Hello Friends, Family and Neighbors

I'm starting this thread for people to share tips and ideas on how we're going to Survive the coming Depression. I'll make this discussion thread a "Sticky" so it will be easy to find for our members.

Please feel free to add whatever information you would like to contribute. Whether it's list of foods to store, an article about survival techniques, . . . etc. Any idea you may have and researched for us as individuals or a group, please share it with us. If you have a idea for a Co-op on a large bulk item (Gold, silver, food, water storage . . etc) Please post it here.

Here's a short list of what we discussed from the meeting:

-Back to Basics: This store in Colorado Springs have great deals on bulk foods.
-Water Filters: Hand held or Pump
-Iodine Tablets: kills the germs in your water (I believe)
-MRE Depot: You can get organic butter which is packed in a way that has indefinite shelf life.

RiverRat is gong to find an article on how Russia's dealt with their scarcity. Looking forward for seeing this.


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The 10 year Depression is coming no matter what. Do it for you, your family, friends and neighbors. Fill this thread with as many ideas as you may have.


Good Luck to us all.

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Aside from the usual, and I think mainly naive advice about how to survive inflationary depression (goods for barter, etc.,) I have gone out of my way to talk to folks that had experienced some incredibly difficult financial times to see what advice they could give. For example, the Great Depression and the economic collapse of the USSR.

These things were just suggestions from the discussions that we had. It was average (but educated and knowledgeable) people, not the rich, and it was people who were most directly impacted by these problems at the time. Take them for what they are worth to you. At least it gives you a few things to think about.

It must be broken down, somewhat, because of different circumstances and some assumptions that are made by the bunker mentality people that aren’t particularly helpful.

Inflation/hyper-inflation

Let’s start with hyper-inflation. The value of the money you do have drops so fast that you need to spend it as soon as it is in your hand, or the prices of everything will be higher the next day, or even in the next few hours. Therefore, if there is something you NEED, like dental care, GET IT NOW while it is still ‘cheap.’ If you are able to finance it, do so. If the credit industry completely collapses, repayment will be impossible and therefore you will have saved yourself the out-of-pocket expense, and done your part to keep the credit card criminals from getting back up anytime soon. There will come a point when the monopoly money in your game set will be worth more than the paper currency we’ve all been used to. (See the caveat below with electronic funds.)

However, keep in mind the recent changes to the bankruptcy laws. Like income taxes and student loans, now credit card debt is not dischargeable in a bankruptcy court (for average people). Therefore, no matter what happens to the economy you could still be on the hook for your credit card debt. I don’t recall seeing any language in the new law that accounts for hyper-inflation, so those bills could actually become ‘cheaper and cheaper’ to pay off as inflation gets worse and worse. It was a temporary oversight, I’m sure and once it dawns on the powers-that-be, they’ll be working overtime to get that ‘adjusted’ as quickly as possible.

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Erika Lishock passes along the following links on food storage, a major discussion at our last meeting:

Seven Mistakes of Food Storage
http://www.backwoodsh...


Food Storage Calculator
http://lds.about.com/...


Water Storage Guidelines
http://www.providentl...