation sickness. Or if you’re rolling in money, have a fancy fallout shelter installed for 50K+
12. Get a Geiger counter. Decent one on Amazon low end is $125.
13. Change your mindset fast. Snapping your fingers fast. Think like a minimalist Amish farmer practicing self-sufficiency, magnanimity, and abundance, and shed the consumerist, debt based, paycheck to paycheck mental framework like a poisonous infection.
14. Get out of debt as much as possible. Fast.
15. Buy what you need, or what is very useful, or the rare item that brings authentic quality to your life (ex: a fine violin or the Catechism of the Council of Trent hard back with gold leaf). The rest put into preps and gold and silver, beyond the 401K and six months of savings.
16. Get a solar oven, good one low end is $100, plus a black camping style pot that goes in the center. Make a rocket stove out of 5 cinder blocks ($3 each from Home Depot), see YT videos, to cook outdoors with minimal firewood (and smoke, odor). But store some propane and a Coleman type camp stove too. In an emergency, most of your food should be uncooked, like canned food and meat. Minimize fuel needs.
17. Get a $1000 solar system off Amazon, mount it to a homemade stand, providing electricity for a small fridge, laptop, to charge cell phones, and for some low Watt LED lights. Or just a $100 fold up panel and a $20 portable charger, you can charge in a day to charge your phones.
18. You can light up your living room with one string of low Watt LEDs, but also have a couple oil lamps with a few big jugs of lamp oil, plus tons of candles.
19. Get a cheap ham radio ($25), short wave radio, used replacement for your phone, some AA and AAA rechargeable batteries, and a battery charger.
20. Get tools to provide for those goods and services yourself on your own property (or property you borrow or rent) that you’d otherwise pay cash to someone else to provide: rototiller, garden tools, seeds, wild animal traps, fish traps, deer stand, deer blind, etc.